Patent GB-382468-A (GB)
Title: New or improved machine for cutting fabrics
IPC: B29D30/46
Filed: 1931-12-29
Abstract: 382,468. Feeding webs. DUNLOP RUBBER CO., Ltd., 32, Osnaburgh Street, London. Dec. 29, 1931, No. 35869. Convention date, Feb. 14. [Class 100 (i).] In a machine for cutting a web of fabric transversely into strips on the bias for providing the fabric content of pneumatic tyres, means are provided for varying the amount of feed between successive cutting operations while the machine is running. The strips are not completely severed by the' cutters and the partly severed web passes over delivery belts to a delivery table where the strips are completely detached by the operator and joined end to end to form a strip which is wound upon a drum. Between the cutting and delivery apparatus the web hangs in a festoon which: co-operates with a feeler device to control the operation of the delivery belts. The web 20, Figs. 1 and 2, is fed through the bias cutting apparatus (not shown) mounted on the frame 28, by means of a feed drum 21 rotated intermittently by ratchet mechanism actuated by a pinion 37 and a quadrant 35 which is rocked by means of a link 34, Figs. 1 and 6, adjustably connected to an arm 31 mounted on a pivot shaft 33, Fig. 2, and rocked by a link 30 connected to a rotating crank 29 driven by gearing from a motor 22. The adjustable connection of the link 34 comprises a nut 44, to which the link is pivoted, mounted on a screw 41 rotatably mounted in the arm 31. The adjustment of the screw 41 during the idle movement of the quadrant 35 can be effected from a suitable distant point by turning a hand-wheel 65, Figs. 1 and 2, which through shaft and bevel gearing 63 . .). 58, 55, 54, 53 drives a shaft 51 connected by a universal joint to a shaft 48 mounted on the arm 31 and carrying a pinion 47 engaging a pinion' 46 on the screw 41. The quadrant 35 may be disengaged from the pinion 37 during the adjustment and for this purpose the. quadrant is mounted on an eccentric 97, Fig. 1, which may be turned by means of a fluid-pressure cylinder 100 the piston of which is connected to an arm 98 on the eccentric; or the feeding mechanism may be stopped during the adjustment by opening a clutch 25, Fig. 2, in the main drive by the actuation of a pedal 94 adjacent the hand-wheel 65. An indicator driven by gearing from the hand wheel 65 is provided to facilitate the adjustment. From the feed drum 21 the partly severed fabric hangs in a festoon 73 from which, it is withdrawn by upper and lower sets of tapes 74, 77 driven by chain gearing- from .a motor 83. The tapes 77 pass over a lower drum 78 and round individual pulleys arranged in a line parallel to the bias cut strips so that the strips as they leave the tapes 77 are horizontal and can readily be detached by the operator and joined together on the table 81 to form a long strip which may be wound into a roll 82. The motor 83 is controlled in accordance with the size of the festoon 73 by means of a pair of pivoted arms 89 carrying mercury switches 91 adapted, when the arms are depressed by the fabric, to close a circuit to the motor 83, which is driven until the rise of the arms 89 opens the circuit to stop the motor.