Patent GB-296331-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the treatment of rubber or rubberized strips, bands, and the like articles
IPC: B29D30/38
Filed: 1927-09-16
Abstract: 296,331. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., (Assignees of Kirk, R. S.). Sept. 26, 1926, [Convention date]. Divided on 277,686, [Class 140, Waterproof &c. fabrics]. Unpacking.-Strips of rubber are removed from lined rolls thereof bv repeatedly rewinding the lined roll and removing the desired number of strips therefrom. During the operation, the disengaged strips adjacent the liner are subjected to repeated sharp blows. A machine for performing this operation comprises a main frame 5, Fig. 1, having tracks 3 on which run wheels 2 supporting a framing 1 having a casting 6, Fig. 2, secured to it by a bracket 7. Shafts 8, 9, journaled in the casting 6, have projecting portions of rectangular section the front ends of which are loosely mounted in a pivoted U-shaped member 11 adapted to be turned out of the way to allow an empty spool to be placed on one of the shafts 8, 9 and a spool carrying the lined roll on the other shaft. The rear ends of the shafts are provided with brake pulleys 13, Fig. 3, to retard their rotation. Slidably secured to a splined main driving shaft 25 is a two-part collar 26 carrying rollers whose peripheries engage in the splines, and to the collar is secured a sleeve 33 carrying a sprocket 34 disposed between brackets 35, 36 supported from the bracket 7. A chain 41 passes around the sprocket 34 and around sprockets 44, 58 on parallel shafts 42, 57 journaled in the bracket 7 and casting 6. Splined on the shaft 42 is a clutch member 46 adapted to be moved backwards to engage a pinion 45 loosely mounted on the shaft 42 and meshing with a similar pinion 59 on the shaft 57 or forwards to engage the sprocket 44 which also is loosely mounted on the shaft 42, the arrangement permitting the chain 41 to drive the shaft 42 forwards or reversely. The clutch 46 is actuated by a rod 52 through pivoted arms 48 which are also connected with an electrical reversing switch 56 hereinafter referred to. Two sprockets 61 are secured to the shaft 42 and two arms 62, 63 are freely suspended therefrom. Mounted on the lower ends of these arms is a tubular shaft 64 on the ends of which are free sprockets 65. Chains 66, 67 the links of which are connected by slats 68 pass over the sprockets 61, 65 and constitute rewinding mechanism for the liner-carrying rolls 69, 71 on the shafts 9, 8. By means of a hand lever 74 and an arrangement comprising an arm 75, a weighted cord 76 and pulleys 77, 78 and 81, the arm being arranged eccentrically to the pulleys 77, 78, the rewinding mechanism may be applied to either of the rolls. In a modification a chain replaces the cord 76. The liner is fed over two idler rollers 106 and over the top of the slats 68. In removing the rubber strips from the liner, the liner is alter nately wound around one spool and rewound about the other. To loosen the strips from the liner, a pair of rotatable rollers 112, mounted so as to be rotated rapidly about the axis of a sprocket 116 by an electric motor 118, beat the strips adjacent the point where they are separated from the fabric. When the clutch 46 is operated to reverse the motion of the shaft 42, the reversing switch 56 reverses the motor 118. The movable mounting of the framing 1 allows the strips to be brought successively into alignment with rollers 119 in the main frame by which they are fed away from the machine.