Year: 1888

page_text: I, JAMES HUNTER ANNANDALE, of Polton Paper Mills, Polton, in the County of
Mid Lothian, North Britain, Paper Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this
Invention to be as follows, that is to say :-
My said Invention has for its object to improve the action of paper making
machines, and to produce a superior kind of paper, better and more evenly closed
than what is made in the ordinary machine and to facilitate the use of shorter
"wires."
In carrying out my Invention I impart a vertical jogging or reciprocating motion
to the "wire" or endless wire cloth, in being carried along on which the pulp
first assumes the web-like condition in consequence of the separation of water, and
of the settling together of the fibre. The vertical jogging notion may be slight
in extent but rapid, and such as can be produced by mere concussion, and it may
be combined with a transverse horizontal shaking or vibratory motion such as is
imparted to the wire in existing machines, or it may be combined with compound
The vertical
(transverse and longitudinal) or other suitable horizontal motion.
jogging motion facilitates the separation of the water from the pulp; and, acting in
combination with the horizontal motion causes the fibres to settle together in a
uniform manner so as to produce a paper of great regularity and evenness.
.
Rotating cams, or small, rapidly rotating eccentrics or cranks may be employed
for producing the desired vertical jogging motion or action, such mechanism being
arranged to act on the frame. carrying the wire at or near the outer or entering
end at which the pulp is supplied to the wire, and springs with suitable adjusting
devices being provided for regulating and controlling the action.
Dated this Seventh day of June 1888.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.

page_text: Improvements in Paper-making Machines.
I, JAMES HUNTER ANNANDALE, of Polton Paper. Mills, Polton, in the County of
Mid Lothian, North Britain, Paper Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to say :-
My said Invention has for its object to improve the action of paper-making
machines and to produce a superior kind of paper better and more evenly closed
than what is made in the ordinary machine, and to facilitate the use of shorter
"wires."
In carrying out my Invention I impart a vertical jogging or reciprocating motion
to the "wire" or endless wire cloth, in being carried along on which the pulp first
assumes the web-like condition, in consequence of the separation of water, and of the
settling together of the fibres. The vertical jogging motion may be slight in extent
but rapid, and such as can be produced by mere concussion; and it may be combined
with a transverse horizontal shaking or vibratory motion such as is imparted to the
"wire" in existing machines, or it may be combined with compound (transverse and
longitudinal) or other suitable horizontal motion. The vertical jogging motion
facilitates the separation of the water from the pulp; and acting in combination with
the horizontal motion causes the fibres to settle together in a uniform manner so as to
produce a paper of great regularity and evenness.
Rotating cams, or small rapidly rotating eccentrics or cranks may be employed for
producing the desired vertical jogging motion or action, such mechanism being
arranged to act on the frame carrying the breast beam and wire at the outer or
entering end at which the pulp is supplied to the wire; and springs with suitable
adjusting devices may be provided for regulating and controlling the action.
By way of example a simple and convenient arrangement of mechanism for applying
my Invention is shown upon an accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings,
figures, 1, and 2, being respectively a sectional end elevation and a sectional side
elevation, and the same reference letters being used to mark the same or like parts in
both figures.
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The breast beam, A, is shown as held in end frames, B, which are made with
feet, C, to rest upon adjustable studs, D, fixed in castings, E. The frames, B,
support the outer ends of longitudinal bars, F, which carry the small wire
carrying rollers, G, and which are fixed to a transverse end bar, H, which rests
on rocking pedestals, J, arranged to allow of horizontal shaking motion. The
mechanism for imparting the horizontal shaking motion is not shown but it may
he such as is in use in existing machines.
The end frames, B. of the breast beam, A, are fitted with adjustable studs, K,
the bottoms of which are immediately over two ratchet-like cams, L, fast on a
transverse horizontal shaft M. This shaft, M, is carried in bearings in the casting, E,
and is shown as being driven by means of bevil wheels, N, from a shaft, P, having

page_text: on it fast and loose pulleys, Q, for a driving belt.. The shaft, M, is made to rotate
rapidly and as the projecting parts of the cams, L, pass round under the studs, K,
they act concussively or it may be with slight lifting movements on the studs, K,
of the breast-beam frames, B, and through those frames impart the desired jogging
motion to the "wire."
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
Providing paper making machines with mechanism for imparting a vertical
jogging motion to the wire, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore
described.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.