Year: 1896

page_text: I, CHARLES HENRY WORLEY, of No. 62 Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, in
the County of London, Architect, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
My invention relates to the construction of a guide for a moving object such as
a sliding rod or a revolving disc or the like, so arranged that the pressure is taken on
antifriction balls free to roll.
For this purpose, I provide at each place where guiding is required a certain length
of hollow parallel to the surface of the guided object when that is straight, or concentric
with the surface of the guided object when that is circular. This hollow leads at each
end into a channel preferably semicircular which passes under or behind the guiding
hollow.
I fill this channel and the hollow with antifriction balls which are free to roll
along the hollow and the channel, so that, as the guided object moves forwards
or backwards as the case may be, bearing on the balls which are in the hollow,
these balls roll along the hollow, then return along the channel and again roll along
the hollow, there thus being always a number of balls travelling along the hollow
and taking the pressure of the guided object.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
I, CHARLES HENRY WORLEY, of No. 62 Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, in
the County of London, Architect, 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 :-
My invention relates to the construction of a guide for a moving object such as
a sliding rod or a revolving disc or the like, so arranged that the pressure is taken on
antifriction balls free to roll.
For this purpose 1 provide at each place where guiding is required a certain
length of hollow channel parallel to the surface of the guided object when that is
straight, or concentric with the surface of the guided object. when that is circular.
This hollow leads at each end into a channel preferably semicircular which passes
under or behind the guiding hollow.
I fill this channel and the hollow with antifriction balls which are free to roll along
the hollow and the channel, so that, as the guided object moves forwards or backwards
as the case may be, bearing on the balls which are in the hollow, these balls roll
along the hollow, then return along the channel and again roll along the hollow, there

page_text: thus being always a number of balls travelling along the hollow and taking the pressure
of the guided object.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings is a longitudinal section and Fig. 2 is a
transverse section of antifriction guides according to my invention for a reciprocating
-rod.
A is the base along which the rod or other object B has to reciprocate. In the
base I form as at CC channels parallel to the line of motion, each channel communi-
cating at its ends with a semicircular conduit D.
A number of balls occupy the channels and conduits, so that as B moves they roll
along the channels C returning along the conduits D in a continuous course, which
is reversed when the movement of B is reversed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
An antifriction guide for a sliding rod or a revolving disc consisting of a hollow
channel parallel to the surface of the guided object leading at each end into a curved
channel, the hollow and the curved channels containing balls free to roll along them,
substantially as described.
Dated this 9th Jan 1907
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.