CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN HYDRAULIC PRESSES
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT. to Joseph Daniel, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
HYDRAULIC PRESSES."
Sealed the 8th March 1867, and dated the 3rd October 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Daniel at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
3rd October 1866.
I, JOSEPH DANIEL, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN HYDRAULIC PRESSES," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to those portions of the hydraulic press called the
"stillages which are used at the top of the press and on the table, and
between which the goods are pressed, and the Invention is designed to render
such. "stillages" moveable and alterable instead of fixed as hitherto, so that
they may be adapted to the varying sizes of the bales and to the various widths
apart of the bands or cords..
:
The improvements consist in the application, employment, and use of
a series of metallic or other strong bars which are supported by and
slide on hanging. brackets at each side of the top of the press, the bottom
bars resting on the table, and these bars are so formed that when placed
side by side they present a solid and even surface to the bale, but certain

page_text: bars are so constructed as to admit the bands passing round the bale
when the goods are pressed. The hanging brackets are slotted vertically, a
bolt passing through the slot, by which means the cross bars can be raised and
lowered when they require altering, and secured firmly when in position by
means of the nuts and bolts, and they may be all screwed up tightly together
by screws at each end. The cross bars, which are used in the positions which
the bands are to occupy, are made double, that is, there is a piece inside the
bar which is mounted on pins running in inclined grooves in the outer bar,
and this inner bar, which is the width of the hoop or band, encircles the bale,
is provided with a handle so that when the bale is being packed the bar is
solid on the bale and presents an even surface thereto; but when the bands
have to be passed round the bale by pushing in the handle of the inner bar,
it is caused to leave the surface of the bale rising upwards in the inclined slots
so as to leave a space at the top of the bale through which the band is passed,
and at the time of rivetting or securing the bands of the bale the handle is
pulled out and the inner bar becomes pressed on the band so as to hold it
in position whilst it is rivetted.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Daniel in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
3rd April 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
DANIEL, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Joseph
Daniel, Her special license that I, the said Joseph Daniel, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph Daniel, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
HYDRAULIC PRESSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Joseph Daniels, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing

page_text: under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Daniel, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, and accompanying Drawings (that is to say) :-
My Invention relates to those portions of the bydraulic press called the
'stillages" which are used at the top of the press and on the table, and
between which the goods are pressed, and the Invention is designed to render
such "stillages" moveable and alterable instead of fixed as hitherto, so that
they may be adapted to the varying sizes of the bales and to the various widths
apart of the bands or cords.
The improvements consist in the application, employment, and use of a
series of metallic or other strong bars which are supported by and slide
on hanging brackets at each side of the top of the press, the bottom bars
resting on the table, and these bars are so formed that when placed side by
side they present a solid and even surface to the bale, but certain bars are so
constructed as to admit the bands passing round the bale when the goods are
pressed. The hanging brackets are slotted vertically, a bolt passing through the
slot, by which means the cross bars can be raised and lowered when they
require altering, and secured firmly when in position by means of the nuts and
bolts, and they may be all screwed up tightly together by screws at each end.
The cross bars, which are used in the positions which the bands are to occupy,
are made double, that is, there is a piece inside the bar which is mounted on
pins running in inclined grooves in the outer bar, and this inner bar, which is
the width of the hoop or band encircling the bale, is provided with a handle
so that when the bale is being packed the bar is solid on the bale, and
presents an even surface thereto; but when the bands have to be passed round
the bale, by pushing in the handle of the inner bar it is caused to leave the
surface of the bale rising upwards in the inclined slots so as to leave a space
at the top of the bale through which the band is passed, and at the time of
rivetting or securing the bands of the bale the handle is pulled out and the
nner bar becomes pressed on the band so as to hold it in position whilst it is
rivetted.
In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained in.
detail, I have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings made upon a scale of

page_text: about three inches to the foot, similar letters of reference being marked upon.
corresponding parts of the apparatus.
Fig. 1 represents a front elevation of the improved moveable and adjustable
stillage as applied to hydraulic presses employed for baling goods; Fig. 2
represents a plan of the bottom stillage shewing the slides keeping the blocks
in a parallel position, and also the grooves or recesses through the hoops or
bands binding the bale are passed; Fig. 3 represents an end elevation of
the stillage, shewing the arrangement for supporting the top blocks and also
the parallel slide for keeping the bottom blocks in position; Fig. 4 represents
a sectional view, shewn in elevation, of the top moveable blocks which are
employed to fill up the spaces where the hoop or band passes round the bale;
Figs. 5, 6, and 7, represent elevational and transverse sections of the bars and
blocks which are used in conjunction with the moveable block shewn in
Fig. 4 for forming the stillage or surfaces between which the goods are placed
for baling.
In Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; and 7, a, a, is the table or bed of the hydraulic
press which is supplied with adjustable parallel bars 6, 6; upon these bars sets.
of metallic blocks c, c', slide, the number and width of which being more or
less according to the size of the bale required, the blocks c¹ being placed in the
intermediate position where the hoop or band is passed, these blocks when in
position form the bottom portion of the stillage A; the upper stillage B is
composed of similar metallic bars or blocks e, e', having projecting lips d
which are employed for the purpose of sliding on and being supported by the
rails f, and supporting adjustable blocks g, g; these blocks c, c', and e, e¹, are so
formed that when placed side by side they present a solid and even surface to
the bale. The intermediate bars e¹, e¹, are peculiarly constructed as herafter
described, for the purpose of allowing the bands being passed round the bale
when the goods are pressed, the hanging brackets g, g, are slotted vertically,
and bolts h, h, are passed through the slots, by which means the rails and
cross bars or block e, e¹, can be raised or lowered when they require altering,
and secured firmly when in position by means of the nuts and handles i, i.
The cross bars or blocks e¹, e¹, seen at Fig. 4, are used in the position which
the bands or hoops occupy, and are made double, that is, there is a piece k
inside the bar or block which is provided with pins l, l; sliding in the inclined
slots or grooves m.formed in the outer bar k', which made the width of the
hoop or band encircling the bale, this bar is provided with a handle n so that
when the bale is being packed and compressed, it is solid on the bale and
presents an even surface thereto; but when the hoops or bands have to be passed
round the bale the handle n is pushed in, which causes the studs 1, 1, to press

page_text: upon the inclined surface of the slots m which has the effect of raising the
outer bar k from the surface of the bale, forming thereby a channel through
which the hoop can be inserted. At the time of rivetting or securing the bands
of the bale the handle n is pulled out, which causes the outer bar k to press
upon the band so as to hold it in position whilst being rivetted, the handle n
may be constructed so as to form part of the inner bar k, or the handle may
be actuated by a lever handle as seen in Fig. 4.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be distinctly
understood that I claim,-
First, the novel employment and adaptation of an adjustable stillage to the
table of hydraulic presses.
Secondly, the use of the moveable stillage at the top of the press as
described. And,
Thirdly, the peculiar construction of the bars with pins and inclined slots
which may be used entirely, that is, side by side, or partially, throughout the
upper stillage.
And lastly, I claim the general arrangement, construction, and combination
of the whole apparatus as herein-before described, set forth, and fully
illustrated in the Drawings attached.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Daniel, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this First day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
Witnessed by
JNO. L. DAVIES, C.E.,
Office for Patents,
Manchester.
JOSEPH DANIEL. (L.S.)