IMPROVEMENTS. IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED FOR FINISHING COTTON BAND, TWINE, ROPES, CORDAGE, AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1867

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Hanson at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 28th August
1867.
I, HENRY HANSON, of Stockport, in the County of Chester, Hemp and Flax
Spinner, and Rope, Twine, and Cotton Band Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS. IN MACHINERY
OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED FOR FINISHING COTTON BAND, TWINE, ROPES, CORDAGE,
AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to certain improvements in the manufacture and
finish of cotton bands, twines, cords, and ropes, made of hemp or other fibrous
materials for which Letters Patent were granted to me entitled "Improve-
ments in the Manufacture and Finish of Cotton Band, Twine, Rope, Cordage,
and other Fibrous Substances and in Machinery or Apparatus employed
therein," dated December 31, 1857, No. 3195.
In the use of my Invention, I employ instead of the ordinary walk a rail
or tramway of any desired form or length, and place upon it a travelling frame
or carriage supported by any suitable number of wheels, and capable of being
drawn from one end to the other-both-ways-either by hand.or_by_drums and
ropes driven by power. The top of the frame-or-carriage-forms-the-table-for-
supporting the material to be sized and finished, and also holds the size or

page_text: other substance employed for the purpose. And my present Invention consists
of improved means of giving the to-and-fro motion of the travelling carriage.
Instead of employing two drums and two ropes, and allowing the ropes to be
wound on and off the drums alternately, I employ an endless rope or band
passing over pulleys and through guides and locking box in the carriage, the
top of the rope always passing in one direction, and the bottom part of the
rope in the reverse direction when the machine is at work. The rope passes
in a groove of a double grooved pulley turned by toothed gearing and driving
pulley, then over a guide pulley, and another groove of the double grooved
pulley, from which pulley, the upper and lower parts of the rope pass to the
carriage and then over a pulley at the end of the tramway. In the locking
box there is a slide which can be worked up and down by an eccentric
worked by a lever so that when the eccentric is turned in one direction
it will cause the slide to lock the top of the rope and cause the carriage to be
moved in one direction, and when turned in the opposite direction the slide
will lock the bottom of the rope and cause the carriage to be moved in a
reverse direction, but when the eccentric is midway both parts of the rope are
loose and the carriage stationary. The simplicity of the endless rope over
the two ropes with the reversing apparatus before alluded to enables so many
parts to be dispensed with as to affect great economy in the cost of the driving
frame, and also to dispense with the attendance of one or two operatives, as in
most cases the man on the travelling carriage can by moving the eccentric
change the motion of the said carriage or make it stationary as required.
The continuous motion of the endless band without reversals enables the
carriage to travel at an uniform speed and also maintains the rope in good
working condition for a very lengthened period, and the screw and tightening
pulley enables the rope to be slackened after each working day to relax the
effect of the daily tension.
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