Improvements in and relating to Winches for Use in Ageing, Drying, and similar Machines.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Dec., 1896
Complete Specification Loft 22nd Sont 1907 Accented 23rd Oct
1807
Date of Application, 23rd Dec., 1896
Complete Specification Loft, 23rd Sept, 1207 Accepted, 23rd Oct, 1907
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Winches for Use in Ageing, Drying,
and similar Machines.
We, DAVID HORSBURGH of 10 Oak Street, Chapelfield, Radcliffe, Engineer, and
HARRY DUCKWORTH HALSTEAD, of Crow Oaks, Whitefield, Dyer, both in the
County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to winches such as are used in ageing, drying, and similar
machines, and its object is to increase the effect of such winches and so enable them
to do more work than those at present commonly in use.
In carrying this Invention into effect the winch itself is of the usual construction
and is provided with the usual rails or staves. Contained within the winch is a
fan or air propeller having suitable bars or blades arranged upon a skeleton frame.
Within the fan or air propeller is a stationary steam drum or pipe. In a preferred
form of construction the steam drum is held by its inlet and outlet pipes which
pass through the hollow shaft of the fan to suitable brackets. The winch is
provided with sleeve bearings which rotate upon the fan shaft.
The fan may be rotated either in the same direction as the winch or in the
opposite direction, and its blades may be arranged parallel to its axis or they may
be helical or be curved or formed in any convenient way according to the current
of air required.
To increase the heating effect of the steam pipe or drum it may be formed or
provided with flanges or projections.
Dated this 22nd day of December A.D. 1896.
W. E. HEYS & SON,
Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in and relating to Winches for Use in Ageing, Drying,
and similar Machines.
We, DAVID HORSBURGH of 10 Oak Street, Chapelfield, Radcliffe, Engineer, and
HARRY DUCKWORTH HALSTEAD, of Crow Oaks, Whitefield, Dyer, both in the
County of Lancaster, 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:-
This invention relates to winches such as are used in ageing, drying and similar
machines and its object is to increase the effect of such winches and so enable them
to do more work than those at present commonly in use.

page_text: The accompanying drawings illustrate,
Figure 1 in longitudinal section and.
Figure 2 in cross section along the line -y, Figure 1, a winch constructed
according to these improvements and will be hereinafter referred to.
In carrying out this invention the winch itself may be of the usual construction
and be provided with the usual rails or staves SS. Within the winch there is
contained a fan or air propeller which, as shown by the drawings, may consist of
the blades or vanes VV connecting the two discs A A' which have sleeves mounted
to rotate upon the tubular shafts B B. One of the sleeves may have keyed upon
it a small pulley P by means of which it may be rotated. The winch itself is
mounted to rotate upon the sleeves and may be driven by the spur wheel C in the
usual manner. Within the fan there is arranged a stationary steam drum or
cylinder D supported on the ends of the two tubular shafts BB both of which
open into the drum D. The tubular shaft B is connected with a supply of hot
air or preferably with a steam supply, the steam entering the drum as indicated
by the arrow. The tubular shaft B is preferably terminated within the drum by
a dip pipe E, so that water of condensation will be displaced through the dip
pipe when the level rises above the lower open end of the pipe.
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The fan may be rotated either in the same direction as the winch or in the
opposite direction, and its blades may be arranged parallel with its axis or be
helical or be curved or formed in any convenient manner according to the result
desired.
To increase the heating effect of the drum D, it may be formed or provided with
radiating flanges or projections.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:
1. In a winch of the type set forth, a rotary fan within and concentric with the
winch and a drying or heating cylinder within and concentric with the fan,
substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying
drawings.
2. The combination and arrangement in a winch of the type set forth of a
rotary fan and a drying cylinder constructed substantially as and for the purpose
herein before described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 22nd day of September 1897.
W. E. HEYS & SON,
Agents for the Applicants.