An Improvement in or applicable to Paper Making Machinery.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in or applicable to Paper Making Machinery.
I, ANDREW MASSON, of Drumearn, Earlsfield Road, Wandsworth Common, Surrey,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to an improvement in or applicable to paper making
machinery, and consists in an improved method of supporting the wire, whereby it
is caused to vibrate in a truly level plane and its adjustment and levelling are
facilitated, and the connection of the supporting shake-frame to its means of support
is simplified.
To this end, the Invention consists in suspending. the shake-frame by which the
wire is carried, by raised standards, by pendant spring connections, which, at their
upper ends, are bolted to the upper parts of said standards, and, at their pendent
ends, are adjustably connected to the lower onds of brackets or arms bolted to and
depending from the sides of the shake-frame, above the connections of the suspension
springs to their standards, whereby the shake-frame and the wire which it supports
and the usual accessories which work therewith and partake of the vibrating motion
thereof, are so supported that they can receive the desired lateral vibration, while the
wire moves onwards, in a truly level plane, whereby the slight arc-like movements to
which the frame is subjected as at present supported, are avoided, to the advantage
of the even distribution of the supported pulp.
At the junction of the suspending springs with the arms depending from the
shake-frame, the springs are rivetted to laterally extending plates which abut against
the inner sides of the pendant arms and are bolted thereto. Said plates are formed
with projecting lugs which enter vertical slots in the inner sides of the pendant
arms, and are fitted with adjustable screws upon the heads of which the bottom
ends of the pendant arms rest, and whereby the shake-frame is truly adjusted and
levelled, prior to the bolts securing the arins and suspending springs together being
set up.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in or applicable to Paper Making Machinery.
I, ANDREW MASSON, of Drumearn, Earlsfield Road, Wandsworth Common, Surrey,
Engineer, 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 an improvement in or applicable to paper-making
machinery, and consists in the hereinafter described improved means of supporting
the wire-cloth, whereby it is caused to vibrate in a truly level plane and its adjust-
ment and levelling are facilitated, and the connection of the supporting shake-frame
to its means of support is simplified.
On the accompanying drawings:-
Fig. 1 represents an end elevation, and Fig. 2 represents a partial side
elevation.
a represents the shake bar, and b represents the breast-roll which is supported by
the shake-bar and carries the wire-cloth c.
The shake-bar is suspended from raised standards d, by pendant spring connec-
tions e, which, at their upper ends, are bolted as at f, to the upper parts of the
standards, and, at their lower ends, are adjustably connected, as at g, to the lower
ends of brackets or arms h, which are bolted as at i, and depend from the sides of the
shake-frame, above the connections of the springs e, to the standards, whereby the
shake-frame and the wire which it supports and the usual accessories which work
therewith and partake of the vibrating inotion thereof, are so supported that they
can receive the desired lateral vibration, while the wire moves onwards, as indicated
by the arrow x, in a truly level plane, whereby the slight arc-like movements to
which the frame is subjected, as at present supported, are avoided, to the advantage
of the even distribution of the supported pulp.
At the connection of the springs e, with the arms h, the springs are rivetted as
at el, to laterally extending plates e², which abut against the inner sides of the arms
and bolted thereto at es. Said plates are formed with projecting lugs e, which enter
vertical slots h', in the inner sides of the arms h h², are adjusting screws whereby
the shake-frame is truly adjusted and levelled, prior to the bolts e³, securing the arms
and suspending springs together, being set up.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improved means, consisting of the improved combination of parts hereinbefore
described with reference to the accompanying drawings, of supporting the shake-frame
and wire-cloth in papermaking machinery.
Dated this 5th day of July 1897.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
Chartered Patent Agents,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.