IMPROVED MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING THE REVOLUTION OR MOVEMENT OF A SPINDLE FRAME OR OTHER APPLIANCE WHICH IS LOOSELY SUPPORTED IN THE CENTRE OF A REVOLVING DISC, WHEEL, OR OTHER REVOLVING DEVICE."
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Bezer, of St. John Street, Smithfield, in the
County of Middlesex, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVED MEANS OR
APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING THE REVOLUTION OR MOVEMENT OF A SPINDLE
FRAME OR OTHER APPLIANCE WHICH IS LOOSELY SUPPORTED IN THE CENTRE
OF A REVOLVING DISC, WHEEL, OR OTHER REVOLVING DEVICE."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Bezer at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th October 1879.
HENRY BEZER, of St. John Street, Smithfield, in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer. "IMPROVED MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING THE REVOLUTION
OR MOVEMENT OF A SPINDLE FRAME OR OTHER APPLIANCE WHICH IS LOOSELY
SUPPORTED IN THE CENTRE OF A REVOLVING DISC, WHEEL, OR OTHER REVOLVING
DEVICE."
The object of my Invention is to prevent a spindle frame or other appliance
which is fitted in the centre of a revolving disc, wheel, or other revolving device,
from being drawn into the revolution of such disc or wheel, and the Invention is
intended to apply more particularly to that class of wire rope and cable making
machinery which has a series of discs with a bobbin frame attached to a spindle or
shaft at their centre. These discs revolve, and it is necessary to prevent the
bobbin frame being drawn into the revolving movement or swaying to and fro.
For this purpose, according to one arrangement, I fit at each end of the machine
a bearing face which is excentric with the centre of the discs. On each of these
bearing faces I fit a loose arm, and I connect the two arms together by a bar which
passes through a radial slot in each of the discs. I form each bobbin frame with
two supports, one of which is central and takes loosely into the centre of the
corresponding disc, while the other is excentric and forms a bearing face corres-
ponding in excentricity with the bearing faces before described, and it takes loosely
into an arm which is connected to the bar above mentioned. The result of this
arrangement is that as the discs revolve the bar and arms are carried round with
them, and inasmuch as the revolution of the arms is excentric with that of the
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page_text: discs, and the bobbin frame is supported at one end in the centre of the disc, and
at the other end in the arm, it cannot revolve or sway.
Thus
According to another arrangement I fix a toothed wheel at one end of the
machine, and I gear with this wheel a wheel on a shaft which passes through all
the discs. Upon this shaft, contiguous to each bobbin frame, I key another wheel
which gears with a wheel on the bobbin frame concentric with the disc.
inasmuch as the first mentioned toothed wheel is fixed, and the first wheel on the
shaft revolves round it with a sun and planet motion, the other wheels on the
same shaft revolve in like manner round the wheels on the bobbin frames, which
therefore remain fixed and prevent the frames revolving or swaying. In soine
cases in order to support the bobbin and frame at the one end, in addition to the
support given by the disc at the other, I carry a second shaft through the discs and
connect it with the shaft already described by means of a tie which is fitted to
them loosely, and has an opening to fit over a boss on the bobbin frame, to which
it therefore acts as a stay.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Henry Bezer in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 9th April 1880.
HENRY BEZER, of St. John Street, Smithfield, in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer. IMPROVED MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING THE REVOLUTION
OR MOVEMENT OF A SPINDLE FRAME OR OTHER APPLIANCE WHICH IS LOOSELY
SUPPORTED IN THE CENTRE OF A REVOLVING DISC, WHEEL, OR OTHER REVOLVING
DEVICE."
The object of my Invention is to prevent a spindle frame or other appliance
which is fitted in the centre of a revolving disc, wheel, or other revolving device,
from being drawn into the revolution of such disc or wheel, or other revolving
device, and the Invention is intended to apply more particularly to that class of
wire rope and cable making machinery which has a series of discs with a bobbin
frame attached to a spindle or shaft at their centre. These discs revolve, and it is
necessary to prevent the bobbin frame being drawn into the revolving movement or
swaying to and fro.
For this purpose, according to one arrangement, I fit at each end of the machine
a bearing face which is eccentric with the centre of the discs. On each of these
bearing faces I fit a loose arm, and I connect the two arms together by a bar which
passes through a radial slot in each of the discs. I form each bobbin frame with a
support which is central and takes loosely into the centre of the corresponding disc,
while on the other side of the disc this support is made eccentric and forms a
bearing face corresponding in eccentricity with the bearing faces before described,
and it takes loosely into an arm which is connected to the bar above mentioned.
The result of this arrangement is that as the discs revolve the bar and arms are
carried round with them, and inasmuch as the revolution of the arms is eccentric

page_text: with that of the discs, and the bobbin frame is supported in the centre of the disc,
and is connected to the arm, as before described, it cannot revolve or sway.
According to another arrangement I fix a toothed wheel at one end of the
machine, and I gear with this wheel a wheel on a shaft which passes through all
the discs. Upon this shaft, contiguous to each bobbin frame, I key another wheel
which gears with a wheel on the bobbin frame concentric with the disc. Thus
inasmuch as the first mentioned tooth wheel is fixed, and the first wheel on the
shaft revolves round it with a sun and planet motion, the other wheels on the same
shaft revolve in like manner round the wheels on the bobbin frames, which
therefore remain fixed and prevent the frames revolving or swaying.
In some cases in order to support the bobbin and frame at one end, in addition
to the support given by the disc at the other, I fit over a boss on the bobbin frame
a collar or ring, from which I carry arms or spokes to the longitudinal rods of the
machine, these arms thus acting as stays.
In some cases also where I employ the sun and planet arrangement I use it only
at the end of the machine, and I substitute for the wheels contiguous to the
discs eccentric bearing; faces and connecting arms somewhat similar to those in
the arrangement first described.
In order that my Invention, and the manner in which it may be performed or
carried into effect, may be fully understood, I have annexed two Sheets of
Drawings shewing several modifications thereof applied to wire rope or cable
making machinery.
Referring first to Figures 1, 2, and 3, which represent one modification, Figure 1
is a side elevation, partly in section, of the machinery; Figure 2 is a view taken
at the line 1---1, and looking in the direction of the arrow 3; Figure 3 is a
view taken at the line 2 - - - 2, and looking in the direction of the arrow 4. A, A',
represent two of the revolving discs of the machine, of which there may be any
required number. The first disc A is mounted loosely on a fixed shaft a; to the
disc A is fixed the driving pulley B, and upon a boss on this pulley is mounted
the loose pulley C. D is an eccentric bearing face fixed to the shaft a near the
disc A, and at the other end of the machine is fixed a corresponding excentric
bearing face D¹. To each of these bearing faces D and D¹ I fit, by means of a
collar or two half rings bolted together, a loose arın E and E¹, and I connect the
two arms E, E, together by a longitudinal bar F which passes through a radial
slot G in each of the discs of the machine; H, H, represent the bobbins, and I, I,
their frames; the first bobbin frame is attached to the fixed shaft a, while each of
the other bobbin frames has a support a' which is central, that is to say, in line
with the shaft a, and this support a¹ takes loosely into the centre of the corres-
ponding disc A¹; on the other side of the disc the support a¹ is formed with an
eccentric bearing face D2 corresponding with the bearing faces D and D', and I
fit in the bearing face D2, by means of a collar or two half rings bolted together, a
loose arm which I connect to the longitudinal bar F. Each bobbin frame I is
supported at the end opposite the disc by forming it with a hollow boss K. (seen
more clearly in Figure 6 hereinafter described) on which I fit a collar connected by
arms or spokes L, L, with the longitudinal rods M, M, which connect up the series
of discs in the machine; the disc A¹ is thus relieved of part of the weight of the
bobbin and its frame. It will readily be understood that by the arrangement
shown in Figures 1, 2, and 3, as the discs A, A', revolve the bar F and arms
E, E¹, E, are carried round with them; and inasmuch as the revolution of the
said arms is eccentric with that of the discs, and the bobbin frames I, I, are sup-
ported in the centre of their respective discs, and are connected to the armis as
before described, they cannot revolve or sway. The parts of the machine repre-
sented in Figures 1, 2, and 3, and not herein specially referred to, may be of the
ordinary construction, and will be understood without further explanation.
Figure 4 is a view taken at a point corresponding with that indicated by the
arrow 4 in Figure 1 of another modification; Figure 5 is a side view of part of this
modification. Letters of reference the same as those in Figures 1, 2, and 3 indicate

page_text: corresponding parts. In this case I fix a toothed wheel N on the support a', which
supports the bobbin frame as before described, and I gear with this wheel a wheel O
on a shaft F which passes through all the discs. A similar arrangement of wheel
As the
gear N, O, is applied to each bobbin frame, and also to the fixed shaft a.
wheel N keyed to the fixed shaft a cannot revolve, and the wheel O revolves
round it with a sun and planet motion, the other wheels O on the shaft F revolve
in like manner round the wheels N on the supports a¹ of the bobbin frames, which
therefore cannot revolve or sway but must remain fixed.
Figures 6, 7, and 8 represent a modification in which while I employ the wheels
N and O at the end of the machine, the wheel O revolving round the wheel N
with a sun and planet motion as already described, I dispense with the wheels
contiguous to the discs (except the first disc A), and in lieu thereof I form the
support al of the bobbin frame with an eccentric bearing face D³, the same as in
the arrangement shown in Figures 1, 2, and 3, and I connect this eccentric with a
corresponding eccentric D³ on the shaft F by means of an arm E which is loosely
fitted to the eccentrics D², D³, by means of collars or rings, as shewn; Figure 6 is a
side elevation, partly in section; Figure 7, a view looking in the direction of the
arrow 3; and Figure 8, a view looking in the direction of the arrow 4.
Although I have only shown my Invention as applied to wire rope or cable
making machinery, the manner of applying it to other apparatus, where it is
required to prevent the revolution or movement of a spindle frame or other
appliance which is loosely supported in the centre of a revolving disc, wheel, or
other revolving device, will be readily understood.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,-
.
First. The means or apparatus, substantially as herein before described and repre-
sented in Figures 1, 2, and 3, for preventing the revolution or movement of a
spindle frame or other appliance which is loosely supported in the centre of a
revolving disc, wheel, or other revolving device.
Second. The means or apparatus, substantially as hereinbefore described and
represented in Figures 4 and 5, for preventing the revolution or movement of a
spindle frame or other appliance which is loosely supported in the centre of a
revolving disc, wheel, or other revolving device.
Third. The means or apparatus, substantially as hereinbefore described and
represented in Figures 6, 7, and 8, for preventing the revolution or movement of
a spindle frame or other appliance which is loosely supported in the centre of a
revolving disc, wheel, or other revolving device.
Fourth. The several arrangements or combinations of parts, substantially as
herein before described and represented in the accompanying Drawings, forming
improved wire rope or cable making machinery.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Bezer, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Ninth day of April, One thousand eight hundred and
ichi
HENRY BEZER. (L.S.)