Machinery or Apparatus for the Manufacture of Paillasses, Mattresses, and the like.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Appl.cation, 20th July, 1859-Accepted. 14th Sept., 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Machinery or Apparatus for the Manufacture of Paillasses,
Mattresses, and the like.
We, WALTER LONGLEY of 52 Lands Lane, Leeds, in the County of York, Bedding
Manufacturer, and ALFRED ATKINSON, of 75, Church Street, Hunslet, Leeds, in the
said County, 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 of machinery or apparatus for the manufacture of Paillasses,
mattresses and the like (hereinafter referred to as "article" or "articles,") which
heretofore have been made by hand, the operation of filling and pressing or ramming
being not only slow but often results in irregularity in the consistency thereof, for
while ramming has taken place at one point the filling material has sprung back at
another point.
Now our invention has for its object the production of the abovenamed articles in a
superior manner, at less cost and with greater facility than heretofore usual.
For this purpose we use a machine or apparatus in which the interior of its lower
part is of the same size and configuration of, and receives the case of the article to
be filled. This case is secured therein by pins or skewers or otherwise, and is
supported at the sides, bottom and ends, and being open at the top, straw or other
suitable material used for filling the said case being placed therein by the operator
in suitable quantities and at intervals as required, each of such quantities is pressed
into the case by a drop ram which is somewhat less in length and breadth of the said
case, or article under treatment, but yet of such size as to embrace and press at once
the whole of such filling material into the said case and by a few strokes of the ram
to sufficiently consolidate the same. Other portions of material are afterwards
placed therein and subjected to similar stamping or pressing until the case is full.
The pins or skewers and other fastenings of the case to the machine are then
removed, and a portion of the front enclosure taken away, the back part of the casing
which forms one edge of the article under treatment is then brought over the filling
and sewn to the front part. The front of the machine forming the enclosure of the
article, and that now holds the filled case, is then removed and the article taken out
and handed to another operator to finish the same ready for use. The ram or presser
above referred to is provided with one or more suitable guides and is actuated in its
upward direction by means of a rope taking on or into the groove of a rotating over-
bead pulley, the rope being pressed upon the pulley by the operator pulling the fall
end of the said rope at discretion, causing the ram to ascend and which on casing the
rope, descends upon the filling material and presses it into the case as above referred
to, and at its final raising after each separate portion of filling has been pressed, it is
caught by a latch and held thereby in such top position till required, the latch being
withdrawn at will by the operator.
Other equivalent modes of operating the ram may be employed such as by a well
known frictional arrangement, a bar or board being attached to the ram and a pulley
at each side thereof rotating in opposite directions and drawn together so as to grip
the said bar or board, or the axis of one pulley may be in a fixed position and the
other movable, the ram being by this means caused to ascend and to prevent over-
unning a disengaging apparatus may be provided. Or a rack, pinion and clutch
rrangement may be used, the clutch and the pinion being engaged and disengaged at
will by the operator, or disengagement may take place automatically to prevent over-
unning. A latch in all cases being provided for holding the rain in the topmost
osition while filling material is being put in the case.

page_text: In the annexed drawings, Fig. 1, is a front elevation of machinery or apparatus in
accordance with our invention. Fig. 2, a vertical section at the line 1, 1, of Fig. 1.
Figs. 3, and shew the frictional arrangement, and Figs. 5, and 6, the rack, pinion
and clutch arrangement for raising the ram. (These views in part only.) Similar
letters indicate like parts throughout all the Figures.
a, is the base or sill of the machine. b. b. are the uprights or standards, c, c, and
, el, are double transomes, the same distance apart as the thickness of and for
admitting the slides d, d, of the ram. e, e, are vertical parts between the transomes
and at each side of the slides d. d. el, e, are parts at the front and back of e, e. The
parts e, and el, form a box guide for the said slides d, d. f, is the back part of the
receptacle for the case of the article under treatment, g, the front part thereof, g, a
separate portion of the front part, this is removable (when the case is full) so as to
permit of the back part of the case being sewn to the front part previous to the article
being removed from the machine.
In order to do this, the front party, is removable on turning over the latches g².
, is the ram in connection with the slides d, d, i, the rope by which the ram is
raised, j, a rotating grooved pulley in which the said rope takes. This pulley is
mounted on the shaft, and rotates continuously during the time the machine is in
use. 1, a latch for retaining the ram in its upward position. ma cord for with-
drawing the latch when the ram is required to drop.
In the frictional arrangement previously referred to, n, is the friction bar in
connection with the ram . k, and o, are rotating shafts or axles carrying the
friction pulleys P and 7, one at each side of the barn, these pulleys are caused to
approach each other or one may be in a fixed position and the other movable as shewn
in Figs. 3, and 4, by means of the lever r, they rotate in opposite directions and
when gripping the bar a, between them cause the ram to ascend. s, is an automatic
discharging mechanism for releasing the grip on the bar n, and preventing over-
running of the ram upwards.
In the rack and pinion and clutch arrangement above referred to, t, is the rack in
connection with the ram . k, the rotating shaft on which is mounted freely the
pinion w. v, is a clutch sliding upon a feather in the shati k, and takes into a corre-
sponding part on the pinion t, by means of the lever we, at the will of the operator
when he desires to raise or actuate the ram. , is an automatic discharging
mechanism for releasing the connection between the clutch e, and the pinion t, and
for preventing overrunning of the ram upwards.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is
In machinery or apparatus for the manufacture of l'aillasses, Mattresses and the
like, a ram such as 4, in combination with mechanism for actuating the same, sub-
stantially as described and shewn in the drawings annexed.
1
1004
Witness,
THOS. E. CRAVEN, Fel. Inst. P.A.,
24, Victoria Chambers, Leeds.
WALTER LONGLEY.
ALFRED ATKINSON.