Improvements in Apparatus for Packing Tea and other similar Substances.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 12th July, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 6th May, 1889-Accepted, 15th June, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Packing Tea and other similar
Substances.
I, JAMES CLYNE Engineering Factor of 3 Haddon Street, Aberdeen Scotland do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This Improvement consists in a table or platform raised on legs of cast or wrought
Iron or Timber having under the platform two parallel shafts geared together and on
these shafts are fixed four spiral cambs which working together raise the platform and
allow it to drop simultaneously imparting to the box or package on the table a shock
which settles the material being packed closely together.
To soften the shock somewhat springs of steel, rubber: or other suitable material
are placed under the platform.
Angle plates having slots working on studs or bolts are placed on the platform
which plates secure the box or package rigidly in its place, they are made to swivel
so as to allow the package to be easily removed. There is also placed on the open
top of the package or box a funnel having a raised part in the centre supported from
the sides by rods so as to spread the material being packed to the sides and corners of
the box.
Dated this Dixth day of July 1888.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Packing Tea and other similar
Substances.
I, JAMES CLYNE Engineering Factor 20 Adelphi Aberdeen do hereby declare the
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 consists in an improved method of Packing Tea and other substances
of a like nature in boxes, cases or packages whereby the substance packed is not
broken or otherwise injured by unnecessary handling the whole process being per-
formed by gravitation and the consequent settling of the material caused by a sharp
check being imparted to the box or package and this operation is performed in the
following manner.
The Box or Package is placed on a Table or Platform and is held in position by.
angle plates, a. a. having a slotted hole working on a stud so as to make them adjustable
to the size of box being packed. These angle plates are also made to turn on the studs
so that the plate can be drawn back and the package removed or if the packages
are of an uniform size a frame suitable for that size can be fixed on the
platform.
The Platform A is raised by the four spiral cams B. B. which bringing it to its
highest point simultaneously and continuing to rotate allow it to drop the required
distance, and the Platform in falling strikes on the four spiral springs b. b. imparting
to the package on the Platform or Table a sharp shock which causes the material
being packed to settle down closely, or I sometimes place on the shafts V or other
shaped cams or short studs screwed to the shaft imparting the same motion as the
spiral cam.
The Platform in its descent is guided by four studs c. c. passing inside the four
spiral springs.
This motion is imparted to the cambs by the pulley C. a. (C. b. being a loose pulley)
keyed on the shaft D on which two cams are fixed.

page_text: The gear wheels E. E. transfer the motion to the second shaft F. on which are the
other two cams.
I sometimes place on the shaft D. a fly wheel and handle so that manual labour can
be applied, and I also use for smaller packers a single shaft actuated by a foot treadle,
or by hand or power placed under a Table or Counter to which are attached one or
more sets of cambs in pairs working on the same principle as the larger packers,
the platforms being raised in the same manner and guided in their descent.
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 method of packing as described in the foregoing statement by which
the material is closely shaken together by the rapid and continuous manner in which
the platform is raised and allowed to fall by the action of cams or studs rotating
simultaneously.
A
1
1000