Improvements in Photographic and other Rolls or Squeegees.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 20th July, 1897
Complete Specification left 20th Apr. 1898-Accepted, 4th June, 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Photographic and other Rolls or Squeegees.
I, HERBERT WILLIAM COTTRELL, of 176, Ashtead Row, Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Photographer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:―
This invention relates to the improvements hereinafter described in photographic
or other rolls commonly known as squeegee's and has for its object to provide such
rolls with ball bearings. My invention is particularly applicable to photographic
rolls such as are used for mounting prints, maps, and drawings but may be applied
with great advantage to printer's rolls and the like. Photographic rolls of ordinary
construction consist of a wood roller covered with rubber the said roll being
mounted on an iron spindle rotating in eyes on the ends of the carrier attached to
the handle. Great inconvenience is caused by the said spindle wearing the eyes
of the carrier through and the breaking of the same. By my invention these diffi-
culties are overcome. In carrying my invention into effect I provide the roll with
an iron spindle, secured at both ends and furnished with ordinary conical screw
nuts. I attach to each end of the roll an ordinary ball bearing race which I pro-
vide with a series of balls the same being adjusted and held in position by the
conical nuts aforesaid, the ends of the spindle being placed in the eyes of the
carrier and held thereon by lock nuts thus forming a bearing for the rolls. I may
in some cases attach the ball bearings to the ends of the carrier instead of to the
rolls the spindle being fixed in the rolls. My said invention may be applied to
printer's rolls in a like manner to that of the photographic roll without departing
from the nature of my invention.
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Improvements in Photographic and other Rolls or Squeegees.
I, HERBERT WILLIAM COTTRELL, of 176, Ashted Row, Birmingham,
County of Warwick, Photographer, 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 the improvements hereinafter described in photographic
or other rolls commonly known as squeegees and has for its object to provide such
rolls with ball bearings. My invention is particularly applicable to photographic

page_text: rolls such as are used for mounting prints maps and drawings, but may be applied
with great advantage to printers rolls and the like.
Photographic rolls of ordinary construction consist of a wood roller covered with
rubber, the said roller being mounted on an iron spindle rotating in eyes on the
ends of the carrier attached to the handle. Great inconvenience is caused by the
said spindle wearing the eyes of the carrier through and the breakage of the same.
By my invention these difficulties are overcome. In carrying my invention into
effect I provide the roller with an iron spindle screwed at both ends and furnished
with ordinary conical screw nuts. I attach to each end of the roller an ordinary
ball bearing race which I provide with a series of balls the same being adjusted
and held in position by the conical nuts aforesaid, the ends of the spindle being
placed in the eyes of the carrier and held by lock nuts thus forming a bearing for
the rolls. I may in some cases attach the ball bearings to the ends of the carrier
instead of to the roller the spindle being fixed in the roller. My invention is
applicable to printer's rolls in a like manner to that of the photographic roll
without departing from the nature of my invention.
In order that my invention may be more clearly understood I will describe it by
reference to the accompanying drawings the same letters of reference indicating
similar parts throughout.
Figures 1 and 2 show in side and end elevations respectively a photographic
roll or squeegee.
Figures 3 and 4 are longitudinal sections through the roller.
vertical section of the same roller, Figure 6 being an end view.
Figure 5 is a
The roller A consists of a wood or metal foundation B covered with rubber D.
Into the ends of the said roller is fitted the ball race E and balls F which are held in
position and adjusted by the conical screw nuts G screwed on the spindle H. The
ends of the spindle H fit into eyes I, I, of the carrier K and are retained in
position by the screw nuts L which are screwed up after the adjustment of the
roller A on the spindle H.
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 combination with a photographic or other roll or squeegee of the ball bear-
ings substantially as described and illustrated and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 18th dow of il 1000
WILLIAM HENRY BARACLOUGH,
36, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agent for the Applicant.