Improvements in Adjustable Supports for the Bearings of Shafting and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Mar., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Dec., 1897-Accepted, 22nd Jan.,
1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Adjustable Supports for the Bearings of Shafting
and the like.
We, HENRY WILLIAM PHIPPS, of 59, Harders Road, Peckham, in the County of
Surrey, Commercial Traveller, and GEORGE RICHARD PHIPPS, of 168, Stanstead
Road, Forest Hill, in the County of Kent, Ironmonger, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to adjustable hangers, brackets, pedestals and other
similar adjustable supports for the bearings of shafting and the like. The object
of the invention is to construct bearing supports which are readily adjustable and
which can be made to take bearings of various sizes.
The support is made in two main parts and the bearing end is adjustable by
means of nuts on a central screw holt which passes through it and is fast on or
to the base plate of the support, and by means of bolts which pass through longi-
tudinal side slots and are tightened up when the requisite adjustment has been
made. The bearing end has a removable section or cover to the aperture in which
the bearing is received, said aperture or rest for the bearing being made of a
spherical or globular form. The exterior of the bearing is also made spherical or
globular to fit into the bearing rest aforesaid and is provided with a pin or projec-
tion which engages in a recess or cavity in the bearing rest to prevent the bearing
from rotating with the shaft in said rest A series of bearings are made to fit
the ball shaped rest and are differently bored to take shafting of different diameters.
Dated this 94th day of March 1897.
Improvements in Adjustable Supports for the Bearings of Shafting
and the like.
We, HENRY WILLIAM PHIPPS, of 59, Harders Road, Peckham, in the County of
Surrey, Commercial Traveller, and GEORGE RICHARD PHIPPS, of 168, Stanstead
Road, Forest Hill, in the County of Kent, Ironmonger, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described in and by the following statement:
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This invention relates to adjustable hangers, brackets, pedestals and other similar
adjustable supports for the bearings of shafting and the like. The object of the
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page_text: invention is to construct bearing supports which are readily adjustable and which
can be made to take bearings of various sizes.
In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a hanger made
according to this invention; Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, and
Fig. 3 is a partly sectional front elevation of a plummer block made according to
this invention.
The hanger is made in two main parts A and A', the former being secured to or
forming part of the top plate A2 by which the hanger is secured to the roof, beam or
the like, and the latter being the bearing end. These two parts A and A¹ are
each provided with longitudinal slots a and a¹ through which pass bolts B the
nuts b on which are tightened up when the requisite adjustment has been made.
Fast on the plate A2 is a central rod C which is externally screw threaded and
passes through a plain central aperture in a cross bar A³ connecting the sides of
the bearing end A¹ of the hanger. C1 and C2 are lock-nuts on the screwed rod C
one above and the other below the cross bar A³.
The vertical adjustment of the hanger is effected as follows. Suppose it is desired
to lower the bearing end half an inch, the lower lock-nut C2 is first lowered that
distance on the rod C, then the nuts 6 on the bolts B are slacked and the bearing
end A¹ of the hanger is gently lowered until the cross arm A³ rests on the top of
the adjusted lock nut C2, the nuts bare then tightened on the bolts B and the
lock-nut C screwed down over the central rod C tight on to the top of the cross
arm A³.
The bearing end A¹ has a removable section or cover a² to the aperture a³ in
which the bearing is received, said aperture a³ or rest for the bearing being made
of a spherical or globular form or partly so as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The
exterior d of the bearing D is also made spherical or globular or partly so (see Fig. 2)
to fit into the bearing rest a³ aforesaid and is provided with a pin or projection d
which engages in a recess or cavity in the bearing rest to prevent the bearing D
from rotating with the shaft in said rest. By this method of fitting the bearing
in its rest we provide a ball and socket adjustment so that it is possible to carry 3
a shaft in the rest even when the plane of the hanger is not at right angles to
the axis of the shaft.
A series of bearings are made externally alike to fit the ball shaped rest a³ in
the bearing end of the hanger, and are differently bored to standard sizes to take
shafting of different diameters; consequently all the bearings in the series are a
interchangeable and the hanger is adapted for carrying any one of them. Thus
one hanger can be made to carry shafting of any" diameter coming within the
given series.
In the plummer block shown in Fig. 3, the bearing D and the bearing rest are
made and fitted together as a ball and socket in the same way as hereinbefore
described with reference to the hanger. The bearing end A¹ of the plummer block
is vertically adjusted by means of nuts E engaging the external threads f on the
lower ends of the uprights F. The upper ends f of these uprights are also
externally threaded and furnished with lock-nuts G, and between the upper and
lower threads, f2 and f respectively, the uprights F are made square or of other
angular cross section and pass through corresponding holes in the bearing end A¹
of the plummer block. The nuts E are provided with circumferential tommy
holes e and by rotating same the uprights F are raised or lowered as desired, the
lock-nuts G being adjusted as required.
The application of the invention to brackets, pedestals, and other forms of bear-
ing supports for shafting will be well understood without further description.
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:-
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1. A support for the bearings of shafting and the like made in two main parts 5
in which the bearing end part is adiustable relatively to the other pant the id

page_text: bearing end having a socket rest to receive a bearing having a ball formed on
the exterior thereof to fit the socket rest substantially as described.
2. A support for the bearings of shafting and the like comprising a bearing rest
made of a spherical or globular shape or partly so to form a socket, and a bearing
made with an external part of a globular or spherical shape or partly so to form a
ball for the socket rest, substantially as described.
3. In a support for the bearings- of shafting and the like of the kind indicated
in the preceding claim providing the bearing rest with a series of bearings all
externally alike but of different bores so that the one support can be adapted to
carry shafting of different diameters, substantially as described.
4. The combination of parts forming the adjustable hanger substantially as
described with reference to Figs. 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings.
5. The combination of parts forming the adjustable plummer block substantially
as described with reference to Fig. 3 of the accompanying drawings.
6. The improvements in adjustable supports for the bearings of shafting and the
like, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described and illustrated in
the accompanying drawings.
Dombon 1897
F. W. GOLBY,
36, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agent for the Applicants