Improvements in Metallic Packing for Stuffing Boxes or Glands.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd July, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 15th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 25th May, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metallic Packing for Stuffing Boxes or Glands.
JOHN BODDY Orwell Villa Caeran Road Newport, Mon., Engineer.
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
I do
This invention relates to metallic packing, for the stuffing boxes, or glands of
piston rods, slide rods, or any reciprocating rods, or the like, and has for its object,
to reduce friction, and leakage, while at the same time, augmenting the durability,
and facilitating adjustment, when required.
These objects are obtained by providing or inserting into the stuffing boxes, or
glands, a number of male and female metallic segments, marked respectively M
and F in Fig. 1 having conical surfaces on one side, and so arranged that as
the gland is forced in, the male segments are set up towards the rod, while at
the same time the female segments are set up against the interior of the stuffing
box, or gland.
Any kind of stuffing boxes or glands, whether for steam, vapour, or liquid,
may be provided with such metallic segments, as described.
Any number of such said segments may be employed or fitted, according to
requirements, and may also be combined, with a turn or turns, of any fibrous,
elastic, or ordinary packing, either at one, or both of the extreme ends, forming
the metallic packing.
Fig. 1. represents a sectional elevation through the centre of a stuffing box or
gland, having metallic packing as described, which may be arranged, either as
shown in Fig. 1, or inverted.
Dated this 1st day of Jul 1802
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metallic Packing for Stuffing Boxes or Glands.
I, JOHN BODDY Orwell Villa Caeran Road Newport, Mon., 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 relates to metallic packing, for the stuffing boxes, or glands of
piston rods, slide rods, or any reciprocating rods, or, the like, and has for
its object, to reduce friction, and leakage, while at the same time, augmenting
the durability and facilitating adjustment, when required.
The drawings hereafter referred to are those left with the Provisional
Specification.
These objects are obtained by providing or inserting into the stuffing boxes,
or glands, a number of male, and female metallic segments, marked respectively, M.
and F. in Fig. 1 having conical surfaces on one side, and so arranged that as the
gland is forced in, the male segments are set up against the interior of the stuffing
box or gland.
Any kind of stuffing boxes or glands, whether for steam vapour, gas, or liquids,
may be provided with such metallic segments as described.
Any number of such said segments may be employed or fitted according to
requirements so that two or more may be necessary to form a ring.
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page_text: Fig. 1 represents a sectional elevation through the centre of a stuffing box or
gland having metallic packing as described which may be arranged either as shewn
in Fig. 1 or inverted.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
The application to stuffing boxes or glands for steam engines, pumps, or any kind
of motor or the like, of packing, consisting of metallic male and female rings
formed of two or more segments arranged in the manner and for the purpose as
herein substantially described, set forth and fully illustrated on the drawing
hereunto annexed.
Dated this 11th dow
1004
JOHN BODDY.