Improved Pedestal for Carding Engines.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd July, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 6th Nov., 1891-Accepted, 9th Jan., 1802
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Pedestal for Carding Engines.
I JOHN FREDERICK BRADBURY of Parel, Bombay, India, Mill Manager do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My said invention relates to improvements in the construction and arrangement
of the pedestals or supports which carry the axles of the cylinders or other
rotating parts of carding engines and has for its object to provide means for the
ready and accurate adjustment of the position of such rotating parts of carding
engines either in relation to each other or to other parts of the carding engine
as for instance (in a carding engine provided with flats) for accurately setting the
main cylinder with regard to the flats.
For adjusting the vertical height of the axle I provide two wedge shaped
packing pieces one of which rests at the bottom of a suitably shaped recess in the
pedestal. Resting on the inclined surface of the bottom packing piece is an
adjusting wedge provided with screws and nuts for obtaining a longitudinal traverse
and also with means for indicating the degree of vertical displacement of
the axle.
The second packing piece is superposed with its inclined surface downwards on
the adjusting wedge and carries on its upper surface a block or bearing in which
rotates the axle in suitable steps or bushes.
For adjusting the horizontal position of the axle I use set screws bearing against
the said block or bearing and provided with lock nuts and means for indicating the
degree of horizontal displacement of the axle.
Dated this 30th day of June 1891.
EDWARD TURNER WHITELOW,
70, Deansgate, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Pedestal for Carding Engines.
I JOHN FREDERICK BRADBURY of Parel, Bombay, India, Mill Manager 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 followin
statement:—
My said invention relates to improvements in the construction and arrangement
of the pedestals or supports which carry the axles of the cylinders or other
rotating parts of carding engines, and has for its object to provide means for the
ready and accurate adjustment of the. position of such rotating parts of carding
engines either in relation to each other or to other parts of the carding engine, as
for instance (in a carding engine provided with flats) for accurately setting the
main cylinder with regard to the flats.
In order that my said invention may be more easily understood I will describe
the same with reference to the accompanying drawing wherein is represented a side
view of a pedestal made in accordance with my said invention.
In the said drawing a is the axle or shaft of a cylinder working in suitable
bearings or bushes in the bearing block b.
For adjusting the vertical height of the said bearing block i provide two wedge
shaped packing pieces c d, one of which c rests at the bottom of a suitably shaped
recess in the pedestal,

page_text: Resting on the upper inclined surface of the bottom packing piece is an adjusting
wedge e provided with setting screws e¹ which work in nuts in the sides of the
pedestal. Lock nuts are provided for the purpose of securing the setting
screws after having been set. In order to adjust the height of the bearing
block the lock nuts are first loosened and one of the setting screws is then drawn
back. The other setting screw is then screwed further in until the bearing block has
been raised or lowered to the required extent, both setting screws are then secured
by their respective lock nuts.
The packing piece d is placed on the wedge with its inclined surface downwards
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and carries the bearing block on its upper horizontal surface.
understood the height of the bearing block b and consequently of the axle a will
depend on the position of the wedge e.
For adjusting the horizontal position of the bearing block b I employ setting
screws also working in nuts in the sides of the pedestal. The inner ends of the
setting screws abut against the bearing block b.
Lock nuts are provided as in the case of the lower setting screws for securing
the horizontal position of the bearing block after adjustment.
Each setting screw is provided with an indicating disc g and a pointer. The
indicating discs are graduated on their edges or on their faces in order to indicate
the displacement in a horizontal or vertical direction as the case may be.
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
A pedestal having setting screws working in the sides thereof in combination
with a wedge interposed between wedge shape packing pieces, a bearing block, and
graduated dises and pointers, for controlling and indicating the degree of adjustment
in a vertical or horizontal direction as the case may be; substantially as and for
the purpose herein before set forth and shown.
Dated this 31st day of October 1891.
EDWARD TURNER WHITELOW,
70, Deansgate, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.