IMPROVEMENTS IN PRESSES FOR BALING COTTON AND OTHER MATERIALS
Year: 1885

page_text: I ARTHUR ELPHINSTONE CUMMINS of 7 Withington Road, Whalley Range,
Manchester, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN PRESSES FOR BALING COTTON AND OTHER MATERIALS" to be
as follows:-
"
In the specification of a former Patent granted to C. J. Ash No 4262 in the year
1883 was described a baling press in which the cotton to be formed into a bale was
filled into two three or more feeding boxes which were then brought in
succession below a bale chamber and their contents pressed upwards into this bale
chamber-moveable fingers carried by the lower ends of the sides of the bale
chamber were also employed to retain the material in the chamber so that after
the contents of one box had been pressed upwards into it this box could be moved
away and another box brought into its place until the requisite number of feeding
boxes had so been forced into the bale chamber to form a bale of the required size.
According to my present invention in place of making the feeding boxes
moveable so that they can be brought in succession below a fixed bale chamber
I now fix the feeding boxes preferably in a vertical position and mount the bale
chamber so that it can be brought in succession over the top of the feeding boxes
and I provide each feeding box with a ram by which the cotton can be pressed
upwards from it into the bale chamber. The bale chamber I provide as before
with moveable fingers or grids at the lower ends of its sides to retain the cotton
when once it has been pressed into it.
The rams of the several feeding boxes I work by bydraulic cylinders below the
boxes and proportion each cylinder in size to the work which it has to perform.
The cylinder of the first box may for example be a three inch cylinder and of
the last a 9 inch.
When a bale has been formed or reduced in the press to such a density as that
it will stand further condensing without being enclosed in a bale chamber,
I extract it in an ordinary extractor and place it in a finishing press of ordinary
construction but made of sufficient opening to take the long bales which can be
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page_text: formed in the manner above described by the press. Preferably I range the
feeding boxes in a circle and mount the bale chamber on an arm which can swing
around a vertical axis at its centre.
By constructing bale presses in the above manner increased speed in pressing is
obtained that is a larger outturn of bales per day the construction of the press is
also simplified and the use of all complex forms of pressing rams is avoided.
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
I ARTHUR ELPHINSTONE CUMMINS of 7 Withington Road, Whalley Range,
Manchester 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 :—
In the Specification of a former Patent granted to C. J. Ash No 4262 in the
year 1883 was described a baling press in which the cotton to be formed into a
bale was filled into two three or more feeding boxes which were then brought in
succession below a bale chamber and their contents pressed upwards into this bale
chamber moveable fingers carried by the lower ends of the sides of the bale
chamber were also employed to retain the material in the chamber so that after
the contents of one box had been pressed upwards into it this box could be moved
away and another box brought into its place until the requisite number of feeding
boxes had so been forced into the bale chainber to form a bale of the required size.
According to my present invention in place of making the feeding boxes
moveable so that they can be brought in succession below a fixed bale chamber
I now fix the feeding boxes preferably in a vertical position and mount the bale
chamber so that it can be brought in succession over the top of the feeding boxes
and I provide each feeding box with a ram by which the cotton can be pressed
upwards from it into the bale chamber. The bale chamber I provide as before
with moveable fingers or grids at the lower ends of its sides to retain the cotton
when once it has been pressed into it.
The rams of the several feeding boxes I work by hydraulic cylinders below the
boxes and proportion each cylinder in size to the work which it has to perform.
The cylinder of the first box may for example be a three inch cylinder and of
the last a 9 inch,
When a bale has been formed or reduced in the press to such a density as that it
will stand further condensing without being enclosed in a bale chamber I extract

page_text: it in an ordinary extractor and place it in a finishing press of ordinary construction
but made of sufficient opening to take the long bales which can be formed in the
manner above described by the press. Preferably I range the feeding boxes in a
circle and mount the bale chamber on au arin which can swing around a vertical
axis at its centre.
By constructing bale presses in the above manner increased speed in pressing is
obtained that is a larger outturn of bales per day the construction of the presse is
also simplified and the use of all complex forms of pressing rams is avoided.
Figures 1 and 2 are two side elevations taken at right angles to one another of a
baling press constructed as above described. Figure 3 is a vertical section taken
through the third or largest feeding box. Figure 4 is a plan view and Figure 5 a
horizontal section of the press.
In these figures A, B and C are three feeding boxes each fitted with a follower
worked up and down by a ram working within a hydraulic cylinder A' B' or C'.
The cylinder A' is as shown of smaller diameter than the cylinder B₁ and B¹
smaller than C¹-D is the bale chamber formed in a similar manner to that
described in the specification of the Patent herein before mentioned with side doors
which can be opened for lashing the bale and relieving door for relieving it from
pressure to allow of its being removed as is usual and also fitted with grids E
composed of a series of parallel plates which can pass through slots in the sides of
the lower part of the bale chamber and project into its interior to retain the
cotton in the chamber when once it has been forced into it. These plates are as
described in that specification carried by axes F, these axes have also arms Fl
extending from them and carrying counterweights to give a tendency to the grids
to turn inwards and project into the interior of the bale chamber. Other ways of
forming the grids E for retaining the cotton or material within the bale chamber
when once it has been forced into it might be adopted-I however prefer the
arrangement above described.
The bale chamber is as is best seen in Figure 1 made capable of turning around
the central tie rod of the framework of the press so that it can be brought into
position over the top of any one or other of the feeding boxes which are ranged
at equal distances apart from one another in a circle concentric with the central
tie rod.
The press is worked in the following manner :-Cotton or other material to be
formed into a bale is filled into the feeding box A. The bale chamber is brought
over the top of this feeding box and the contents of the box are forced up into it
by admitting water under pressure to the cylinder A'. The ram of this cylinder
is afterwards allowed to descend and the bale chamber is swung round to bring it
over the top of the feeding box B which had in the meantime been filled with
cotton or material-the contents of this box are then in like manner forced up into
the bale chamber by admitting water under pressure to the cylinder B'. After-
wards the bale chamber is brought over the top of the feeding box C and has the
contents of this box forced up into it in like manner.
The side doors of the bale chamber are then opened to permit of temporary
lashings being passed around the bale, When this has been done the prongs or
fingers of an ordinary extractor are passed into the grooves which are as usual
formed crosswise of the follower of the feeding box C and of the head of the bale
chamber and when the relieving door has been opened the bale is pushed out and
is conveyed way on the extractor to a finishing press of ordinary construction by
which the nal compression of the bale is effected in the ordinary manner.
G. G. are doors at the bottom of the feeding box C to allow a cloth or wrapper to
be placed over the top of the follower of this feeding box whenever a wrapper is to
be placed around the bale which is being formed.
It is not essential that the feeding boxes should be ranged in a circle and the
bale chamber made to swivel around a central pivot as above described, but the
feeding boxes might if preferred be ranged in a straight row and the bale chamber

page_text: be made to run to and fro on rails so that it can be brought over the top of either
one or other of them I however prefer the circular arrangement.
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
1. The construction of presses for baling cotton and other materials in such
manner that the bale chamber can be brought in succession opposite to the ends of
a series of fixed feeding boxes to have the contents of these boxes forced in
succession into it-the bale chamber being fitted with moveable grids or fingers
to retain the cotton or material in the bale chamber when it has once been forced
into it.
2. The construction of presses for baling cotton and other materials substantially
in the manner herein before described and illustrated in the drawing annexed.
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
Dated this 23rd day of October 1885.
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.