IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE TWISTING, SPINNING, AND WINDING ROPE STRANDS, HAY AND STRAW BANDS
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Pollard, of Burnley, in the County of Lancaster,
Foreman Mechanic, Atlas Iron Works, Burnley aforesaid, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE
TWISTING, SPINNING, AND WINDING ROPE STRANDS, HAY AND STRAW BANDS."
Sealed the 22nd August 1879, and dated the 27th February 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Pollard at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th February 1879.
WILLIAM POLLARD, of Burnley, in the County of Lancaster, Foreman Mechanic,
Atlas Iron Works, Burnley aforesaid. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE TWISTING, SPINNING, AND WINDING ROPE
STRANDS, HAY AND STRAW BANDS."
This Invention relates to improved machinery aforesaid to be employed in the
manufacture of hay bands or straw bands used for forming interior of "cores " in
the casting of iron pipes and for packing and other like uses, and also applicable
for manufacture of the strands of ropes.
According to this my said Invention I employ a hollow revolving tube, fluted
drawing and twisted rollers, a cross revolving shaft or worn having right and
left handed threads or worms cut or formed along its length, and a revolving drum
or beam, around which the band or the strand as formed is wound. The appliances
above are mounted in a frame and the several parts revolve by means of gear
wheels, and the frame also revolves. The action is as follows:-Hay, straw, or
fibre is fed through the hollow feed tube whence it is received and drawn forward
by the fluted drawing and twisting rollers, the rotation of the hollow tube and
rollera putting in the twist between the tube and the rollers, the band or strand
so formed thence passes to the cross wormed shaft, thence to a drum or beam around
which it is wound, the worm causing the band or strand to be traversed to and fro
and laid evenly along the beam, so that a considerable length of band or of strand
can be manufactured within the short space occupied by the machine above
described.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Pollard in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 26th August
1879.
WILLIAM POLLARD, of Burnley, in the County of Lancaster, Foreman Mechanic,
Atlas Iron Works, Burnley aforesaid. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE TWISTING, SPINNING, AND WINDING ROPE
STRANDS, HAY AND STRAW BANDS."
This Invention relates to improved machinery aforesaid to be employed in the
" in
manufacture of hay bands or straw bands, used for formning interior of "cores
the casting of iron pipes and for packing and other like uses, and also applicable for
manufacture of the strands of ropes.
According to this my said Invention I employ a hollow revolving tube, fluted
drawing and twisting rollers, a cross revolving shaft or worm having right and
left handed threads or worms cut or formed along its length, and a revolving drum
or beam around which the band or the strand as formed is wound. The appliances
above are mounted in a frame and the several parts revolve by means of gear
wheels, and the frame also revolves.
The action is as follows:-Hay, straw, or fibre is fed through the hollow feed
tube whence it is received and drawn forward by the fluted drawing and twisting
rollers. The rotation of the hollow tube and rollers putting in the twist between
the rollers and the point of supply; the band or strand so formed thence passes to
the cross wormed shaft, thence to a drum or beam around which it is wound; the
worm causing the band or strand to be traversed to and fro and laid evenly along
the beam, so that a considerable length of band or of strand can be manufactured
within the short space occupied by the machine above described.
Such being the nature and object of this my said Invention, I will now proceed
to describe the particulars thereof, and in order that the Invention may be clearly
understood I have annexed hereunto a Sheet of Drawings illustrating the same.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation; Fig. 2, a plan of a machine made according to the said
Invention. At 1 is a bed plate, having standards 2, 2; the latter carry the frame 3.
The frame and shaft 4 and hollow feed tube 5 are caused to revolve by means of the
pulley and driving band 6. The revolving frame 3 by means of the spur wheels
7, 8, drives the shaft 10 and bevel wheels 11, 12, the wheel 12 driving the lower
fluted drawing and twisting roller 13, the wheel 14 driving the upper fluted
drawing and twisting roller 13ª, which roller is carried by hinged frame 13b, so as
to permit of roller being lifted for introduction of band or other uses, a spiral
spring 13 being employed for holding down the roller and admitting the necessary
play of the roller for varying thicknesses of bands; rotation of the upper fluted
roller is secured by means of the plate wheels 15-16, which drive the wormed
shaft 17, motion being communicated from the latter shaft by means of the chain
wheels 18 and 19 to the winding on drum 20, the latter being driven by friction
disc 19', so as to compensate for increasing diameter of beam as the band is wound
on the drum, the spindle 21 of the latter may be withdrawn so as to admit of the
"band" being removed in the form of a ball.
The action of the machine is as follows:-Hay (or hay and soft straw) is fed
through the revolving feed tube 5, thence between the fluted rollers 13, 13a; the
latter having (by reason of the frame 3) revolving motion, and by the action of
the wheels 11-12, rotary motion around their own axis, and also a circular motion
so as to draw and twist the bay or straw. The roller 17 by the right and left
banded grooves cut or formed therein gives a traversing motion to the guide 17¹

page_text: and to the "band" as made, directing the latter to the axis of the winding on drum
or beam 20.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of this my said Invention,
together with the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or
carried into practical effect, I would have it understood that I claim as my
Invention,―
Firstly. The combination and use of the revolving feed tube 5, rotating and
revolving drawing and twisting rollers 13, 13ª, grooved worm roller 17, and drum
or beam 20, for purpose herein described and illustrated.
Secondly. The combination and use of the revolving frame 8, rollers 13, 13*, and
grooved worm roller 17, for purpose and as described.
Lastly. I claim the general combination and arrangements for purpose aforesaid
of parts of the improved machine herein described, and as illustrated by Drawings
annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Pollard, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twentieth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy nine.
Witness,
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Patent Agent,
Halifax & Blackburn.
WILLIAM POLLARD. (L.S.)