Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Sept., 1887
Complete Left, 31st Mar., 1888
Complete Accepted, 18th May, 1888
Purposes.
I THOMAS RICHARD BAYLISS of "Belmont " Northfield in the County of Worcester
Mechanical Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows:
The machinery constituting my invention is particularly applicable for use in the
manufacture of solid drawn metallic cartridge cases especially for strong cartridge
cases employed in quick firing guns and ordnance and for stamping shaping drawing
and cutting other metallic articles of a tubular character but my invention is appli-
cable generally to the stamping drawing shaping and cutting and otherwise operating
upon metals and metallic articles.
I make the machinery preferably double acting as hereinafter particularly described
whereby a disc or blank may be punched out at one end of the machine while a
cupping drawing or other like operation is being performed at the other end of the
machine or a heading or indenting or stamping process and a cupping or drawing
operation may be performed simultaneously or nearly so by the machine at each
rotation of the crank shaft.
The double acting machine consists essentially of two sliding bolts one of the said
bolts carrying say a stamping or heading tool and the other sliding bolt carrying say
a drawing through tool a crank shaft from which through the mechanism hereinafter
described the said sliding bolts are worked and driving gear for actuating the said crank
shaft. In place of the ordinary cast iron frame for supporting the working parts of
the machine I use a series of steel or wrought iron columns mounted on a strong bed
plate some of the said columns supporting at their tops a strong cap or head piece.
Two sets of columns are used one short set for supporting the lower bearings
carrying the pinion shaft and pinions and the punch guides and a longer set of
columns for supporting the crank shaft the latter set of columns being surmounted by
a cap to which the mechanism for working one of the sliding bolts of the punches is
iointed.

page_text: The sliding bolt of the machine carrying the heading punch is actuated by a
knuckle or toggle joint motion worked from the crank shaft. That is to say to the
sliding bolt the bottom of one of the links of the toggle motion is jointed and the top
of the other link of the toggle motion is jointed to the strong cap herein before
described. A connecting rod is jointed to the middle of the toggle motion the move-
ment of the said connecting rod being taken from the crank shaft. The crank shaft
not only gives motion to the toggle joint for working the sliding bolt of the heading
punch but also operates the sliding bolt carrying the drawing through punch the last
named sliding bolt being connected directly to the said crank shaft. By means of the
sliding bolt worked by the toggle joint motion the heavy work required to be performed
by the machine is effected as by the straightening of the toggle joint great pressure is
exerted on the bolt and by means of the sliding bolt worked directly from the crank
shaft lighter work is effected. The mechanism by which the two sliding bolts of the
double machine are worked is so arranged that as the sliding bolt at one end descends
the sliding bolt at the other end ascends and the reverse so that although two
operations are performed at each rotation of the crank shaft they are not performed
simultaneously.
The metal or articles to be operated upon may be fed to the machine automatically
or by hand.
Although I have described a double acting machine yet the toggle joint motion may
be applied to machines in which more than two sliding bolts are used.
Dated this Sixth day of September 1887.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Stamping, Drawing, Shaping, and
Cutting Metals and Metallic Articles, and for other like
Purposes.
J THOMAS RICHARD PAYLISS of "Belmont," Northfield in the County of Worcester,
Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
The machinery constituting my invention is particularly applicable for use in the
manufacture of solid drawn metallic cartridge cases especially for strong cartridge
cases employed in quick firing guns and ordnance and for stamping shaping drawing
and cutting other metallic articles of a tubular character, but my invention is applicable
generally to the stamping drawing shaping and cutting and otherwise operating upon
metals and metallic articles.
I make the machinery preferably double acting as hereinafter particularly described
whereby a disc or blank may be punched out at one end of the machine while a
cupping, drawing or other like operation is being performed at the other end of the
machine, or a heading or indenting or stamping process and a cupping or drawing
operation may be performed simultaneously or nearly so by the machine at each rotation
of the crank shaft.
The double acting machine consists essentially of two sliding bolts one of the said
bolts carrying, say, a stamping or heading tool and the other sliding bolt carrying, say,
a drawing through tool, a crank shaft, from which shaft through the mechanism
hereinafter described the said sliding bolts are worked, and driving gear for actuating
the said crank shaft. In place of the ordinary cast iron frame for supporting the
working parts of the machine I use a series of steel or wrought iron columns mounted
on a strong bed plate some of the said columns supporting at their tops a strong cap or
head piece.
Two sets of columns are used one short set for supporting the lower bearings
carrying the pinion shaft and pinions and the punch guides and a longer set of columns
for supporting the crank shaft, the latter set of columns being surmounted by a
cap to which the mechanism for working one of the sliding bolts of the punches is
jointed.
The sliding bolt of the machine carrying the heading punch is actuated by a knuckle
or toggle joint motion worked from the crank shaft. That is to say, to the sliding
bolt the bottom of one of the links of the toggle motion is jointed and the top of the
other link of the toggle motion is jointed to the strong cap herein before described. A
connecting rod is jointed to the middle of the toggle motion the movement of the said
connecting rod being taken from the crank shaft. The crank shaft not only gives
motion to the toggle joint for working the sliding bolt of the heading punch but
also operates the sliding bolt carrying the drawing through punch the last named

page_text: sliding bolt being connected directly to the said crank shaft. By means of the sliding
bolt worked by the toggle joint motion the heavy work required to be performed by
the machine is effected as by the straightening of the toggle joint great pressure is
exerted on the bolt and by means of the sliding bolt worked directly from the crank
shaft lighter work is effected.
The mechanism by which the two sliding bolts of the double machine are worked
is so arranged that as the sliding bolt at one end descends the sliding bolt at the other
end ascends and the reverse so that although two operations are performed at each
rotation of the crank shaft they are not performed simultaneously.
The metal or articles to be operated upon may be fed to the machine automatically
or by hand.
Although 1 have described a double acting machine yet the toggle joint motion
may be applied to machines in which more than two sliding bolts are used.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawings the
manner in which my invention is to be performed.
Figures 1 and 2 represent front elevations of the opposite ends of a double acting
machine constructed according to my invention, the tools of the said machine being
arranged at the end Figure 1 for heading or indenting a cartridge case and the tools
being arranged at the end Figure 2 for effecting a cupping or drawing through
operation; Figure 3 represents a side elevation of the machine and Figure 4 a plan of
the same.
Figures 5, 6, 7 and 8 represent details of the machine drawn to a larger scale than
Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the
Drawings.
e
a is the bed plate of the machine supporting the fixed heading tool b and drawing
through die C ; d is the punch or movable heading tool and the punch or movable
drawing through tool. The heading punch d is fixed to the sliding bolt f and the
drawing through punch e is fixed to the sliding bolt g, the said bolts ƒ and g being
operated by mechanism constructed according to my invention as herein after fully
described.
The working parts of the double machine are supported principally by the two sets
of steel or wrought iron columns h, h and i, i the said columns being mounted on the
strong bed plate a by screwing them into the strong blocks k, k. The lower bearings 1, l
in which the pinion shaft m turns and the punch guides p, p, are carried by the
frame on the bed plate a and the crank shaft is supported in the bearing
frame 9, 9. The two frames 1 and 2 are supported by the two sets of steel or
wrought iron columns h, h and i, i. The short set of four columns terminate at
the upper side of the top bearing frame 2 carrying the crank shaft 9 but the longer
set of two columns i, i extend upwards and their upper ends are surmounted by the
strong cap to which the mechanism for working the bolt of the heading punch dis
jointed as hereinafter explained. The crank shaft 9 is driven from the driving pinion g
(see Figures 1 and 2) through the large toothed driving wheel q on the pinion shaft m.
The shaft m carries two pinions 9º, 9 which gear with the toothed wheels 96, 9° on the
ends of the crank shaft q.
I will now describe the mechanism by which the two sliding bolts ƒ and g are worked.
This mechanism will be best understood by referring to the enlarged views represented
in front elevation in Figure 5; plan in Figure 6; side elevation of the toggle
mechanism by which the heading bolt is worked in Figure 7 and side elevation of the
mechanism by which the drawing through punch is worked in Figure 8.
The sliding bolt carrying the heading punch d is actuated by the knuckle or
toggle joint motion represented in Figures 5 and 7 worked from the crank shaft q.
The links of the toggle motion are markeds and s². The sliding bolt f is jointed
at to the bottom of the link of the toggle motion and the top of the other link s
of the toggle motion is jointed to the strong cap r surmounting the long columns i, i.
The inner or meeting ends of the two links s, 3 of the toggle motion are jointed to
the head t³ of the connecting rod t the said connecting rod t being connected to the

page_text: rocking clip in which the crank shaft 7 works. By the movement of the connecting
rod t actuated from the crank shaft q, the two links s, s² of the toggle motion are
alternately straightened or brought into the same line and made to take a slight
inclination with respect to one another for the purpose of giving the rising and falling
motion to the sliding bolt f, the straightening of the two links causing the descent of
and exerting great pressure upon the said bolt fand the angular position of the links
causing the said bolt to be lifted from its work as is well understood. The angular
position which the links take is indicated by the dotted centre lines in Figure 5.
The sliding bolt g working the drawing through punch e is operated from the
rocking clip of the crank shaft q through the link u in the manner seen in Figure 5.
By the operation of the sliding bolt f actuated by the toggle joint motion the heavy
work required to be performed by the machine is effected and by means of the sliding
bolt g actuated directly from the crank shaft 7 lighter work is effected.
The two operations performed by the machine are effected at each rotation of the
crank shaft but the said operations are not performed simultaneously, the sliding bolt at
one end of the machine descending while the other sliding bolt is ascending and the
reverse.
Instead of employing a single sliding bolt and a pair of tools at each end of the
machine the machine may be arranged to operate two (or more) bolts and their tools.
at each end of the machine.
In this case two bolts for operating, say, two drawing through tools may be
arranged at one end of the machine and worked from the crank shaft q and two bolts
for operating say two heading tools and worked from toggle motions may be arranged
at the opposite end of the machine.
Although for convenience of description I have described a machine in which the
operations of heading and drawing through are performed yet the machine is applicable
generally to the stamping, drawing, shaping and cutting and otherwise operating upon
metals and metallic articles.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my Invention
of "Improvements in machinery for stamping, drawing, shaping and cutting metals
and metallic articles and for other like purposes :'
First. Double acting machinery in which a cupping or drawing through or other
like operation or operations is or are performed at one end of the machine and a
punching, heading or stamping or other like operation or operations is or are performed
at the other end of the machine at each rotation of the crank shaft of the machine,
the sliding bolt or bolts by which the punching, heading or stamping or other like
operation or operations is or are performed being actuated by a knuckle or toggle joint
motion or motions worked from the crank shaft and the sliding bolt or bolts by
which the cupping or drawing through or other like operation or operations is or
are performed being actuated directly from the crank shaft, the several parts of the
machinery being constructed arranged and working substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
Secondly. The construction and arrangement of the sets of steel or wrought iron
columns and parts connected therewith for supporting the working parts of the
machine from the bed plate herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawings.