An Improved Construction of Elevator, particularly adapted for Carrying Laps of Textile Materials from One Floor to another of a Mill.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Jan., 1899-Accepted, 18th Feb., 1899
COMPLETE DIEVITICA
An Improved Construction of Elevator, particularly adapted for
Carrying Laps of Textile Materials from One Floor to another
of a Mill.
I, ROBERT BIRTWISTLE, trading as S. S: Stott and Company, of Laneside
Foundry, Haslingden, in the County of Lancaster, Engineers and Ironfounders,
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:-
1-
My invention relates to an improved construction of elevator, particularly
adapted for carrying laps of textile materials from one floor to another of a mill,
say from the scutching rcom to the carding room, or vice versa.
In the accompanying two sheets of drawings-
Figure 1 is a front elevation, and Figure 2 a side elevation, of an elevator
constructed according to my invention.
In these views,-I denotes the frame of the elevator, 2 the travelling chains,
3 the upper, and 4 the lower pairs of chain wheels, 5 the shaft of the upper pair
of chain wheels, 6 a spur wheel fixed on said shaft, 7 a pinion mounted on a
The shaft 10 of the
driving shaft 8 which is driven by a pair of pulleys 9.
lower pair of chain wheels is journalled in slide blocks 11 adjustable by means
can be taken up.
of screws 12 by which any slack in the chains
On the chains 2 at suitable distances apart I secure rigidly any convenient
number, for example, four specially shaped buckets 13 into which the laps 14 of
textile materials are placed by the operative on the ground or lower floor or it
might be automatically by any convenient mechanical feed. The lap 14 is
placed in a bucket 13 when the latter is in the position indicated by dotted
lines in Fig. 2, and is carried by the travelling chains to the top of the elevator,
where, as the bucket begins to descend the lap is rolled out on to an inclined
delivery table 15 on the upper floor.
On the bottom of each bucket are fixed carrier brackets 16 or equivalent devices
into which the attendant on the upper floor places one or more of the empty steel
or other rollers 17 on which the laps 14 are wound, and this roller (or rollers) is
carried down by the travelling chains and delivered on to the lower floor.
It is obvious that by running the chains and buckets in the reverse direction,
if required, the elevator could carry up empty rollers and bring down full laps.
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. An elevator particularly adapted for carrying laps of textile materials from
one floor of a mill to another substantially as herein set forth.
2. In combination, the travelling elevator chains 2, and the specially shaped

page_text: buckets rigidly attached thereto and adapted to carry the laps when travelling
in one direction and the empty rollers when travelling in the other direction
substantially as herein set forth.
Dated this 7th day of January 1899.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant, 17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.