Improved Centreing or Adjusting Devices, Chiefly Designed for Use in Connection with Machines for the Manufacture of Horse-shoes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 25th June, 1889-Accepted, 3rd Aug., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by THE PROPRIETORS OF THE COPENHAGEN HORSE SHOE
Manufactory, of Copenhagen, in the Kingdom of Denmark.]
Improved Centreing or Adjusting Devices, Chiefly Designed for Use
in Connection with Machines for the Manufacture of Horse-shoes.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
The appliance which forms the subject of the present invention is especially intended
for use in the manufacture of horse shoes by machinery, but the same can be used for
other purposes in which it is sought to quickly and accurately place an object
symmetrically on a fixed centre line.
The appliance which is fixed to a suitable frame comprises a lever, furnished with
a handle, which lever can be turned round a pivot or bolt attached to the frame. On
the said lever are secured two pins which take into elongated slots in two cross rods
which work in guides placed upon the frame.
On each of the said cross rods is arranged an adjustable bracket, the said brackets
being of unequal length and the top elges of which are in the same horizontal plano.
The said brackets or stands can be held in any desired position on the cross bars by
screws. On the plane surfaces of the said brackets are fixed two horizontal arms.
When the appliance has to be used the brackets are so adjusted that the distance
between the plane inside surfaces of the arms, when the lever stands perpendicular, is
equal to the length of the object (in this case the piece of iron for a horse-shoe) and
so that the distance between the two surfacos referred to is exactly halved by the
centre line of the machine. The lever is then turned on its pivot, and the object is
laid on the working table when the lever is again turned back to the perpendicular
position. The arms will thereby remove the object so that its centre line is exactly
over that of the machine.
Dated this 22nd day of Lan1080
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Centreing or Adjusting Devices, Chiefly Designed for Use
in Connection with Machines for the Manufacture of Horse-shoes.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings in the County of Middlesex, 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 :-
The appliance which forms the subject of the present invention is especially
intended for use in the manufacture of horse-shoes by machinery but the same can be
used for other purposes in which it is sought to quickly and accurately place an object
symmetrically on a fixed centre line.
In the accompanying drawing
Figure 1 shows a plan of the appliance and
Figure 2 a side view of the same.
The appliance which is fixed to a suitable frame A comprises a lever furnished with
a handle a which lever can be turned round a pivot or bolt b attached to the frame A.
On the said lever are secured two pins which take into elongated slots in two
cross-rods & which work in guides c placed upon the frame.

page_text: On each of the said cross-rods d is arranged an adjustable bracket g the said
brackets being of unequal length and the top edges of which are in the same
horizontal plane. The said brackets or stands g can be held in any desired position on
the cross-bars by screws 12. On the plane surfaces of the said brackets are fixed two
horizontal arms f.
When the appliance has to be used, the brackets 9 are so adjusted that the distance
between the plane inside surfaces of the arms when the lever a stands perpendicular
is equal to the length of the object (in this case the piece of iron for a horse-shoe)
and so that the distance between the two surfaces referred to is exactly halved by the
centre line of the machine. The lever is then turned on its pivot and the object is
laid on the working table A when the lever is again turned back to the perpendicular
position. The arms f will thereby remove the object, so that its contre line is exactly
over that of the machine.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondents I declare that what I claim is :-
:-
The improved centreing or adjusting device consisting principally of a lever a
which can be turned round a bolt b, two adjustable brackets g, and two guiding
arins all otherwise as above described and shown in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 25th day of June 1889.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.