IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR REELING, COILING, OR ROLLING PAPER "to be as OB OTHER MATERIALS, AND FOR WETTING AND DAMPING THE SAME
Year: 1875

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Bebbington at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 13th
August 1875.
I, GEORGE BEBBINGTON, of Brocklehurst, New Cross, in the County
of Surrey, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR REELING, COILING, OR ROLLING PAPER
"to be as
OB OTHER MATERIALS, AND FOR WETTING AND DAMPING THE SAME,'
follows:-
My Invention relates to a machine which is chiefly designed for
reeling and damping continuous paper, to prepare the same for news-
paper and other printing, but which may also be used in a printing
machine or for reeling paper from paper machines, and for rolling or
coiling various other materials.
The peculiar and important feature of my said Invention is a device
whereby I am enabled to unreel or unroll the paper or other material
from one reel or roller, and reel, roll, or coil it upon another reel or
roller without exerting any tearing or pulling strain upon the said
paper or other material as it passes from one reel or roller to the
other.

page_text: In applying my Invention to a paper reeling and damping machine
for preparing continuous paper for being printed upon I proceed as
follows: I construct a suitable frame or standard of cast iron or other
suitable material, and provide the same with suitable bearings for the
reception of the quills or reels upon which the paper is to be reeled or
coiled. The said machine is also provided with sliding or adjustable
bearings for the reception of the reels or rollers from which the
continuous paper is to be taken. I prefer that these sliding or adjustable
bearings should be directly over the first-named bearings, so that the
entire weight of the reel or roller in the said adjustable bearings with
the paper upon it may be borne by the quill resting in the lower
bearings.
The shaft of the quill is provided with a driving pulley, to which
power is applied by a belt connected with a steam engine or other
motor. When motion is imparted to this quill and it commences to
wind or reel the paper upon it from the upper reel or roller, the surfaco
of the paper rests upon the surface of the paper on the quill, and the
friction between the two surfaces in contact causes the said upper reel or
roller to turn in the proper direction to unwind or unreel the paper
thereon without any pulling or drawing, and straining of the paper
between the reels or rollers. I provide the said machine with a brake
of any
suitable kind in combination with the upper reel or roller, so
that if necessary at any time a retarding or back pressure can be
applied to the said reel or roller during the reeling of the paper. I
prefer to use for this purpose a weighted lever arranged to act on a
wheel or pulley fixed on the reel shaft or journal.
For damping or wetting the paper in my improved machine I employ
a spray of water or damping rollers, or any other suitable means. I
prefer to employ a spray produced by an arrangement of pipes or nozzles
arranged to direct fine streams of water upon the paper, near the point
where it passes from the upper reel or roller to the quill; but I may
arrange it in any other convenient position, and may if desired have
apparatus so arranged that one spray will be directed upon the paper on
the upper reel or roller, and another spray upon the paper on the other
reel or roller.
I do not limit myself to the above described vertical arrangement of
the machine, that is to say, to the one reel or roller immediately above
the other reel or roller, but may if desired have the two reels or rollers

page_text: arranged in a horizontal plane, or at any inclination between a horizontal
and a vertical plane. When the said rollers are arranged in a hori-
zontal plane, or in any other position where the direct weight of the recl
or roller from which the paper is taken will not act to produce the
required pressure on the other reel or roller, it will be necessary to
produce the pressure of one roller upon the other by springs or by
weighted levers or other devices, which will cause sufficient friction
between the two surfaces of the rollers to effect the purpose of my
Invention, as above described.
In applying my Invention to the reeling of paper from a paper-making
machine, or to any other purpose in which it is necessary to unreel or
unroll paper or other material from one roller and reel or roll it upon
another roller, the parts of the apparatus or machine may be readily
modified to adapt them to the particular circumstances of each case;
but in every case the relative arrangements of the parts of the machine
must be such that the rotation or revolution of the reel or roller from
which the paper is taken must be obtained from the other roller through
the friction of the surfaces of the paper on the two rollers, so that no
strain is borne by the paper betweeen the two reels or rollers.
By this Invention I am enabled to reel or roll and damp continuous
paper for printing purposes with great rapidity, as no matter what may
be the speed of the machine there will be no danger of the rupture of
paper between the rolls, or of its being reeled unevenly or irregularly,
and I arrange the machine to work at a much greater speed than
has heretofore been practicable, and am free from the frequent
stoppages which so greatly diminish the rapidity of the recling in other
machines.
Moreover as I am relieved from the necessity of the great back
pressure, which it has heretofore been necessary to maintain for making
the paper tight and smooth on the quill, I can do a given amount of
the work of reeling with much less power than has heretofore been
necessary; so that besides avoiding the waste of time and paper caused
by the above named frequent stoppages and tearing of the paper I also
effect a great economy of steam power.