Improvements in Braiding Machines for Producing Braided Tubes..
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Jan.. 1896-Accepted, 15th Feb., 1896
[Communicated from abroad by WILLIAM CHAMBERLAIN FISHER, of 137 Silver
Street, Middletown, County of Middlesex, State of Connecticut, United
States of America, Manufacturer.]
Improvements in Braiding Machines for Producing Braided Tubes..
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45 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:-
My invention relates to an improvement in braiding-machines, the object being
to produce a machine capable of producing braided tubes of larger size than has.
béen practicable heretofore.
With these ends in view, my invention consists in a bed-plate for braiding
machines, the said plate being constructed with a continuous folded line of race-
circles forming a compacted path for the thread-holding bobbins.
The accompanying drawing shows a plan view of a bed-plate containing a.
concentrically folded series of race-circles arranged in accordance with my
invention.
In carrying out my invention I employ a braiding-machine of any approved
construction on the class in which a series of gears are employed to propel a
series of bobbins through intersecting race-circles, either arranged in a continuous.
circular line, as when the machines are designed to produce solid cords, or small
tubes, or arranged so that the ends of the line do not merge into each other as.
when flat braiding is designed to be produced. These machines are too well known
in the art to require illustration. I provide such a machine with a bed-plate A,.
baving a folded line of intersecting race-circles B, through which the yarn or
thread-holding bobbins, which are not shown, but which are of ordinary con--
struction, are propelled by the usual means, in a serpentine course crossing each
other's paths, and interlacing or plaiting the threads. By folding the line of race-
circles upon itself, I am enabled to produce a machine capable of turning out
tubes of great size, while at the same time the machine is comparatively compact,
which is important on account of economy of space, but not less so on account
of the difficulties encountered when the thread has to travel for a considerable-
distance after leaving the bobbin, and before it is incorporated into the fabric.
being produced.
It is apparent that in carrying out my invention the particular mode of folding.
the line of race circles upon itself may be varied, and that the number of
folds will depend upon the size of the machine, and upon the size of the tubes to.
be made.
As herein shown, the line of race circles is folded concentrically upon itself, by
which I mean that the adjacent folded portions of the line have nearly the same-
curvature the difference in the curvature of one of such portions from the-
curvature of the other, being represented by the differences in the size of the two-
circles of which they form segments. I would therefore have it understood that
I do not limit myself to the construction herein shown and described, but hold.
myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall within the
spirit and scope of my invention.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
A braiding machine bed-plate having a continuous line of intersecting race-
circles, the said line being folded upon itself and forming an endless race through
which the bobbins pass in the production of tubular fabric, substantially as set
forth.
Dated this 14th day of January 1896.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.