IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR SUSPENDING. CARRYING, AND LAYING-DOWN PAPER, WOVEN FABRICS, PAPER HANGINGS, AND ALL KINDS OF FLEXIBLE MATERIALS DURING AND AFTER THE PROCESS OF DRYING, AND ALSO POR GIVING A CONTINUOUS POSITIVE MOTION TO THE SUSPENDING RODS OR SPINDLES
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Jones, of the City of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Machinist, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR SUSPENDING. CARRYING, AND LAYING-DOWN
PAPER, WOVEN FABRICS, PAPER HANGINGS, AND ALL KINDS OF FLEXIBLE
MATERIALS DURING AND AFTER THE PROCESS OF DRYING, AND ALSO POR
GIVING A CONTINUOUS POSITIVE MOTION TO THE SUSPENDING RODS OR SPINDLES."
Sealed the 20th April 1860, and dated the 22nd October 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Jones at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 22ud
October 1859.
I, PETER JONES, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE.
MENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR SUSPENDING, CARRYING, AND LAYING-DOWN
PAPER, WOVEN FABRICS, PAPER HANGINGS, AND ALL KINDS OF FLEXIBLE MATERIALS;
DURING AND AFTER THE PROCESS OF DRYING, AND ALSO FOR GIVING A CONTINUOUS
POSITIVE MOTION TO THE SUSPENDING RODS OR SPINDLES," to be as follows:-
Instead of supporting the suspending rods or spindles upon ropes or straps,
which yield and become unequal in their action, I place the said rods upon.
an endless chain worked by chain wheels, or upon a pair of screws of the
required length, driven by gearing from any of the moving shafts of the
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page_text: machine. Or, I employ a pair of bars alternately moving to and fro, so as to
advance a rod at every alternate movement, either of which arrangements
enables me to give a positive and certain movement to the rods and the ma-
terial they support. After the material has been suspended and dried in
narrow folds, the suspending rods one after the other are carried forward to
another endless chain at a quicker speed, so as to open the fold of the material,
after which it is caused to pass over a cylinder, lagged drum, or winch, from
which it falls to the receiving box or carriage. In order to return the rods to
their suspending position, I cause each rod to be deposited upon another end-
less chain, working either vertically or inclined; the said chain having snugs,
so as to carry forward the rods and deposit them upon a horizontal endless
chain, which carries them to the front of the machine, from whence theyare lifted
by another vertical or inclined chain to thefeeding or supply box by a self-acting
motion; or, for laying them one by one on the endless chain, which suspends
the material to be dried; or, the rods may be lifted by quadrant levers or
internal wheels havingexternal projections, by which arrangementa continuous
positive motion is given to the suspending rods or spindles.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Peter Jones, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 21st
April 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
JONES, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Machinist,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Peter Jones, Her special licence that I, the said Peter Jones, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others, as I, the said Peter
Jones, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR SUSPENDING, CARRYING, AND LAYING-DOWN PAPER,
WOVEN FABRICS, PAPER HANGINGS, AND ALL KINDS OF FLEXIBLE MATERIALS, DURING

page_text: AND AFTER THE PROCESS OF DRYING, AND ALSO FOR GIVING A CONTINUOUS POSITIVE
MOTION TO THE SUSPENDING RODS OR SPINDLES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Peter Jones, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Peter Jones, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (that is to say):
Instead of carrying the suspending rods upon ropes or straps which yield
and become unequal in their action, I cause the said rods to be placed upon a
pair of endless chains worked by chain wheels, which chains take up the rods
one after the other, and deliver them upon another pair of endless chains
working horizontally, which chains again deliver the rods upon a pair of
traversing bars alternately moving to and fro, so as to advance a rod at each
alternate inovement, there being other bars for the rods to rest upon during
any required interval. Or instead of the chains and traversing bars I employ
a pair of screws of the required length and turn them by gearing from any
of the moving shafts of the machine, the suspending rods being placed in the
threads of the screws, and carried forward at any required speed, the said rods
being lifted by quadrant levers or internal toothed wheels having external
projections. After the material has been suspended and dried, the suspending
rods one after the other are carried forward to another pair of endless chains
which travel at a quicker speed so as to open the fold of the material, after
which it is caused to pass over one or more cylinders or rollers from whence
it is plaited down upon the carriage. In order to return the suspending rods
to the taking-up chains I cause each rod to be deposited upon a pair of endless
chains or straps working either vertically or inclined, the said chains or straps
having snugs or projections so as to carry forward the rods and deposit them
upon a pair of horizontal endless chains or traversing bars which carry the
rods to a receiving box at the front of the machine from whence they are
lifted by another vertical or inclined pair of chains to the feeding or supply
box, or for laying them one by one on the endless taking-up chains. The
aforesaid arrangements of endless chains and traversing bars or screws give
a positive motion to the suspending rods or spindles, and to the material they
support.

page_text: These improvements will be clearly understood by referring to the figures
and letters on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, in which Fig. 1 represents
an external elevation of part of a drying machine to which my improved
arrangement of endless chains and traversing bars are attached; Fig. 2a
plan of the same; and Fig. 3 an external elevation of the other end of the
machine; Fig. 4 is an elevation, and Fig. 5, a plau of an arrangement in
which the suspending rods are taking up, suspended, and carried forward by
long screws.
l
In Figs. 1, 2, and 3, a are the taking-up chains working on the chain
wheels b and c, each chain having as at d, a link formed so as to take from the
feeding box or supply one of the suspending rods e, and raising it up and
delivering it upon the horizontal endless chains working on the chain wheels
g and h, which chains again deliver the rods one after the other to the
traversing bars i. The chain wheels 6 are driven by pulleys or gearing from
the moving power in any suitable manner, and by means of the chains a give
'motion to the chain wheels c, fixed to which or to their shafts are the pinions k
gearing into the toothed wheels 1, for giving motion to the chain wheels g
and cams m. The toothed wheels gear into the toothed wheels n for giving
rotary movement to the cranks o. Near the traversing bars are the stationary
bars P, held in brackets on the hangers 7, which are fixed to girders in the
roof, the bars p being used for supporting the suspending rods when there is
no traversing of the material. The traversing bars have a slight up-and-down
movement, in order to allow the suspending rods to rest upon the resting bars,
and also to free them from them, the said movement being obtained by the
action of the cams m, which vibrate the bent levers 7 connected at the top to
rods s, attached at intervals to the balanced levers t, each lever carrying at one
end the roller u, placed under and supporting the traversing bars, so that as
the rollers u nove up and down the bars move with them. The to-and-fro
traverse of the bars i is obtained by connecting them to the cranks o by the
rods v, so that as the cranks revolve the suspending rods shall be carried
forward and delivered one after the other upon a pair of endless chains wat
'the other end of the machine, shewn in Fig. 3, which chains have a quick
motion, in order to open out the fold of the material, which is then carried on
to the lagged cylinder a, from whence it is plaited upon the receiving carriage..
The suspending rods e are carried back to the front of the machine by causing
the endless chains w to deliver them first upon inclined endless chains y, and
afterwards upon long horizontal endless chains z, employed for carrying them
to the front, and placing them in the receiving box a', Fig. 1, from whence
they are lifted by the endless chains 6' to the feeding box c', to the taking-up

page_text: chains a, or to any other receiver. When desired, I vary the position of the
driving shaft, and place it so that a pinion upon it may gear into the wheel
as at d', Fig. 1, and thereby give motion to all the working parts of the
machine. I also, when required, substitute for the cranks o internal cams, in
order to give the traversing bars any required dwell. In Figs. 4 and 5 I
represent the application of long screws for carrying and traversing forward
the suspending rods e. Parts of the screws are shewn at e', they are fixed to
the bevil wheels f¹, gearing into other bevil wheels g' on the shafts h¹ on which
are the toothed wheels gearing into the large internal toothed wheels ", which
receive their motion from the pinions m³ on the driving shaft n', the outsides
of the said wheels being furnished with one or more snugs or projections o'
for raising the suspending rods from the feeding box and delivering them
The aforesaid toothed wheels may be substituted by
upon
quadrant levers or cranks having a vibrating motion according to the desired
lift; but in either case a positive traversing motion is obtained, affording
advantages similar to those procured by the endless chains and traversing
bars.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be distinctly
understood that I claim as my Invention, and which to the best of my
knowledge and belief has not been hitherto used within the realm, the
employment of endless chains and traversing bars,and also wheels or quadrant
levers and screws for giving a positive motion to the suspending rods which
carry the paper, woven fabrics, paper hangings, and all kinds of flexible
materials during and after the process of drying, as such improvements are
herein described and illustrated in the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Jones, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named Peter Jones, in the
presence of
E. J. HUGHES, Patent Agent,
Manchester.
PETER JONES. (L.S.)