An Improved Odd-side Moulding Box for Iron and Brass Founders.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 11th Oct., 1892-Accepted, 12th Nov., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Odd-side Moulding Box for Iron and Brass Founders.
I ROBERT LOUIS SENTINELLA of 2 North Street Kennington Road London
England Brass Moulder do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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I claim to provide the odd-side moulding box with two or more bolts or pins
caused to rise in a perpendicular direction through the face of the box meeting the
face of the upper part of the mould & lifting it apart therefrom, leaving the
patterns in their respective positions in the lower part of the mould or odd-side.
Dated this 12th day of January 1892.
ROBERT LOUIS SENTINELLA.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Odd-side Moulding Box for Iron and Brass Founders.
I, ROBERT LOUIS SENTINELLA, of No. 2, North Street, Kennington Road,
London, Brass Moulder, 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 improvements in the well known odd side moulding box,
and its object is to provide the latter with convenient mechanism by means of
which a side lying upon it can be raised clear off it and above it.
In order that my invention, and the means by which it is to be carried into practical
effect, may be thoroughly understood, I will now describe it and them in detail,
referring in so doing to the accompanying figures which are to be taken as part of
this Specification and read therewith.
Fig. 1 is an end elevation of an odd side moulding box made according to my
invention.
Fig. 2 is a plan.
Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the improved odd side moulding box and a pin
side. The cover plate has been omitted from the former to shew the mechanism
by which the latter has been raised to, and is held in, the position illustrated in
the figure.
Fig. 4 is a perspective view corresponding with Fig. 3.
a is the improved odd side moulding box; and b, the ordinary lugs.
Both ends of the box are hollow so as to receive the raising pillars and the
major portion of the mechanisms by which the latter are raised and lowered.
c is a tube running longitudinally of the box from one end to the other. d is a
shaft lying within the said tube. It has its bearings in the tube ends. The shaft
ends are enclosed by boxes e, e¹, which, with the tube c, serve to keep sand away
from the enclosed mechanisms as well as from the bearings. One end of the shaft
is continued through the front of the box e and terminates in a square which
receives a small hand wheelf by which the said shaft can be turned in either
direction.
The mechanisms within the hollow ends of the improved odd side moulding box are
counterparts of each other, so that a description of one will be a description of both.
9, 9 are the raising pillars. Two are shewn, one at each end of the hollow box-end, that
s, one at each corner of the box, but my invention does not restrict me to this number.
These pillars are vertical. Holes are cut in the top plate or face of the box-end and
the tops of the pillars stand flush therewith when they are in their inoperative position,
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page_text: viz. the one illustrated in Fig. 1. As many pillars as there are, are united to one
transverse tie i. This is cranked in the centre to clear the shaft d. j is a grooved
pulley fast on the shaft d. k, kare two chains fast by one end of each, respectively,
to two more or less opposite points in the groove of the pulley j. 1, 1 are a pair
of grooved pulleys. They are supported symmetrically on either side of the shaft d
by axles which have their bearings in uprights m, m and the box-end. These
uprights also serve as guides for the motion of the tie i by standing in slots cut in
the latter. Each chain k is led over the respective pulley / and is made fast to its
periphery. n is an eccentric pin carried by a pair of radial cheeks n' fast to the
pulley, and o is a link establishing a connection between the said pin and
the tie i.
p is a wheel on the shaft d within the box e. q is a pivotted detent. It is kept
engaged with the wheel p by a spring r. s is a stud standing outside the box e.
It is connected to the detent for the purpose of disengaging the latter from the
wheel when it is desired to return the pillars into the box ends.
The use of the present invention will be clearly understood from Fig. 4. When
the chains k, k are wound in by the rotation of the shaft in the right direction, the
pillars 9 are raised vertically and lift the pin side t up from the odd side a. The
figure shews the pillars as held at the top of their travel by the detent. Neither
the sand, prints nor patterns are shewn.
The mechanisms for raising the pillars, as well as the position of the latter, may
be varied to any extent, provided that the he side can be raised off the odd side
by the protrusion of the pillars by means of the said mechanisms.
It will be understood that the figures illustrate the use of my invention with a
pin side, but I wish it to be understood that it can be adapted for use with a she
side by fitting pins to the lugs b.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The combination with an odd side moulding box of vertical pillars adapted to
engage the pin or the she side and to raise it off the odd side.
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2. Mechanism for raising a pin or a she side off an odd side, as set forth.
3. In an odd side, the combination of hollow ends, pillars, mechanisms for raising
them vertically and device for operating the said mechanisms at one and the same
time and rate, as set forth.
Doted this 10th day of October 1892
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
No. 22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.