IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING FOR GLANDS AND JOINTS
Year: 1884

page_text: I, DANIEL TAYLOR, of 27 Water Street Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for IMPROVEMENTS
IN PACKING FOR GLANDS AND JOINTS to be as follows:-
The main object is to provide durable and efficient packing for use in glands or
stuffing boxes or for making heat hydraulic or other joints.
The invention consists essentially in employing as the base for the manufacture
of packing a compound thread or threads of wire and fibrous material. One or
more strands of the said compound thread may be of either material. The thread
is spun in any usual way.
Compound wire and fibrous thread under my invention is woven into cloth
sheeting or other form or is plaited or braided round suitable cores of fibrous
or other material When made into cloth sheets or other forms it may be coated or
compacted with indiarubber or elastic material or compound to give the jointing
or packing increased elasticity.
Cloth or material made of my improved compound threads may be coiled or
formed into ropes gaskets or other kinds of solid or hollow packing or jointing.
Packing for glands may be made triangular round square or other form, in some
instances with indiarubber metallic fibrous or suitable core or instead of a core an
elastic backing may be employed.
For steam and heat joints and glands asbestos may be with advantage employed
as the fibrous material, hemp jute and like fibres answer best for use with
hydraulic and like apparatus.

page_text: I DANIEL TAYLOR of 27 Water Street Liverpool in the County of Lancaster
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for IMPROVEMENTS
IN PACKING FOR GLANDS AND JOINTS" and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
The main object is to provide durable and efficient packing for use in glands or
stuffing boxes or for making heat hydraulic or other joints.
The invention consists essentially in employing as the base for the manufacture
of-packing a compound thread or threads of wire and fibrous material. One or
more strands of the said compound thread may be of either material. The thread
is spun in any usual way.
Compound wire and fibrous thread under my invention is woven into *cloth
sheeting or other form or is plaited braided served or coiled around suitable cores of
fibrous or other material. When made into cloth sheets or other forms it may be
coated or compacted with india rubber or, elastic material or compound to give the
jointing or packing increased elasticity.
Cloth or material made of my improved compound threads may be coiled or
formed into ropes gaskets or other kinds of solid or hollow packing or jointing.
Packing for glands may be made triangular round square or other form in some
instances with india rubber metallic fibrous or suitable core, or instead of a core an
elastic backing may be employed.
For steam and heat joints and glands asbestos may be with advantage employed
as the fibrous material, hemp jute and like fibres answer best for use with
hydraulic and like apparatus.
The drawings hereunto appended illustrate several ways in which compound
threads under my invention may be formed into packing. Fig 1 is a cross section
and fig 2 an elevation of a compound thread where a is the wire strand and
b strands of fibrous material, two of the strands may be of wire and one only of
fibrous material.
Fig 3 is a cross section showing three compound threads under my invention
twisted together to form a rope, a wire b. fibrous material.
Fig 4 is a cross section of packing in which a core c of fibrous material such as
hemp is surrounded with woven or braided compound threads d.
Fig 5 is a cross section. of packing showing woven material d of compound
threads coiled around a core c say of india rubber.
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Figs 6. 7 and 8 show packings in which the compound threads d woven or
otherwise aggregrated are supported by elastic backings of woven material e. In
some cases metal backings are found desirable.
Fig 9 is a longitudinal section of a stuffing box in which a packing c d similar to
that in fig 5 is used and fig 10 is a longitudinal section of a stuffing box in which
packing d. e. similar to that described in fig 6 is used.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
First. Packing for glands or joints of compound threads of wire and fibrous
material spun together.

page_text: Second Packing for glands and joints of compound threads of wire and fibrous
material plaited braided served or coiled around a fibrous or other suitable core.
Third. Packing for glands and joints of compound threads of wire and fibrous
material combined with an elastic backing.
Fourth. Packing for glands and joints of cloth woven from compound threads of
wire and fibrous material substantially as set forth.