CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ROLLERS USED IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING AND SPINNING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1846

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, HENRY
BLEASDALE, of Chipping, in the County of Lancaster, Roller Maker, and
WILLIAM RYDER, of Bolton, in the same County, Roller Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Fourteenth day of December, in the tenth year of Her
reign, and in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-six,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Henry Bleasdale and William Ryder, Her especial licence, full power,
sole privilege and authority, that we, the said Henry Bleasdale and William
Ryder, our executors, administrators, and assigns, and such. others as we,
the said Henry Bleasdale and William Ryder, our executors, administrators, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town
Berwick-upon-Tweed, our Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ROLLERS USED IN MACHINERY
FOR PREPARING AND SPINNING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES;" in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that we, the said Henry Bleasdale
and William Ryder, shall cause a particular description of the nature of our
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be

page_text: enrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully
and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
Henry Bleasdale and William Ryder, do hereby declare that the nature of
our said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed,
is particularly described and ascertained in and by the Drawings hereto
annexed, and the following explanation thereof (that is to say) :-
Our Invention applies to machinery or apparatus used in the manufacture
of rollers employed in all kinds of preparing and spinning machinery, which
rollers are usually made in lengths of about fifteen to twenty-two inches each,
and connected together by one end of each roller being made square and fitting
into a socket formed in the end of the next roller, cach roller having one end
formed square, and having a square socket at the other end..
Our Invention consists principally in the construction or arrangement of a
machine designed for punching, the square holes or sockets in the ends of the
rollers.
But before describing our improvements, we think it necessary to explain
the ordinary methods of punching or forming the said sockets; one of which
is as follows:-
The iron is cut off longer than the roller is required to be, and one end
being heated is "jumped up," so as to be thicker at that end; a circular hole
is then drilled, and, the iron being again heated, a square punch is inserted,
and the iron beaten around it until a square socket is formed, after which the
superfluous iron, consequent upon the "jumping" of one end, has to be
turned off.
Another method is :-One end of the roller being "jumped" to the
required thickness, a portion of the metal "jumped" up is turned off, so as to
form a square shoulder or collar; a circular hole is then drilled, and the
square hole or socket punched in a machine. in which the punch is moved
forward by a screw, the roller being held against the collar a shoulder to
prevent it giving way. A certain number of rollers being thus punched,
a punch of rather larger dimensions is substituted,. and. the rollers passed
through the machine again. This is repeated two or more times, and the
shoulder or collar has then to be turned off.
Our Invention consists in a certain arrangement of mechanism for holding
the rollers and punching the same without either heating, "jumping," or
turning them, and without the necessity of changing the punches, and passing

page_text: the rollers through the machine, more than once, by. which a great economy is
effected, not only in time and labour, but also in the iron, as the roller, not
having to be "jumped," does not require to be cut off so long, nor has any of
the extraneous metal to be turned off.
In order more distinctly to exhibit the construction and arrangement of the
apparatus, and more minutely to describe the same, we have attached to, these
Présents a Sheet of Drawings, representing different views of the machine,
drawn to a scale of about one inch and a half to the foot, and.having figures and
letters of reference marked thereon, corresponding with the following descrip-
tion, thereof,
Figure 1 is a plan or horizontal view of the machine, as seen from above;
Figure 2 is a side elevation; and Figure 3 is a transverse section of the same.
a, a, .is the side and end framing of the. apparatus; b; b, is the main driving
shaft, and c the driving pulley; d, d, is the tool carriage, moving longitudinally
in slides e, e, attached to the side' framing a, a. This carriage d, d, has four
V grooves cut upon its surface, in. which the punches 1, 2, 3, 4, are laid;, and
held firmly nearly their whole length by the grooved clamps f; f, their ends
having a firm abutment against the upright part of the carriage. It will be
seen, in Figure 1, that the punches gradually diminish in length, so as to leave
room for the cuttings, the punch marked 1 being the longest; and in Figure 3
that they increase in size, that marked 1 being the smallest. The carriage d, d,
is caused to traverse longitudinally by the following means:-Upon the driving
shaft b, b, is a pinion g, taking into a spur wheel h upon the shaft i, at the
other end of which is a pinion / taking into a spur wheel Z fixed upon the
shaft m.
This shaft m carries an, excentric n, which works between two
brasses or bearings o, o, attached to the carriage d, d, thus imparting a travers-
ing motion to the said carriage. p, p, is a table, which is capable of moving
transversely between the slides 2, 2.9.9. The roller 7 being previously drilled,
and having the end faced square, is laid in a groove on the lower clamp *** on
this table, with one end abutting against the stops, which stop may be adjusted
to the different lengths of rollers. The upper clamp t is then placed over it,
and screwed down firmly by turning the handles u, u. The table may be moved
transversely by turning the screws v, v, by means of the handle. w. x and x¹
are two plates or discs, the plate x being fast on the shaft v, and the plate a²
loose, and having a notch cut upon its periphery, into which the catch y falls
when the roller r is opposite to either of the punches 1, 2, 3, or 4. In first
setting the machine the handle w is turned until the punch t is exactly oppo-
site to the centre of the roller, the nut is then screwed tight, connecting the
plates and a together. The strap is then thrown on to the driving pulley,

page_text: and the excentric n crosses the tool carriage d, d, to advance and drive the
punch 1 into the end of the roller r: As soon as the revolution of the excen-
tric withdraws the punch 1 from the roller, the workman lifts the catch y and
turns the handle w twice, which will bring the roller r opposite to the punch 2
before the carriage returns, when the punch 2 will cut the socket a little
longer, and so on with the third, and in some instances with the fourth punch;
the roller may then be removed and another substituted, and the operation
proceed as before. The excentric n, punch 1, and roller r are best in the
sectional view, Figure 4.
Having now described the nature and objects of our said improvements in
machinery or apparatus to be employed in the manufacture of rollers, and in
machinery for preparing and spinning cotton and other fibrous substances, we
desire it to be distinctly understood that we claim as our Invention the
employment and use of a machine for the above purpose, wherein two or more
punches are used, gradually increasing in size and decreasing in length; and
in which the roller has a firm abutment at one end, and is held by clamps for
the greater part of its entire length, and by which the square socket is punched
without removing the roller from the machine, or changing the punches.
In witness whereof, we, the said Henry Bleasdale and William Ryder,
have hereunto set our hand and seal, this Twelfth day of June, One
thousand cight hundred and forty-seven.