Improvements in or connected with Rag-tearing Machines.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 16th May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 15th Jan., 1890-Accepted, 16th May, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Rag-tearing Machines.
DANIEL STANDRING INGHAM Highgate Terrace Dewsbury Yorks Machine Maker
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to economise time and labour when the speeds of the
cylinder or swift of a rag pulling machine are subject to changes, by doing away with
any alteration of the driving belt.
This I accomplish by having a cast iron or other metal bed or foundation plate, in
one or more parts, of the box pattern, or simply a plain flat plate on which to mount the
palling machine. This bed may have flanges on each side for the purpose of keeping
the feet of the pulling machine in position when being moved, or it may be a plate
with a perfectly plain surface, with long slot holes in the centre to admit of lugs and
bolts on the feet of the pulling machine. The bed is of sufficient length to allow for
the traversing of the machine backwards and forwards when the diameter of the pulley
is changed.
The feet of the machine are planed on the under side and have longitudinal
projections in the centre to fit into the slot holes in the bed plate, or if the bed plate
be flanged, then the feet are made perfectly plain without projections.
On one end of the bed plate that which is known as the back end of the machine, I
place a stand bracket or journal bored to admit a turned spindle about 2 in. diameter.
The spindle is screwed to the length of about 18 in. and fits into a brass or other metal
bush, which is made fast into the frame of the pulling machine when it is in position
on the bed plate. A band wheel is placed on the screwed spindle, so that when it is
necessary to change the diameter of the pulley, by turning the hand wheel the machine
is propelled forwards or backwards as desired to meet the necessary altered distance
between the main shaft and the cylinder or swift shaft of the machine, and by that
operation the lengthening or shortening of the driving belt is obviated. Or I may vary
the operation by fixing a rack on the machine frame side, and a bracket bolted to the
bed plate to carry a pinion and wheel to work in the rack, and a band wheel to
operate in the same way as the screw for propelling the machine.
Dated this 14th dow of it.. 1000
DANL. S. INGHAM.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Rag-tearing Machines.
DANIEL STANDRING INGHAM Highgate Terrace Dewsbury Yorks, Machine Maker,
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:
The object of this invention is to economise time and labour, when the speeds of the
cylinder of a rag tearing machine, are subjected to change, by doing away with any
alteration of the driving belt a practice which has hitherto resulted in great loss and
delay. This I accomplish by having a cast iron or other metal bed or foundation
plate Fig. 1 in one or more parts of the box pattern, or simply a plain flat plate on
which to mount the frame of the tearing machine, Fig. 2. This bed may have a flange
on each side for the purpose of keeping the feet of the tearing machine in position
when being moved, Fig. 5. Or it may be a bed plate with a perfectly plain surface with
long slot holes in the centre of the sides, to admit of lugs and bolts on the feet of the
tearing machine Fig. 1 a frame. The bed plate is of sufficient length to allow of
the traversing of the tearing machine backwards and forwards, when the diameter of the
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page_text: pulley is changed. The feet of the tearing machine are planed on the under side, and
have longitudinal projections Fig. 3 in the centre to fit into. the slot holes in the bed
plate. Or if the bed plate be flanged, then the feet are made perfectly plain without
projections. On one end of the bed plate, that which is known as the back end of the
tearing machine, when in position on the bed plate I place a stand bracket, or
journal, Fig. 4 bored to admit a turned spindle, about two inches diameter. The
spindle is screwed, to the length of about eighteen inches, or sufficient for the whole
of the traverse required, and fits into a brass or other metal bush, which is made fast
to the frame or back rail Fig. 6a of the tearing machine, when it is in position on the
bed plate. A hand wheel Fig. 6aa is placed on the screwed spindle, so that when it
is necessary to change the speed of the cylinder, by changing the pulley of another
diameter, on turning the hand wheel, the tearing machine is propelled forwards or
backwards, as desired to meet the altered distance between the main shaft, and
the cylinder shaft of the tearing machine, in consequence of the changed diameter of the
pulley, and by that operation the lengthening, or shortening, as the case may be of the
driving belt, is obviated. Or I may vary the operation, by fixing a rack on the tearing
machine frame side, Fig 7 and a bracket bolted to the bed plate, to carry a pinion and
Fig. 8 wheel, to work in the rack and a hand wheel to operate in the same way, as the
screw for propelling the tearing machine. Or I may place a rack under the tearing
machine, and attach to the bottom and middle rail, and instead of the screw use a
spindle and worm wheel, to answer the same purpose for propelling the tearing
machine backwards and forwards.
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,
The application of a metal bed or foundation plate to rag tearing machines, of all or
any of the designs hereinbefore stated, and also of the application of a screw, rack, or
worm, for the purpose of setting or moving a rag tearing machine, to its proper
required distance and position, when the speed is altered when mounted on the
metal bed.
Dated this 12th day of Tona 1900