IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR TAKING OUT GLASS BOTTLES FROM ANNEALING FURNACES
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Petrus Richarme, of Rive de Gier (France), Manufacturer,
for the Invention of "IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR TAKING OUT GLASS BOTTLES
FROM ANNEALING FURNACES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Petrus Richarme at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 6th February 1877.
PETRUS RICHARME, of Rive de Gier (France), Manufacturer. " IMPROVED
MACHINERY FOR TAKING OUT GLASS BOTTLES FROM ANNEALING FURNACES."
The object of this Invention is to construct machinery for dispensing with manual
labor in moving annealed bottles in the cooling furnace or chamber, which follows
immediately after the annealing furnace. In the old arrangements men or boys
carried the annealed bottles by means of a long bent and pointed iron rod from the
first chamber into the cooling chamber, and stacked them. Upon successively opening
the holes in the circumference of this chamber the bottles therein cooled gradually,
and it was then necessary to perform the further work of unstacking the bottles
and carrying them away. The first of these operations was very unpleasant, on
account of the very high temperature of the furnace, and as it had generally to be
effected quickly the bottles frequently got broken. Now by my Invention I effect
these operations mechanically instead of by manual labor; the bottles are cooled
slowly and methodically, the work is continuous, and the breakage less.
My Invention consists in arranging an endless travelling table for the whole
length of the cooling chamber; the annealed articles are placed, one by one, on the
end of the table which is next to the annealing furnace. Owing to the slow and
gradual advance of this endless table the articles placed above it cool by degrees,
and they are withdrawn when they reach the other end of the table.
The endless travelling table may be constructed in various ways. One way, which
I consider the best, is to make it of three or more endless chains or metal bands,
connected together by transverse pieces, upon which the bottles are placed; these
transverse pieces are raised at their ends, to prevent the bottles falling off at the
sides. At the two ends of the apparatus the chains pass over grooved pulleys or
drums mounted on horizontal shafts; the pulleys are of octagonal or polygonal form,

page_text: the sides being equal to the distance of two of the transverse pieces. To support
the table, rollers are fitted to the transverse pieces to run on longitudinal rails.
The endless table is actuated by a sort of winch, as follows:-On one of the
horizontal shafts before named is a screw wheel, in gear with which is an endless
screw. On the shaft of this scrow is another screw wheel, which in its turn gears
with a second screw, and the shaft of this screw carries a toothed wheel in gear
with a pinion on the shaft of the winch handle. The workman turns this handle
so as to cause the table to advance; the cooled bottles at one end of the table are
then removed and annealed bottles put at the other end near the annealing
chamber.
The supports of one of the horizontal shafts are capable of adjustment by screws,
in order to regulate the tension of the table as required.
The transverse pieces may be notched or recessed, so that the bottles may rest
more safely in them. These transverse pieces may be replaced by boxes or carriages,
in which the bottles are stacked, the boxes or carriages being fitted directly to the
chains. This arrangement is particularly applicable where the articles are of small
dimensions; the pulleys or drums are then, by preference, of triangular section, the
side being equal to the width of the boxes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Petrus Richarme in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 16th July
1877.
"
IMPROVED
PETRUS RICHARME, of Rive de Gier (France), Manufacturer.
MACHINERY FOR TAKING OUT GLASS BOTTLES FROM ANNEALING FURNACES."
The object of this Invention is to construct machinery for dispensing with the
trying labor experienced in moving annealed bottles into the cooling furnace or
chamber, which follows immediately after the annealing furnace properly so called.
In the old arrangements men or boys carried the annealed bottles, by means of a
long bent and pointed iron rod, from the first chamber into the cooling chamber, and
stacked them. Upon successively opening the holes in the circumference of this
chamber the bottles therein cooled gradually, and it was then necessary to perform
the further work of unstacking the bottles and carrying them away. The first of
these operations was very unpleasant, on account of the very high temperature of
the furnace, and as it had generally to be effected quickly the bottles frequently got
broken. Now by my Invention I effect these operations mechanically instead of by
manual labor; the bottles are cooled slowly and methodically, the work is continuous,
and the breakage less.
My Invention consists in arranging an endless travelling table for the whole
length of the cooling chamber; the annealed articles are placed, one by one, on that
end of the table which is next to the annealing furnace. Owing to the slow and
gradual advance of this endless table the articles placed above it cool by degrees,
and they are withdrawn when they reach the other end of the table.
The endless travelling table may be constructed in various ways. One way, which
I consider the best, is represented in the annexed Drawings.
Figure is a longitudinal elevation of the endless table; Figure 2, a plan of that
end which is next the annealing furnace; Figure 3, a plan of the opposite end; and
Figure 4, an end view. The table is composed of three endless chains or metal
bands G connected together by transverse pieces T, upon which the bottles are
placed; these transverse pieces are raised at their ends, to prevent the bottles falling
off at the sides. At the two ends of the apparatus the chains pass over grooved
pulleys or drums H mounted on horizontal shafts O, O¹; the pulleys Hare of octagonal
or polygonal form, the sides being equal to the distance of two of the transverse
pieces T. To support the table, rollers g, g, are fitted to the transverse pieces T, to̟

page_text: run on longitudinal rails R, R, bolted on the framework, which is supported above
the ground by columns K.
The endless table is actuated by a sort of winch, as follows:-On the shaft O
before named is a screw wheel A, in gear with which is an endless screw B. On
the shaft of this screw is another screw wheel C, which in its turn gears with a
second screw D, and the shaft of this screw carries a toothed wheel E in gear with
a pinion F on the shaft of the winch bandle M. The workman turns the handle
so as to cause the table to advance; the cooled bottles at one end of the table
are then removed and annealed bottles put at the other end near the annealing
chamber.
The supports of the horizontal shaft O¹ are capable of adjustment by screws V, V',
in order to regulate the tension of the table as required.
The transverse pieces T may be notched or recessed, so that the bottles may rest
moro safely in them. These transverse pieces may be replaced by boxes or carriages,
in which the bottles are stacked, the boxes or carriagos being fitted directly to the
chains. This arrangement is particularly applicable where the articles are of small
dimensions; the pulleys or drums H are then, by preference, of triangular section,
the side being equal to the width of the boxes.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,-
The improved machinery, constructed and working substantially as and for the
purpose herein-before described.
I claim particularly the arrangement of the endless travelling table for the purposo
explained, the said table presenting the following distinctive features, viz., the three
endless chains connected together by transverse pieces, so as to form a trellis or
open-work table, on which the bottles to be cooled are placed; the employment of
rollers running on rails, to support the endless table; the use of boxes in place of
the transverse pieces, to hold the articles to be cooled; the mode of moving the
endless table; and the regulation of the tension of the table; all substantially as
herein-before described and represented in the annexed Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Petrus Richarme, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twelfth day of July, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
RHYME
5 Witness,
JULES ARMENGAUD, jeune,
of Paris,
Boulevard de Strasbourg, 23,
Civil Engineer,
P. RICHARME. (L.S.)