A Self-aligning or Swivel Bearing for Shafts or Journals.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 23th Dec., 1893-Accepted. 17th Mar., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Self-aligning or Swivel Bearing for Shafts or Journals.
ARTHUR GEORGE BARRETT, Ironmaster of The Forge Bradford and WILLIAM
NEWTON The Forge Bradford Yorks Engineer do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
The invention consists in having a base plate provided with vertical guides or
side cheeks, and a flat central bearing upon which is placed the swivel bearing
provided with a half round projection at right angles to the axis of the shaft or
journals, said projection riding or working on the above mentioned flat central
bearing. At each side of swivel bearing is provided a lug working in the vertical
guides before mentioned. The said guides to be made wider apart than the
thickness of lugs, in order to allow for horizontal and vertical allignment, the said
lugs to have their ends shaped to a radius struck from the centre of bearing or base
plate, thereby preventing all lateral or cross displacement at the centre of bearing
by impinging on the vertical guides at their ends. The bearing is held in its
position in base plate by a cap at each side acting on the before mentioned lugs.
Dated this 27th day of March 1893.
ARTHUR GEORGE BARRETT.
WILLIAM NEWTON.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Self-aligning or Swivel Bearing for Shafts or Journals.
We ARTHUR GEORGE BARRETT, Ironmaster of The Forge Bradford and
WILLIAM NEWTON, Engineer, 1 Rand Place, Horton Road, Bradford and The
Forge, Bradford, Yorks, 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 invention consists in having a base plate A provided with vertical guides or
side cheeks B and a flat central bearing D, upon which is placed the swivel
bearing E, provided with a projection F having a face which is part of a cylindrical
surface the axis of which intersects the axis of the shaft or journal at right angles
said projection riding or working on the above mentioned flat central bearing D.
At each side of swivel bearing is provided a lug G, working in the vertical
guides B before mentioned-the said guides to be made wider apart than the
thickness of lugs in order to allow for horizontal and vertical alignment-the said
lugs to have their ends shaped to a radius struck from the centre of bearing or
base plate, thereby preventing all lateral or cross displacement at the centre of
bearing by impinging on the vertical guides at their ends. The bearing is held in
its position in base plate by a cap H at each side acting on the before mentioned
lugs.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
An improved swivel bearing hering nucinations with fance chaned

page_text: described working against flat faces, thereby allowing vertical and horizontal
alignment.
Dated this Twenty-eighth day of December 1893.
Per pro ARTHUR GEORGE BARRETT,
WILLIAM NEWTON,
Frederick C. Wood,
248, High Street, Borough, S.E., Agent.
Per pro ARTHUR GEORGE BARRETT,
WILLIAM NEWTON,
Frederick C. Wood,
248, High Street, Borough, S.E., Agent.