IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY ÖR APPARATUS FOR IMPARTING MOTION TO ROLLERS OR CYLINDERS TO BE USED IN WASHING, WRINGING, OR ROLLING MACHINERY
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Robert Hay Fisken, of Mirfield, in the
County of York, Engineer, for the Invention of “IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY ÖR APPARATUS FOR IMPARTING MOTION TO ROLLERS OR CYLINDERS
TO BE USED IN WASHING, WRINGING, OR ROLLING MACHINERY."
Sealed the 12th December 1871, and dated the 20th June 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Robert Hay
Fisken at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 20th June 1871.
I, THOMAS ROBERT HAY FISKEN, of Mirfield, in the County of
York, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
** IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR IMPARTING MOTION TO ROLLERS
OR CYLINDERS TO BE USED IN WASHING, WRINGING, OR ROLLING MACHINERY,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to certain improvements in machinery or
apparatus for more efficiently imparting or giving motion to such rollers
or cylinders as are generally used in washing or wringing machines or
in machines for rolling metals or other materials.

page_text: 'This Invention is proposed to be carried out in practice as follows :—
Upon the shaft or gudgeon of the roller or cylinder I mount fast or
attach a wheel having internal teeth cast or fixed upon it. Upon the
same shaft or gudgeon I mount loosely an eccentric upon which works
a wheel having external teeth, but a less number of teeth than the
wheel with the internal teeth, and this wheel works or gears into the
wheel having the internal teeth and gives motion to the same. Upon
the wheel with external teeth, or which is placed in the bosom or
interior of the wheel having internal teeth, is cast or fixed an arm or
lever; in the outer end of this arm or lever there is a slot into which
a pin or stud takes, which stud or pin is fixed to the framework of the
machine, and this pin or stud prevents the arm and wheel from having
a circular motion, but allows the arm and wheel to have a lateral
motion equal to the throw of the eccentric. Motion to the eccentric is
given by any suitable gear from the prime motive power.
The action or working of the machinery is as follows:-Motion being
given to the eccentric, the eccentric makes the wheel having the
external teeth roll round or gear into the wheel having internal teeth,
and the wheel having external teeth being held by the arm or, lever
which is cast upon it, working upon the pin or stud, from having a
circular motion, and this wheel having a lesser number of teeth than
the wheel having the internal teeth gives motion to the wheel having
internal teeth, and this wheel being mounted fast or secured upon the
It
shaft or gudgeon of the roller or cylinder gives motion to the same.
will be observed that the wheel having internal teeth can be cast or fixed
to or at the end of the roller or cylinder, and thus the machinery
can be either placed within or without the bushes upon which the
roller or cylinder is mounted.

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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of June, in the year
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Robert Hay Fisken, Her
special licence that I, the said Thomas Robert Hay Fisken, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas
Robert Hay Fisken, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR IMPARTING
MOTION TO ROLLERS OR CYLINDERS TO BE USED IN WASHING, WRINGING, OR ROLLING
MACHINERY," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas
Robert Hay Fisken, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Robert Hay Fisken, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement in writing, reference being had to
the accompanying Drawings, that is to say :-.
"
This Invention relates to certain improvements in machinery or
apparatus for more efficiently imparting or giving motion to such
rollers or cylinders as are generally used in washing or wringing
machines or in machines for rolling metals or other materials.
On the accompanying Sheet of Drawings Figure 1 represents a
sectional elevation, and Figure 2 a profile of one modification in which
the principle of this Invention is applied.
I have selected as an example of its application a wringing machine,
but it will be evident to all practical men that its application to any
of the machines above-mentioned, and in fact to various other machines
having rollers or cylinders which require similar motion to be imparted
thereto, will in every case be essentially the same, differing only, in the

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arrangement of the details, dependent mostly upon the kind or descrip-
tion of machine to which my Invention is applied.
A represents the shaft or gudgeon of the lower roller G. Upon the
shaft is mounted fast an internally toothed wheel B within which and
gearing thereinto is placed an externally toothed wheel C having a {
less number of teeth than the wheel B. The wheel C is mounted loosely
upon an eccentric D, and is cast with or otherwise secured to a slotted
arm E, which is controlled in its movements by the stud or pin F held
firmly in the boss Y cast with or otherwise secured to the frame-
work S of the machine which is mounted upon castor wheels T. The
eccentric D is made fast to or forms part of the boss of a hand wheel H,
and both are mounted loosely upon the shaft A. I represents the upper
roller or cylinder of the machine. The rollers or cylinders G .and I
are mounted fast upon their respective shafts, which latter have also
mounted fast thereon the toothed wheels X. The shaft A is mounted
in bushes w held in the frames, but the shaft of the upper roller I is
capable of sliding in slots in the frame, see Figure 2. J, J, are sliding
blocks upon which the bar K rests; M is a hand wheel made fast to
a screwed. rod N which regulates the pressure of a spring L bearing
upon the bar K, and the latter bearing upon the blocks J regulates the
distance apart of the rollers; O; O, represent the feed boards of the
machine.
The mode of operation and action of the apparatus are as follows:-
Motion is first given to the hand wheel H, which by means of its
eccentric D imparts the motion to the wheel C (within the wheel B),
but this being held by its slotted arm E and pin or stud F is prevented
from having a circular motion and only allowed a lateral reciprocating
motion equal to the throw of the eccentric D, so that it further imparts
the motion to the wheel B fast upon the shaft A and so to the roller G,
and by means of the wheels X the upper roller receives similar motion.
It may
be here observed that the wheel B may be cast or fixed to
or at the end of the lower roller or cylinder, and thus the actuating
apparatus can either be placed. within or without the bushes w upon
which the said roller or cylinder is mounted.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention
for "Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for Imparting Motion
to Rollers or Cylinders to be used in Washing, Wringing, or Rolling
Machinery," together with the manner in which the same is to be or

page_text: may be performed or carried into practical effect, I would remark in
conclusion that I claim as my Invention, the improved method and
apparatus or means for actuating or imparting motion to the rollers
or cylinders of wringing machines or of other machines above mentioned
or referred to, substantially as above described and as illustrated in
the accompanying Drawings or any mere modification or variation
thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Robert Hay Fisken, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of December,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one.