CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN PRESSES FOR PACKING ..COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS, AND IN 'BALING BOXES' EMPLOYED FOR THE SAME PURPOSE
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Routledge and Frederick Francis Ommanney,
of New Bridge Foundry, Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Engineers,
for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN PRESSES FOR PACKING
..COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS, AND IN 'BALING BOXES' EMPLOYED
FOR THE SAME PURPOSE,"
Sealed the 16th September 1864, and dated the 23rd March 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Routledge, and
Frederick Francis Ommanney at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 23rd March 1864.
We, WILLIAM ROUTLEDGE and FREDERICK FRANCIS OMMANNEY, of New.
Bridge Foundry, Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Engineers, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
PRESSES FOR PACKING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS, AND IN BALING
BOXES EMPLOYED FOR THE SAME PURPOSE," to be as follows:-
Our Invention relates, first, to improvements in the press for packing, and
further to the "baling boxes," usually composed of wood, and confined by
metallic bars, and employed. to contain cotton and other fibrous materials
whilst being compressed 'and packed.
The improvements consist, first, in the adaptation and use of brackets to
be secured to the upright columns of the press, or to the bottom thereof, to.
support a stage or platform on which the attendants roping the bale are
to stands.

page_text: Secondly, in the application and use of rails, having stops at the ends, and
fixed to the bottom of the press to support the baling box on wheels by which
means it is placed in and removed from the press.
Thirdly, the improvements consist in the novel employment, adaptation, and
use of bars of T-iron or other metal for more effectually strengthening and
securing the sides of the "baling boxes," and in the method of jointing or
hinging the same at the corners, to be used in contradistinction to the angle
iron, bars hitherto employed for such purpose; these improvements may be
thus described:-The baling boxes are to be embraced around the outer
surface by a series of metallic T-bars, each bar being made of four pieces
(for a square box) hinged or jointed together at three corners, the fourth
cornor being secured by one bar entering a slot in the other, and being
retained there by hooked cams or claws secured at requisite distances
on a shaft which is turned or worked by one or more levers retained in
position by catches, by which means the fastening or unfastening is effected.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent; 'filed
by the said William Routledge and Frederick Francis Ommanney in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 23rd September 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
ROUTLEDGE, and FREDERICK FRANCIS OMMANNEY, both of New Bridge Foundry,
Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Engineers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters.
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year
of 'Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors; give and grants
unto us, the said William Routledge and Frederick Francis Ommanney, Her,
special license that we, the said William Routledge and Frederick Francis.
Ommanney, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
we, the said William Routledge and Frederick Francis Ommanney, our
exécutors, 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN PRESSES
FOR PACKING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS, AND IN 'BALING BOXES' EM-
PLOYED FOR THE SAME PURPOSE," upon the condition, amongst others, that we,,

page_text: the said William Routledge and Frederick Francis Ommanney, our executors
´or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or one of our, or their
ór one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe, and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same, was to be per-
5 formed, 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 William Routledge, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following:
statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say):
Our Invention relates, first, to improvements in the press for packing,
and further to the "baling boxes," usually composed of wood, and confined
by metallic bars, and employed to contain cotton, and other fibrous materials
whilst being compressed and packed.
i
The improvements consist in the adaptation and use of brackets to be
secured to the upright columns of the press, or to the bottom thereof, to
support a stage, or platform on which the attendants roping the bale are
to stand.
Secondly, in the application, and use of rails. having "stops." at the ends.
and, fixed to the bottom of the press to support the baling box on wheels.
by which means it is placed in and removed from the press..
Thirdly, the improvements consist in the novel employment, adaptation,
and use of hinged bars of T iron or other metal for more effectually
strengthening and securing the sides of the baling boxes, and in the method
of jointing or hinging-the same at the corners, to be used in contradistinction.
to the angle iron bars: hitherto, employed for such purpose; these improve-
ments: may be thus described:-The baling boxes are to be embraced around
the outer surface by a series of metallic T bars, each bar being made of four
pieces (for a square. box) hinged or jointed together at three corners, the
fourth corner being secured by one bar entering a slot in the other, and being
retained there by hooked cams.or. claws secured at requisite distances.on a
shaft which is turned or worked by one or more. levers retained in position.
by catches, by which means the fastening or unfastening is effected. .
In order that the Invention. may be. better understood, and explained in
detail, we have hereunto attached a Sheet of. Drawings made upon a scale
of about three-quarters of an inch to the foot, similar letters of. being marked
upon corresponding parts in all the Figures...
...
Fig. 1 represents.a front view of the upper part of a. bydraulic press in

page_text: which the improved baling box is supported on wheels and rails, and which
occupies the space (or nearly so) between the hydraulic table and cross
head. Fig. 2 is an end view of the baling box and press, shewing clearly
the improved method of securing the hinged T iron bars embracing the
sides of the box; this view also: shews the method of releasing the. whole of:
such fastenings simultaneously by means of the handle on the vertical shaft
on which the catches are placed, and also shews a second handle, both of
.which have. catches formed like cams or eccentrics; the handles are used as
levers for forcing open the bars out of the slots should 'they not. open readily,
which arrangement is seen more plainly in Fig. 3 which is a plan view of the
box and its fastenings and means of opening.
In Figs. 1 and 2, at are the cross heads; as, the supporting pillars; and a³,
the hydraulic table, all of which are well known; b, b, are rails having ".stops?”
at the end placed so that the wheels of the box carriage :c 'abut against
them and bring the box d exactly over the hydraulic ram table à³ without
the necessity of adjustment. The sides of the box d are composed as usual
of-planks of wood, and embraced by a series of T-shaped metallic bars e,
which are especially required at the upper end where the greatest pressure
exists. These bars are jointed as shewn at three of the corners of the box,
ȧre united at the fourth by the notched ends of the bars, entering the slots f,
and being hooked and retained by the catches 9, 9, 9, which are secured to
the upright shaft h, the handles are secured to, the side of the box by the
latches when the box is required to be secured, and when the bale is properly
packed and secured the release of the said handles liberates the fastenings of
the bars and leaves the bale free from the confinement of the box and ready
for removal. Thus it will be seen that the pressure of the bale is received
by the wooden box which is strengthened at the sides and corners by the T
metal bands which really sustain the pressure. The brackets k, k, are
attached to the columns a², a³, and may be adjusted to any required height
and form a platform for the attendants securing the bale.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with
the method of carrying the same into practical effect, we wish it to be
distinctly understood that we claim,-
"
First, the use and application of " stops or terminations at the ends of
the rails on which the wheels of the baling box carriage runs.
Secondly, we claim the novel employment, adaptation, and use of the
hinged bars of T iron or other metal for strengthening the sides of baling
boxes and also the method of securing and releasing the same."
And, lastly, we claim the use of; brackets to form platforms for the work-

page_text: men as herein-before described, set forth, and fully illustrated in the Drawings
attached.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Routledge, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
WILLIAM ROUTLEDGE. (L.B.)
Witnessed by
JOHN L. DAVIES,
Office. for Patents,
4, St. Ann's Sq, Manchester.