Adjustable Pressing Roller for use in the Manufacture of Ropes and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 30th June. 1898
Complete Specification Left, 1st Nov., 1893-4ccepted, 14th Jan., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Adjustable Pressing Roller for use in the Manufacture of Ropes
and the like.
WILLIAM HENRY HEYS, 56, Horatio Street, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland,
Engineer, JoHN THOMAS HEWITSON, 26, Dock Street East, Monkwearmouth,
Sunderland, Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
A roller with adjustable flanges and barrel. Flange composed of sixteen seg-
ments, having slot holes for regulating the flange as the leather wears; a mild
steel ring fixed between the flanges for keeping the leathers in position, on each
side of the roller.
Fig. I. Shews construction of roller complete with shaft (a) adjustable
flanges (b) mild steel rings (c) and leathers (d) dark parts of drawing shew leathers
fitted) vacant spaces on the other side, shew spaces without the leathers.
Fig. II. Shews section of the barrel of the roller; with keys cast on (e) number
of bolt holes (f) and securing bolts (g) leathers fixed in position on barrel (h).
Fig. III. Shews section of flange.
Fig. IV. Shews section of flange, composed of flanges expanded to working size,
with slot holes for adjusting (f) bolt holes (g).
Fig. V. Shews roller flanges contracted to smallest working size.
Fig. VI. Shews drawing of mild steel ring for keeping leathers in position (as
shewn on complete drawing (c)).
Dated this 24th day of June 1898.
W. H. HEYS,
J. T. HEWITSON.
Adjustable Pressing Roller for use in the Manufacture of Ropes
and the like.
WILLIAM HENRY HEYS, 56, Horatio Street, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland,
Engineer, Joux THOMAS HEWITSON, 26, Dock Street East, Monkwearmouth,
Sunderland, Clerk, 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:-
A roller with adjustable flanges and barrel. Flange composed of seg-
ments having slot holes for regulating the flanges as the leather wears, a mild
steel ring fixed between the flanges for keeping the leathers in position on each
side of the roller.

page_text: Referring to the drawings accompanying our Provisional Specification.
Fig. I. Shews construction of roller complete, with shaft (a), adjustable
flange (6), mild steel ring (c) and leathers (d), (dərk parts of drawing shew leathers
fitted), vacant spaces on the other side, shew space without the leathers.
Fig. II. Shews section of barrel of roller, with keys cast on (e) number of bolt
holes (f) and securing bolts (g), leathers fixed in position on barrel (h).
Fig. III. Shews section of flange.
Fig. IV. Shews section of flange, composed of flanges expanded to working size,
with slot holes for adjusting (f) bolt holes (g).
Fig. V. Shews roller flanges contracted to smallest working size.
Fig. VI. Shews drawing of mild steel ring for keeping leathers in position (as
shewn on complete drawing (c) )
The object of this invention is to provide an effective adjustable pressing roller
in a drawing frame, for pressing the sliver as it leaves the fuller sheet, and for-
warding it to the delivery roller in front and thence to cans.
The roller is composed of:-
1st. A shaft (a) on which barrels (Fig. 2) are secured. The shaft is placed in
steadying brackets to keep the roller central as it revolves. The motion of the
roller is caused by being pressed firmly down on steel rollers (over which the sliver
must pass) by means of levers and weights.
2nd. A barrel (Fig. 2) which forms a body on which the leathers rest, & which
contains bolt holes (f) to allow bolts to pass beneath the leather. Slot holes (g)
for regulating flanges.
3rd. Adjustable flanges (6) which are secured to barrel by means of bolts (f & g)
Fig. 3. These are composed of any number of segments (Fig. 3). The segments
contain slot holes (f) Fig. 3. The object of these slot holes being either to con-
tract or expand the flanges when the leathers are worn or renewed (/), by means of
slackening above named bolts.
4th. A thin steel ring (c). The object of this ring is, to keep the leathers in
position when in the act of tightening.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1st. To be able to adjust the roller when the leathers are worn by means of
adjustable flanges, composed of segments (any number).
2nd. A barrel to facilitate the adjusting.
3rd. A ring to fix between the flanges to keep the leathers in position.
4th. To be able to use the same body and flanges of roller when the leathers are
worn to the lowest working sizes without renewing or repairing the roller.
Dated this 28th day of October 1898.
W. H. HEYS,
J. T. HEWITSON.