A IMPROVED MACHINE FOR FLATTENING HACKLE PINS OR COMB TEETH EMPLOYED IN MACHINES FOR COMBING WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES.
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT, to Charles Perry, of the Firm of John Perry, of
Shipley, near Bradford, in the County of York, Manufacturer of Wool
Combing Machines, for the Invention of "A IMPROVED MACHINE FOR
FLATTENING HACKLE PINS OR COMB TEETH EMPLOYED IN MACHINES FOR
COMBING WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES.".
Sealed the 12th November 1867, and dated the 15th May 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Perry at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
15th May 1867.
I, CHARLES PERRY, of the Firm of John Perry, of Shipley, near Bradford,
in the County of York, Manufacturer of Wool Combing Machines, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR
FLATTENING HACKLE PINS OR COMB TEETH EMPLOYED IN MACHINES FOR COMBING
WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to an improved machine for flattening hackle pins
or comb teeth employed in machines for combing. wool or other fibrous
substances. This machine is worked by a belt or strap from the main shaft
fixed to the machine. On the said shaft is a fly wheel and spur wheel fixd
on the pulley socket driving a cross shaft, on which is fixed the eccentric
tappet or cam which gives oscillating motion to a beam, which beam being
thrown out of centre three to one, or more or less, gives the crushing power.
At the long end of the beam is a small pulley supported in an open wrought-

page_text: iron joint with a stud pin through it to hold the pulley thereto; this pulley
works on the top of the eccentric to give the oscillating motion to the crushing
beam; this beam works on the main framing on pedestals, and the short end
of the beam holds the crushing head bolted thereto by four bolts, or more or
less, as required; this crushing head holds a steel die which flattens the
wire to form the pin. There is also a steel die fixed in a wrought-iron block
on the main framing exactly underneath the crushing head in the short end of
the beam; this bottom block is made adjustable by nuts fixed on the top and
bottom of the main framing, so that it can be made higher or lower as required
in order that it will make different sizes of flat pins. The small pulley that
works in the small wrought-iron joint held in by the stud pin that works on
the eccentric, tappet, or cam is also adjustable on the long end of the
crushing beam by means of a top and bottom nut. The bottom block fixed
on the main framing underneath the crushing head, and the small pulley
fixed on the long end of the beam, are made adjustable by means of nuts
and screws, and, if required, the pedestals can be made adjustable in the
same way.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Perry in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
15th November 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
PERRY, of the Firm of John Perry, of Shipley, near Bradford, in the County
of York, Manufacturer of Wool Combing Machines, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Charles Perry, Her special licence that I, the said Charles
Perry, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Charles Perry, 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 "AN IMPROVED
MACHINE POR FLATTENING HACKLE PINS OR COMB TEETH EMPLOYED IN MACHINES
FOR COMBING WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," upon the condition (amongst

page_text: others) that I, the said Charles Perry, 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 the 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Perry, 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, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to an improved machine for flattening backle pins
or comb teeth employed in machines for combing wool or other fibrous
substances or the wire therefor. This machine is constructed so that it can
be worked by a belt from a drum of a main shaft to a pulley fixed upon its
own shaft. Upon the latter shaft a spur wheel and fly wheel are keyed. The
spur wheel last mentioned gears with a larger wheel keyed upon a second
shaft above it; both of these shafts are mounted in bearings in a suitable or
oblong frame, across which they run transversely. The frame is formed with
an opening in the centre, the geering wheels, fly wheel, and driving pulley
being placed upon one side. On the top of the frame over the space between
the two sides I mount a lever beam. Upon the upper cross shaft and under
the long end of the lever beam I fix an eccentric wheel. Near the long end
of the said beam I fit a bearing pulley; this bearing pulley is mounted in
bearings at the lower end of a screw shaft or spindle,, which passes through
the beam, and is held in position by two lock nuts, one above and one below
the same. By means of these nuts the bearing pulley can be raised and
lowered and fixed as required, so as to adjust the rise of the long end of the
lever as it is worked up and down by the eccentric before mentioned. For
furthe regulating the rise and fall of the lever I mount it in adjusting
plummer blocks so that the centre of motion may be raised or lowered by
bearing screws or adjusting wedges, or partly by each. At the short end or
crushing head of the lever beam I form proper spaces for receiving a steel die,
and in a tool bed or block immediately under the same I fit a second steel
die. The tool bed or block is adjustable horizontally and vertically, the latter
adjustment being effected by means of a set screw or screws and adjusting
wedges. The pins or comb teeth or wire therefor are placed between the
dies in the beam head and tool bed. On giving motion to the eccentric the
beam will be caused to rise and fall and compress or flatten the pins, teeth,
or wire to any required degree, which can be regulated, first, by altering the

page_text: 'block nuts on the screwed spindle in the long end of the beam; secondly, by
-varying the centre of motion of the lever by the plummer block adjustment
before described; or, thirdly, by altering the level of the tool bed by means of
the screw and wedge bearing pieces.
The details of construction are shewn by the accompanying Drawing, to
which the following explanation refers.
EXPLANATION OF THE DRAWING.
Fig. 1 is a plan of the machine over all; Fig. 2 is a side elevation. The
same parts of the machine are lettered with simular letters in each Figure.
a is the driving shaft upon which the driving and loose pullies 6 & 6¹ are
fixed; c, a fly wheel; d, a spur wheel, which, together with the fly wheel c,
is keyed to the shaft a; e, the second shaft, which runs across the frame
above the shaft a; f, a toothed wheel keyed on the shaft e outside the frame;
'g, the eccentric wheel, which is also keyed to the shaft e inside the frame; h,
the bearing pulley; i, the screwed spindle which passes through the end of
the lever and is fixed by the adjusting lock nuts k, k; 1, the lever; m, the
adjusting centre of motion; n, the beam or crushing head; o, the tool bed or
block; p, p, steel dies, between which the teeth are flattened; q, the bearing
screw for adjusting the tool bed verticaly; r, the set screw for adjusting
the tool bed horizontally; s, the bearing pillar of the frame t, t.
Without restricting myself to the precise forms, dimentions, and pro-
portions of the parts of the machine shewn upon the Drawing, I claim the
combination of the first, second, and third adjustments thereoff, as herin
described.
I witness whereof, I, the said Charles Perry, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fourteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.