IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE USED IN CONNECTION WITH MILLING MACHINERY
Year: 1866

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Wilkinson, junior, at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 30th October
1866.
I, JOHN WILKINSON, junior, of St. Helen's Mills, Hunslet, near Leeds, in
the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for.
"IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE USED IN CONNECTION WITH MILLING MACHINERY,"
to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to indicate during the process of milling the
state in which the piece under operation is, as by the present operation the
piece has to be taken out of the milling machine and measured.
For this
purpose I use a cylinder or roller of wood or other suitable material, by
preference of twelve to eighteen inches diameter, placed also by preference
(although of course at option) in the vicinity of the throat through which all
the cloth under operation necessarily passes; the shaft of this cylinder or
roller is in connection by means of pinion wheels with a dial plate on the
side of the machine. This roller is not however always in gear, as it is only
necessary at certain stages of the operation of milling that measurement
should be taken, and I use a sort of friction roller worked by a lever of the
first order to throw on and off the cloth to be measured upon the indicator
roller. It will be obvious, therefore, that I am thus enabled by the afore-

page_text: named arrangement to indicate to the man who minds the machine the
nature of the amount of milling to which the material under operation has
been subjected, and thereby dispense with the necessity of the minder stopping
the machine and taking out the material under operation for measurement.
In order however to know when to throw the afore-mentioned index into
gear I attach a piece of rag or cloth to the beginning of the piece under
operation as a guide to enable me to know where to measure from.

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Wilkinson, junior, at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 30th October
1866.
I, JOHN WILKINSON, junior, of St. Helen's Mills, Hunslet, near Leeds, in
the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE USED IN CONNECTION WITH MILLING MACHINERY,"
to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to indicate during the process of milling the
state in which the piece under operation is, as by the present operation the
piece has to be taken out of the milling machine and measured. For this
purpose I use a cylinder or roller of wood or other suitable material, by
preference of twelve to eighteen inches diameter, placed also by preference
(although of course at option) in the vicinity of the throat through which all
the cloth under operation necessarily passes; the shaft of this cylinder or
roller is in connection by means of pinion wheels with a dial plate on the.
side of the machine. This roller is not however always in gear, as it is only
necessary at certain stages of the operation of milling that measurement
should be taken, and I use a sort of friction roller worked by a lever of the
first order to throw on and off the cloth to be measured upon the indicator
roller. It will be obvious, therefore, that I am thus enabled by the afore-

page_text: named arrangement to indicate to the man who minds the machine the
nature of the amount of milling to which the material under operation has
been subjected, and thereby dispense with the necessity of the minder stopping
the machine and taking out the material under operation for measurement.
In order however to know when to throw the afore-mentioned index into
gear I attach a piece of rag or cloth to the beginning of the piece under
operation as a guide to enable me to know where to measure from.