Improvements in Machines for Measuring and Plaiting Piece Goods.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Jan., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 20th Oct., 1894-Accepted, 24th Nov., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Measuring and Plaiting Piece Goods.
I SAMUEL COOK of Victoria Works, Bury, in the County of Lancaster,
Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My said invention relates to improvements in the machine for which Letters
Patent No. 21502 of A.D. 1892 were granted to James Chambers and myself and
in particular to means for guiding the carriage in which the cloth distributors are
mounted and for more efficiently operating the cloth distributors themselves.
According to my present invention the tooth wheels at the ends of the carriages
and the rack into which they gear are dispensed with and I substitute for the tooth
wheel plain running wheels which are preferably flanged to prevent displacement
end ways. In lieu of racks the running wheels travel on plain bars or rails.
Taking against the under side of the rails I provide wheels mounted on the ends
of the carriage in order to keep the latter down to the rail.
The stud wheels or wheels with projections deriving rotary motion from the
reciprocating motion of the carriage are also dispensed with and I impart the
required up and down motion to the distributor blades by means of cam rails against
which take antifriction bowls mounted on studs attached to the brackets which
carry the distributor blades. The said antifriction bowls may take against either
the upper or under surfaces of the cam rails and springs are provided for maintaining
the said bowls against the surfaces of the cam rail.
Accessory fences or guard rails are used to further ensure the contact between
the antifriction bowls and the surfaces of the cam rails. The cam rails are laterally
adjustable and are connected with the brackets which adjust the distance apart of
the clamps in such a manner that the cam rails slide therewith and the points where
the distributors commence to descend or to rise is always at the same distance from
the end of the travel irrespective of the length of lap being formed.
Dated Nineteenth day of January 1894.
-E. T. WHITELOW, A.M. Inst. C.E.,
70, Deansgate, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Measuring and Plaiting Piece Goods.
I SAMUEL COOK of Victoria Works, Bury, in the County of Lancaster,
Machinist, 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 and accompanying drawings
In the drawings
:-
Figure 1 is a side elevation of so much of a machine as is needful to illustrate
the application of my said invention.
Figure 2 is a plan of one side of a machine.
In both figures the same letters refer to the same parts.
My said invention relates to improvements in the machine for which Letters
Patent No. 21502 of A.D. 1892 were granted to James Chambers and myself and
in particular to means for guiding the carriage in which the cloth distributors are
mounted and for more efficiently operating the cloth distributors themselves.
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page_text: According to my present invention the tooth wheels at the ends of the carriages and
the rack into which they gear are dispensed with and I substitute for the tooth wheel
plain running wheels a a which are preferably flanged to prevent displacement
endways. In lieu of racks the running wheels travel on plain bars or rails b.
Taking against the under side of the rails I provide one or more wheels c mounted
on the ends of the carriage in order to keep the latter down to the rail.
The stud wheels or wheels with projections deriving rotary motion from the
reciprocating motion of the carriage are also dispensed with and I impart the
required up and down motion to the distributor blades e e by means of cam rails & d'
against which take anti-friction bowls d² mounted on studs attached to the brackets
which carry the distributor blades. In the drawing the said anti-friction bowls
may take against the upper surface of the cam rails and springs in tension are
provided for maintaining the said bowls against the surface of the cam rails. An
obvious modification is to cause the anti-friction bowls d² to bear against the under
side of the cam rail against which they are pressed by springs in compression.
Another modification is to use bowls above and below the cam rail and to dispense
with springs.
Accessory fences or guard rails 9 g are used to further ensure the contact
between the anti-friction bowls and the surfaces of the cam rails. The cam rails
of which there are two at each side of the machine are adjustable and are connected
with the brackets which adjust the distance apart of the clamps in such a manner
that the curved ends of the cam rails slide therewith and the points where the
distributors commence to descend or to rise is thus always at the same distance
from the end of the travel irrespective of the length of lap being formed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is―
1. In a machine for measuring and plaiting piece goods the herein described
means for raising and depressing the distributing blades substantially as set forth
and shown in the accompanying drawings.
2. In a machine for measuring and plaiting piece goods the combination of cam
rails with vertically reciprocating cloth distributors substantially as and for the
purpose set forth.
3. In a machine for measuring and plaiting piece goods the use combination and
arrangement of guide bars such as running wheels such as a vertically recipro-
cating distributors such as e cam rails such as d d¹ fence rails such as g g¹ and
anti-friction bowls such as d² following the contour of the said cam rails substantially
as and for the purpose set forth and as described with reference to the accompanying
drawings:
Dated 19th day of October 1894.
E. T. WHITELOW, A.M. Inst. C.E.,
70, Deansgate, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.