Improvements in or connected with Paper Making Machines.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Sept., 1898-Accepted, 15th Oct., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Paper Making Machines.
I, EUGEN FULLNER, of 169, Herischdorf, Warmbrunn, Silesia, in the Empire
of Germany, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:
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This invention relates to an arrangement in paper machines to render it possible
to simultaneously elevate or depress the various parts of the shaking apparatus
from the end situated at the inlet channel, in such a way that, by the thus pro-
duced inclined position of the metal sieve or web on which the paper material is
discharged, all parts of the shaking apparatus retain their position both as regards
the metal sieve or web and also as regards one another.
The arrangement is characterised by all the supporting parts of the shaking
apparatus being mounted on a carrying frame which is pivotally connected at the
end opposite the inlet channel with the remaining fixed frame of the machine and
rests with the other end on two eccentrics mounted on the same shaft, by the rotation
of which eccentrics the carrying frame with all parts mounted thereon may be
elevated or depressed at this end. The carrying frame thus self-evidently pivots
on the axis of its connection with the fixed machine frame. The arrangement is
such that the eccentric may be fixed in any desired position.
The arrangement has the effect of causing more or less an inclination of the metal
sieve or web, by which as is well known a greater accumulation of the material on
the sieve and an easier and more accelerated discharge of the water is obtained,
said inclination being without any influence on the extension of the metal sieve or
web as the stretching and guide rollers rise and fall with the sieve to exactly the
same extent. As further all the remaining active parts of the shaking mechanism
retain their mutual relative positions, the inclination of the metal sieve or web
under the above mentioned conditions may at any time be effected during the work-
ing without the necessity of any separate adjustment of the separate parts of the
shaking mechanism itself.
A shaking mechanism for paper machines arranged so as to be adjustable in the
manner herein before described is shown in the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 being a side view of the apparatus with the metal sieve or web arranged
horizontally; Figure 2 a plan of the adjusting mechanism; and Figure 3 a side
view of the apparatus in a depressed position with the metal sieve or web sloping
up from the inlet channel.
As already mentioned the various supporting parts of the shaking mechanisni
are mounted on a carrying frame or bed a, the supports or uprights 6 which carry
the water discharge channels being firmly connected with the said frame or bed a
whilst the standards d supporting the gutters care provided at both ends with
hinges which allow of the standards d being arranged or placed obliquely both to
the support frame a and also to the supporting rollers e for the bars c or channels
which support the upper travel of the metal sieve or web f. The said bars c like
the support frame a are connected at the end opposite the inlet channel y by means
of hinges ca¹ with the fixed part h of the machine frame.

page_text: The other end of the carrying frame a rests on two or more eccentrics k mounted
in a similar position on the same shaft i. In the position of the eccentrics shown
in Figure 1 the metal sieve or web has a horizontal position. In order to adjust
the eccentrics a worm gearing is preferably employed, a spindle m being
mounted in one side part of the carrying frame a which spindle on the carrying
frame being depressed or elevated engages in a slot n arranged in an upper part
of the bearing frame of the eccentric shaft i. The spindle m is provided with a
collar in such a way that by screwing up the spindle the support frame a is fixed.
Instead of the spindle m any other suitable fixing device might be employed.
The inclination of the whole shaking mechanism with the metal sieve or web
may be ascertained by a scale o.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
The improvement in paper making machines, which consists in the support
columns (d) of the bars which support the sieve or web and carry the front and
guide rollers, being mounted together with the water channel supports (b) on a
pivotally mounted bed or carrying frame (a) with the object of enabling the shaking
apparatus as a whole to be raised or depressed substantially as hereinbefore
described.
Dated this 6th day of September 1898
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.