Improvements in Machinery for Scouring and Polishing Needles, Lengths of Wire and Wire Rods, Metallic Rods and Tubes, and Rod like and Tubular Metallic Articles.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Nov., 1886.
Complete Left, 16th Aug., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 16th Sept., 1887.
Improvements in Machinery for Scouring and Polishing Needles,
Lengths of Wire and Wire Rods, Metallic Rods and Tubes, and
Rod like and Tubular Metallic Articles.
I MATTHEW JAMES RICE trading as M. J. Rice and Company of Sherlock Street
Birmingham in the County of Warwick Engineer and Machinist do hereby declare
the nature of this Invention to be as follows :-
My invention consists of the construction and combination hereinafter described of
the parts of machinery for scouring and polishing needles lengths of wire and
wire rods metallic rods and tubes and rod like and tubular metallic articles.
By the use of my improved machinery the scouring and polishing of needles and
other metallic articles are more efficiently and economically effected than by the use
of the runners and other machines ordinarily employed for those purposes.
For convenience of description I will describe my invention as used for scouring
needles.
The machinery constituting my invention consists essentially of a horizontal
reciprocating travelling table upon which the bundle or packet of needles to he
scoured is supported a pair of rotating rolls over the said table and crossing it
at right angles and between and above the said rolls a friction or pressing down roll.
The bundle of needles to be scoured is placed and confined between the two side rolls
described and under the friction roll the said friction roll resting on and pressing the
said bundle upon the reciprocating travelling table by the motion of which table
in conjunction with one or other of the two side rolls a rolling motion is given
to the said bundle and the efficient scouring of the needles thereby effected. The
distance between the pair of rotating side rolls is such that both rolls are not in
contact with the bundle of needles at the same time one roll being in contact with the
bundle when the table is travelling in one direction and the other roll in contact with
the bundle when the table is travelling in the opposite direction. As the two rolls
are driven by means of the reciprocating travelling table in the manner herein after
described it follows that the motion of the said rolls is reversed as the direction of the
motion of the table is reversed. The friction roll by which the bundle of needles
is pressed upon the travelling table is carried by levers which are so arranged

page_text: that the roll can be thrown back for permitting the bundle of needles being placed
between or removed from between the pair of rotating rolls without stopping the
machine.
The levers carrying the friction or pressing down roll are connected together
by a bridge piece and by means of spring pressure the friction roll may be made
to press upon the bundle of needles with any desired pressure.
The reciprocating sliding motion is given to the table and by means of the
said table to the rolls between which the bundle of needles is situated and confined
by the following arrangement or combination of parts.
The said table moves upon anti friction rollers carried by horizontal side supports
on the uprights of the machine. Under and connected to the said table is a
horizontal rack the ends of which are connected by means of side rods to a rocking
lever to which motion is communicated from a crank and connecting rod. By
the motion of the said rocking lever a reciprocating motion is given to the rack
and table. The reciprocating motion of the rack and table is transmitted to the
pair of rolls herein before described by the following arrangement of gearing. Under
and crossing the table is a shaft carrying a toothed wheel which gears with the teeth
of the horizontal rack. On the end of the said shaft is a toothed wheel which gears
with two pinions which drive the rolls. Thus the reciprocating motion of the table
is made to communicate motion in the proper directions to the rolls.
One two or more packets or bundles of needles (or other articles) can be scoured
or polished simultaneously in the same machine. When the machine is fitted to scour
or polish more than one bundle of needles at a time sets or groups of rolls equal
in number to the bundles to be operated upon are combined in the machine. That
is to say at the required distances apart cross shafts are arranged carrying
toothed wheels for the horizontal rack of the machine to gear with the motion given
to the toothed wheels by the reciprocating motion of the rack being transmitted
to the rolls of the several groups in the manner hereinbefore described.
Dated this Twenty third day of November 1886.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Machinery for Scouring and Polishing Needles,
Lengths of Wire and Wire Rods, Metallic Rods and Tubes, and
Rod like and Tubular Metallic Articles.
I MATTHEW JAMES RICE trading as M. J. Rice and Company of Sherlock Street,
Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Engineer and Machinist do hereby declare
the nature of my Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention consists of the construction and combination hereinafter described of
the parts of machinery for scouring and polishing needles, lengths of wire and
wire rods, metallic rods and tubes and rod like and tubular metallic articles.
By the use of my improved machinery the scouring and polishing of needles
and other metallic articles are more efficiently and economically effected than by the
use of the runners and other machines ordinarily employed for those purposes.
For convenience of description I will describe my invention as used for scouring
needles.
The machinery constituting my invention consists essentially of a horizontal
reciprocating travelling table upon which the bundle or packet of needles to be
scoured is supported, a pair of rotating rolls over the said table and crossing it
at right angles, and between and above the said rolls a friction or pressing down roll.
The bundle of needles to be scoured is placed and confined between the two side rolls
described and under the friction roll, the said friction roll resting on and pressing the
said bundle upon the reciprocating travelling table by the motion of which table
in conjunction with one or other of the two side rolls a rolling motion is given to the
said bundle and the efficient scouring of the needles thereby effected. The distance
between the pair of rotating side rolls is such that both rolls are not in contact with
the bundle of needles at the same time, one roll being in contact with the bundle
when the table is travelling in one direction and the other roll in contact with
the bundle when the table is travelling in the opposite direction. As the two rolls
are driven by means of the reciprocating travelling table through a horizontal rack
and toothed gearing in the manner hereinafter described it follows that the motion of
the said rolls is reversed as the direction of the motion of the table is reversed. The
friction roll by which the bundle of needles is pressed upon the travelling table
is carried by levers which are so arranged that the roll can be thrown back for
permitting the bundle of needles being placed between or removed from between the
pair of rotating rolls without stopping the machine.
The levers carrying the friction or pressing down roll are connected together
by a bridge piece and by means of spring pressure the friction roll may be made
to press upon the bundle of needles with any desired pressure.
One, two or more packets or bundles of needles (or other articles) can be scoured
or polished simultaneously in the same machine. When the machine is fitted

page_text: to scour or polish more than one bundle of needles at a time, sets or groups of rolls
equal in number to the bundles to be operated upon are combined in the machine.
That is to say, at the required distances apart cross shafts are arranged carrying
toothed wheels for the horizontal rack of the machine to gear with the motion given
to the toothed wheels by the reciprocating motion of the rack being transmitted
to the rolls of the several groups in the manner herein after described.
I will now describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing the manner
in which my invention is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents partly in side elevation and partly in longitudinal section;
Figure 2 in plan and Figure 3 in end elevation, machinery for scouring (or polishing)
needles and other like metallic articles constructed according to my invention;
Figure 4 represents in section one of the sets or groups of rolls a portion of
the reciprocating travelling table and rack and gearing."
.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the
.Drawing.
In the machine represented five groups or sets of rolls are combined in the
same machine but a single set of rolls or a greater or less number of sets or groups
of rolls than that represented in the Drawing may be employed.
A is the horizontal reciprocating travelling table upon which the bundles or
packets of needles to be scoured (or polished) are supported. The said table A
moves upon the anti friction rollers a, a carried by the horizontal side supports b, b
on the uprights of the machine (see Figure 3). Each set or group of rolls of the
machine consists of a pair of rotating rolls B, B situated over and crossing the table A
at right angles and a friction or pressing down roll D situated between and
above the rotating side rolls B. B. The bundle of needles marked C in Figures 1 and 4
to be scoured is placed and confined between the two rotating side rolls B, B and
under the friction or pressing down roll D in the manner represented in the Drawing.
It will be seen that the friction or pressing down roll D rests on and presses the
bundle Cupon the reciprocating table A by the motion of which table in conjunction
with one of the side rolls B a rolling motion is given to the said bundle for effecting
the scouring (or polishing) of the needles. The two rotating rolls B, B are at such
a distance apart that both of. them are not in contact with the bundle of needles
at the same time, one roll being in contact with the bundle when the reciprocating
travelling table is moving in one direction and the opposite roll in contact with
the bundle when the reciprocating travelling table is moving in the other direction
as will be understood by an examination of Figure 1.
The two rolls B, B are driven from the travelling reciprocating table A their
motion is consequently reversed as the motion of the table A is reversed.
The friction roll D of each group or set of rolls by which friction roll the bundle of
needles C is pressed upon the travelling table A is carried by the side levers E, E
connected together by the bridge piece or crossing bar 1. These levers E, E can be
thrown back into the position represented at the right hand set of rolls in Figure 1 for
permitting the bundle of needles being placed between or removed from between
the pair of rotating rolls B, B without stopping the machine. When the side levers E, E
supporting the friction roll D are turned into a horizontal position, after the bundle
has been placed between the rolls B B, the said bundle is confined between the said
friction roll and the side rolls and any desired pressure may be placed upon the
friction roll and consequently upon the bundle of needles by means of an adjustable
spring J on the bridge plate I connecting the two side levers E, E the said adjustable
spring being connected to a bar crossing the movable table A.
The reciprocating sliding motion is given to the table A, and by means of the said
table rotation communicated to the rolls B B between which the bundle of needles C
is situated and confined, by the following arrangement or combination of parts.
Under and connected to the said table A is a horizontal rack F working in guides in
the framing of the machine. One end of the horizontal rack F is connected by means
of the side rods P P, to the upper forked end of the rocking lever G to which motion
is communicated from a crank L and connecting rod K. Motion is transmitted

page_text: to the crank L from the driving shaft S of the machine through the spur gearing at R.
By the motion of the said rocking lever G a reciprocating motion is given to
the rack F and table A. The reciprocating motion of the rack and table is transmitted
to the pair of rolls B, B of each group of rolls by the following arrangement of
gearing. Under and crossing the table A at each group of rolls B, B, D is a shaft H
carrying a toothed wheel H2 which gears with the teeth of the horizontal rack F (see
Figures 3 and 4). On the end of the said shaft H is a toothed wheel H³ which
gears with two pinions H, H' which drive the rolls B, B. Thus the reciprocating
motion of the table A is made to communicate motion in the proper directions to the
said rolls B, B.
The machine is used for polishing bundles of needles and other like articles
in the manner described and represented with respect to scouring bundles of needles
and other like articles excepting that the bundles of needles and like articles to
be polished are supplied with the required polishing material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as
my invention of "Improvements in machinery for scouring and polishing needles,
lengths of wire and wire rods, metallic rods and tubes and rod like and tubular
metallic articles."
First The combination in a machine for scouring and polishing needles and other
like articles of a horizontal reciprocating travelling table on which the bundles or packets
of articles to be operated upon are supported, one or more pairs of side rotating rolls
over and crossing the table and between and above each pair of rotating rolls
a friction or pressing down roll, the bundles of articles being confined between the
side rotating rolls and the friction roll of the sets or groups of rolls, the reciprocating
motion of the travelling table in conjunction with one of the side rotating rolls of each
pair of rolls of the groups giving a rolling motion to the bundles, whether a single
bundle or packet or two or more bundles or packets be operated upon in the same
machine substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawing.
Secondly The arrangement or combination of parts herein before described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing for giving a reciprocating sliding
motion to the travelling table of the machine.
Thirdly The arrangement or combination of parts herein before described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawing for causing the reciprocating motion of the
travelling table to communicate rotary motion in the proper directions to the side
rolls of the group or groups of rolls of the machine.
Fourthly The arrangement or combination of parts herein before described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawing for supporting and regulating the pressure
of the friction or pressing down rolls of the groups or sets of rolls of the machine,
whereby the bundles of needles or articles can be placed between or removed from
between the pairs of rotating rolls without stopping the machine.
Dated this Thirteenth day of August 1887.