FOR MACHINERY AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING CERTAIN DESCRIPTIONS OF DRESS FASTENINGS, WHICH MACHINERY AND APPARATUS, OR PARTS OF WHICH MACHINERY AND APPA- RATUS, ARE APPLICABLE TO OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES
Year: 1846

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
ILES, of Bordesley, in the Borough of Birmingham, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Eleventh day of
August (One thousand eight hundred and forty-six), in the tenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her boirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Charles Iles, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, Her especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Charles Iles, my
ciors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Iles, my
exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention "FOR MACHINERY
AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING CERTAIN DESCRIPTIONS OF DRESS FASTENINGS,
WHICH MACHINERY AND APPARATUS, OR PARTS OF WHICH MACHINERY AND APPA-
RATUS, ARE APPLICABLE TO OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES; " in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said Charles Isles, shall cause a par-
ticular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner

page_text: the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand
and seal, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being
thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Charles Iles, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be carried into effect, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following description thereof, reference being had
to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say :-
My Invention consists of improvements in combining parts to form presses
to work dies for cutting out and shaping and putting together parts of buttons
and other dress fasteners, and for cutting out and shaping and putting together
other articles where dies are used; and also for pressing and stamping articles.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure shows a front view; Figure 2 is a right-hand end view; Figure 3
is a front view, partly in section; Figure 4 is a transverse section; and
Figure 5 is a plan in section of machinery and apparatus constructed
according to my Invention. The other views show some of the parts
separately. a, a, is the framing; b is the main or cam shaft, upon which are
placed the cams by which motion is given to the dies or forcers c and d, as I
will now proceed to describe, although the description of dies employed may
be varied according to the description of work for which the machinery is
intended to be employed. e is the bed plate, upon which is fixed the lower
die f, formed suitable to receive the upper dies or forcers c, d. The dies
shown are suitable for cutting out discs of metal, which are immediately forced
into the dished form, as is shown separately at Figures 6 and 7. The die c is
that by which (in connection with the die f) the disc Figure 6 is produced,
and the disc so cut is forced into the upper sinkng f of the lower die f; the
.iuner die d then comes down in the working of the press, and forces the disc
Figure 6 through the cavity f in the lower die f, whereby (the die d not
being a cutting dic, and not fitting closely the cavity f³) the edge of the disc
Figure 6 will be turned up or raised all round, as shown at Figure 7, and the
process of what is called drawing through will be thus performed. The die c
is carried by the sliding plate 9, which is guided by the main faming a, a,
and has two friction rollers g', 9', which are acted upon by the inclined
surfaces h', h¹..on the plate h, and the plate h has a sliding motion given to it

page_text: by means of the sliding plate i, there being inclined surfaces he and i', to the
plates and i, between which surfaces there is a friction roller j, which is
guided endwise by the parts of the framing, and it is prevented from falling
downwards out of its place by means of the projection to the plate .
5 The sliding plate i is guided in the framing a, (and there is a suitable roller i
to lessen the friction of the parts), and it is caused to rise by means of the
cam k on the shaft b, so as to operate upon the sliding plate and the die c
to force the die c into the die f, the spring g being used to raise the dic c
when the enlargement on the cam & has passed from under the plate i, and to
bring the parts into a position to be operated upon again by the revolution of
the shaft b. The inner die d is acted upon similarly to the die c, there being
a cam on the shaft 6 which acts upon the truck at the lower end of the
sliding rod m, which is guided in the left-hand side framing of the machine,
and has an inclined surface m² at its upper end, which by means of the
roller n is in connection with a sliding plate o, which with the plate h is guided
in the upper part of the framing a, there being friction rollers applied as
shewn. This plate o has inclined surfaces o¹, o', which act upon rollers p' in
the plate p, which is guided in the framing as shewn, and has affixed to its
lower end the die d, which slides within the die c, the die c being formed
hollow for that purpose; and there is another spring på attached to the sliding
plate p, by which the die is raised and the parts are brought into a position
when acted upon by the next coming round of the cam 1. In working this
apparatus I prefer (especially when more than one operation has to be per-
formed on the portion of metal or other material as it passes into between the
dies) that the metal or other material be fed into the machine, for which
purpose I employ apparatus which I will now proceed to describe:-1, r, and
8, s, are two pairs of feeding rollers, which are milled on their peripheries, so
that when the metal or other material to be operated upon is passed between
them it may, as the rollers revolve, be drawn forwards to between the dies; tho
upper rollers r, r, turn loosely upon axes carried by the bar r', which is
guided by the rods r,, and is pressed on by the springs 3, 3, secured
by the nuts r, r, by which the degree of holding on the metal or other
material passing through between the rollers r, r, s, 3, may be regulated.
The lower rollers s, s, are fixed on their axes s¹, s2, which are carried by
parts of the framing, as is shown, and they have toothed wheels s³, s³,
which are geared together by an intermediate wheel t, as shown, so that the
wheels s,s, may be caused to travel in the same direction, and the rollers s, s,
are caused to revolve so as to feed the metal or other material to be operated
upon between the dies at intervals by means of the cam u on the shaft b, such

page_text: cam being so placed as to come into operation to move the parts only when
both dies c and d are out of the way. The cam u acts upon a truck upon the
under side of the rod v, which is guided by the framing, as shown; and
at the upper end it has a cross piece v', upon which rests a truck or roller at
the end of the link x, to which is secured the driver w. The link a turns
loosely on the axis, so that the driver w may be constantly in the same
relative position in contact with the ratchet wheel s', affixed on the axis s³.
Thus when the cam u in its revolution acts upon the rod v, the ratchet wheel
s, and consequently the feed rollers r, s, will have motion given to them to
draw the metal or other material into between the dies; and in order to
regulate the distance which the ratchet wheel shall travel each time it is
operated upon to the quantity of metal or other material required to be cut by
the dies, I have formed the cam u with a broad conical surface, and capable
of being slided on a feather m³ on the shaft b, and set at any required position
by means of a set screw m². It will be seen, by reference to the Drawings,
that I employ but one drum or pulley on the main or driving shaft b (such
drum or pulley to be driven by a band from a steam engine or other suitable
power), and it is the mode of connecting and disconnecting this drum so as to
cause it to drive the shaft b which constitutes a novel feature of my Invention.
The main shaft is formed hollow, and through it passes the shaft y, which is
capable of being slided therein by means of the lever y¹; and there is a pin y³
screwed into the shaft y; this pin passes through a slot in the shaft b, and
enters a groove formed around the internal surface of the bos of the driving
drums, so that the drum may be slided to and fro on the shaft 6 by means
of the shaft y, while at the same time it travels round independently thereof;
and the drum is connected to the shaft 6 so as to cause it to travel with it by
the arm, on the bos of the drum z being brought against a stud A from the
fly wheel B'affixed to the main shaft. By this mode of giving motion to the
driving shaft I am enabled to do with much less room than where two drums
are employed, and the stopping and starting of such machinery will be more
quickly accomplished. I would state, that although I have shewn the machine
or press to be arranged for giving motion to compound punching dies' c and d,
it will be evident that where a single punching die is used that the parts
which work the second die will not be required.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I would have it understood that I do not
claim the parts separately, nor do I confine myself to the details shown, so
long as the peculiar character of my Invention be retained. But what I claim
is, the mode of constructing presses for working dies by combining the sliding

page_text: plates h and o acting by inclined surfaces, with moving or punching dies, as
herein described, and also giving motion to such sliding plates h, o, by sliding
bars i and m, as herein described. And I also claim the mode of putting the
press into and out of action, as herein described.