Improvements in Bearings or Supports for Carrying Metal Plates, and for like purposes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 21st Jan., 1895--Accepted, 9th Mar., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bearings or Supports for Carrying Metal Plates,
and for like purposes.
I, CORNELIUS DURHAM GARBUTT, Engineer, of 19, Brunswick Street,
Garston, near Liverpool in the County of Lancashire, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to the manner in which I construct and arrange
bearers and bearings for supporting plates that are to be operated upon by a
hammer or forging press. Also for bearers to be employed in supporting timbers
or logs to be introduced into a saw frame or for bearers cr supporting members
for carrying plates or sheets, which are to be riveted, sheared or otherwise
operated upon by a machine or appliance requiring that the plate thus operated
upon, shall be held or kept in a supported position during the period of
operation.
The object of my invention is to enable such plates, timbers, logs and girders or
the like, to be readily manipulated or moved from one position to another without
requiring that the plate or other article shall be lifted bodily when so moving it.
I am thus enabled to handle plates or other heavy bodies with a minimum of
manual exertion.
In carrying my invention into effect, when constructing my bearer in one
manner for use as a portable support for holding a plate in position such as may be
required when the plate is to be operated upon in a shearing machine, I make my
bearers or apparatus in the form of a small standard or pillar, having an adjustable
head or upper block, which head or block I make to carry my improved frictionless
bearer. I make the upper block or head adjustable in the standard by means of a
screw and nut, by a rack and pinion, or by means of a pin and boles drilled or
formed in the stem of the block, or by a set pin or cotter for securing the stem in
any desired position, or by any other well-known arrangement for giving an
adjustable movement to a pillar or spindle. My headstock or block I make with
roller bearings, preferably in the form of wheels having their peripheries curved or
plane to carry a ball or spherical roller, the roller resting upon the peripheries of
the wheels, the wheels themselves carried or mounted in ordinary open or other
bearings within the frame of the head. Over all these wheels and the roller,
I place a cover or cap plate, which I connect rigidly to the head stock, leaving only
a sufficient opening at the centre to permit of the ball protruding somewhat above
the upper surface of the cover-plate. The projecting portion of the ball I employ
as my bearer for carrying the object which is to be manipulated, and by this
arrangement of the ball and its bearings, the plate is free to be moved in any
direction while still being properly supported by the projecting surface of
the ball.
I modify the form of my carrier for receiving the stem of the head stock-bearer
to suit any particular requirement, sometimes making it with a base suitable for
bolting down to any desired bedplate or framing, where the plate girder or
object is to be always introduced at the same position, and I mount, when so
desired, a spring within the socket portion of the standaid, for carrying the sten
of my bearer block so that a yielding or elastic support may be given to the plate
or object which is carried. The spring I make of any required strength and
tension to resist the ordinary weight of the plate or object which is to be carried,
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page_text: but yet not to be capable of causing a deformation of the surface of the plate when
the hammer or other instrument is brought to strike or bear upon the surface of
the plate.
I modify the method of mounting my spherical bearer to suit the particular
position or the particular condition under which it is to be employed, sometimes
making it without a stem, as a bracket or portion of any other machine or appliance
where heavy objects and articles have to be carried. Similarly I modify the
method of mounting my rollers or carriers within the bearings of the head stock,
employing three wheels or four, as may be required to suit any particular piece of
work or plate that is to be supported.
I do not limit the application of my invention to any particular form or arrange-
ment of carrier, but I employ the same essential features of construction as
herein before described when.mounting my-spherical support and the friction wheels
for carrying the spherical roller when my improved apparatus is required to he
arranged for any special machine, platform or table for supporting any metal plate,
girder or other heavy body.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Bearings or Supports for Carrying Metal Plates,
and for like purposes.
I, CORNELIUS DURHAM GARBUTT, Engineer, of 19 Brunswick Street, Garston,
near Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, 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 :-
This invention has reference to the manner in which I construct and arrange
bearers and; bearings to permit of the ready movement of heavy bodies, and for
supporting plates that are to be operated upon by a hammer or. forging press.
Also for bearers to be employed in supporting timbers or logs to be introduced
into. a saw frame, or for, bearers or supporting members for. carrying plates or
sheets, which.are to be riveted, sheared or otherwise operated upon by a machine
or appliance requiring that the plate thus operated upon, shall be held or kept in a
supported position during the period of operation..
The object of my invention is to enable such heavy bodies, plates, timbers, logs
and girders, or the like, to be readily manipulated or moved from one position to
another without requiring that the plate or other article shall be lifted bodily when
so moving it. I am thus, enabled to handle plates or other heavy bodies with a
minimum of manual exertion.
In the three accompanying sheets of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter
referred to-
Figures 1, 2 and 3 (Sheet 1) represent respectively in elevation, sectional
elevation, and plan, the application of my invention in the construction of a portable
bearer for supporting metallic plates and other heavy bodies. In Figure 3 the
cover or cap plate is in part removed in order to more clearly illustrate the roller
bearings.
On Sheet 2, Figure 4 is a front elevation and Figure 5 a sectional elevation
illustrating another form of my improved bearer or support as arranged for
supporting plates and forgings under a steam hammer and for other purposes.
Figures 6, 7 and 8 on Sheet 3 represent in front. elevation, sectional elevation,

page_text: and sectional plan respectively a castor or like roller bracket for attachment to
heavy furniture and other articles.
The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same parts.
In carrying my invention into effect, when constructing my bearer in one manner
for use as a portable support for holding a plate in position such as may be required
when the plate is to be operated upon in a shearing machine, I make my bearers or
apparatus in the form of a standard or pillar such as A. Figures 1 and 2, having an
adjustable head or upper block B, which head or block I make to carry my
improved frictionless bearer C. I make the upper block or head adjustable in the
standard preferably by the screw D and nut E, although I adopt any other well
known arrangement for giving an adjustable movement to a pillar or spindle. My
head stock or block B I make with roller bearings, preferably in the form of
wheels such as F having their peripheries curved or plain to carry a ball or
spherical roller or bearer C, the roller resting upon the peripheries of the wheels,
and the wheels themselves carried or mounted in ordinary open or other bearings
within the frame of the head. Over all these wheels and the roller, I place a
cover or cap plate G, which I connect rigidly to the head stock, leaving only a
sufficient opening at the centre to permit of the ball C, protruding somewhat above
the upper surface of the cover plate. The projecting portion of the ball I employ
as my bearer for carrying the object which is to be manipulated, and by this
arrangement of the ball and its bearings, the plate is free to be moved in any
direction while still being properly supported by the projecting surface of
the ball.
I modify the form of my carrier for receiving the stem of the head stock bearer
to suit any particular requirement; sometimes making it with a base suitable for
bolting down to any desired bed plate or framing, where the plate girder or object
is to be always introduced at the same position, and I mount, when so desired, a
spring within the socket portion of the standard A as illustrated at Figures 4 & 5,
the stem of my bearer block so that a yielding or elastic support may be given to
the plate or object which is carried. The spring H Figure 5 I make of any required
strength and tension to resist the ordinary weight of the plate or object which is
to be carried, but yet not to be capable of causing a deformation of the surface of
the plate when the hammer or other instrument is brought to strike or bear upon
the surface of the plate. I adjust the spring preferably by means of a nut such as J
arranged preferably as illustrated at Figure 5.
I modify the method of mounting my spherical bearer to suit the particular
position or the particular condition under which it is to be employed, sometimes
making it without a stem, as a bracket or portion of any other machine or appliance
where heavy objects and articles have to be carried. Figures 6, 7 and 8 represent
one such application of my invention in the construction of a castor for mounting
heavy furniture and other articles. Similarly I modify the method of mounting my
rollers or carriers within the bearings of the headstock, employing three wheels or
four as may be required to suit any particular piece of work or plate that is to be
supported.
I do not limit the application of any invention to any particular form or arrange-
ment of carrier, but I employ the same essential features of construction as herein-
before described when my improved apparatus is required to be arranged for any
special machine, platform, or table for supporting any metal plate, girder, or other
heavy body.
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. The method of supporting heavy bodies by means of a ball or balls or spherical
rollers, in combination with wheels or roller bearings mounted upon adjustable or
other standards, pillars, or brackets, substantially as and for the purposes herein
described.

page_text: 2. In bearings or supports for heavy bodies the use of a ball or spherical roller
mounted upon the peripheries of bearing wheels or rollers sustantially as and
for the purposes hereinbefore described and as illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
3. The construction of a portable or fixed bearer for metallic plates and other
heavy bodies, having a ball or spherical roller mounted upon wheels or rollers
arranged within an adjustable head or block substantially as hereinbefore described
and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
4. The construction of a bearer for forgings and other heavy bodies having a ball
or spherical roller mounted upon wheels or rollers arranged within an adjustable
head or block having a spring supported stem or column substantially as hereinbefore
described and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
5. The construction of a castor or bracket having a ball or spherical roller in
combination with wheels or roller bearings substantially as hereinbefore described
and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 19th day of January 1895
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.