Improvements in Engine Packings.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 9th May, 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Engine Packings.
WILLIAM ELLIS, 113, Everton Road, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
:-
This invention relates to engine packings and has for its objects to make greater
the efficiency and durability of the packing and to enable it to better withstand
the action of high pressure steam.
These improvements consist in the incorporating or combining with the packing,
of a metallic wire which has first been, bent or creased or doubled into a V shaped
or wave like form, the wire may be of an elementary metal or an alloy of
metals, or it may be a stranded wire of elementary metals and alloys, the wires
being of suitable guage or thickness as required.
This packing may be manufactured in any usual or convenient way but so that
one or more plies or pieces of the V shaped or wave like wire is or are used in
combination with the woven, braided, plaited, felted or other material of which
the packing is constructed.
D
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WILLIAM ELLIS.
I, WILLIAM ELLIS, of 113, Everton Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, in
the County of Lancaster, Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to engine packings and has for its objects to increase
the efficiency and durability of such packings and to enable same to better with-
stand the action of high pressure steam.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused
to be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures.
Figs. 1, 2 & 3 show elevations of various forms of plies of wire for use in
the packing, and Fig. 4 a perspective view partly in section of a piece of packing
with plies of wire incorporated.
In carrying out my invention and referring to the figures generally, the im-
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page_text: provements consist, in incorporating or combining with the packing a, wire b,
bent, creased or doubled into a V shaped, wave or the like form, see Figs. 1, 2 & 3,
The said wire may be of an elementary metal or of an alloy of metal or it
may be a stranded wire, as shown in Fig. 3, of elementary metals and alloys, the
wires being of suitable thickness or guage as required.
This packing may be manufactured in any usual or convenient way and one
or more plies of the V shaped, wave or the like wire b inserted into the woven,
braided, plaited, felted or other material of which the packing is formed during its
manufacture, at suitable distances apart from each other and at an angle to
the rod around which the packing is placed, as shown in Fig. 4.
The said ply or plies of wire becoming thoroughly embeded in the packing
renders the same more durable and being springy more flexible so that it will
readily conform with any diameter of rod.
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:-
:-
1st. A ply or plies of wire bent in V, wave or the like fashion, adapted for use
in connection with engine packing, all substantially as set forth.
2nd. In engine packings, the combination with the packing material of a ply or
plies of wire bent in V, wave or the like fashion, substantially as and in the
manner and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth.
woon day of January 1899.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicant.