IMPROVEMENTS IN APPA- BATUS FOR FEEDING SHEETS OF SIZED OR UNSIZED PAPER TO A DRYING MACHINE
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Frederick Busbridge, of East Malling Mills,
in the County of Kent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPA-
BATUS FOR FEEDING SHEETS OF SIZED OR UNSIZED PAPER TO A DRYING
MACHINE."
Sealed the 31st March 1864, and dated the 30th October 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Frederick Busbridge at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
30th October 1863.
GEORGE FREDERICK BUSBRIDGE, of East Malling Mills, in the County
of Kent, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS.
IN APPARATUS FOR FEEDING SHEETS OF SIZED OR UNSIZED PAPER TO A DRYING
MACHINE," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for feeding
sheets of sized or unsized paper to a drying machine, and is applicable when
0 a drying machine is made of such a width that three or more sheets of paper
may be passed side by side through the machine. Now, in order to feed the
sheets (or it may be "spurs," that is to say, two or more sheets one on the

page_text: top of the other) of paper to the tapes or bands of a drying machine according
to my Invention, the sheets of paper are first laid on to endless tapes or
bands that conduct them to the tapes or bands of the drying machine, there
being three or more sets of bands, according as the machine is made to take
three or more sheets of paper side by side. At the point where the sheets of
paper are delivered to the tapes or bands of the drying machine, the sets of
tapes or bands all pass around one common roller, and continuous motion is
given to all the bands from this roller. At the points where the sheets of
paper are laid on to the endless bands, each set of bands passes around a
separate roller; the central sets of tapes or bands are made longer than the
outer sets, in order that the central sets of bands may protrude beyond the
outer sets, by which means the attendants who are to supply the central
bands with sheets of paper may stand at the side of the endless bands, and
will not be in the way of the attendants who are to feed the outer sets of
bands.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Frederick Busbridge in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 28th April 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
FREDERICK BUSBRIDGE, of East Malling Mills, in the County of Kent, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said George Frederick Busbridge, Her special licence that I. the said
George Frederick Busbridge, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said George Frederick Busbridge, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FEEDING SHEETS
OF SIZED OR UNSIZED PAPER TO A DRYING MACHINE," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said George Frederick Busbridge, my

page_text: executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their,.
or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and. ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said.
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Frederick Busbridge, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for feeding
sheets of sized or unsized paper to a drying machine, and is applicable when a
drying machine is made of such a width that three or more sheets of paper
may be passed side by side through the machine. Now, in order to feed the
sheets or it may be "spurs" (that is to say, two or more sheets one on the
top of the other) of paper to the tapes or bands of a drying machine
according to my Invention, the sheets of paper are first laid on to endless
tapes or bands that conduct them to the tapes or bands of the drying machine,
there being three or more sets of bands, according as the machine is made
to take three or more sheets of paper side by side. At the point where the
sheets of paper are delivered to the tapes or bands of the drying machine,, the
sets of tapes or bands all pass around one common roller, and continuous
motion is given to all the bands from this roller. At the points where the sheets
of paper are laid on to endless bands, each set of bands passes around a
separate roller; the central sets of tapes or bands are made longer than the outer
sets, in order that the central sets of bands may protrude beyond the outer
sets, by which means the attendants who are to supply the central bands with
sheets of paper may stand at the side of the endless bands, and will not be in
the way of the attendants who are to feed the other sets of bands.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more.
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shews a side elevation of apparatus combined according to my
Invention; Figure 2 shews a plan of some of the parts shewn in Figure 1.
In the arrangement shewn provision is made for feeding sheets of
paper at
six places, and a machinist by the aid of these Drawings and the description
here given will readily make similar arrangements where the drying machinery

page_text: requires provision for feeding at a less or a greater number of places. In
Figure 1 parts of a drying machine are shewn in outline, consisting of
eight drying cylinders with endless tapes; but other arrangements of drying
machinery may have my Invention applied thereto, so long as the drying
machinery is suitably arranged to admit of the separate sheets of paper which
are to be dried being carried by endless tapes or bands through the drying
process. The six feeding places are marked respectively No. 1, No. 2, No. 3,
No. 4, No. 5, and No. 6, and each has a set of endless tapes or bands. At
that end of the feeding apparatus which comes next the drying machinery is
a roller A, over and partly around which all the endless tapes of all the
feeding places pass. The axis of the roller A is geared to the axle of the next
roller B, which receives motion from a steam engine or other power, so that
C is another roller, at
the surface speed of the rollers A and B is the same.
the two ends of which the two feeding places No. 1 and No. 2 are situated.
The rollers A and C carry the endless tapes m, m, of the two feeding places
No. 1 and No. 2, and the rollers B and C carry an endless band of felt of a
width suitable for receiving and travelling with all the endless tapes of all the
feeding places; or, if desired, the tapes of each feeding place may have its
separate but narrower band of felt. The rollers A, E, carry all the endless
tapes n, n, of the two feeding places No. 3 and No. 4, and the rollers D, E,
carry an endless band of felt wide enough for the sets of endless tapes of the
feeding places No. 3 and No. 4, as well as those of the feeding places No. 5
and No. 6; but separate bands of felt may be used for each set of endless
tapes. The rollers F, G, carry the endless bands of felt of the two feeding
places No. 5 and No. 6, and the rollers A, G, carry the endless tapes o, o, of
those feeding places; or two narrower endless bands of felt may be used of a
width suitable for the separate sets of endless tapes.
:
I would state that although I prefer to use the endless bands of felt,
together with the endless tapes, as better support is thereby given to the
sheets of paper, but this is not essential, and the endless tapes of each set may
be more numerous. The endless tapes are adjusted to the proper degree of
tightness by the adjusting rollers p, p, and the endless bands of felt are
adjusted to the proper degree of tightness by the adjusting rollers 9, 9. The
endless tapes of the drying machinery are received on to the roller A inter-
mediate of the sets of feeding tapes m, n, o, so as to take the sheets of paper
from those sets of tapes, and conduct the sheets of paper through the drying
process, as is indicated by the arrows.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention and the manner of

page_text: performing the same, I claim the mode herein described of combining endless
tapes or bands so as to convey separate sheets of paper from several separate
feeding places to a drying machine.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Frederick Busbridge, have here.
unto set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
GEO. F. BUSBRIDGE. (L.S.)