Improvements relating to Presser Flyers.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 15th July, 1 92
Complete Specification Left, 8th Apr., 1893-Accepted. 13th May, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Presser Flyers.
I, WILLIAM SHORROCKS of 18 Kildare Street, Farnworth near Bolton in the
County of Lancaster, Flyer Maker, do hereby declare the nature of my said
invention to be as follows:-
This invention refers to improvements relating to presser flyers for machinery
known as slubbing, intermediate, roving, and other similar machines employed in
the process of preparing cotton and other fibrous materials and consists in providing
ready and efficient means for fixing and removing pressers instantaneously, by which
soldering, brazing, and springs will be dispensed with. It is well known that the
old or present method of mounting pressers on flyers is by means of bearings,
lumps, or springs, which are soldered, brazed, or otherwise secured to the flyer legs.
This invention is designed to dispense with this system, which is accomplished by
providing the lower end of the hollow flyer leg with an opening or slot to receive
the end of a screw mounted in the presser arm or leg. The opening or slot is
made sufficiently long to allow of the free action of the presser, and to determine
the movement of the same radially. The screw is embedded in the presser arm or
leg to prevent the head of same coming in contact with the sliver. The upper end
of the presser leg is provided with a bearing which slides and swivels on the flyer
leg. When it is desired to remove a presser from a flyer it is effected by removing
the screw and vice-versa to fix the same.
Dated the 14th July 1892
EDMUND CHADWICK,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Presser Flyers.
I, WILLIAM SHORROCKS of 18 Kildare Street, Farnworth near Bolton in the
County of Lancaster, Flyer Maker, do hereby declare the nature of my said
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 refers to improvements relating to presser flyers for machinery
known as slubbing, intermediate, roving, and other similar nachines employed in
the process of preparing cotton and other fibrous materials and consists in providing
ready and efficient means for fixing and removing pressers instantaneously, by
which soldering, brazing, and springs will be dispensed with. It is well known that
the old or present method of mounting pressers on flyers is by means of bearings,
lumps, or springs, which are soldered, brazed, or otherwise secured to the flyer legs.
This invention is designed to dispense with this system, which is accomplished by
providing the lower end of the hollow flyer leg with an opening or slot to receive
the end of a screw mounted in the presser arm or leg. The opening or slot is made
sufficiently long to allow of the free action of the presser, and to determine the
movement of the same radially. The screw is embedded in the presser arm or leg
to prevent the head of same coming in contact with the sliver. The upper end of
the presser leg is provided with a bearing which slides and swivels on the flyer leg.
When it is desired to remove a presser from a flyer it is effected by removing the
screw and vice-versa to fix the same.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a presser flyer with presser attached on my improved
principle. Fig. 2 is a side view of same.
Fig. 3 is an enlarged part sectional elevation of the lower end of hollow leg
of a presser flyer showing my improved method of securing presser arm or leg
thereto.
Fig. 4 is an enlarged outside elevation of lower end of hollow leg of a presser
flyer showing opening or slot, and Fig. 5 is a sectional plan through line A B in
Fig. 3.
C is the presser flyer provided with the hollow leg D, on which the presser E is
mounted. In the lower end of the hollow leg D is formed the opening or slot G
to receive the end of the screw H mounted in the presser arm or leg L. The
opening or slot G is of sufficient length to allow of the free action of the presser E,
and to determine the movement of the same radially. The screw H is embedded
in the presser arm or leg L to prevent the head of same coming in contact with the
"sliver." The outer end of the screw H is provided with the slit or slot N, by
which it may be 'placed or displaced with a screw driver or its equivalent. The
upper end of the presser arm or leg L is provided with the bearing P which slides
and swivels on the hollow leg D. When it is desired to remove the presser E and
its carrying arm or leg L from the hollow leg D it is effected by simply removing
the end of the screw H clear of the opening or slot N, when the said presser and
its arm or leg can be slid instantaneously off the flyer leg; the reverse action being
necessary to fix the presser after being placed in position, thereby dispensing with
soldering, brazing, and springs as are at present employed.
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.:-
In combination with a presser flyer the use of the opening or slot G in the hollow
leg D and the screw H mounted in the presser arm or leg L, for the purpose
specified.
Dated the 7th April 1893.
EDMUND CHADWICK, F.I.C.P.A.,
Agent.