An Improved Machine for Making Pipes or Tubes of Paper and the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd June, 1590
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Mar., 1891-Accepted, 18th Apr., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Machine for Making Pipes or Tubes of Paper and
the like.
I, EDWARD ALFRED KENT, Fancy Box Manufacturer, Clarence Works,
Clarence Street, Clapham, London, S. W., do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
A machine for rolling pipes or tubes of any diameter from paper, wood pulp,
strawboard (or other materials) as used in the following trades:Fancy, round &
pill box makers, firework and cartridge makers etc. etc. by means of a roller (called
herein the centre roller) which may be metal, wood or other material revolving by
means of steam or other motive power. The diameter of this centre roller which
is changeable determines the size of the pipe or tube required.
Upon and against which centre roller I have working by means of the friction
of the said centre roller, guiding rollers which are adjustable to the various sized
centre rollers used. These guiding rollers may also be metal, wood or other
material.
The guiding rollers are connected together so as to easily slide back by means of
a treadle or other action so as to leave clear the centre roller for the purpose of
removing the pipe or tube after rolling.
The paper (or other material used) being pasted before being rolled round the
centre roller.
The pipes or tubes after being rolled are placed in racks to dry as usual.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Machine for Making Pipes or Tubes of Paper and
the like.
I, EDWARD ALFRED KENT, Fancy Box Manufacturer, Clarence Works,
Clarence Street, Clapham, London, S.W., 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 :—
A machine for rolling pipes or tubes from paper, wood pulp strawboard or other
materials as used in the following trades:-Fancy, round & pill box makers,
firework and cartridge makers etc., by means of a roller (called herein the centre
roller D) which may be metal, wood or other material revolving by means of steam
or other motive power.
The diameter of this centre roller D, which is changeable determines the size of
the pipe or tube required.
On a sliding bed F. I have 3 rollers (metal) marked A. B & C on which said
rollers I have stretched a horsehair band E.
The metal roller A is moveable (backwards & forwards) and the rollers B & C
upwards and downwards so that the horse-hair band may be adjusted to the size of
the centre roller D.
The sliding bed F is worked on two V shaped grooves, being brought up to the
revolving centre roller D by means of a treadle G attached to the said bed F.
The sliding bed F as described above being brought into contact with the
revolving roller D causes the rollers B & C to give and to allow the horse-hair

page_text: band E to adjust itself to the centre roller D thus forming by friction a revolving
cover to a part or section of the said centre roller D.
At the bottom contact of the centre roller D with the horse hair band, the paper
or other material used being already pasted (or glued) by hand, is fed into the
machine which causes the paper to revolve round the centre roller D, thus making
a complete pipe or tube.
The treadle G being now released allows the sliding bed F. to recede (by means
of a spring) so as to allow of the pipe or tube being withdrawn from the centre
roller D.
The pipes (or tubes) thus made are placed in racks as usual to dry.
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:-
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1. The invention of a machine working by means of steam or other motive
power, for the purpose of making pipes or tubes of paper, wood pulp, strawboard
or other materials which have hitherto only been made by hand.
2. The use of a band made of horse hair (or other material) arranged and
worked as described above without which the pipes or tubes could not be made by
machinery of this description.
Dated this 2nd day of March 1891.
EDWD. ALF. KENT.