IMPROVEMENTS IN THE BEARINGS OF CERTAIN WHEELS AND PULLEYS PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION APPLICABLE TO VARIOUS KINDS OF MACHINERY
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Winter, of Leeds, in the County of York,
Sewing Machine Maker and General Machinist, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE BEARINGS OF CERTAIN WHEELS AND PULLEYS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Winter at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
14th December 1865.
I, WILLIAM WINTER, of Leeds, in the County of York, Sewing Machine
Maker and General Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE BEARINGS OF CERTAIN WHEELS AND
PULLEYS APPLICABLE TO VARIOUS KINDS OF MACHINERY," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the application of one or two conical bushes
betwixt the fixed stud and the boss of the wheel or pulley of "carrier"
"intermediate" gear wheels, or of pulleys employed in various kinds of
machinery, which bushes are capable of being adjusted by set screw, screw
nut, cotter, or pin, or other suitable means. These bushes may be con-
structed of cast steel, brass, malleable iron, or other suitable material. By
means of this Invention "carrier wheels or pulleys can be set in proper
position, and readily adjusted to run steadily on their studs or bearings, 'and

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Winter in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
14th June 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
WINTER, of Leeds, in the County of York, Sewing Machine Maker and
General Machinist, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Winter, Her special licence that I, the said William Winter,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or, such others as I, the said
William Winter, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and. at all times there-
after 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 "IMPROVE-
-MENTS IN THE BEARINGS OF CERTAIN WHEELS AND PULLEYS APPLICABLE TO VARIOUS
KINDS OF MACHINERY," upon. the condition. (amongst others) that I, the
said William Winter, my 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 William Winter, 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 and accompanying Sheet of Drawings (that is to say): -
This Invention consists in the application of one or two conical bushes
betwixt the fixed stud and the boss of the wheel or pulley of carrier or
intermediate gear wheels, or of pulleys employed in various kinds of
machinery, which bushes are capable of being adjusted by set screw, screw
nut, cotter, or pin, or other suitable means. These bushes may be con-
structed of cast steel, brass, malleable iron, or other suitable material. By

page_text: means of this invention carrier wheels or pulleys can be set in proper
position and readily adjusted to run steadily on their studs or bearings, and
thereby avoid the undue wear and tear and liability to breakage of the teeth,
as in the case of gear wheels by their present loose fitting.
means
this invention carrier wheels or pulleys can be set in proper
position and readily adjusted to run steadily on their studs or bearings, and
thereby avoid the undue wear and tear and liability to breakage of the teeth,
as in the case of gear wheels by their present loose fitting.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
This Invention will be readily understood by reference to the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, wherein Fig. 1 is a side view of an ordinary stud with my
improvements or conical bushes applied thereto, and Fig. 2 is an end view
of the same.
A is the stud, which is fixed in a plate B, or a portion of the framing of a
machine by a screw nut C in the usual manner; D and E are two conical
bushes fitting the stud, and capable of being set or adjusted and fixed
thereon by set screws F and G. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the said
stud and bushes and the boss part of a pulley or wheel H, which is bored
to the same angular form as the bushes, and placed in suitable position.
thereon. In the stud I also form a small chamber I (by first boring a hole
and then plugging the end up) to contain oil for lubrication, which chamber
has an inlet at J and an outlet at K. Figs. 4 and 5 shew one of the conical
bushes in side and end views. It will be observed that by this Invention
when a pulley or wheel has become worn so as to fit too loosely on the stud,
one of the bushes E can easily be unloosed and pressed further into the boss,
and refixed by the set screw, and thereby again obtain a steady motion of
such pulley or wheel, which could not be done on a parallel stud without
the bushes.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Winter, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of June, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-six.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named William Winter, in
the presence of
ARTHUR B. CROSSLY,
Clerk to Wm. Tasker,
WILLIAM WINTER. (LS.)
Patent Agent, Halifax.