IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR BRUSHING AND CLEANING OR TREATING LEATHER
Year: 1885

page_text: I ALFRED GEORGE BROOKES of the firm of Wm Brookes and Son of 55 & 50
Chancery Lane in the county of Middlesex Patent Agent do hereby declare the
nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR BRUSHING
AND CLEANING OR TREATING LEATHER and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention has for its object to provide a machine for brushing and cleaning
leather on both sides.
Fig 1, is a partial left band end view of a machine embodying my invention.
Fig. 2. a partial vertical section thereof, and
Fig. 3. a front elevation.
The frame work A has suitable boxes to receive the shaft B of the bed roller or
hide support B₁, and the said roller is driven from the belt pulley C and its
attached pinion C₁ on a stud C at the frame side, the said pinion engaging a
toothed gear B³ fast on the shaft B.
The upper arms A¹ of the frame A have proper boxes to receive the shaft a of
the main brush roller D, the said shaft having a belt pulley a¹ which receives and
is driven by a suitable belt a in turn driven at rapid speed from a pulley on any
usual counter-shaft.
The frame E at the rear side of the machine, and pivoted at 2, and made
adjustable by the screw rod 6 and nuts 7, 7, has suitable boxes to receive the
shaft 4 of the auxiliary brush roller b¹ which is rotated by means of a belt driven
from any usual counter-shaft and extended over the pulley 5 on the shaft 4.
The cylinder brushes D and 61 are driven rapidly in opposite directions and
brush both sides of the hide or leather h passed between thein, see Fig. 3.
To hold the hide or leather back under the proper degree of tension, or so as not
to travel faster than the bed roller the surface speed of which is very much slower
than that of the roller brushes, I have provided the detaining roller e having a
covering e of india rubber, the shaft 8 of the said roller being mounted in suitable
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page_text: boxes on a frame e pivoted at 10, see dotted lines Fig. 1, the said frame-being
normally held down by the spring f so as to keep the roller e down against the
hide or leather passing between it and the bed roller B¹.
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
1. In a machine for treating hides or leather, the rotating bed-roller B¹, and the
rotating brush D, combined with the elastic surfaced roller e to act against the hide
or leather on the roller B¹, in advance of the brush D, substantially as described.
2. The rotating bed-roller B¹ and the rotating brush D, combined with the
rotating auxiliary brush b¹, the brush D acting upon one and the brush b¹ upon
the other side of the hide or leather, substantially as described.
3. In a machine for brushing leather, the two rotating brushes arranged to act
upon by the sides of the hide simultaneously, a hide support and a detaining or
friction roller to act upon the hide on its way to and between the brushes,
stubstantially as described.
Dated this 21st day of April 1885.
W
BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London,
Agents for the said Alfred George Brookes.