Improvements in Presses for Baling or Compressing Cotton and other Fibrous Materials and Substances.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 31st July, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 7th Feb., 18 1-Accepted, 7th Mar., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Presses for Baling or Compressing Cotton and
other Fibrous Materials and Substances.
T, JOHN HILDRED CARLISLE, of the firm of Nasmyth Wilson and Company,
Limited, of Patricroft, in the County of Lancaster, Engineer, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows
My invention relates to improvements in presses for baling or compressing cotton
and other fibrous materials and substances and the object of my improvements is to
economise time and labour and greatly increase the output of the press.
In constructing a hydraulic press according to my invention I employ any suitable
arrangement of rams and cylinders for applying pressure to the bale. The cotton
or other substance hereinafter referred to as cotton is placed by hand or otherwise
into a series of say four or other number supplementary filling boxes which are
preferably connected together and mounted on a movable frame which can be
arranged to run on rails upon a raised iron platform or other suitable support the
frame with the boxes being traversed by an arrangement of rams and hydraulic
cylinders or other convenient means.
After the boxes have been filled with cotton the first box is brought over an
opening in the raised platform and its contents discharged into the mouth of one of
the revolving boxes of the press which is at that time brought below this opening:
then the frame is moved and the second filling box is brought over the opening in
the raised platform and its contents pressed down into the revolving box by means
of a treader or follower attached to the ram of a hydraulic cylinder. The treader
is then withdrawn the cotton in the revolving box being held down by a sliding
plate cams or equivalent means and the third box brought into position and its
contents forced down into the revolving box by the treader and so with the
fourth box.
When the revolving box has been filled in this manner and the cotton secured
therein by the sliding plate or equivalent it is turned round to bring it and its
contents into position ready to be compressed by the ram or rams of the press
while simultaneously the other revolving box is moved round under the opening in
the raised platform, so that while the contents of the first box are being compressed
into a bale and lashed the supplementary boxes can be refilled and their contents
subsequently discharged into the second revolving box as before described.
I prefer to give the finishing pressure to the bales in the press but if desired the
bales could be removed and finished in another press.
1: h
11000
H. B. BARLOW,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Presses for Baling or Compressing Cotton and
other Fibrous Materials and Substances.
I, JOHN HILDRED CARLISLE, of the firm of Nasmyth Wilson and Company,
Limited, of Patricroft, in the County of Lancaster, Engineer, 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in presses for baling or compressing cotton
and other fibrous materials and substances and the object of my improvements is to
economise time and labour and greatly increase the output of the press.

page_text: In constructing a hydraulic press according to my invention employ any
suitable arrangement of rams and cylinders for applying pressure to the bale. The
cotton or other substance. hereinafter referred to as cotton is placed by hand or
otherwise into a series of say four or other number supplementary filling boxes
which are preferably connected together and mounted on a movable frame which
can be arranged to run on rails or revolve upon a raised iron platform or other
suitable support the frame with the boxes being traversed by an arrangement of
rams and hydraulic cylinders or other convenient means.
After the boxes have been filled with cotton the first box is brought over an
opening in the raised platform and its contents discharged into the mouth of one of
the revolving boxes of the press which is at that time brought below this opening;
then the frame is moved and the second filling box is brought over the opening in
the raised platform and its contents pressed down into the revolving box by means
of a treader or follower attached to the rain of a hydraulic cylinder. The treader
is then withdrawn the cotton in the revolving box being held down by a sliding
plate cams or equivalent means and the third box brought into position and its
contents forced down into the revolving box by the treader and so with the
fourth box.
When the revolving box has been filled in this manner and the cotton secured
therein by the sliding plate or equivalent it is turned round to bring it and its con-
tents into position ready to be compressed by the ram or rams of the press while
simultaneously the other revolving box is moved round under the opening in the
raised platform so that whilst the contents of the first box are being compressed
into a bale and lashed the supplementary boxes can be refilled and their contents
subsequently discharged into the second revolving box as before described.
I prefer to give the finishing pressure to the bales in the press but if desired the
bales could be removed and finished in another press.
And in order that my invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect I will describe the accompanying three sheets of drawings reference being
had to the figures and letters marked thereon.
Fig. 1 represents a front elevation Fig. 2 an end elevation and Fig. 3 a plan of a
cotton press to which my invention is applied.
aaaa³ are the four bottomless supplementary filling boxes connected together
and mounted on wheels which run on rails on the platform e; d and e are
hydraulic cylinders which by rams d and e and chains and traverse the
boxes a a a² a³; one end of the chain d² is secured at or near the closed end of the
cylinder d and the chain passes alternately over the pulleys mounted at the end
of the cylinder d and over the pulleys & mounted at the end of the ram d' then over
the guide pulleys to the box a where it is secured; the chain is similarly
secured to the box a and at or near the end of the closed end of the cylinder e and
passes over the pulleyse mounted near the end of the cylinder e and the pulleys e
mounted at the end of the ram e and over the guide pulleys ees; is the treader
or follower attached to a ram which works in the cylinder f; gg are the revolving
boxes of the press mounted on the pillar hare rams which work in
cylinders and move the revolving boxes in the usual manner.
The mode of operation is as follows:-
The supplementary boxes a a¹ a² a³ are filled with cotton by hand or otherwise
when over the platform c which forms a bottom for them water is admitted to the
cylinder e the ram e¹ moves outward and as the distance between the pulleys e³
and is increased one end of the chain e² being secured near the pulleys the
other end of the chain draws the boxes a a¹ a² a³ forward until the box a is brought
over an opening in the platform e immediately above the revolving box g when the
ram is stopped and the cotton falls from the box a into the box g the ram e is
again put in motion until the box al is above the box the treader is moved
downward and presses the contents of the box a into the box g; the cotton in the
box g is kept down by a sliding plate or otherwise the treader is moved up and
the boxes are drawn forward till the box a is above the box g the treader.f descends

page_text: and forces the cotton from the box a² into the box g the cotton is again held down
by the sliding plate the treader fascends and the box a³ is brought over the box
the treader f descends and forces the cotton into the box g and fills it, the cotton
being kept down by the sliding plate-the treader ascends and water is then
adınitted to one of the cylinders the ram of which moves the full box g under
the main press ready to be finished and at the same operation brings the empty
revolving box g under the opening in the platform e simultaneously the supple-
mentary boxes have been inoved by the rame and are ready to be again filled.
While the cotton in the revolving box g is being compressed lashed and discharged
the boxes a a¹ a² a³ are refilled and drawn forward over the opening in the plat-
form e by the ram so that their contents can be discharged aided by the
treader as before described into the revolving box gl.
Although I have shown four supplementary filling boxes mounted on wheels
which run on rails and are moved by hydraulic rams and chains more or fewer
filling boxes and other means of moving them may be employed or the boxes may
be arranged to revolve without departing from the nature of my invention, and as
before mentioned the bales may receive the finishing pressure in the press or they
may be taken to a separate press to be finished.
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 :-
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The use of supplementary filling boxes in combination with a treader or follower
for pressing the contents of the said boxes or some of them into the revolving box
of a baling press substantially as herein shown and described.
Dated this 4th day of Wahura 1001
H. B. BARLOW,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.