Improvements in the Construction of Baling Presses.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 24th June, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Mar., 1893-Accepted, 29th Apr., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Baling Presses.
We JOHN BLEZARD and NORMAN BLEZARD both of Guy Foundry Padiham
in the County of Lancaster, Machinists, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to make a baling press of simple construction
which shall give sufficient pressure to form the bale without the necessity for the
employment of hydraulic power.
According to our invention we employ a suitable fixed rectangular base or bed
plate and above this we mount upon sliding pillars a platen or follower.
This platen or follower is capable of adjustment upon the pillars in any con-
venient way for example, by nuts carried by the platen and revolving on screw
threads formed on the said pillars, the nuts being connected so as to revolve
simultaneously by chains and chain pulleys or otherwise.
The necessary pressure is given to the bale by drawing down the sliding
pillars by the following means.
Below the centre of the fixed base or bed plate is a longitudinal shaft, driven
by bevil or other gearing from a short transverse main shaft, and near either end
of the first named shaft is a worm, in which gears a toothed segment or quadrant
pivotted above the same, and these segments or quadrants are connected by suitable
connecting rods or links to the lower ends of the sliding pillars which support the
crosshead or follower of the press.
The centres upon which the quadrants rock are in the same vertical line as the
centres of their corresponding pillars, but the connecting rods or links are attached
to or near to one edge of their respective quadrants, so that as these joints are
brought, by the rotation of the worm shaft and the rocking of the quadrants,
nearer to the centre line of the pillars, the platen or follower will be brought
nearer to the base or bed plate, and by these means we construct a kind of toggle-
jointed baling press capable of putting very great pressure upon the article to be
pressed.
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GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Baling Presses.
We JOHN BLEZARD and NORMAN BLEZARD both of Guy Foundry Padiham
in the County of Lancaster, Machinists, 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 :-
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The object of this invention is to make a baling press of simple construction
which shall give sufficient pressure to form the bale without the necessity for the
employment of hydraulic power.
In order that the invention may be clearly understood we have annexed hereto a
sheet of drawings and have marked the same with figures and letters of reference
corresponding with those in the following description thereof.
Fig. 1 is partly an end elevation with the part a* removed and partly a transverse
section through the line A A on Fig. 2 which is partly a side elevation with the
side plates a' a' removed and partly a section through the line B B on Fig. 1.

page_text: According to our invention we employ a suitable fixed rectangular base or bed
plate a supported by suitable side plates a¹ a² a³, a* and above this we mount upon
sliding pillars b a platen or follower c.
This platen or follower c is capable of adjustment upon the pillars b in any
convenient way for example by nuts d carried by the platen and revolving on
screw threads & formed on the said pillars the nuts being connected so as to
revolve simultaneously by chains e aud chain pulleys e and a hand wheel e² or
otherwise.
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The sliding pillars are formed or provided at their lower ends with blocks 6*
moving between suitable guides or in grooves fixed to or formed on the 'sidė
plates a² and a³.
The necessary pressure is given to the bale by drawing down the sliding pillars.
by the following means.
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Below the centre of the fixed base or bed plate a is a longitudinal shaft driven
by bevel gearing y (or otherwise) from a short transverse main shaft and near
either end of the first named shaft is a worm in which gears' a toothed segment
or quadrant k pivotted at above the same and these segments or quadrants k
are connected by suitable connecting rods or links to the lower ends * of the
sliding pillars which support the crosshead or follower of the press.
The centres upon which the quadrants rock are in the same vertical line
as the centres of their corresponding pillars 6 but the connecting rods or links-l
are attached to or near to one edge of their respective quadrants as shewn
at m so that as these joint m are brought by the rotation of the worm shaft
and the rocking of the quadrants k nearer to the centre line of the pillars the
.platen or follower c will be brought nearer to the base or bed plate a and by these
means we construct a kind of toggle-jointed baling press capable of putting very
great pressure upon the article to be pressed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
⚫claim is :-
In a baling press the combination of the crosshead or follower sliding pillars
connecting links, toothed quadrants worms and worm shaft constructed. and
operating substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the drawings
annexed.
Dated this 2nd day at Naush 1009
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.