Improved Wiper or Lifter for Beetling Machines Used in the Finishing of Textile Fabrics.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Oct., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 27th Apr., 1897-Accepted, 29th May, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Wiper or Lifter for Beetling Machines Used in the
Finishing of Textile Fabrics.
JACOB BRIDGE Ironfounder and Machinist Paradise Works, Accrington, and
JOHN NEWTON, Finishing Works Manager, Cully backey, Co. Antrim, Ireland,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our improvement is in the form, construction and mounting of wipers or lifters..
These are made of wood or any like material and fixed in rectangular pockets the
said pockets forming part of a casting which is bored and fitted on the wiper
shaft.
On a circle of this casting or wiper holder and concentric with the bore are
a number of holes through some of which stay rods or bolts pass the full length
of the whole of the wiper holders and pass through metal plates which are keyed
to the shaft at each end and secured with nuts and so bind the whole together by
the said bolts, also by means of the holes just mentioned each lifter or wiper is.
placed in advance of the succeeding one in mounting them on the shaft, and thus
the lifters form a spiral round the centre shaft as is necessary in all beetling
machines having loose fallers or hammers.
Dated this Twenty-ninth day of October One thousand eight hundred and
ninety-six.
Improved Wiper or Lifter for Beetling Machines Used in the
Finishing of Textile Fabrics.
JACOB BRIDGE Ironfounder and Machinist, Paradise Works, Accrington, and
JOHN NEWTON, Finishing Works Manager, Cully backey, Co. Antrim, Ireland,
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 :--
This invention has reference to the form, construction, and mounting of wipers
or lifters for beetling machines having loose hammers, fallers, or beetles.
The wiper beam which has hitherto been constructed of either wood or metal is
in this invention made of wood compressed paper, or composition and metal in the
manner we now describe by the aid of accompanying drawing.
A is the metal part of the wiper or lifter. C shews the pegs which form part of
the metal casting and also shews corresponding recesses or holes on opposite side
of such casting into which the next wiper is fitted in order to join them all
together.

page_text: These wipers or lifters are also held together and secured to the shaft or centre
by means of stays or bolts B which bolts not. only pass through all the wiper
castings but also are secured to end plates or blocks which blocks are keyed on to
the centre shaft.
D is the wood, compressed paper, or composition part of this lifter which fits
into a rectangular pocket formed in the casting A and is secured by means of
cutting out a recess on the one side and inserting a wedge E on the other side as
indicated by the dotted lines.
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
The combination of wood compressed paper or composition and metal in the
construction of wiper beams and lifters in the manner above indicated and that
thereby we get a wooden, compressed paper, or composition surface in contact with
the fallers or beetles with metal supports, the result being a lessened wear and tear
in the beetle or faller tappets and are easily renewed.
JACOB BRIDGE.
JOHN NEWTON.