Improvements in Beetling Machines for Finishing Textile Fabrics.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Beetling Machines for Finishing Textile Fabrics.
I, EDWARD WILSON HUNT, of 82 Seymour Road, Astley Bridge, in the County
of Lancaster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in Beetling Machines, and consists of the
application of several rows of fallers to one machine, and to work on a single beam.
In carrying out this invention I fit each faller with an arm, one end of which is
carried on a journal, and the other end firmly secured to the faller itself.
On the opposite side of the faller to the arm, I fix in a convenient position a tappet
such as is usually fixed to fallers. The wiper beams 2, 3, 4, or more, according to the
number of rows of fallers, I make similar to what is now used, preferably with two
throws per revolution, and such wiper beams when revolving will alternately raise
and release the fallers so as to deliver a vibrating or rebounding blow on the cloth
beam. By thus swinging the fallers on a journal, I am able to place them at any
angle to the cloth beam, either above or below the centre, and can fix several
rows to strike on one beam, by which means I save considerable time over other
machines which have only one row of fallers fixed in a vertical position over cloth
beam, and working between guide rails.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
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Improvements in Beetling Machines for Finishing Textile Fabrics,"
I EDWARD WILSON HUNT of 82 Seymour Road, Astley. Bridge, Bolton, 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 and accompanying drawings.
My said invention relates to improvements in beetling machines for finishing
textile fabrics.
In beetling machines of the type most generally in use a single row of fullers
alone is emuloved, which fallers are operated vertically between guide rails.

page_text: The object of my invention is to increase the efficiency of such beetling machines
which I effect by so mounting and operating the fallers that I am enabled to provide
the machine with two or it might be more, rows of fallers.
The rows of fallers are disposed at various angles to the cloth beam and are secured
to pivotted levers.
Each faller is provided with a tappet operated by the usual or suitable wipers.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I will now describe
the same with reference to the accompanying two sheets of drawings.
In the said drawings.
On Sheet 1.
Fig. 1 represents an end elevation of a beetling machine constructed in accordance
with two rows of fallers.
On Sheet 2.
Fig. 2 is a sectional part of the machine showing more clearly an end view of the
two rows of fallers.
Fig. 3 is a side view of the fallers and wipers actuating the same.
Fig. 4 is a view of the fallers from the inside looking in the direction of the arrow
Fig. 2 the fallers being shown in a vertical position to more clearly show the parts:
Fig. 5 represents a portion of the wiper shaft with the wipers in position thereon.
Fig. 6 is a diagramatic view representing a suitable method of batching the fabric
for the machine.
In the drawings my improved beetling machine is shown with two rows of fallers
placed at suitable angles above the centre of the cloth beam and arranged to act upon
the upper surface of the beam.
The framework A of the machine is provided at each end with brackets a a,
supporting shafts b b, which shafts are secured to the brackets a and prevented
from turning therein by screws b¹ b¹. Upon the shafts b b are mounted loosely a
number of short arms or levers c one. for each faller. The fallers d are slightly
recessed as shown, to receive a plate c¹ formed on the end of the lever c.
The other side of the faller d is provided with a suitable clamping plate e and
the whole secured together by means of bolts e¹ as plainly shown in the drawings.
The fallers are provided with tappets f. The tail f¹ of the tappet f is passed
through a slot in the fallers d and a wedge or key f2 secures the tappet firmly to
the faller. A pin f³ is provided to prevent the accidental displacement of the
wedge. This arrangement will be more clearly seen from an inspection of Fig. 4 of
the drawings.
Suitable bearings are provided in the frame of the machine for the revolving wiper
shafts gg.
The wipers are preferably formed as shown in the drawings with with
two throws per revolution. The wipers h are secured upon the wiper shafts g g so
as to operate the fallers alternately as usual, and as shown in the drawings, the
fallers are operated simultaneously in sevenths.
Fig. 5 shows a portion of the wiper shaft with seven wipers mounted thereon, at
their respective angles.
The cloth beam i is mounted in the frame A of the machine so as to receive the
usual revolving and reciprocating motion. This is effected by the usual well known
mechanism and need not be particularly described.
The wiper shafts g g are driven by gearing at the end of the machine which
gearing is indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1. A pulley j which is driven by a belt
from any suitable source is mounted upon the driving shaft of the machine. Upon
this shaft is mounted a spur wheel k which gears with another spur wheel mounted
upon the wiper shaft g: The spur wheel k also, by means of an intermediate
wheel, drives the spur wheel mounted on the other wiper shaft g.
The action of the improved beetling machine is as follows.
The revolving wipers h engaging with the tappets f throw the inclined fallers d
upwards, about the axes of the shafts 6 b, the fallers swinging with their pivotted
levers c.
When released by the wipers h the fallers in descending deliver a

page_text: vibrating or rebounding blow upon the cloth beam. To accelerate the .descending
blow I mount curved plate springs upon beams m m which are carried by suitable
brackets m¹ m² secured to the frame A of the machine as shown more particularly
in Fig. 1 of the drawings. The fallers d in their upward movement come into
contact with and rebound from the curved plate springs as shown in dotted lines
in Fig. 1.
By this contact with the springs the downward movement of the fallers is so
accelerated that I am enabled to obtain more blows in a given time than would be
possible without the aid of such springs.
It will be observed that by thus mounting the fallers d in an angular direction
and swinging them upon pivotted levers as described, I am enabled to obtain two or
inore rows of fallers instead of one as usual, and I thus materially increase the
efficiency of the machine.
It will be evident that by mounting the fallers at a less angle than shown it would
be possible to obtain more than two rows of fallers. I have however described and
shown two rows of fallers as the simplest and least expensive method of carrying my
invention into effect, and which I have found by experiment to be very efficient.
I am aware that in some instances beetling machines have been provided with two
rows of angularly disposed fallers. Such fallers however have been operated so as to
slide in guides after the manner of the old form of a single row of fallers operated
vertically. It must be understood therefore that I lay no claim to the provision of
more than one row of fallers per se, but only to the method of imounting the fallers
to swing upon axes and operated as described.
To remove the inclined fallers from contact with the cloth beam when the same is
being removed, I mount two rails m² m² sliding upon suitable rods n bolted to the
frame of the machine. These rails m² m² are disposed behind the two rows of fallers d.
A hand wheel o is provided, the axle o¹ of which extends along the length of the
machine and revolves in bearings carried by the rods n.
At each end of the machine are two chains p p secured at one end to the sliding
rails m² m² at the other end to the axle o¹ in such a manner that by revolving the
hand wheel in the direction of the arrow the two chains p p are wound upon the
axle o'. The rails mm are thus slid inwards and raise the inclined fallers d from
contact with the cloth beam i.
Any known method of batching the cloth in my inproved machine may be used.
In Fig. 1 the frame A is provided with three journals or bearings q¹ q² for the
cloth beams. The material having been duly operated upon the cloth beam is slid
from the journal 9 into the journal q¹ where the cloth is removed and the beam
rewound. In the meantime a fresh cloth beam has been slid from the journal q² into
position in the journal q.
Another method of batching the cloth is represented in the diagramatic view
Fig. 6.
In this case three cloth beams r s t are carried in bearings in revolvable
end discs u. Whilst the cloth in the beam is under treatment the cloth on the
beam 8, which has been operated upon, is being unwound and cloth to be beetled is
at the same time being wound upon the beam t so as to be ready for treatment when
the cloth upon the beam r is finished.
It must be understood that both these methods of batching the cloth are old and
form no part of my invention.
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 beetling machines for finishing textile fabrics, mounting or pivotting the
fallers in an angular direction in such a manner that they may be swung upon axes,
by which I can obtain two, or it might be more than two, rows of fallers operating upon
the cloth on the cloth beam in the manner and substantially as described and shown.
2) The faller d provided with an arm or lever c pivotted upon an axis and
arranged and acting in the manner and substantially as described and illustrated.

page_text: 3) The improved beetling machine, arranged, constructed and acting in the
for the purposes and substantially as described and illustrated.
manner,
Dated this 9th day of November
1097
Dated this 9th day of November
TONI
For the Applicant
E. K. DUTTON & Co
Chartered Patent Agents 5 John Dalton Street Manchester.