IMPROVEMENTS IN MOULDING POR CASTING CERTAIN PARTS OF MACHINERY USED IN THE PREPARATION AND SPINNING OF COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Leonard Kaberry, of Globe Works, Rochdale, in the
County of Lancaster, Manager, and Aaron Horsefield, of the same Place,
Moulder, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MOULDING POR CASTING
CERTAIN PARTS OF MACHINERY USED IN THE PREPARATION AND SPINNING OF
COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS."
Sealed the 10th October 1856, and dated the 14th April 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Leonard Kaberry and
Aaron Horsefield at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 14th April 1856.
We, LEONARD KABERRY, of Globe Works, Rochdale, in the County of
Lancaster, Manager, and AARON HORSEFIELD, of the same Place, Moulder, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN MOULDING
FOR CASTING CERTAIN PARTS OF MACHINERY USED IN THE PREPARATION AND SPINNING
OP COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS, to be as follows:-
Our Invention relates, firstly, to the casting of those parts of preparing and
spinning machinery usually termed the spindle rails, the object being to avoid
the necessity of planing the surfaces of those projecting parts to which the
spindles are adapted, and aslo the boring or drilling thereof. For this purpose
we provide a pattern accurately planed or otherwise similarly prepared, so that

page_text: its upper and lower faces will be in contact with two portions of a mould box
when placed together, the intervening parts having been rammed in the usual
manner with sand. The pattern being then removed, and the melted metal
poured in, the surfaces of the required casting will be produced against the
smooth parts of the box, which will act as a chill. In order to avoid boring
or drilling, we adapt metal pins at suitable places, which pins are supported
by means of screws or other apparatus passing through the box; these pins
constitute cores, around which the melted metal flows. In order to provide
for the contraction of the cooling metal, the screws or other apparatus which
support the pins may be loosened or withdrawn, so as to allow them to move.
Another part of our Invention refers to the casting of "roller beams,"
rails" or other such parts, and consists in a method of loosening the pattern
when in the sand. For this purpose we adapt to the said pattern a rod or
other connexion, which extends through the end of the mould box, and is
there capable of being adapted to an excentric or equivalent apparatus, by
the turning of which the pattern may be caused to be loosened in the sand,
whereby the necessity of striking it, as now practised, is avoided.
apparatus may, if desired, be applied to both ends of the box.
This
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Leonard Kaberry and Aaron Horsefield in the Great Scal
Patent Office on the 14th October 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, LEONARD
KABERRY, of Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster, Manager, and AARON
HORSEFIELD, of the same Place, Moulder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto.us, the said
Leonard Kaberry and Aaron Horsefield, Her especial licence that we; the
said Leonard Kaberry and Aaron Horsefield, our executors, administrators;
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Leonard Kaberry and Aaron Horse-
field, our exccutors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
'within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MOULDING FOR CASTING

page_text: CERTAIN PARTS OF MACHINERY USED IN THE PREPARATION AND SPINNING OF COTTON
AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS," upon the condition, amongst others, that we,
the said Leonard Kaberry and Aaron Horsefield, by an instrument in writing
under our hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and-immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Leonard Kaberry and Aaron Horse-
field, do hereby declare the nature of our said 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 (that is
to say):-
Our Invention relates, firstly, to the casting of those parts of preparing and
spinning machinery usually termed the spindle rails, the object being to avoid
the necessity of planing the surfaces of those projecting parts to which the
spindles are adapted, and also the boring or drilling thereof. For this purpose
we provide a pattern accurately planed, or otherwise similarly prepared, so that
its upper and lower faces will be in contact with two portions of a mould box
when placed together, the intervening parts having been rammed in the usual
manner with sand. The pattern being then removed, and the melted metal
poured in, the surfaces of the required casting will be produced against the
smooth parts of the box, which will act as a chill. In order to avoid boring
or drilling, we adapt metal pins at suitable places, which pins are supported
by means of screws or other apparatus passing through the box; these pins
constituto cores; around which the melted metal flows. In order to provide
for the contraction of the cooling metal, the screws or other apparatus
which support the pins may be loosened or withdrawn, so as to allow them
to move.
Another part of our Invention infers to the casting of roller beams, rails, or
O other such parts, and consists in a method of loosening the pattern when in
the sand. For this purpose we adapt to the said pattern a rod or other
connection, which extends through the end of the mould box, and is there
capable of being adapted to an eccentric or equivalent apparatus, by the
turning of which the pattern may be caused to be loosened in the sand,
whereby the necessity of striking it, as now practised, may be avoided. This
apparatus may, if desired, be applied to both ends of the box.
The accompanying illustrative Drawing exhibits our Invention; Fig. 1
being a transverse section of a mould box adapted to the patterns required to
be produced. The mould box a is formed with longitudinal rails b; the upper

page_text: edges of which form the chills for a portion of the rails to be moulded, which
are in this instance the spindle rails for preparing machines, and shewn at c, c,
resting upon the rails 6 of the mould box a. The bearings for the spindles
in the bosses or snugs of the rails c are formed by placing the chill pins & in
their proper position in the pattern, and in which they are held after the
patterns are withdrawn by means of vertical pins e, which are forced down
upon the chill pins d, by the head e* being passed under the projecting part f
on the loose cover or chill plate for the upper part of the rail g, and which is
secured to the mould box a by the ordinary bolt and cotters h. To form or
prepare the mould, the operation is as follows:-The mould box a being firmly
set in the sand, the pattern rails c, c, are then placed in the proper position,
with the parts forming the spindle bearings resting upon the rails 6 (as shewn),
when the sand is then rammed into the intervening spaces in the mould box a,
and round the pattern rail c, c, after which the cover g is secured in its proper
position along with the chill pins & and keepers 6, when the sand is then
rammed into the spaces f*, which will then form the mould for part of the
upper surfaces of the rails c, above mentioned. After the mould has been
suitably prepared and the metal poured in, the pins or keepers e are then
turned round a portion of a revolution, so that the head part will clear the
projecting parts f of the cover, which will allow of their being withdrawn, so
that when the contraction of the metal takes place the chill pins d will yield
to the required extent.
Another modification of this part of our Invention is shewn at Fig. 2 and
in the plan view, Fig. 3; a being the under portion of the mould box, and
which forms, in this instance, the chill plate for a portion of the rails c, the
bosses or snugs forming the bearings of the spindles being at c, and in which
the chill pins are placed, the same being formed with elongated ends or
parts i, so as to be secured when the sand is rammed round them in the upper
portion of the mould box 9", which turns upon the pin joint k, so that the
pattern can be readily withdrawn. In order to allow for the contraction of
the metal after it is poured into the mould, the plate pieces (shewn also
at Fig. 4) are withdrawn, thus leaving spaces for the adjustment, as above
described.
Our Invention referring to the casting of roller beams, rails, or other such
parts is shewn at Fig. 5, which represents a plan view of the mould box as at
m, the bars or ribs n being formed so as to support or bind the sand when the
same is rammed in, and the patterns o are withdrawn, which are intended, in
this instance, for roller beams; p, p, are the eccentric rods attached to the
same by means of pins and joints q. The exentrics r are mounted with the

page_text: spindles s in the bearing pieces t, attached to the mould box in any
convenient
manner. It will be readily seen that when the pattern is required to be
loosened in the sand, the same may be accomplished by causing the eccentric r
to revolve, by means of a handle or lever, upon the upper end of the eccentric
spindle s. We would remark that although we have shewn the mould boxes
arranged for one form of spindles rails only, it will be evident that the same
may be readily adapted to any desired form.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of our Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, we desire it to be understood
that we do not intend to confine ourselves to the precise arrangement shewn
and described, as the same may be varied without departing from the principal
of our Invention; but we claim as secured to us under the above in part
recited Letters Patent,-
Firstly, moulding for casting the spindle rails or other such part of pre-
paring and spinning machinery in the manner above described, whereby the
necessity of planing and boring the projecting parts to which the spindles
are adapted will be avoided.
Secondly, the use of eccentrics or other equivalent apparatus for loosening
the patterns of roller beams or other such parts in the sand, as above described
and set forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said Leonard Kaberry and Aaron Horsefield,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Thirteenth day of October,
in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
LEONARD
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