Improvements in Apparatus for Rolling Glass.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left 16th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 19th Mar., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Rolling Glass.
WILLIAM WINDLE PILKINGTON of St. Helens in the County of Lancaster
Glass Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object is to so construct glass rolling apparatus that the motor mechanism
is below the top of the table, so as to allow of free access to the table.
Apparatus under my invention consists of the usual roller and table, the latter
being fitted with a side rack below the upper surface thereof and the former with
a toothed wheel in gear with the said rack. In addition to these parts the table
and rollers are provided with pulleys around which an endless chain or other
suitable flexible agent is passed, so that when motion is given to the chain the
roller is caused to travel back and forth along the table.
Dated the 15th day of April 1891.
Per pro J. T. KING,
J. Johnson,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Rolling Glass.
I, WILLIAM WINDLE PILKINGTON of St. Helens in the County of Lancaster,
Glass Manufacturer 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:-
The object is to so construct glass-rolling apparatus that the motor mechanism is
below the top of the table so as to allow of free access to the table.
Apparatus under my invention consists of the usual roller and table, the latter
being fitted with a side rack below the upper surface thereof and the former with
a toothed wheel in gear with the said rack. In addition to these parts, the table
and rollers are provided with pulleys around which an endless chain or other
suitable flexible agent is passed, so that when motion is given to the chain, the
roller is caused to travel back and forth along the table.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is an elevation and Fig. 2 a plan of apparatus illustrative of my
invention. a represents racks secured to the side of the table bin any usual manner
c is the roller provided with toothed wheels d, which gear with the racks a.
e endless
chains, ropes, or like flexible agents passing around pulleys f, secured to each end
of the roller c and over pulleys carried by the table frame or other suitable
bearers. The pulleys may be screw-grooved as shown to prevent the rope
from climbing. The roller will travel in the direction in which the upper chain or
rope is driven.
Fig. 3 is an elevation of a modification of apparatus in which the chain or rope
is carried wholly beneath the upper surface of the table, here the roller moves in the
direction opposite to that in which the upper chain or rope is driven.
Fig. 4 is an elevation of apparatus in which guy rollers h, carried by brackets i
on the ends of the spindle of the roller c, are used to enable the chain or rope to
be carried wholly beneath the surface of the table and yet allow of the roller
moving in the saine direction as the upper chain or rope.

page_text: Fig. 5 is an elevation of apparatus in which the table bis inclined, and the
roller c is pulled in one direction only and allowed to return by gravitation,
Fig. 6 is a plan showing a roller fitted at both ends with two pulleys, one
pair of pulleys being used for chains or ropes to draw the roller in one direction
and the other pai: for chains or ropes to draw the said roller in the opposite
direction.
It will be obvious that a pulley or pulleys may be fitted to one end only of the
roller or that a pulley on one end may give motion in one direction and at the other
end in the opposite direction.
In all the views, the same letters denote like parts.
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 :-
Apparatus for rolling glass consisting in the combination of the usual rack and
roller with chains or other suitable flexible agents passing around pulleys, substan-
tially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.
Dated thin Diftruth
ויד …
1000
Per pro J. T. KING,
W. B. Johnson,
Agent.