Electric Apparatus for Indicating when Machines are in Motion, and the Speed, Work, and the like thereof.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 28th Sept., 1889-Accepted, 23rd Nov., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Electric Apparatus for Indicating when Machines are in Motion,
and the Speed, Work, and the like thereof.
JOSEPH BLAMIRES and WILLIAM BLAMIRES, Manufacturers at Phoenix Mills
Leeds Road Huddersfield do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of which is to enable, masters managers or foremen to ascertain at any
time whether a machine or machines is standing or are in motion without the
necessity of going into the mill or workshop when the same are at work by electrical
communication from the machine to any required place or places at any required
distance from the said machine or machinery such as offices, warehouses, residences,
and also when or where necessary to indicate at what speed or revolutions the
machinery engines or tools are running and also what amount of work is being
performed. The means we may employ to accomplish our purpose are as follows
any and all machines which we require to examine or test are so arranged as to be
capable of being put at will into an electric circuit or circuits by means of wire
battery (or other electric generator) and switch arrangement the said machine may
carry at some convenient part a tappet, finger, wheel or other arrangement which is
so contrived as to make and break the electric circuit and thereby allows the trans-
mission of the electric current at every revolution or other required movement of the
machine or at any period when any given piece of work has been effected by the
machine the said electric current signals, indicates, or records at the switch board by
any of the usual means of sound or motion such as striking a bell, deflection of
galvanometer or any other selected device. We may also by the same electric
current actuate, mechanical counters or registers for engines or any other machines
of which a record is required. We may also by the act of stopping or throwing the
machine out of motion cause the completion of an electric circuit which thereby
actuates the indicating apparatus and thus communicates the fact to any desired
place of observation.
This invention is particularly applicable for workshops and mills such as
use, carding, drawing spinning, and weaving machinery, engines or any other class
of machinery or tools of which the proprietor requires particulars and knowledge of
working so as to know whether they are being neglected by the workmen in charge
or are being kept in motion and doing their proper duty and this without the
necessity of entering the rooms or any part of the premises where the machines and
workmen are employed. The electric current may be conducted through any
existing leads such as telegraph, telephone, or other established electric circuits-or
earth, water, piping, shafting or other available conductors may be employed.
Dated this 27th day of December 1888
JOSEPH BLAMIRES.
WILLIAM BLAMIRES.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Electric Apparatus for Indicating when Machines are in Motion,
and the Speed, Work, and the like thereof.
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We JOSEPH BLAMIRES and WILLIAM BLAMIRES of Phoenix Mills Leeds Road
Huddersfield Yorkshire, Manufacturers, 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 of which is to enable masters, managers, or foremen, to ascertain at any

page_text: ате whether a machine or machines, are standing or are in motion, without the
necessity of going into the mill or workshop where the same are at work, by
Electrical communication from the machine to any required place or places at any
required distance from the said machine 'or machinery; such as offices, warehouses,
residences, and also when or where necessary to indicate at what speed or revolu
tions the machinery, engines or tools are running-and also what amount of work is
being performed. The means we may employ to accomplish our purpose are as
follows Any or all machines which we require to examine or test, are so arranged
as to be capable of being put at will into an Electric circuit or circuits, by means of
wires, battery, (or other electric generator) and switch arrangement, the said
machine may carry at some convenient part a tappet, finger wheel or other arrange-
ment, which is so contrived as to make and break the electric current, and thereby
allows the transmission of the electric current at every revolution or other required
movement of the machine, or at any period when any given piece of work has been
effected by the machine. The said Electric current signals, indicates, or records, at
the switch board by any of the usual means of sound or motion, such as striking a
bell, deflection of Galvanometer, or any other selected device. We may also by the
same electric current actuate mechanical counters or registers for engines, or any
other machines of which record is required. We may also by the act of stopping or
throwing the machine out of motion cause the completion ot an Electric circuit
which thereby actuates the indicating apparatus, and thus communicates the fact to
any desired place of observation.
In order that our invention may be better understood we herein give reference to
the accompanying sheet of drawings which are arranged to illustrate our invention.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings in Figure 1. A is an Indicating Dial or
board fixed in any desired place of observation, and fitted with any requisite number
of knobs or buttons, and figured or lettered to correspond to similarly figured or
lettered machines, tools or engines.
These knobs or buttons are connected to the terminals of the return current
wires RC, from the correspondingly numbered machine. B. is a moveable finger,
which can be placed at will on any of the numbered terminals or buttons, thereby
completing the electric circuit, with the correspondingly numbered or lettered machine
or tool. To the said machine or tool is attached a tappet (G), finger, wheel, or other
device, which is set in motion when the machine is at work, and is so arranged that
when the lugs of the tappet (G) press against a spring (S) the circuit is intermittently
made and broken and is registered by the intermittent striking of the bell (E), or
other known signalling apparatus; which is fixed in any convenient place for
observation. (MIL) is the main lead connected to one pole of any ordinary
battery (C) or other electric generator. In place of this wire (DI L) the earth, gas,
steam or water piping, or any present existing conductors, such as telegraph or
telephone wires may be employed. RC are the return current wires from each tool
or machine and are connected with their correspondingly numbered button or terminal
on the dial A.
When any machine is thrown out of motion we may also cause the completion of
an electric circuit as is shown in Figure 3, by means of the ordinary strap guide or
other arrangement (H), which when the machine is stopped comes in contact with
an insulated spring or stud (1), which thereby allows the current to flow forward to
the switch board (D), when by placing the switch on the button or terminal (K)
completes the circuit with the continuous alarm bell (F), and registers the fact of
the machine standing by means of the said bell (F) or other known signalling
apparatus.
With regard to the bells E and F, the bell E strikes once for each make and break
of the circuit and will not ring with a continuous current, whereas the other bell (F),
does ring with a continuous current.
Figure 2 represents a movable portion of an engine where G and S, again
represents the contact breaker, where the electric circuit is made and broken.
This invention is particularly applicable for workshops and mills, such as use

page_text: carding, drawing, spinning, and weaving machinery, engines, or any other class of
machinery or tools of which the proprietor requires particulars and knowledge of
working, so as to know whether they are being neglected by the workmen in charge,
or are kept in motion and doing their proper duty; and this without the necessity
of entering the rooms, or any part of the premises where the machines and workmen
are employed.
The electric current may be conducted through any existing leads, such as telegraphs,
telephone, or other established electric circuits, or carth, water, piping, shafting or
other available conductors may be employed.
We would have it understood that the exact details above given may be modified
without departing from the principle of the said invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The method of communicating or signalling from various machines in mills, or
workshops, to any desired places such as offices, warehouses, dwelling houses, and
similar places in order to indicate, and determine whether the said machinery is
standing or in motion and doing its proper work, and which automatically registers
the same, by the ringing of bells, signalling, or other known electrical indicating
apparatus, thus giving the masters and foremen the opportunity of ascertaining at
any desired time or place what machinery is in work, and what machinery is out of
motion, or being neglected, without the necessity of visiting and inspecting each
individual room or machine.
2. It may also be so arranged and applied, as to indicate or measure automatically.
the amount of work effected during a certain time by employing and attaching any
known suitable measuring or numbering apparatus, to the aforesaid and above
described arrangements, substantially as herein shown and described.
Dated this 27th day of September 1889.
JOSEPH BLAMIRES.
WILLIAM BLAMIRES.