IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HOSE AND OTHER SIMILAR PIPING
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Quin, of Leyland, in the County of
Lancaster, India-rubber Manufacturer, and Robert Eastham, of the
same Place, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HOSE
AND OTHER SIMILAR PIPING."
Sealed the 8th August 1871, and dated the 11th February 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Quin and Robert
Eastham at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 11th February 1871.
We, JAMES QUIN, of Leyland, in the County of Lancaster, India-
rubber Manufacturer, and ROBERT EASTHAM, of the same Place,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF HOSE AND OTHER SIMILAR PIPING," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object the improved manufacture of india-
rubber and other suitable elastic or flexible substances into hose of

page_text: tubing, and the improved machine or apparatus is constructed as
follows:-
At the top of a suitably formed framing we attach by convenient
means a pinion which gears into a rack connected to or forming part of
the hanging supports of a roller. Under this roller are arranged two
other similar rollers, which are parallel to each other and capable of
being adjusted and moving in slides horizontally. These rollers revolve
and may bear on smaller rollers placed in a line parallel to their axes,
and supported in the slides in convenient positions.
The india-rubber, gutta percha, or other elastic or flexible substances
that have to be combined with (or without) flax, cotton, silk, or other
fibrous material, which is required to be made into hose or tubing,
and rolled, formed, and finished, is rolled on to a mandrel and
introduced into the machine resting on the upper surfaces of the two
lower rollers, after which the top roller is let down so as to press on
to the material on the mandrel, and the rolling proceeds as long as
required, till the operation is complete, when the top roller is elevated
by the rack and pinion, and the mandrel and hose or tube is drawn
out.
Hose or tubing of india-rubber or other similar material combined
with cloth has hitherto been made up by hand labor and not by power,
but this improved machine will work much quicker, and having an even
pressure upon the mandrel from end to end, and bearing the whole length
of the mandrel (that is to say sixty feet) at one time the work will be
much more even and perfect than by hand labor.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Quin and Robert Eastham in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 11th August 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JAMES
QUIN, of Leyland, in the County of Lancaster, India-rubber Manu-
facturer, and ROBERT EASTHAM, of the same Place, Engineer, send
greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said James Quin and Robert Eastham,
Her special license that we, the said James Quin and Robert Eastham,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
James Quin and Robert Eastham, our executors, 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 MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HOSE AND OTHER SIMILAR
PIPING," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said James
Quin and Robert Eastham, our exccutors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under our, or one of our, or their, or one of
their 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 I, the said James Quin, on behalf of myself
and the said Robert Eastham, do hereby declare the nature of the 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) :-
This Invention has for its object the improved manufacture of india-
rubber and other suitable clastic or flexible substances into hose or
tubing, and the improved machinery or apparatus is constructed as
follows:-
At the top of a suitably formed framing we attach by convenient
means a series of pinions, which gear into racks connected to or forming
part of the hanging supports of a roller. Under this roller are
arranged two other similar rollers which are mounted in slides and are
capable of being moved further apart or nearer together as required.

page_text: These rollers may revolve and bear on small friction rollers placed in a
line parallel to their axes, and supported in convenient positions in the
slides before named.
A mandrel of the required diameter is first coated with india-rubber
(for example) by taking a piece of sheet rubber of the requisite length
and of a width rather more than equal to the circumference of the
maundrel round which it is rolled, and a lap joint formed. This
maundrel is then placed in the machine and a piece of woven cloth
saturated or coated with india-rubber or other adhesive cement or
material, and of a sufficient width to form the number of laps or plies
required is introduced into the machine, with its forward edge in
contact with the india-rubber coating of the maundrel. Upon the outer
edge of the cloth is placed a piece of sheet rubber of a width rather
more than equal to the outer circumference of the finished tube. The
top roller being lowered till it presses on the material on the maundrel, a
few turns of the rollers effects the required rolling and finishing, and a
length of hose pipe is completed at one operation having a coating of
sheet rubber inside and out, and as many laps or plies of cloth between
as may be required according to the width of the material and the
diameter of the maundrel employed.
Hose or tubing of india-rubber or other similar material combined
with cloth has hitherto been made up only by hand labor and not by
power, and this improved apparatus will perform the work in a much
better manner, having an even pressure and bearing the whole length of
the maundrel (that is to say sixty feet length at a time), whilst the hand
labor was much slower, more uneven, and uncertain in its effect, and
took a much longer time to make one than would suffice to make one
dozen by the use of this machine.
Such being the nature and object of our said Invention for "Im-
provements in Machinery or Apparatus to be Employed in the
Manufacture of Hose and other similar Piping," we will now proceed
to describe more in detail the manner in which the same is to be or may
be performed or carried into practical effect, and in order that the same
may be clearly understood, we have annexed hereunto a Sheet of
Drawings illustrative thereof, and have marked the same with figures
and letters of reference corresponding those in the following explanation
thereof.

page_text: Fig. 1 in the accompanying Drawing represents a front elevation of
our improved machine drawn to a scale of about one inch to a foot;
Fig. 2 is a transverse section through about the line A, B, in Fig. 1;
Fig. 3 is a similar view taken through about the line C, D, in the same
Fig., and Fig. 4 is an end view of the machine, these three Figs. being
drawn about twice the scale of Fig. 1.
a, a, is the framing of the machine supporting the bed b, b; c, c, are
supports or brackets placed at suitable intervals and carrying a long
shaft d, d, on which are mounted spur pinions e, e, gearing into toothed
racks ff, forming part of the hanging supports of the top roller g, g.
These pinions are put in motion by the spur gearing h, h, actuated by
the cross handles or levers i, i. The two bottom rollers k, k, are
mounted in slides 1, 1, and can be brought close together for making
small tubes, as shown at Fig. 2, or moved further apart for making large
tubes, as shown at Fig. 3, by means of right and left hand screws on a
shaft m, m, actuated by the worm and wheel n, n, being put in motion
by a winch handle fitted on to the squared ends o, o, of the shaft.
It will be seen upon referring to Fig. 3 that these bottom rollers are
supported at intervals throughout their length by means of short friction
rollers p, p, and they are connected together at their ends by means of
links q, q, so that the carrier wheel r, r, which connects them always
remains in gear whatever their relative position may be. The carrier
8, 8, which drives the top roller g, g, is also similarly arranged, as
will be seen on reference to Fig. 4. The mandrel t, t, with the tube
thereon in process of being rolled is shown in its working position
between the three rollers at Fig. 2.
Motion is communicated to the machine by means of the spur wheel
and pinion u, u, being actuated by a strap passing round the driving
pulley v, v.
Having now described the nature and object of our said Invention,
we would remark in conclusion that we claim as our Invention, the
general construction and arrangement of the machine as exhibited on
the annexed Drawing, and herein-before particularly described, or any
mere modification or imitation thereof, constructed and operating in
substantially the same or a similar manner, and especially we claim
the use of a long mandrel working between three rollers, the upper one

page_text: of which is capable of being raised and lowered, and the lower ones of
being set nearer or further apart, in the manner and for the purposes
herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Quin, on behalf of myself
and the said Robert Eastham, have hereunto set my hand and t
seal, this Eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
Witnessed by
GEORGE DAVIES, C.E.,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.
JAMES QUIN. (L.S.)