Improvements in Apparatus for Supporting Reels of Paper.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Supporting Reels of Paper.
RICHARD JAMES ROUSAY, Stationers and Printers Works Manager, St. Clair
Works, Edinburgh, Scotland, I do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows;
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An apparatus for the carrying of any number of reels of paper in paper mills
or other works where such an appliance is necessary. It consists of a revolving
drum, having any number of arms that may be requisite according to the
amount of work required. The drum is erected between two uprights and may
be of any width and is minipulated by means of a worm wheel, & worm, the
latter working into the former. On the end of worm shaft there is a wheel for
the purpose of revolving the drum, during the process of putting the reels on
the arms
or swivels and this wheel may either be worked by hand or power.
Although the drum revolves, the reels of paper, are always hanging horizantally.
Suppose the apparatus is constructed to carry six reels, of paper; the first reel is
taken from a truck or off the floor, and placed on No. 1 arm or swivel, the worm
is then put in motion & brings No. 2 arm or swivel into the position vacated
by No. 1, and so on until the whole six reels are placed in the respective arms.
At this juncture the drum or cylander becomes automatically locked and the
webs are ready to be fed into a web cutter or other machine.
No chain or other tackle required and it is claimed for the invention that
it will very matierally reduce the time and amount of labour, now necessary, for
the same purpose, as well as be, a considerable saving, of floor space.
Dated this 30th day of March 1898.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Supporting Reels of Paper.
I, RICHARD JAMES ROUSAY, Stationers and Printers Works Manager, of St. Clair
Works, Edinburgh, Scotland, 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:-
This invention for improvements in apparatus for supporting reels of paper
relates to apparatus more especially applicable for use in paper mills for sup-
porting reels of paper or other material intended to be operated upon by revolving
web cutters or rippers for cutting the paper into widths or sheets, and has for
its object to provide movable supporting apparatus on which the reels are:
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page_text: mounted from off the floor or a truck, without the aid of chain or other lifting
tackle, and presented directly to the cutters, thereby effecting a great saving of
labour and floor space; and comprises two standards or supports, a central shaft
mounted in bearings on the standards, two circular frames keyed on the shaft
to rotate in parallel planes, reel spindle carriers mounted at suitable distances
apart in the circular frame, means for adjusting the reel spindles longitudinally
and a means for rotating the central shaft.
In the accompanying two sheets of illustrative drawings, Fig. 1 is a side
elevation of reel supporting apparatus constructed according to this invention,
Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same and Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views.
The standards a are provided with bearings for the ends of a central shaft b
on which the circular frames e are fixed at suitable distances apart and in
parallel planes. Each frame is composed of a central boss d having a number
of radial arms e surrounded by an annulus or ring f, in which bearings y are
provided for the studs or journals g of a number of recessed carriers having
bearing seats 2 for receiving the ends of the reel spindles i. The carriers are
so formed that the axis of the journal and bearing seat 92 for spindle i are
parallel but eccentric to each other, so that whatever the position of the circular
frames c the weight of the reel ensures that the axis of the bearing seat g2 is
always vertically beneath that of the journal g¹, the reel spindle being thus
prevented from dropping out when the circular frames are rotated. The
journals of the carriers are kept in place by the plates g³ fixed thereto on
the outside as shown.
.
In order to adjust the reels longitudinally in the frames and to bring them.
into the desired position, the reel-spindle-carriers h are bored through and
screw threaded internally to receive an adjusting screw fitted with a hand
wheel and coupled at its inner end to the end of the reel spindle by a forked
coupling piece m placed in the recessed blocks h with its two forks resting in
the annular grooves no cut in the adjusting screw and reel spindle respectively,
thus connecting them together. To prevent the over-running of the reel when
the paper is being unwound a brake is applied to the reel spindle by means of
a screws working in the upper part of the coupling m and adapted to be screwed
up against the face of the journal g¹ so as to force the fork of the coupling
against the side of the annular groove o of the reel spindle and exert a braking
action thereon.
The shaft bis rotated as shown through a worm wheelworm q and hand
or power wheel r, but any other suitable driving means may be employed.
When placing the reels on the frames, the frames are rotated into a suitable
position, so that a pair of the recessed carriers h are in a convenient position for
receiving the reel of paper from off the floor or a truck, and as soon as the reel
is mounted in the frame the shaft bis operated through the worm gearing, thus
rotating the frames and bringing a second pair of recessed carriers into position
for receiving another reel. This process is continued until all the reels are
mounted when the frame is locked automatically by a suitable locking device
and the webs are ready to be fed into a web cutter or other machine.
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. An improved apparatus for supporting reels of paper, comprising a central
shaft mounted in bearings, two circular frames keyed on the shaft, reel-spindle
carriers eccentrically mounted, on the frames, and a
frames substantially as described.
means for rotating the
2. In the improved apparatus for supporting reels of paper the means for
adjusting the reels longitudinally in the frame consisting of the recessed reel-
spindle-carrier, the adjusting screw in the carrier, and the coupling fork con-
necting the screw with the reel spindle substantially as described.

page_text: 3. In the improved apparatus for supporting reels of paper, the carriers for
the reel spindles each consisting of a recessed block, an eccentric journal on the
block and a bearing for the journal in the ring frame.
4. The improved apparatus for supporting reels of paper substantially as
described with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 30th day of January 1899
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.