IM- PROVEMENTS IN PRESSES FOR PRESSING HIDES, CLOTH BAGS, PIECE GOODS, OR OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Miller, of the Firm of Hoare, Miller, and Company,
of Austin Friara, in the City of London, Merchants, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN PRESSES FOR PRESSING HIDES, CLOTH BAGS, PIECE GOODS,
OR OTHER ARTICLES." A communication from abroad by Henry Benjamin
Harrison and Charles Edward Stewart, both of Calcutta, India.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Miller at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th May 1877.
GEORGE MILLER, of the Firm of Hoare, Miller, and Company, of Austin Friars,
in the City of London, Merchants. "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRESSES FOR PRESSING
HIDES, CLOTH BAGS, PIECE GOODS, OR OTHER ARTICLES." A communication from
abroad by Henry Benjamin Harrison and Charles Edward Stewart, both of Calcutta,
India.
This Invention has reference to presses for pressing hides, cloth bags, piece goods,
or other articles into bales, especially such articles as do not require to be confined
in close boxes during the pressing operation.
The Invention consists in arranging on duplicate lashing plates of wrought or
cast iron or steel, a pair of adjustable vertical frames, the distance of which from
each other can be regulated to suit the dimensions of the hides, cloth bags, or other
articles to be pressed into bales.
One manner in which the adjustment may be effected is to fit the lower ends of
the frames in 1 guides and to connect the two frames to each other by the rods, the
length of which is adjustable by screws and nuts.
Further, to admit of the lashing plates being made light and to facilitate speedy
manipulation, they are constructed with slots somewhat broader than the lashing
ropes or bands; and the lower portion of the press or follower is made with grooves
corresponding with these slots, so that the lashing ropes or bands can be made to
pass readily beneath the material to be baled.
Also when the lashing plate with the material to be pressed between its adjustable
sides is being run on to the press follower, the rails, rack, or slides on which it
moves are elevated above the follower; but when it is in its position above the rams
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page_text: as regulated by stops, the lashing plate is allowed to drop and fit into the follower
of the press, which thus receives the thrust of the rams. This elevating and
dropping of the lashing plate may be effected by levers or other suitable mechanical
contrivances.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said George Miller in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 9th November
1877.
"
GEORGE MILLER, of the Firm of Hoare, Miller, and Company, of Austin Friars,
in the City of London, Merchants. IMPROVEMENTS IN PRESSES FOR PRESSING
HIDES, CLOTH BAGS, PIECE GOODS, OR OTHER ARTICLES." (A communication from
abroad by Henry Benjamin Harrison and Charles Edward Stewart, both of Calcutta,
India.)
This Invention has reference to presses for pressing hides, cloth bags, piece goods,
or other articles into bales, especially such articles as do not require to be confined
in close boxes during the pressing operation.
The Invention consists in arranging on duplicate lashing plates of wrought or
cast iron or steel, a pair of adjustable vertical frames, the distance of which from
each other can be regulated to suit the dimensions of the hides, cloth bags, or other
articles to be pressed into bales.
One manner in which the adjustment may be effected is to fit the lower ends of
the frames in guides and to connect the two frames to each other by tie rods, the
length of which is adjustable by screws and nuts.
Further, to admit of the lashing plates being made light and to facilitate speedy
manipulation, they are constructed with slots somewhat. broader than the lashing
ropes or bands; and the lower portion of the press or follower is made with grooves
corresponding with these slots, so that the lashing ropes or bands can be made to
pass readily beneath the material to be baled.
Also when the lashing plate with the material to be pressed between its adjustable
sides is being run on to the press follower, the rails, rack, or slides on which it
moves are elevated above the follower; but when it is in its position above the rams,
as regulated by stops, the lashing plate is allowed to drop and fit into the follower
of the press, which thus receives the thrust of the rams. This elevating and
dropping of the lashing plate may be effected by levers or other suitable mechanical
contrivances.
The Invention will be fully understood on reference to the accompanying
Drawings.
Figure 1 is a front elevation and Figure 2 a side clevation of a press constructed
with iny improvements.
Figure 3 is a side view shewing the adjustable vertical frames herein-before
described.
Figure 4 is a plan of one of the improved lashing plates A, the dotted lines 1, 1,
1, 1, indicating the form of the duplicate plate, one being right hand and the other
left.
Figure 5 is a plan of an additional lashing plate B, the dotted lines 2, 2, 2, 2,
indicating the form of the duplicate plate in this case also.
C, C, are a pair of vertical frames arranged on one of the lashing plates A, as scen
in Figures and 3, the distance of the two frames C, C, from each other being
regulated as required to suit the dimensions of the articles to be pressed into bales.
This adjustment is effected by fixing shaped feet D, D, on the frames, such feet
taking into correspondingly shaped guides E, E, on the lashing plate, and by con-
necting the frames to each other by tie rods F, F, the length of which is adjustable
by nuts G, G, which work on right and left handed screw threads on the said rods.

page_text: These rods have spring catches J, J; H, H, are slots in the lashing plate A, such
slots being broader than the lashing ropes or bands (say 15 inches) so that the
lashing ropes (the bottom table of the press being made with grooves corresponding
with these slots) may be passed readily beneath the material to be baled; I, I, are
other slots in the plate A to receive the wrought-iron bars K, K, for guiding the
material which is being pressed; L, L, are shafts with guides and pauls for wedging
up the guide bars K, K, to the material to be baled; these guide bars move up with
the bottom table in the usual manner; M, M, are wheels below the lashing plate to
run on the rails N. The lashing plate B is also formed with slots H, H, for the
lashing ropes, but these slots are at right angles to those in the plate A. The bottom
table of the press has grooves corresponding with the slots H, H, in both the lashing
plates A and B, and these grooves should be somewhat broader than the said slots.
The bottom table has two recesses O, O, corresponding with the position of the
wheels and axles on the lashing plate, so that these wheels and axles can pass freely
through or across the table. In the bottom of each of these recesses a wrought-iron
rail P is fitted so as to move easily in a truly planed groove, and there are two sets
of levers Q, rocking shafts R, and wedges S for the purpose of raising these rails P
or allowing them to drop. Thus, when the lashing plate with the material to be
pressed is being run on to the press follower, the rails P, P, are raised above the
follower, but when the lashing plate is in its position above the rams, as regulated
by stops, the rails P, P, with the lashing plate are allowed to drop and the lashing
plate fits into the follower.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as the "Improvements in Presses for
Pressing Hides, Cloth Bags, Piece Goods, or other Articles,"
First. Fitting adjustable vertical frames to the lashing plates, substantially
as and for the purpose herein-before described and represented in the annexed
Drawings.
Second. Forming slots in the lashing plates and corresponding grooves in the
press follower or table, substantially as and for the purpose berein-before described
and represented in the annexed Drawings.
Third. Constructing presses with apparatus for raising the lashing plate above
the follower until it is in the proper position above the rams and then allowing it to
drop into or upon the follower, substantially as herein-before described and repre-
sented in the annexed Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Miller, have hereunto set my hand
and scal, this Seventh day of November, One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-seven.
GEO. MILLER. (L.S.)