IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER OR LINEN SPOOL TUBES, WHICH MACHINERY IS ALSO APPLICABLE FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CARTRIDGE CASES
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Hirst, of Halifax, in the County of York,
Paper. Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER OR LINEN SPOOL TUBES,
WHICH MACHINERY IS ALSO APPLICABLE FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CARTRIDGE
CASES"
Seaied the 4th November 1864, and dated the 6th May 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Hirst at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 6th
May 1864:
¡ to
I, WILLIAM HIRST, of Halifax, in the County. of York, Paper Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER OR
LINEN SPOOL TUBES, WHICH MACHINERY IS ALSO APPLICABLE FOR THE MANUFACTURE
OF CARTRIDGE CASES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to certain further improvements in machinery(for the
purpose above described for which Letters Patent were granted to me,dated
the ninth day of September, Anno Domini, 1862, and numbered 2481.
The first part of this Invention relates to the spindle on which the paper
(or other material from which a spool tube or cartridge case is to be made) is
wound, and in the Specification of the above-named Letters Patent I describe
a means of pushing or sliding the spool tube or cartridge case off the said
spindle by means of a collar and pin.
The second part of this my Invention relates to the method of supplying
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page_text: the endless pasting cloth with paste,and described in the aforesaid Specification
as being effected by means of a funnel or hopper, the paste running out at the
bottom of the said funnel or hopper between a pair of brushes which touch
the endless pasting cloth. Now this Invention consists,―
Firstly, in constructing the spindle (on and around which the paper or
other material from which a spool tube or cartridge case is to be made is
wound) in two parts, or in employing two short spindles, the said spindles
being supported by and working in necks or bearings, the ends of such
spindles being brought together by means of spiral springs or cams ready
to receive the paper from which a spool tube or cartridge case is to
be made, rotary motion being given to the said spindles by suitable gearing,
the paper or other material is wound thereon. The spool tube or cartridge case
being complete the spindles are by cams or springs drawn apart in opposite
directions, and out of the spool tube or cartridge case, the said spool tube or
cartridge case being released falls and is received byan endless travelling cloth
or apron and carried to a drying apparatus, and the ends of the spindles are
brought together again as above described ready to repeat the operation. In
order to prevent vacuum orvacuity in the spool tubes or cartridge cases on the
withdrawal of the spindles a hole is bored longitudinally through one or both of
the spindles, through which hole air is admitted to the interior of the spool tube
or cartridge case as the spindles are withdrawn, thus preventing collapsion.
Secondly, in order to equalize and regulate the supply of paste to the pasting
trough, I provide a bottle necked vessel, which I fill with paste. On commencing
to work the machine the hopper or trough is supplied with the required
quantity or proper depth of paste, and the vessel above mentioned is supported
in an inverted position by a bracket over the trough or hopper, the
neck of the said vessel being immersed in the paste. As paste is withdrawn
from the trough it is replaced by the discharge from the aforesaid vessel, and
by these means I am enabled to obtain and maintain an uniform supply
of paste to the hopper and endless pasting cloth.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Hirst, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th
November 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
HIRST, of Halifax, in the County of York, Paper Manufacturer, send 3
greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Hirst, Her special licence that I, the said Willian Hirst, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Hirst, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at anytime 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 TO BE EM-
PLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER OR LINEN SPOOL TUBES, WHICH MACHINERY
IS ALSO APPLICABLE FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CARTRIDGE CASES," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said William Hirst, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what inanuer 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 William Hirst, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement.
This Invention relates to certain further improvements in machinery (for
the purpose above described) for which Letters Patent were granted to me,
dated the Ninth day of September, A.D. 1862, and numbered 2451.
'The first part of this Invention relates to the spindle on which the paper
(or other material from which a spool tube or cartridge case is to be made)
is wound, and in the Specification of the above-named Letters Patent I
describe a means of pushing or sliding the spool tube or cartridge case off the
said spindle by means of a collar and pin.
my
The second part of this Invention relates to the method of supplying
the endless pasting cloth with paste, and described in the aforesaid Specification
as being effected by means of a funnel or hopper, the paste running out at
the bottom of the said funnel or hopper between a pair of brushes which
touch the endless pasting cloth. Now this Invention consists,-
Firstly, in constructing the spindle (on and around which the paper or
other material from whichaspool tube or cartridge case is to be made is wound).

page_text: in two parts, or in employing two short spindles, the said spindles being sup
ported by and working in necks or bearings, the ends of such spindles being
brought together by means of spiral springs or cams ready to receive the
paper from which a spool tube or cartridge case is to be made. Roterý motion
being given to the said spindles bysuitable gearing, the paper or other material
is wound thereon. The spool tube orcartridge case being complete, the spindles
are by cams or springs drawn apart in opposite directions, and out of the
spool tube or cartridge case, the said spool tube or cartridge case being released
falls, and is received by an endless travelling cloth or apron, and carried to a
drying apparatus, and the ends of the spindles are brought together again as
above described ready to repeat the operation. In order to prevent vacuum
or vacuityin the spool tubes orcartridge cases on the withdrawal of the spindles
a hole is bored longitudinally through one or both of the spindles, through
which hole air is admitted to the interior of the spool tube or cartridge case
as the spindles are withdrawn, thus preventing collapsion.
Secondly, in order to equalize and regulate the supply of paste to the pasting
trough, I provide a bottle-necked vessel which I fill with paste on commencing
to work the machine, the hepper or trough is supplied with the required quan-
tityor proper depth of paste, and the vessel above mentioned is supported in an
inverted position by a bracket over the trough or hopper, the neck of the said
.vessel being immersed in the paste. As paste is withdrawn from the trough
it is replaced by the discharge from the aforesaid vessel, by these means I am
enabled to obtain and maintain an uniform supply of paste to the trough and
pasting cloth.
In order more distinctly to illustrate my Invention, and the practical appli-
cation thereof to the purposes above mentioned, I have attached to these
Presents a Sheet of Drawings illustrating the parts to which this Invention
relates (drawn about one-fourth full size) in which Figure 1 is an end eleva-
tion; Figure 2, a plan of the same; Figure 3, a cross section, shewing the
trough and inverted bottle-necked vessel for supplying paste to the pasting
cloth; and Figure 4 shews the two parts composing the spindle (around which
the paper is wound) drawn apart for the purpose of liberating the finished
spool tube or cartridge case.
A,A,shews the two parts composing the spindle, around which the paper is
wound in making a spool tube or cartridge case; B,B, the necks or bearings
in which the parts A, A, work; and B', a slide to which the pulley B² is
affixed, working on the V or angular shaped rod B3;-C, C, are the spiral
springs which bring together the parts A, A, rotary motion being given to the
same by the wheels D, D, gearing and running in the pinion wheels D¹, D',

page_text: fixed on the end of each part composing the spindle A, A; E, E, are the
cams, which acting on the pullies B2, B2, by means of the slides B', B', work-
ing on the V or angular shaped rod B³, draw apart the spindle A, A, for the
purpose of liberating the finished spool tube or cartridge case, which on falling
is received by the endless travelling cloth F,and carried to a drying apparatus,
the parts A, A, being by the spiral springs C, C, brought together ready to
receive the next length of paper from which a spool tube or cartridge case is
to be made; at G is shewn the longitudinal hole in the part spindle A, for the
purpose of supplying air, thus preventing vacuum or vacuity in thetubes on
withdrawing the spindle A, A; H, shews the pasting trough I, the inverted
bottle-necked vessel for supplying the same with paste, and supported by the
bracket J; the paste in the trough H being carried by the grooved roller K,to
the pasting cloth L on the roller M, the paper on its passage (to the spindle
A, A,) between the pasting cloth L, and the gutta-percha bands N on the
grooved roller K is pasted as fully described in the Specification of Patent No.
2481, A.D. 1862, above referred to.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of mysaid Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed or carried into practical
effect, I desire it to be understood that I claim as my Invention, and which
I believe to be new within this realm is,―
Firstly, the spindle composed of two parts and the means of operating the
same by cams.or springs.
Secondly, the inverted bottle-necked vessel for supplying the pasting trough
with paste.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Hirst, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Third day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
Signed and sealed by the within-
named William Hirst, in the
presence of
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Patent Agent,
Halifax & Blackburn.
WILLIAM HIRST. (L.B.)