Improvements in Stocks or Apparatus for Fulling Textile and other Fabrics or Materials.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 5th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 7th Dec., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stocks or Apparatus for Fulling Textile and other
Fabrics or Materials.
I, JAMES RUSSELL. of Ettrickbank Mill, Selkirk, in the County of Selkirk, North
Britain, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows, that is to say :-
My said Invention has for its object to improve the construction and operation of
stocks or apparatus for fulling textile and other fabrics or materials.
In carrying out my Invention I arrange the stocks so as to be double-acting, each
vibrating or reciprocating stock lever or block being made or fitted with a pair of feet
or operating parts which face opposite ways and act in boxes or cavities at opposite
sides of the machine, so that each stock lever or block is operative or effective in
both directions of its movements, and two quantities of goods one in each box or
cavity are operated on at the same time.
Each pair of stock feet or operating parts may be fixed on a lever centered below
the machine such lever being worked directly or through a connecting rod from a
crank or eccentric on a rotating shaft. Or the stock feet or operating parts of a pair
may be adjustably fixed to a centre block or frame fitted to slide on curved or straight
guides, or on anti-friction rollers or jointed to a pair of levers centered above or
below such centre block or frame being arranged to be acted on directly or through
one or more connecting rods by crank or eccentric on a rotating shaft.
The boxes which are made with the usual curved cavities to hold the goods are made
adjustable to and from the middle of the machine so that the sizes of the spaces or
cavities can be altered to suit different quantities or bulks of the goods operated on.
When the stock levers are centered below the operating parts the boxes may be fixed
to arms centered on the same shaft or axis as the stock levers; or the boxes may be
made movable on curved or straight guides, and be adjusted by means of pinions
and racks or in any other convenient way. The boxes may be made with hinged
covers, or backs, to which pressure may be applied by means of springs or weights.
Dated this Seth 1000
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stocks or Apparatus for Fulling Textile and other
Fabrics or Materials.
I, JAMES RUSSELL, of Ettrickbank Mill, Selkirk, in the County of Selkirk, North
Britain, Manufacturer, 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, that is to say:-
My said Invention has for its object to improve the construction and operation of
stocks or apparatus for fulling textile and other fabrics or materials.
In carrying out my Invention I arrange the stocks to be double-acting, each
vibrating or reciprocating stock lever or block being made or fitted with a pair of
feet or operating parts which face opposite ways and act in boxes or cavities at
opposite sides of the machine, so that each stock lever or block is operative or effective
in both directions of its movements, and two quantities of goods one in each box or
cavity are operated on at the same time.
Each pair of stock feet or operating parts may be fixed on a lever centered below
the machine; or the stock feet or operating parts of a pair may be fixed to a centre
block or frame fitted to slide on curved or straight guides, or on anti-friction rollers,
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page_text: or attached to a pair of levers centered below, such centre block or frame being
arranged to be acted on directly or through one or more connecting rods by a
crank or eccentric on a rotating shaft. The boxes which are made with the usual
curved cavities to hold the goods are inado adjustable to and from the middle of
the machine, so that the sizes of the spaces can be altered to suit different quantities
or bulks of the goods operated on.
Two modifications of my improved apparatus are shown on two accompanying
sheets of explanatory drawings, figures, 1, and 2, on shoet, 1, being a plan and a
sectional elevation of one modification, and figures, 3, and 4, on shoot, 2, being a
plan and sectional elevation of the other modification. In these drawings the
same reference numerals are used to mark the same or like parts wherever they are
ropented.
In the apparatus shown in figures, 1, and 2, there are two pairs of stock feet or
operating parts, 3, and the machine is made with boxes, 4, at each end. The two
feet, 3, of each pair are fixed to a middle block or frame,, shown as made in two
parts which are bolted to a connecting piece. 6, itself lolted to a lever or pair of
lovers, 7, centered below the machine on a pin, 8, fixed in brackets or frames, 9.
The blocks or frames, 5, to which the stock fort, 3, are fixed, are moved from side
to side by a crank, 10, on a rotating shaft, 11, having on it fast and loose pulleys. 12,
for a driving belt, and a flywheel, 13. Each crank, 10, has on it a pair of brusses, 14,
which work in slots or openings, 15, between the two frames, 5, of each pair of
stock feet; and the two cranks, 10, being diametrically opposite to each other make
the two pairs of stock feet move in opposite directions.
The boxes, 4, consist of external iron plates lined with wood, and the side plates
are formed with curved flanges, 16, by which the boxes rest on boaring flanges, 17,
formed on stationary frame plates, 18. Clamps, 19, are provided for fixing the boxes
when they have been adjusted at any desired distance from the middle of the
machine, the adjustment being effected by means of handwheels, 20, which through
worms and worm wheels turn shafts, 21, having on them pinions gearing with
racks, 22, fixed to the under sides of the boxes. Parts, 23, of the outer ends of the
boxes, 4, are hinged to allow of being opened to give convenient access for intro-
ducing and removing goods, and Intch clamps, 24, are provided for securing the
parts or doors, 23, when closed.
In the modification shown in figures, 3, and 4, each pair of stock feat, 3, is fixed
in a block or frame, 5, which is made with a base, 25, to rest and slide on a horizontal
guide plate, 26, which is the sole plate of the machine. Eccentrics, 27, on the
shaft, 11, are shown as used in this example for moving the blocks or frames, 5, these
eccentrics working in rectangular recesses in the frames between brass plates, 28, fixed
to the frames. Screw spindles. 29, movable by bevil gear, 30, and handwheels, 20,
are shown us applied for adjusting the boxes, 4, nearer to or further from tho
middle of the machine. Grooves, 31, are formed in the bottoms of the boxes, to
retain liquid, these grooves being deeper at and near the outer parts of the boxes
than near the middle of the machine. In other respects the modification shown in
figuros, 3, and 4, is substantially like that shown in figures, 1, and 2, and herein-
before describod.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what ]
claim is :-
1. The combination of parts constituting the improved fulling stocks or apparatus
shown in figures, 1, and 2, of the accompanying drawings and hereinbefore described.
2. The combination of parts constituting the improved fulling stocks or apparatus
shown in figures, 3, and 4, of the accompanying drawings and hereinbefore described.
Dated this Fourth day of November 1889.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agont.