Improvements in Apparatus for Opening and Guiding Woven Fabrics.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Dec., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 25th Aug., 1897- Accepted, 2nd Oct., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Opening and Guiding Woven
Fabrics.
I FREDERICK BUXTON, of Bingswood Avenue Whaley Bridge, near Stockport,
in the County of Chester, Millwright, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the construction of what are known as, "balanced
angular guides" and are used by bleachers, calico printers and others for the
purpose of opening or smoothing and guiding woven fabrics as they pass into or
through the machines or apparatus used in the bleaching, printing, and other
processes.
These "balanced angular guides" consist of two pairs of fluted or grooved
rollers supported upon a balanced bar or bed which swivels upon a centre pin,
each pair of rollers being inclined at an angle outwards so that as the cloth or
fauric passes between them it is drawn outwards from the centre towards the
selvages, and as the cloth passes between the bar or bed and the rollers it follows
that the latter can have no axle, bearings or supports at the centre but can only
be supported from the outside ends.
The objects of my invention are to remedy this defect and to give a bearing
or support to each end of each roller so that they will work much more steadily
and have no tendency to spring or give way to the "pull" of the cloth.
For this purpose I make the bar or bed double, that is to say with a long
central slot bent at the required angle at the centre.
One side of the bar or bed is provided at the centre (preferably on the inner
side of the angle) with a lug to receive the pin or pivot upon which the guide
swivels.
The slotted bar or bed is between the two pairs of rollers and the cloth or
fabric in passing from one pair to the other is carried through this slot, the
diameter of the rollers being such that in passing from one pair to the other the
cloth or fabric does not touch the edges of the slot.
By this arrangement I am enabled to support each pair of angular rollers in
a bearing at the centre as well as the usual bearings at the outer ends, without
interfering with the free passage of the cloth through the slot from one pair of
rollers to the other thereby imparting an increased staonity to the rollers and
preventing them from giving way or springing with the "pull" of the cloth or
fabric.
1000

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Opening and Guiding Woven
Fabrics.
I FREDERICK Buxiox, formerly of Bingswood Avenue, Whaley Bridge, near
Stockport, in the County of Chester, now of No. 1 Pine Street, Elton, Bury, in
the County of Lancaster, Millwright, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to the construction of what are known as "balanced
angular guides" and are used by bleachers, calico printers and others for the
purpose of opening or smoothing and guiding woven fabrics as they pass into or
through the machines or apparatus used in the bleaching, printing, and other
processes.
These balanced angular guides" consist of two pairs of fluted or grooved
rollers supported upon a balanced bar or bed which swivels upon a centre pin,
each pair of rollers being inclined at an angle outwards so that as the cloth or
fabric passes between them it is drawn outwards from the centre towards the
selvages, and as the cloth passes between the bar or bed and the rollers it follows
that the latter can have no axle bearings or supports at the centre but can only
be supported from the outside ends.
The objects of my invention are to remedy this defect and to give a bearing
or support to each end of each roller so that they will work much more steadily
and have no tendency to spring or give way to the "pull of the cloth.
My invention will be readily understood on reference to the accompanying
drawings of which, Fig. 1 is a transverse section through a balanced angular
guide made according to my invention, and Fig. 2 is a front elevation thereof.
a is the balanced bar or bed of the guide carried on a central pin at a,
and b b, bb, are the rollers supported on the bara, which according to this
invention I make double that is to say with a long central slot a bent at the
required angle at the centre.
on the inner
One side of the bar or bed a is provided at the centre (preferably
side of the angle) with a lug a to receive the pin or pivot at a upon which the
guide swivels.
is
The slotted bar or bed a is between the two pairs of rollers bb, b b (see Fig. 1)
and the cloth or fabric c in passing from one pair b b to the other pair
carried through this slot a', the diameter of the rollers being such that in passing
from one pair bb to the other the cloth or fabric c does not touch the edges
of the slot a¹.
By this arrngement I am enabled to support each pair of angular rollers in
a bearing b at the centre as well as the usual bearings at the outer ends, without
interfering with the free passage of the cloth c through the slot from one pair of
rollers to the other, thereby imparting an increased stability to the rollers b
and preventing them from giving way or springing with the pull" of the cloth
or fabric c.
C
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: -
A balanced angular guide for the above purposes consisting of a double or
slotted angular bar or bed supporting rollers at each side thereof so that the
fabric passes through the slot between the two parts of the bar or bed, the rollers

page_text: being supported at the centre of the bed or bar substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated by the annexed drawings.
Dated this 24th day of August 1897.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.