Improvements in self feeding eyeletting machines
Year: 1887

page_text: We, MARSHALL HENRY PEARSON, and CHARLES BENNION, both of the Union
Works, Blue Boar Lane, Leicester, in the County of Leicester, Mechanical Engineers,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to Improvements in self feeding eyeletting machines, such as
those described in the Specification of Letters patent granted to the said Marshall
Henry Pearson, the 17th day of September 1885 No. 11041, and it is designed 1st to
provide means for automatically regulating the supply of eyelets from the box to the
shoot thereby ensuring a regular and steady supply; and secondly, to provide means
for reducing the friction on some of the working parts of the machine, as well as
means for giving a direct tilting motion to the eyelet box.
For the purpose of regulating the supply of eyelets to the shoot, we provide on an
intermediate or false bottom fixed within and at a suitable distance above the bottom
of the square or rectangular reciprocating eyelet box described in the hereinbefore
mentioned Specification, a shield or guide over a hole (in the false bottom) a little out
of centre and at a suitable distance from the rear of the box. The shield or guide
may be made wider at the mouth than in the interior, and it is shaped internally
somewhat similar to a nautilus shell, or in the form of a portion of a spiral so arranged
at the inner end that it only partially passes round the circumference of the hole so as
to leave sufficient room for the eyelets to pass freely round or along the spiral and fall
through the hole in the false bottom into the lower compartment and onto the bottom
proper of the box. The shield or guide is provided with a cover placed a suitable
distance from the false bottom which prevents the eyelets passing within it except at
the mouth, and the guiding shield is so arranged as only to allow one eyelet to pass
through the hole at each oscillation of the box. And in order to deliver the eyelets
more easily from the lower compartment to the shoot instead of fixing the perforated
regulating plate or comb to the front of the box we crank or bend the comb portion

page_text: thereof within the lower compartiment of the box so as to allow a greater distance
between the comb and hinge of the box and shoot.
In order to reduce the friction of some of the working parts we provide on the end
of the spindle, and also on the plate for actuating the shoot, a friction roller which
work respectively against the fulcrumed lever, and incline cam on the shoot. And
instead of allowing the bottom of the eyelet box to work against a runner attached to
a support fixed to the fulcrumed lever we provide on the bottom of the eyelet box a lug
or lugs to which is hinged or attached a connecting rod, and coupled at the opposite
end, so as to work freely, to a pin or bracket fixed to the clenching spindle. By this
means movement is given to the eyelet box direct from and simultaneously with the
eyeletting spindle.
Dated this Fourth day of January 1487

page_text: Improvements in or relating to Self Feeding Eyeletting Machines.
We, MARSHALL HENRY PEARSON, and CHARLES BENNION, both of the Union
Works, Blue Boar Lane, Leicester, in the County of Leicester, Mechanical Engineers,
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 relates to Improvements in self feeding eyeletting machines, such as
are described in the Specification of Letters Patent granted to Marshall Henry
Pearson, the 17th day of September 1885. No. 11041, and it is designed to provide
means for regulating the supply of eyelets from the box to the shoot for ensuring
a regular and steady supply and also to provide means for reducing the friction
on some of the working parts of the machine, as well as means for giving a direct
tilting motion to the eyelet box.
:
In the drawings hereunto annexed
Fig. 1. is a side elevation of a self feeding eyeletting machine constructed according
to this Invention.
Fig. 2. a front elevation of a self feeding eyeletting machine with the Improvements
applied.
Fig. 3. is a plan of eyelet box with lid removed showing the shield or guide in
position.
Fig. 4. is an end elevation of eyelet box.
Figs. 5 and 6 are respectively an enlarged plan and end elevation of shield or
guide.
Fig. 7. an elevation of slide for actuating eyelet shoot.
Like parts in all the views are marked with the same letters of reference.
A is the main framing or standard of the machine. B and B are the eyelet
clenching spindle and fixed clenching die. Cand (the eyelet box and conducting
shoot. the fulcruned lever for communicating motion to the clenching spindle.
E the spring for returning the cyclet shoot to its position under the clenching spindle
and F the bracket to which the eyelet box and conducting shoot are pivoted; all of
which parts may be of a similar construction and made to operate in a similar
manner to those described in the Specification of the herein before mentioned Letters
Patent.
In order to ensure a steady and regular supply of eyelets from the oscillating or
tilting eyelet box (to the shoot (and to prevent overcrowding at the mouth of the
shoot, we provide the said box with a false or intermediate bottoin e thus forming an
upper and a lower compartment. The intermediate bottom may be formed or fixed
within the box, or to the bottom of the box may be cast or fixed a hollow projecting
receptacle or trough c' as shown in the drawings. This projecting receptacle or
trough preferably extends the full length of the box C, but is about two thirds or
three fourths the width of the same, and about one half or three fourths of an inch in

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depth. Into the larger and upper compartment the supply of eyelets is placed.
the intermediate bottom c at a suitable distance from the rear or end c2 of the box and
preferably a little out of centre is a hole c³ whereby a communication is made between
the upper and lower portions of the box. The hole c³ is made of such a diameter that
the largest sized eyelet can pass through it in any position. Over the hole, within the
upper compartment and fixed to the intermediate bottom is a shield or guide G
formed in two parts, namely, a cover g and a guiding or conducting portion 9. The
guiding or directing portion may be shaped somewhat similar to a nautilus shell, but
we have found when it is formed similar to that shown at Fig. 5. very good results
may be obtained. The mouth g² of the guiding portion of the shield G is made to
curve towards and beyond the hole as shown, whilst the opposite end g³ after
partially encircling the hole (nearest to the front c of the box) forms a tangent
thereto, and joins the curved portion g2 beyond the hole at the rear of the box so as to
form a recess 9 for the purposes herein after set forth. The wide or mouth portion
of the guiding portion g is placed facing the front or delivery end c¹ of the box so
that at each depression of the end c² of the box, one or more eyelets may pass or roll
into the shield and be guided by the curved portion g² to the rear of the box beyond
the hole e³ into the recess g'. At the point g, the shield or guide is contracted so as
to prevent more than one or two eyelets passing this point at one and the same time.
The side or tangent portion g³ of the recess is employed for guiding the eyelets to and
through the hole c³ into the lower compartment on the return of the box to its normal
position as shown at Figs. 1 and 2; and in order to prevent any eyelets lodging in
the recess the curved and tangent portions of the shield are joined together by a small
curve as shown. The return motion of the box also causes any eyelets in the lower
compartment to pass forward to the delivery end c' and through the comb H into the
shoot (. The cover g is made the same shape as the outer contour of the guiding
portion g', and is fixed to the top of the guiding portion about three eighths or one
half of an inch above the level of the intermediate bottom. This cover is employed
for preventing the eyelets passing into the shield except at its mouth g³.
By the herein described arrangement a continuous and regular supply of eyclets
from the tilting or reciprocating box C to the shoot can be obtained.
In order to deliver the eyelets more easily from the lower compartment to the
shoot, instead of fixing the perforated regulating plate or comb to the front of the box
as described in the Specification of the hereinbefore mentioned Letters Patent, we
crank or bend the comb portion H within the lower compartment of the box as shown
at h Figs 2 and 3, so as to provide a greater distance between the comb and the hingej
of the box C and shoot C.
Further to reduce the friction on the shoot C₁ as much as possible, we provide and
mount on the slide I, which moves the shoot to and from its work, a friction roller i
as shown at Figs. 2 and 7.
And instead of allowing the bottom of the eyelet box to work against a runner
attached to a support fixed to the fulcrumed lever D as described in the said
Specification of Patent No. 11041 of 1885, one or more lugs care provided on the
bottom of the box to which is attached or coupled the upper end of the clenching
spindle as shown at 6 Fig. 2. by means of a pin 6. By this means movement is
given to the eyelet box direct from and simultaneously with the eyeletting spindle.
The other parts of the machine not described may be of the same construction and
operate in a similar manner to those described in the Specification of the herein before
mentioned Letters Patent.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
:-
1. The means or apparatus herein described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings for regulating the supply of eyelets from the box of a self feeding eyeletting
machine to the conducting shoot whereby a regular and steady supply of eyelets to
the clenching mechanism is obtained, substantially as herein set forth.

page_text: 2. In a self feeding eyeletting machine, the use of a shield or guide (such as G)
constructed as above described for receiving and guiding the eyelets from an upper to
a lower compartment of an eyelet box, such as C, as and for the purposes above set
forth.
3. In combination with a shield, such as G, the eyelet box, such as C, provided
with a lower compartiment for receiving and conducting the eyelets to the shoot Cas
they fall through the hole in the bottom of the upper compartment, substantially as
herein set forth and illustrated.
4. The combination of the various parts forming the self feeding eyeletting
mechanism as a whole, constructed as herein described and illustrated.