Year: 1896

page_text: I ALFRED AUSTIN WHITLEY of 2 Malvern Villas Chesham Road Bury in the
County of Lancaster Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
My invention relates to machines for beetling cloth or fabrics that is subjecting
them to a stamping action usually effected by stamps fallers or jumpers alternately
raised and allowed to fall upon the cloth carried upon a roller or rollers or equí-
valent support or supports constituting a cloth beam or cloth beams. According
to my invention I combine with the machine beneath the cloth beam or cloth
beans a surface or surfaces by which when the cloth at the upper part of the cloth
beam or cloth beams is acted upon by the stamps fallers or jumpers also cause a
similar action upon the cloth at the underside of the said cloth beam or cloth
beams. The surface or surfaces so added preferably consists or consist of a roller
or rollers situated say under the ordinary cloth beam in the centre of the machine
the said additional roller or rollers being of or about the same length as the cloth
beam or cloth beams and supporting the said cloth beam or cloth beams.
By this means the concussion of the stamps fallers or jumpers causes the cloth to
be acted upon on both sides of the cloth beam or cloth beams. The cloth beam or
cloth beanis may move longitudinally relatively to the additional roller or rollers
or the like or vice versa.
If desired the roller or rollers and cloth beam or cloth beams may be forced
towards each other to give increased pressure on the cloth.
Dated this 9th day of March 1896.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
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I, ALFRED AUSTIN WHITLEY, of 2 Malvern Villas, Chesham Road, Bury, in
the County of Lancaster, Engineer, 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 :-
My invention relates to machines for beetling cloth or fabrics that is subjecting
them to a stamping action usually effected by stamps fallers or jumpers alternately
raised and allowed to fall upon the cloth carried upon a roller or rollers or equi-
valent support or supports constituting a cloth beam or cloth beams. According
to my invention 1 combine with the machine beneath the cloth beam or cloth beams
a surface or surfaces which, when the cloth at the upper part of the cloth beam
or cloth beams is acted upon by the stamps fallers or jumpers, also causes or cause

page_text: a similar action upon the cloth at the underside of the said cloth beam or cloth
beams. The surface or surfaces so added preferably consists or consist of a roller
or rollers situated say under the ordinary cloth beam in the centre of the machine
the said additional roller or rollers being of or about the same length as the cloth
beam or cloth beams and supporting the said cloth beam or cloth beams.
By this means the concussion of the stamps fallers or jumpers causes the cloth
to be acted upon on both sides of the cloth beam or cloth beams. The cloth beam
or cloth beams may move longitudinally relatively to the additional roller or rollers
or the like or vice versa.
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If desired the roller or rollers and cloth beam or cloth beams may be forced
towards each other to give increased pressure on the cloth.
In order that my said invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect will proceed to describe the drawings hereunto annexed.
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a beetling machine provided with improvements
according to my invention. Figure 2 is a plan of the same. Figure 3 an end
view looking in the direction of the arrow in Figure 1, portion of the driving
mechanism being omitted.
In a machine constructed according to my invention, I provide beneath the cloth
beam A the shaft A' of which is mounted in open bearings or vertical guides B
in the end frames B', a roller C the shaft C' of which is supported in bearings B'
which may be raised and lowered in the end frames B¹.
A convenient way of raising and lowering the bearings B2, of which only one is
shewn in the drawings, viz. :-in Figure 3, is by means of wedges C' each of which
may be moved more or less beneath one of the bearings B2 by a screw C³ secured
to the said wedge, and a nut C' threaded on the screw and mounted between the
arms of a fixed bracket C.
D are the stamps, fallers or jumpers which, as usual, are guided so that they may
freely move up and down and E are the lifters or wipers which, when rotated in
the direction indicated by the arrow in Figure 3, engage with arms or projections D¹
on the stamps, fallers or jumpers D and thereby raise these latter so that when
they are released the said stainps, fallers or jumpers will fall upon the cloth or
fabric on the cloth beam A.
The shaft C' of the roller C besides being free to rotate in the bearings B is
also capable of being moved therein in the direction of its length, and on one of
its ends is secured a spur wheel C which gears with a helically-formed spur
pinion F to which rotary motion is transmitted by gearing F1 which may be of any
suitable construction or arrangement. The pinion F is prevented from moving in
the direction of its axis by any convenient means, and as the wheel C and pinion F
are constantly in gear, by reason of the helical form of the said pinion, the
wheel C and the shaft C and roller C at each rotation of the pinion Fare caused
to reciprocate in the direction of their common axis. The shaft A' is free to move
in its bearings or guides B similarly to the shaft C' in its bearings, and as the
cloth beam A is provided with flanges A which engage with the ends of the
roller C it follows that any longitudinal motion imparted to the roller C will be
transmitted through the flanges A' to the cloth beam A and the cloth or fabric
thereon.
The cloth or fabric to be operated on is tightly wound onto the cloth beam to a
depth or thickness of say about 3 or 4 inches and placed in position between the
beaters D and the roller C. While the cloth on one cloth beam is under operation
another cloth beam may be charged with cloth or a cloth beam containing a charge
of cloth which has been operated on may be stripped and recharged with cloth
ready to be arranged beneath the beaters.
It is not necessary to remove the cloth beams from the machine for stripping
and refilling, as the bearings or vertical guides B for the journals of the beam are
capable of being lowered so as to admit of the journals passing into and out of
position. A shews a cloth beam in position for being stripped and recharged
with cloth.

page_text: By the arrangement described the concussion of the stamps, fallers, or jumpers D
causes the cloth or fabric to be acted upon both above and below the cloth beam A,
instead of as in beetling machines as hitherto constructed where the roller C is
not provided, only above the said beam A. Instead of employing only one roller C
beneath the cloth beam A as shewn in the drawings, two or more such rollers may
belprovided.
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:-
1. In beetling machines the combination of a surface or of surfaces beneath the
cloth beam or cloth beams, which surface or surfaces when the cloth at the upper
part of the cloth beam or cloth beams is acted upon by the stamps, fallers or
jumpers also causes or cause a similar action upon the cloth at the underside of the
said cloth beam or cloth beams substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. In a beetling machine the combination with the beam on which the fabric is
subjected to the action of the stamps, fallers, or jumpers, of a roller or rollers
beneath the said beam and means for raising the roller or rollers so as to cause it
or them to support the cloth beam, substantially as and for the purpose herein-
before described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
3. In a beetling machine, the combination with a beam on which the cloth is
subjected to the action of the stamps, fallers, or jumpers, and a roller or rollers
such as C adjustable beneath the cloth beam, of means for longitudinally
reciprocating the said beam and roller substantially as and for the purpose herein-
before described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 9th day of December 1896.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.