US9101A - Cordagre-machine - Google Patents

Description

UNITED sTaTns PATET Brion.

JOHN W. PEER, OF SCHENEOTADY, NEW YORK.

CORDAGE-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 9,101, dated July 6, 1852.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN W. PEER, of

. Schenectady, in the county of Schenectady and State of New Yorks have invented new and useful Improvements in Machines for Making Rope, Twine, and Cordage; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, 1n which- Figure l is a top view of the machine, Fig. 2, is a vertical longitudinal section in the line X X of Fig. 1. Fig. 3, is an end View representing the arrangement of driving gearing, and Fig. 4, is a view of the feeding scrolls, the same letters having reference to like parts in all the figures.

The nature of my invention consists in the combination of the scrolls, and pinions, with friction pulleys; thereby producing regular feed motion, with a uniformity and equality of strain on each strand of rope while laying or forming.

The construction is as follows, viz A, is the driving pulley hung upon the shaft B, on which is a pinion C, in which mesh the pinions D D D, which revolves the fliers E E E, which contains the spindles a., a, a, on which the spools b, o, o, are placed. To the fliers are connected plates F F F, which revolve with the same, upon each of which pinions C, C, are secured, so as to revolve upon their axis, by means of working into the grooves of the scrolls Gr G Gr, connected to which pinions upon the same axis are situated grooved rollers (l, d, around each set (of two) of which one strand of rope e, is wound from the spool. Said strand is wound around and crosses itself twice between the rollers, as represented in Fig. l. It is thence conducted through the center of the dier-journals f f f, thence through the guide g, at which point it is laid together and forms the rope, and is thence conducted into the layerframe H,

around grooved friction pulleys h, 71 thence through the guide i, and is wound upon the reel I. rI'he layerframe is supported by journals y' j, towhich frame motion is given by the pinion J, meshing into t-he pinion 7c,

y which is connected to the main driving-pinion by means of the shaft K and pinions L M. u

Z, is a stationary pinion situated upon the journal-box m, into which pinion, mesh the pinion n, which revolves around said pinion (l) and revolves the pulleys (h 71.) by means of the connecting pinions p, Q, r, s, t,

the position of the latter three of which are represented in red lines in Fig. 2. Said pulleys are made so as to revolve upon their shaft, and are placed between a stationary .collar u and plate o, between each of which which receives its motion by means of connecting pinions y, e, the latter of which meshes into and revolves upon its axis and around the pinion a with the motion of the layer flier; said pinion (a) is made stationary upon the journal j, as is also the pinion 0, which meshes into the pinion b, upon which any required amount of friction is applied by the rubber, c, which is applied by the lever eZ, and connect-ing rod c, and is held firmly by the notched plate f. The guide rest g, in which the guide z' rests upon the rod Iz., so as to slide and receive a traversing motion by means of the endless return screw i; which receives its motion by means of the connecting pinions 7c, Z, m, forming a connection with the reel I in such manner as to secure the even winding of the rope upon the reel. In the construction of the fliers the bars n n, are made fast at both ends to the end bars 0, 0, and the spindle is hinged at one end, and the other end rests in the movable thimble p, which is borne against the end of the spindle by the spring Q, 9-

I-Iaving thus described the construction I will proceed more fully to describe the operation of the machine. The spools are placed upon the spindle, so that as the strand is drawn olf, the revolving motion shall be in the same direction as the motion of the flier, which secures its unwinding no faster than t-he supply demanded, and at the same time they are free to slide to either end of the spindle, and operate with the most perfect freedom. In the operation of the feed rollers (d d) the strand being wound around them as 'described secures it for twist-ing, which is accomplished by the motion of the flier, and produces a regular feed of eachstrand by the motion produced by the pinions (c, o) Working into the scrolls (g, g, g,) and alsoV holds it firmly to secure due stretch in the strands to prevent kinking, and secure a firm and even lay of the strands in forming the rope. The rope being passed around the pulleys (h, lz.) whichy are caused to turn by the system of gearing as described secures due tension upon theA rope in the laying, by due application of friction applied to the pulleys by means of set screws (fw, 10,) as described, the motion of the pinions (s, t) being greater than the rollers (d CZ) to compensate and reduce the flier compared With the spindle fliers is about three revolutions to ve, more or less, which may be changed by substituting a layer or smaller pinion in place of L and changing the position of the pinion M as the case may require. The plates 'F F F are made of sufficient length to admit larger or smaller pinions (c c) and rollers (d d) to adapt them to the proper size for making various sizes of rope: or the rollers may alone be changedandadapted to one size of pinions, the size of the pinions bein governed according to the required speed for the feed of the strands.

Having thus described the construction and operation of my machine, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The use of grooved scrolls (G G G) and their combination With pinions (c, 0,) and grooved rollers (d, l,) and friction rollers (h 7L), or equivalents for such friction rollers to create a regular feed motion and equality of strain While laying or forming in a rope, twine, or cordage machine; the

Whole being constructed in the manner and for the purpose substantially the same as described.

JOHN W. PEER.

Witnesses:

JOHN HINDE, HENRY M. CRANE.

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