US1624605A - Babbitting frame - Google Patents

Description

April 12, 1927. 1,624,605 v c. J. KUSCHEL BABBITTING FRAME Filed May 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet l Patented Apr, 12, 1927 barren CLEMENS JOHN KUSOI-IEL, OF BROWN VALLEY, MTNNESOTA.

BABBITTING FRAME.

Application filed May 24, 1926. Serial No. 111,339.

This invention aims to provide novel means whereby a shaft and a wheel maybe held in concentric relation with respect to each other while a babbitt bearing is being poured into the hub of the wheel.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the invention appertains.

lVith the above and other objects in View which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings Figure 1 is an elevation;

Figure 2 is an elevation wherein the de vice is viewed at right angle to the showing of Figure 1, parts being in section;

Figure 3'is a section on the line 3-3 of Figure 1; I V

Figure 4 is a top plan;

Figure 5 is a perspective View showing one of the clamps. 1

The device includes a frame embodying a base plate 1 and a standard 2, the standard preferably being an angle member supplied at its lower end with horizontal feet 3 C011? nected by bolts and wing nuts 4 with the base plate 1. The standard 2 may be described, generally, as being trough-shaped.

Intermediate its ends, the standard 2 is supplied with a horizontal loop-shaped bracket connected at one end to the bracket and outstanding laterally with respect to the bracket, as shown best in Figure 3, the

bracket being marked by the numeral 5. At:

its outer end, the bracket 5 has a tubular r bearing 6. A screw 7 is threaded into the bearing 6 and is provided at its outer end with a crank or the like, designated by the numeral 8'. The inner end of the screw 7 is mounted to rotate in a foot 9. The screw 7 constitutes a clamping means cooperating with the trough shaped standard 2, and carried by the standard, at a ate the ends of the standar At its upper end, the standard 2 is supplied with any desired number of'radial arms 10,

three of these arms being shown. The arms 10. are disposed horizontally. Holders are adjustable longitudinally of the arms 10, each holder including a block 11 provided with an off-set seat 12 in which the lower edge of the arm is received, hook bolts or other securing elements being mounted in placed in the trough-shaped standard 2 and is held in the standard by advancingthe screw 7 until the foot 9. bears against the shaft 16 and clamps the shaft in the standard. A wheel 17 is placed on the arms 10 of the standard 2 and is centered properly with respect to the shaft 16, the shaft extending through the hub 18 of the wheel. ,If necessary, spacers 19 may be placed about the shaft 16, between the lower end of the hub 18 and the upper end of the standard 2, so

as to close the lower end of the hole 20 in thehub 18, thereby to prevent thebabbitt from running out of the hole in the hub when the babbitt is poured. The blocks 11 are slid along the arms 10 during the centering of the wheel 17, with respect to the shaft 16, the hook bolts 14 being engaged with point intermedithe upper edge of the rim of the wheel 17.

When the wheel is in the proper place, the wing nuts are tightened up, and the wheel 17 is pulled down tightly upon the arms 10, the spacers 19 being compressed, and a good closure being effected at the lower end of the hole in the hub 18 of the wheel 17. When the'parts are arranged as above described, the babbitt may be poured into the hole 20 around the hub 18 and, thus, a bearing will befashioned in the hub 20, about the shaft 16.

WVhat is claimed is 1. In a'device of the class described, a standard having transverse arms, holders adjustable on the arms in a direction parallel to the axis of the standard and in a direction at right angles to the axis of the standard, and a clamping means cooperating With the standard intermediate the ends of the standard. v

2-111 .a device of the olass descr ibe'cl, a standard having transverse arms lneans for holding a shaft on the. standard, and means adjustable along the arms for holding a Wheel on the arms in centered relation to the shaft.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signa ture.

CLEMENS JOHN KUSCHEL

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