US1955605A - Driving mechanism for dyeing machines - Google Patents

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April 17, 1934. 1 E PETERSON 1,955,605

DRIVING MECHANISM FOR DYEING MACHINES f y."/I 1 INVENTOR,

John/f. Pearson,

BY H/l ATTORNE l & I

April 17, 1934. J, E, PETERSON 1,955,605

I DRIVING MECHANISM FOR DYEING MACHINES Filed June 11, 1931 z'sheetS-sheet 2 lNvENToR,

Jahn f. Paterson,

BY /f/J ATTORN v l k Patented Apr. 17, 1934 rss TENT CFE' DRIVING MECHANISM FR DYEING MACHINES Application June 11, 1931, Serial No. 543,564

1 Claim.

In dyeing and the like machines of the class employing reels to advance the material being treated through the liquor the reel has one of its axial supports (as one end of an axial shaft of the reel) journaled in a permanently located horizontal bearing but the other end is journaled in the bearing of a housing upstanding from a horizontal platform which is adjustable on a horizontal axis crossing that of the reel at right angles thereto so that it is possible to bring the second bearing into true axial alinement with the rst, said housing containing gearing between the second axial support of the reel and the shaft of a motor carried by the platform. The fault of this construction is that in time, if the alinement is initially true it is possible for the second bearing to assume more or less angular relation to the rst as an incident not only of use of the machine but principally because the first bearing and said platform are carried by standards bolted to the sides of the wooden liquor vat or tub of the machine and due to the warping of these sides the standards do not retain their original position; if, therefore, readjustment of said platform to re-aline the bearings is neglected, or if it is not perfectly effected in the rst instance, the

reel binds in its bearings and does not run freely or uniformly, with consequent injury to the bearings and a waste of power to drive the reel. One

object of this invention is to avoid this fault.

Another object is to provide for supporting the motor independently of the housing and at a lower elevation, where its weight will be less of a factor in disturbing the position of the standard involved, and also so that it may be set in proper relation to the input element of the gearing notwithstanding some possible variations in size or discrepancies in the form of the motor base.

In the drawings,

Fig. 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of so much of a dyeing machine as directly includes the present improvement; and

Fig. 2 is a section on substantially line 2 2, Fig. 1, showing the motor in side elevation.

Axed to the wooden sides of the vat 1 are, as usual, the mentioned standards 3-4, a fragment only of standard 4 appearing in Fig. 1. 5 designates the reel and 6-6a its axial supports. The upper end of the standard 4 has, it will be understood without detailed illustration, a suitable bearing for the axial support 6a. The upper end of the standard 3 is formed with a housing 7 in which are spaced bearings 9 for a sleeve 10 which has its bore 10a tapered from both ends and receiving the axial support 6; this sleeve is kept from longitudinal displacement in the bearings by flanges 10b, one of which may be screwed thereon as shown. The inner end of the sleeve is formed as a clutch, at 10c, and with this is adapted to engage a clutch member 11 splined on 60 the axial portion 5 and having connected therewith a lever 12 fulcrumed in the housing and protruding therefrom to alford a handle for operating it. On the sleeve, between the bearings, is fixed a worm-wheel 13, whereby, as will appear, the reel is driven. lThus, while the driving power is desirably applied to rotate the reel between the bearings 9 for the sleeve, the sleeve need not have its axis perfectly alined with that of the reel but may assume, either initially or in use of the machine, some more or less angular relation thereto without resulting in any binding or cramping or undue wear of the parts when the reel is being driven. Engaged with the wormwheel is a worm 14 journaled in the housing vertically and having its lower end depending therefrom.

The motor is shown at l5, with its axis vertical. It is mounted, as will appear, on the side standard under the housing, which projects laterally somewhat. Since the weight of the motor is assumed by the standard at a lower elevation than heretofore and also inward thereof, as will appear it acts with less force to tend to tilt the standard. Its shaft 16 projects upwardly and is coupled to the depending end of the worm at 17. In order to bring the elements of the coupling together and obtain true alinement of the motor shaft and worm and also to impose the weight of the motor to best advantage on the standard 3 the motor is connected with said standard as follows: The motor has a base consisting (here) of four feet 18. This base extends parallel with the motor shaft. The standard forms a fixed support and on this is supported, flanking the same, an upright intermediary support for the motor consisting here of a pair of plates i9 provided with vertical slots 20 receiving screws 2l screwed into the motor base and by which the motor is clamped to this intermediary support. The intermediary support is shiftable on the xed support in a path toward and from the same and also horizontally and crosswise of said path. To this end one of the supports (here the intermediary support) includes horizontal studs 22 received in horizontal slots 23 in spaced cross-bars 24 of the fixed support and provided with clamping nuts 25. The motor extends through the opening between the cross-bars. The adjustments thus possible-the motor on the intermediary support and such support on the xed support, as describedmake it possible to bring the elements of the coupling 17 into proper relation to each other. To reinforce the studs 22 against the Weight of the motor set-screws 26 tapped into the standard and bearing upwardly against the plates may be employed.

Having thus fully described my invention What claim is:

The combination of a fixed upright support having an opening therethrough from one to the opposite upright side thereof, an intermediary support arranged at one side of the xed sli-p-v port and bridging the opening, horizontal studs on the xed support carrying the intermediary lili()

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