US724123A

US724123A - Belt-shipper.

Info

Publication number: US724123A
Application number: US11384002A
Authority: US
Inventors: Oscar L Owen
Original assignee: Whitin Machine Works Inc
Current assignee: Whitin Machine Works Inc
Priority date: 1902-06-30
Filing date: 1902-06-30
Publication date: 1903-03-31
Anticipated expiration: 1920-03-31

Description

UNITED STATES,

OSCAR L. OWEN, OF WI-IITINSVILLE,

MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE I WHITIN MACHINE WORKS, INCORPORATED, OF WHITINSVILLE, MAS- SAOHUSETTS.

BELT-SHIPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 724,123, dated March 31, 1903.

Application filed June 30,1902.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OSCAR L. OWEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at W'hitinsville, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Belt-Shippers, of which the following is a specification.

In the transmission of power to machines by means of a belt a loose and a tight pulley are used. When the machine is in operation, the belt is on the tight pulley, which transmits the power to the machine. When the machine is stopped, the belt is supported on the loose pulley, which is rotated by the belt, but does not transmit the power. In practice the lever operating the shipper requires to be secured to prevent the belt from running from one pulley onto the other, and

thereby stop or start the-machine-when such change is not desired.

In the usual construction of spinning,twisting, and similar machines the driving-shaft projects beyond the end frame and supports the tight and the loose pulleys. To more conveniently control the belt and lock the same in each position, I have devised and produced a belt-shipper mechanism by which the belt is automatically locked against lateral creeping when on the loose as well as when on the tight pulley.

Figure 1 is a top View of the end frame of a spinning-machine, showing my improved belt-shipper. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is a side view of the shipper mechanism, on an enlarged-scale, showing one position, and Fig. 4 showing the shipper mechanism in the opposite position.

In the drawings, A indicates the end frame; 13 B, the pulleys; B, the driving-shaft; B the outside journal-bearing for the drivingshaft, and B the'belt. To the end frame A, I secure the bracket 0, which is provided with the journal-bearings c c, in which the actuaating-rod c is journaled. The actuating-rod c is provided with" the hand -levers 0 0 From the lower part of the bracket 0 the way 0 extends horizontally across the two pulleys.

Serial No. 113,840. (No model) The slide (:1 is supported on the way 0 and has the shipper-bars d d secured to it. These shipper-bars are preferably curved and extend beyond each edge of the belt B The slide d is connected,'by means of the curved arm d with the lever d which is secured on the actuating-rod c and swings through the opening 0 in the bracket 0. The toe d on the lever d bears against the bracket 0 and acts as a stop to arrest the outward move-- moving the slide (1 and the shipper-arms from.

one position to the other. In either position the slide is locked against accidental movement and holds the belt against creeping. As shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the pivots connecting the curved arm d with the slide 61 and the lever d are on the same horizontal plane, the curved arm extending over and beyond the rod 0 when the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 3.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letter Patent 1. In a belt-shipper,-the combination with a way, a slide supported on the way, a rotatably-supported rod, and hand-lever on the rod, of another lever secured to the rod, and a curved arm pivotally secured to the latter lever on the rod and to the slide, as described.

2. In a machine of the nature described, the combination with the end frame and the pulleys, of a bracket secured to the end frame, a way extending from the bracket over the pulleys, a sliding support for the shipper-bars on the way, the shipper-bars, a rod supported in bearin gs on the bracket, hand-levers on the rod, another lever secured to the rod and a curved arm pivotally connected with the slide and the latter lever on the rod, as described.

3. In a belt-shipper, the combination with the bracket 0, the bearings c c on the bracket, the way 0 extending from the bracket, there being an opening 0 in the bracket, and the In testimony whereof I have signed 'my actuating-rod 0 supported in bearings c 0' name to this specification in the presence of on the bracket, of the slide d supporting the two subscribing Witnesses. shipper-bars, the shipper-bars, the lever d OSCAR L. OWEN. having the toe d" and the curved arm (1 piv- Witnesses:

otally secured to the slide and the lever (Z as J. A. MILLER, J12,

described. 1 ADA E. HAGERTY.