Improved Construction of Flexible Shafting or the like.

Реферат: 19,807. Soar, H. Sept. 30. Hair-brushing apparatus; horse-clippers and the like. -Relates to flexible shafting stated in the Provisional Specification to be applicable for operating rotary cutters, revolving hairbrushes, horse-clipping and sheep-shearing apparatus, or other power-transmission means. The shafting consists of short lengths of rods 1, 2, connected by universal or like joints such as the hooks and eyes 3, 4. On to each or each alternate rod 2 a bushing 5, preferably of lignum vitµ, is threaded and kept in place between washers 7 by means of the eyes 4 riveted to the ends of the rods 2. The bushes 5 support the rods in a guidetube 6 formed of flexible material such as stiffened canvas, rubber, leather, or metallic flexible tubing, or of rigid tubing forced into fixed curves, or tubing partly rigid and partly flexible. The interior of the guide-tube 6 may be lubricated by plumbago, vaseline, &c. This also lubricates the rods 2 through the holes 8.