Improved Means for Attaching Card Clothing to the Flats of Carding Engines.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Aug., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 31st May, 1892-Accepted, 2nd July, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Attaching Card Clothing to the Flats of Carding
Engines.
We, WILLIAM WALTON, of Haughton Dale Mills, Denton, in the County of
Lancaster, Wire Card Manufacturer, and ARTHUR BERNOULLI BARLOW, of
Cornbrook Works, Manchester, in the said County, Machine Maker, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improved means for attaching card clothing to the flats
of carding engines.
In the invention for which Letters Patent numbered 5551 of 1890 were granted
to one of us namely to me the said William Walton the fillet or strip of card
clothing is stretched and fastened upon a strip or backing of sheet metal or other
suitable material and the combined fillet and metal or other back is subsequently
secured to an ordinary metal flat.
Our present invention consists in improved means for attaching the fillet or strip
of card clothing to the metal or other back and for this purpose we now propose to
employ a fluted or corrugated strip of metal placed on each edge of the fillet or
strip of card clothing so that the fangs or rivets by which the clothing is secured
to the metal or other back pass through the fluted or corrugated strips the edges
of which grip the clothing very firmly and along its entire length.
The metal or other back with the card clothing stretched and fastened upon it
can then be secured to the flat in any convenient manner for example by cramps or
fangs formed out of the metal back or by means of rivets the heads of which may
be specially shaped to lie in the flutes or corrugations of the strips.
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H. B. BARLOW,
Agent for Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Attaching Card Clothing to the Flats of Carding
Engines.
We, WILLIAM WALTON, of Haughton Dale Mills, Denton, in the County of
Lancaster, Wire Card Manufacturer, and ARTHUR BERNOULLI BARLOW, of
Cornbrook Works, Manchester, in the said County, Machine Maker, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
Our invention relates to improved means for attaching card clothing to the flats
of carding engines.
In the invention for which Letters Patent numbered 5551 of 1890 were granted
to one of us namely to me the said William Walton the fillet or strip of card
clothing is stretched and fastened upon a strip or backing of sheet metal or other
suitable material and the combined fillet and metal or other back is subsequently
secured to an ordinary metal flat.
Our present invention consists in improved means for attaching the fillet or
strip of card clothing to the metal or other back and for this purpose we now
propose to employ a fluted or corrugated strip of metal placed on each edge of
the fillet or strip of card clothing so that the fangs or rivets by which the
clothing is secured to the metal or other back pass through the fluted or
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page_text: corrugated strips the edges of which grip the clothing very firmly and along its
entire length.
The metal or other back with the card clothing stretched and fastened upon it
can then be secured to the flat in any convenient manner for example by cramps or
fangs formed out of the metal back or by means of rivets the heads of which may
be specially shaped to lie in the flutes or corrugations of the strips.
And in order that our invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect we will describe the accompanying sheet of drawings reference being had
to the figures and letters marked thereon.
Figs. 1 and 2 represent two views of a corrugated strip of metal of a section
suitable for the purposes of our invention, (Fig. 2 being drawn on an enlarged
scale to show the section more clearly).
Fig. 3 is a side elevation partly in section of part of a flat of a carding engine
to which our invention is applied and Fig. 4 is an end view of the same.
Figs. 5 and 6 are similar views to Figs. 3 and 4 with the exception that the card
fillet is secured direct to the carding engine flat instead of being first secured to a
metal strip or backing.
In these views, a represents the corrugated strip of metal shown detached in
Figs. 1 and 2, which is shown applied according to our invention in Figs. 3, 4, 5
and 6; designates the carding engine flat, e the card fillet, on the edges of which
the corrugated strips a are laid, see Figs. 4 and 6.
In Figs. 3 and 4 the card fillet c is stretched and then secured to a metal strip or
band d, by fangs d' which pass through the fillet and through holes punched to
receive them in the strips a, the combined strip and fillet being in turn firmly
secured to the flat by wire staples e by rivets or by any other suitable
means.
In Figs. 5 and 6 the backing d is dispensed with and the card fillet c is secured
along one edge of the flat b by rivets for equivalents which pass through the flat
the fillet and the corrugated strip a, the heads of the rivets are preferably made to
fit into the hollow space of the corrugated strip and then rivetted at the other end
on the flat.
The corrugated strips give practically a continuous grip on the fillet, and a
smaller quantity of rivets or other fastenings can be used for securing the fillet to
the flat.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:―
1. The combination with a strip of card fillet and the metal strip or backing
upon which it is stretched and mounted, of the fluted or corrugated metal
strips a, through which pass the fangs or rivets by which said fillet is secured to
its backing.
2. The use and application of a fluted or corrugated strip of metal placed upon
each edge of a strip of card fillet and so arranged that the fastenings which
secure the fillet to the carding engine flat also secure the strips in their
positions.
Dated this 30th day of May 1892
H. B. BARLOW,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for Applicants.