Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Tearing, Cleaning, or Breaking up Cop Waste, Cotton Waste, Woollen, or other Material for Re-spinning and Manufacturing, or for Producing Cotton or Cleaning Waste, Shoddy, and the like.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 17th May, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 18th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 20th Apr., 1889
Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Tearing, Cleaning, or
Breaking up Cop Waste, Cotton Waste, Woollen, or other Material
for Re-spinning and Manufacturing, or for Producing Cotton or
Cleaning Waste, Shoddy, and the like.
I, JAMES EDWARD WORSLEY, 40, Forest Road, Southport in the County of
Lancaster, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this said invention to be as
follows:-
The invention relates to machinery or apparatus for tearing, cleaning, or breaking up
cop waste, cotton waste, woollen or other material, in order that it may be re-spun,
re-woven or manufactured, or for the purpose of making cotton or cleaning waste,
shoddy, and the like. The object of the invention is essentially to provide an
improved tearing, breaking, or cleaning device for attachment to the cylinders of
machines already generally used for this purpose, and as my invention only relates to
the said device and means of fastening the same, I shall confine myself in this
provisional specification to a description of these latter.
In carrying out my invention, I provide a bed or frame provided with metal teeth,
projections, or pins for tearing, cleaning or breaking up the material. I generally
prefer to forge said pins from steel to the desired shape and size, and cast them in
one solid piece with the frame or bed in the manner well known to moulders and
founders. The frame may be of cast steel, cast, malleable cast, or wrought iron, or
other suitable material.
If preferred, however, the whole may be cast or made in one solid piece of cast,
malleable cast, or wrought iron, steel or other metal.
I generally prefer to use fine teeth for tearing up cop or other waste for re-spinning
or manufacturing. For making woollen, shoddy, and similar material, I prefer to
use larger and stronger teeth with coarser pitch, and for making the common cleaning
waste, 1 employ still larger teeth with still coarser pitch.

page_text: The apparatus is secured to cylinders generally employed for the purpose by means
of bolts or in other convenient manner; or rings may be shrunk on the cylinders at
the end of the frames so as to hold all firmly together. For convenience of fixing,
I prefer to make the apparatus in segments and attach each part separately to the
cylinder or cylinders.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool,
Patent Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Tearing, Cleaning, or
Breaking up Cop Waste, Cotton Waste, Woollen, or other Material
for Re-spinning and Manufacturing, or for Producing Cotton or
Cleaning Waste, Shoddy, and the like.
I, JAMES EDWARD WORSLEY of 40 Forest Road Southport in the County fof
Lancaster 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:-
The invention relates to machinery or apparatus for tearing, cleaning, or breaking
up cop waste, cotton waste, woollen or other material, in order that it
may be re-spun,
re-woven or manufactured, or for the purpose of making cotton or cleaning waste,
shoddy and the like. The object of the invention is essentially to provide an improved
tearing, breaking or cleaning device for attachment to the cylinders of machines such
as are used for the purpose aforesaid.
Referring to the accompanying drawings.
Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in section of a cylinder with my improved
device attached thereto.
Figure 2 is a transverse section of part of Figure 1.
In carrying out my invention, I provide a bed or frame A provided with metal
teeth projections, or pins a for tearing, cleaning or breaking up the material. I
generally prefer to forge said pins a from steel to the desired. shape and size, and
cast them in one solid piece with the frame or bed A in the manner well known to
moulders and founders. The bed A may be of cast steel, or of cast, malleable cast,
or wrought iron, or of other suitable material. In cases, however, in which wrought
metal is employed for the bed, the steel pins a would be rivetted or otherwise secured
in suitable holes therein.

page_text: If preferred, however, the whole may be cast or made in one solid piece of cast,
malleable cast, or wrought iron, steel or other metal.
I generally prefer to use fine teeth for tearing up cop or other waste for re-spinning
or manufacturing. For making woollen, shoddy, and similar material, I prefer to use
larger and stronger teeth with coarser pitch, and for making the common cleaning
waste, I employ still larger teeth with still coarser pitch.
The apparatus is secured to cylinders B, generally employed for the purpose, by
means of bolts and nuts C¹ or in other convenient manner, or rings D may be
shrunk on the cylinders at the end of the frames A so as to hold all firmly together.
For convenience of fixing, I prefer to make the apparatus in segments as shown, and
attach each part, separately to the cylinder or cylinders B.
.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. In a machine for tearing, cleaning or breaking up cotton waste or the like, a
tearing or breaking surface for the cylinder of such machine, consisting of a suitable
backing or bed A adapted to be attached either as a whole or in segments to the
periphery of the cylinder, and a series of rigid projecting pins a, preferably of steel,
cast or otherwise firmly secured to the said bed, substantially as described.
2. The improvements in apparatus for tearing, cleaning or breaking up cop waste,
cotton waste, woollen or other material for re-spinuing and manufacturing or for
producing cotton or cleaning wasto, shoddy, and the like, substantially as described.
Dated this 15th day of March 1889