IMPROVED MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING WADDING
Year: 1866

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Edward Gedge at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 26th
November 1866. -A communication from abroad by Jean Marie
Lazare Long, Wadding Manufacturer, of No. 15, Passage des Petites
Ecuries, Paris, France:
J, WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of
No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex,. Patent
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING WADDING," (a communication to
me from abroad by Jean Marie Lazare Long, Wadding Manufacturer, of
No. 15, Passage des Petites Ecuries, Paris, France,) to be as follows:→
In order that the construction and working of the improved machinery or
apparatus for manufacturing wadding, the subject of this Invention, may be
readily understood, the following description refers to two Sheets of: Drawing's
forming part of this Provisional Specification, Sheet I illustrating the first,
and Sheet 2 the second part of the apparatus.
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The machine receives its motion from the pulley No. 1 (Sheet 1), which
communicates it to the pinion No. 2. The pinion No. 2 turns the wheel
No. 3, which by means of the pulley No. 4 sets in motion a belt which turns
a drum No. 5 on which the rolls of carded cotton are placed and unwind the

page_text: cotton beginning its journey at this point No. 5; No. 4 turns at the same
time a cylinder No. 6, on which is set a second cylinder No. 6b, called the
flatter, and another cylinder No. 5ª, which by a cross belt turns in a contrary
direction and leads the wadding into the bath; No. 6 moves an apron
which gives motion to the cylinder No. 6; the cylinder No. 6 also gives
motion by a bevel wheel No. 7 to another wheel No. 8 which by a vertical
shaft communicates its movement firstly to No. 9 then to No. 10, which
gives motion to a hurdle or framing with wooden cross pieces carrying a
stretched cloth; the hurdle wheel No. 10 turns a cylinder No. 11 which
corresponds with that No. 11° by the running-off apron. The hurdle which
is about 30 yards long passes through a warm room, and then unites with the
second part of the apparatus by the shaft No. 10 (Sheet 2) which it sets in
motion; the shaft No. 10 in its turn moves a pulley No. 10° which by
means of a cross belt causes the bath cylinder No. 12 to turn in a contrary
direction.
The vertical shaft of the first part of the apparatus gives motion by pinion
No. 13 (Sheet 1) to that No. 14, which causes the topmost hurdle No. 14 to
travel;
the hurdle No. 14 turns the shaft No. 14* of the second apparatus,
which by the pulley No. 24 (Sheet 2) turns the cylinder No. 19 and that
No. 20 by a running-off apron. On the axle of the shaft No. 14 (Sheet 1)
is a bevel wheel No. 25 (Sheet 2), which by the wheel No. 15.sets in motion
the shaft No. 16 and communicates its movement to the cylinders 26 and 28
by the wheels 17 and 17. The highest hurdle of the first part of the
apparatus by the toothed wheel No. 14° gives motion to the shaft No. 21,
which by the hurdle No. 21 is in connection with the shaft No. 22. The
pulley No. 22 on the shaft 22 by means of a crossed belt turns the pulley
No. 23 of the drums on which the wadding folds.
Movements of the Wadding in its Passage through the Apparatus.-The
rolls of carded cotton rest on a drum No. 5 and unroll by degrees, the two
flatting cylinders No. 6 and 6b take the sheets of cotton and transmit them
after a heavy pressure to the apron which goes from cylinder No. 6 to
that 6, the cotton has to undergo no drawing in its journey. The sheets of
cotton arrived on the cylinder No. 6" pass beneath that No. 5° which dips
them in a basin of size or glue. After this operation the wadding sized or
glued on one side only follows the running-off apron of the cylinder 11 to
that No. 11 which in its turn transmits it to the hurdle No. 10d. The endless
hurdle No. 10 conducts the wadding into the hot chamber, causes it to make
a journey of about 30 yards, and then deposits it between the flatting or
pressing rollers Nos. 28 and 26 of the second part of the apparatus, these

page_text: transmit it underneath to the bath cylinder No. 12, where the surface not yet
glued is passed in the glue. After this operation the wadding glued on both
sides is received on the running-off apron of the cylinders 20 and 19, then
retaken by the hurdle No. 14°; in its return it is again drawn through the
hot chamber by the hurdle No. 14 to the point 14 from thence it is directed
by No. 21 (Sheet 1) on to the hurdle No. 21° to the point where it falls 22*
on to the folding drum. The wadding arrived on the folding drum passes
round a roller, and at every 12 yards the workwoman cuts it and places it in
a basket for transportation.