Improvements in Travelling Flat Carding Engines.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 20th Jan., 1890-Accepted, 22nd Feb., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Travelling Flat Carding Engines.
I, FREDERICK WILKINSON, of 13 India Buildings, Cross Street, Manchester, in
the County of Lancaster, Yarn Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in stripping the travelling flats of carding
engines.
It has been hitherto customary to strip the flats of the waste fibres and impurities
at the doffer end of the engine and the strip has usually been deposited as waste in
the front part of the engine.
I now propose to reverse the direction of traverse of the flats, i.e. to cause them
to travel in the opposite direction to that of the main cylinder, and preferably at
a higher rate of speed than is now customary and I employ a stripping roller or
clearer (or more than one such roller) placed between the end wheel over which
the flats travel and the licker-iu. This stripping roller is set so that its teeth almost
touch the teeth of the flats, the licker-in, and the main cylinder.
In operation the stripping roller takes the fibres and waste from the flats, carries
the same to the licker-in by which the lumps and coarse tufts are carded and
carried round again over the licker-in grids, leaving the remainder of the fibres to
be carried round by the stripping roller to the main cylinder which strips and
recovers these fibres from the said roller.
Dated this 18th dow of Anvil 1980
H. B. BARLOW,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Travelling Flat Carding Engines.
I, FREDERICK WILKINSON, of 13 India Buildings, Cross Street, Manchester in
the County of Lancaster, Yarn Agent, 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in stripping the travelling flats of carding
engines.
It has been hitherto customary to strip the flats of the waste fibres and impurities
at the doffer end of the engine and the strip has usually been deposited as waste in
the front part of the engine.
I now propose to reverse the direction of traverse of the flats, i.e. to cause them
to travel in the opposite direction to that of the main cylinder, and preferably at a
higher rate of speed than is now customary and I employ a stripping roller or clearer
(or more than one such roller) placed between the end wheel over which the flats
travel and the licker-in. This stripping roller is set so that its teeth almost touch the
teeth of the flats, the licker-in, and the main cylinder.
In the accompanying Drawing-a designates part of the main cylinder of a carding
engine, b the chain of travelling flats, c the licker-in or taker-in cylinder, and d the
stripping roller or clearer which employ according to my invention and which
is set so as to be almost in contact with the flats b the licker-in c and the
cylinder a.
The stripping roller d is driven by any convenient means in the direction indicated
by the arrow. The cylinder and licker-in are driven in their usual directions but the

page_text: travel of the flats is reversed and they are caused to travel in the opposite direction to
that of the main cylinder and in the same direction as the stripping roller as indicated
by their respective arrows.
In operation the stripping roller d takes the fibres and waste from the flats b
carries the same to the licker-in c by which the lumps and coarse tufts are carded and
carried round again over the licker-in grids leaving the remainder of the fibres to be
carried round by the stripping roller d to the main cylinder a which strips and
recovers these fibres from the said roller.
I have only shown one stripping roller or clearer d but I wish it to be clearly
understood that more than one stripping roller or clearer could be employed to strip
the flats travelling in the opposite direction to that of the main cylinder and to carry
the strip to the licker-in and replace the recovered fibres upon the main cylinder
in the manner above described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
-:
1. In a carding engine with travelling flats driven in a direction opposite to that
of the main cylinder I claim the use and application of a stripping roller or rollers
arranged to strip the travelling flats and carry the strip to the licker-in cylinder and
thence to replace on the main cylinder the fibres recovered from the waste removed
hy the licker-in.
2. The combination with the main cylinder a travelling flats b and licker-in 6, all
driven in the directions indicated, of the stripping roller d arranged and operating
substantially as and for the purposes herein described and as illustrated by the
Drawings annexed.
Dated this 18th day of January 1800
H. B. BARLOW,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.