IMPROVE- MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SEPARATING OR SORTING FIBRES AND FILAMENTS OF DIFFERENT LENGTHS, AND FORMING THEM INTO A LAP OR FLEECE
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SEPARATING OR SORTING FIBRES AND FILAMENTS OF
DIFFERENT LENGTHS, AND FORMING THEM INTO A LAP OR FLEECE."-A com-
munication from abroad by Charles Simon, of Barr, France.
Sealed the 21st November 1865, and dated the 25th May 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald Brooman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 25th May 1865.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SEPARATING OR SORTING FIBRES AND
FILAMENTS OF DIFFERENT LENGTHS, AND FORMING THEM INTO A LAP OR FLEECE,"
to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to draw all the fibres or filaments of any
textile material according to their lengths, and to form those of each length
into a lap or fleece.
After the ordinary combing operation the same bundle contains filaments
which differ in length in the ratio of 1 to 4, or even 1 to 7. The longer
filaments extend to an equal distance beyond the two ends of the shorter,
filaments; this circumstance enables me (see Figures 1 and 2 of the annexed:
Drawings) to engage a certain quantity of filaments in inovable bars C, fur-.
nished with pins, which are placed in bolders D fixed to a feeding cloth E..

page_text: The charged bars pass in the direction of the arrow between two shafts F, F1,
placed at an angle to each other as shown; these shafts each carry 4, 5, or 6
rollers at variable distance, and around the point G taken as a centre. The
rollers are of decreasing diameter from one to the other in relation to the diffe-
rent degrees which should exist between the feed and the different rollers in
consequence of the differences in length of filaments to be drawn alternately
from the bars. The shaft F imparts its speed to the shaft F by two inter-
mediate wheels P, P; the shaft F is driven by the wheel Q on the driving
shaft, and by the intermediate wheel R. The bars when they arrive at the
end of the last roller pass on to an inclined plane X, so that they may become
disengaged from the filaments remaining thereon, that is to say, those shorter
than the distance from centre to centre of the shafts F and F. The pinion E
on the shaft F regulates the constant relation to be established between the
feeding cloth E and the. shafts by the intermediation of the mitre gearing I
and the pair of bevil wheels K. The filaments drawn from the bars by each
roller of the shafts are conducted upon endless belts L circulating under
drums M. As they have the same development as the shafts, and as they
turn in the direction indicated by the arrows, all the filaments will be wound
round them, and will form a lap or fleece, which may be unwound when of
the required thickness. Compressing rollers O give consistence to it. The
drums M are driven by the gearing S, S, and reciprocally between themselves
by the gearing T, T, and pulleys U, U. The pieces V act to preserve to the
feed cloth E its planimetric position towards the shafts; Y, Y, are pressure
rollers.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 25th November 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said
Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or

page_text: such others as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SEPA-
RATING OR SORTING FIBRES AND FILAMENTS OF DIFFERENT LENGTHS, AND FORMING
THEM INTO A LAP OR FLEECE," (communicated to me from abroad by Charles
Simon, of Barr, France), upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say :-
The object of this Invention is to draw all the fibres or filaments of any
textile material according to their lengths, and to form those of each length
into a lap or fleece.
After the ordinary combing operation the same bundle contains filaments
which differ in length in the ratio of 1 to 4, or even 1 to 7. The longer
filaments extend to an equal distance beyond the two ends of the shorter
filaments; this circumstance enables me (see the annexed Drawings, Figure 1
of which is a section through the line A, B, of Figure 2) to engage a certain
quantity of filaments in movable bars C furnished with pins, which are placed
in holders D fixed to a feeding cloth E. The charged bars pass in the direc-
tion of the arrow between two shafts F, F, placed at an angle to each other
as shown; these shafts each carry 4, 5, or 6 rollers at variable distance, and
around the point G taken as a centre. The rollers are of decreasing diameter
from one to the other in relation to the different degrees which should exist
between the feed and the different rollers in consequence of the differences in
length of filaments to be drawn alternately from the bars. The shaft F
imparts its speed to the shaft F' by two intermediate wheels P, P; the shaft F
is driven by the wheel Q on the driving shaft, and by the intermediate wheel R.
The bars when they arrive at the end of the last roller pass on to an inclined

page_text: plane X, so that they may become disengaged from the filaments remaining
thereon, that is to say, those shorter than the distance from centre to centre
of the shafts F and F. The pinion H on the shaft F regulates the constant
relation to be established between the feeding cloth E and the shafts by the
intermediation of the mitre gearing I, and the pair of bevil wheels K. The
filaments drawn from the bars by each roller of the shafts are conducted
upon endless belts L circulating under drums M. As they have the same
development as the shafts, and as they turn in the direction indicated by the
arrows, all the filaments will be wound round them, and will form a lap or
fleece, which may be unwound when of the required thickness. Compressing
rollers O give consistence to it. The drums M are driven by the gearing S, S,
and reciprocally between themselves by the gearing T, T, and pulleys U, U.
The pieceś V act to preserve to the feed cloth E its planimetric position
towards the shafts; Y, Y, are pressure rollers.
The characteristic features of this Invention are the position at an angle
to each other of the shafts F, F, the decreasing diameter or distance from
each other of the rollers carried by these shafts; the endless belts which
receive the filaments, and the drums round which the filaments are formed
into a lap or fleece.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, constructing
machinery for separating or sorting fibres and filaments of different lengths, and
forming them into a lap or fleece, substantially as herein-before described with
reference to the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of November, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.