Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 4th May, 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 8th June, 1889
1, WILLIAM MERCER Manager of the Peel Spinning and Manufacturing Company,
Limited, Bury in the County of Lancaster do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the construction of machines known as revolving flat
Carding Engines.
In such engines as at present constructed the current of air occasioned inside the
casing of the machine near the 'licker-in' or 'taker-in' roller causes an accumulation
of staple or fibre between this roller and the feed roller, and although a small lap-
roller has been placed at the lower end of the casing to take up the staple or fibre
at this point, a portion of the said fibre is carried down by the 'licker in' and thrown
off with the dirt, and so wasted.
The attendant also is obliged to remove the staple or fibre from the said lap roller
(when used) at more or less frequent intervals.
The object of my invention is to avoid these defects, and for this purpose I dispense
with the small lap roller above-named, and I slightly raise or shorten the top.casing
of the licker-in' or 'taker-in' roller, so that the current occasioned by the latter:can
escape over the top of the feed roller and I guide the staple or fibre, which is projected
by this current, down on to the lap, which is being fed into the machine, by means of
an inclined or curved cover or plate reaching from the top casing of the licker-ir.
roller backwards over the said feed-roller.
Thus the staple or fibre, instead of being carried down and wasted with the dirt is
carried back with the lap into the carding-engine.
Dated this first day of September 1888.
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester,
Agent for Applicant.

page_text: I WILLIAM MERCER Manager of the Peel Spinning and Manufacturing Company
Limited Bury in the County of 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:-
This invention relates to the construction of machines known as 64 revolving-flat "
carding engines.
In such engines as at present constructed the current of air occasioned inside the
casing of the machine near the "licker-in" or "taker-in" roller by the rapid
revolution of the latter causes an accumulation of staple or fibre between this roller
and the feed roller, and although a small lap roller has been placed at the lower end of
the casing to take up the staple or fibre at this point, a portion of the said fibre is
carried down by the "taker-in" roller and thrown off with the dirt and so becomes
wasted. The attendant also is obliged to remove the accumulated staple or fibre from
the said lap-roller (when used) at more or less frequent intervals.
The object of my invention is to avoid these defects and the micans which I propose
to employ for this purpose will be readily understood on reference to the drawing
hereunto annexed and the following explanation thereof.
The drawing represents in section (drawn full size) so much of the feeding end of
a carding engine as is necessary to illustrate my invention, a being part of the "taker-
inroller, the fluted feed roller and c the "dish" wherein the latter revolves, d is
the top sheet iron cover or casing of the "taker-in roller, and for the purpose of
my invention I slightly raise or shorten the lower edge of such casing at the point
marked so that the current occasioned by the rapid revolution of the "taken-in"
roller a can escape over the top of the feed roller b in the direction of the arrow, and
I guide the loose staple or fibre which is projected by this current down onto the lap e
which is being fed into the machine, by means of an inclined or curved cover f
reaching from the top casing d of the "taker-in" roller a backwards over the said feed
roller b.
Thus the loose staple or fibre, instead of being carried down between the "taker-
in" and feed roller, and wasted with the dirt, is carried back again onto the lap and
through the carding engine.

page_text: 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:-
Raising or shortening the lower edge of the sheet iron cover of the "taker-in"
roller of the carding engine, and combining therewith an inclined or curved cover or
plate extending over the feed-roller substantially in the manner and for the purpose
hereinbefore particularly set forth and illustrated by the drawing annexed.
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicant.