Improvements in Machines for Raising a Nap upon Fabrics.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Mar., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 28th Dec., 1899-Accepted, 28th June, 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Raising a Nap upon Fabrics.
We, ROBERT SELLERS, HENRY HEATON, HARRY THORNTON, and THE PREMIER
RAISING MACHINE COMPANY (SELLERS PATENT) LIMITED, Scholes, near Cleck-
beaton, in the County of York, Machine Makers, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in machines such as are described in
Patent No. 14,263 of 1896 for raising a nap or pile upon all classes of fabrics that
require to have a pile raised from the yarn of which such fabrics are composed,
the object being to provide a machine or mechanism of a more efficient type and
such as will be of wider application and of greater productive powers in the
quantity of cloth raised in a given time than has hitherto been the case.
To this end our invention consists essentially in the use of one or more rect-
angular bars, or bars having a regular polygonal cross-section covered on each
side with card cloth; means for reciprocating said bars so that the work-
ing face for the time being shall move as nearly as possible parallel to the face
of the cloth to be raised during the active stroke of the bars and be brought away
from the face of the cloth on the return or non-active stroke; means for auto-
matically and intermittently rotating said bars so as to bring other card faces
into active operation and to enable those faces which have been in operation on
the cloth to have their card teeth cleaned; means for cleaning or removing flocks,
dirt or short fibres from the card teeth; means for adjusting the cloth carrying
rollers simultaneously or independently of each other towards or from the work-
ing faces of the card covered bars so as to obtain a finer or coarser action of the
latter on the cloth carried by the rollers; the combination with the whole or some
of the parts of the afore recited mechanism of cloth raising rollers moving parallel
to the weft of the fabric in the direction of their axis and means for actuating
the various parts of the mechanism.
In carrying out our invention we use one or more bars having a rectangular
or regular polygonal cross-section, the bars being covered with card cloth of a
character suitable for nap-raising purposes. The hars are arranged in one or more
series so that either or both sides of the cloth may be acted upon singly or
simultaneously. Each series of bars are mounted in hearings formed in or
carried by a frame to which a rapid reciprocating movement, preferably a ver-
tical one, is given. The top end or ends of the frame are coupled to a cross piece
or to a piston-like head moving in a cylindrical chamber or hearing, the cross
piece being assisted in its downward movement either by suitable springs or by
a cushion of air intervening between it and the closed end of the chamber. The
lower ends of the frame are connected to links which in turn are coupled to the
eccentric portions of a driving shaft through whose agency the reciprocating
movement is obtained. The frame is so mounted and the links and other parts
are so arranged that when the frame is descending it does so in a line parallel to
the face of the cloth to be raised by the card bars, which latter engage with the
cloth on such downward stroke. On the other hand during the upward stroke
the frame and bars are brought clear away from the cloth so as not to disturb the

page_text: position of the fibres already raised. As in the patent previously referred to the
cloth is carried by a series of pairs of card covered draw rollers and guide rollers,
the former being positively rotated at a definite speed. The card covered rollers
however, are capable of being adjusted either in single pairs or the whole of the
pairs together, towards or away from the card covered raising bars. For this
purpose each pair of rollers is carried in brackets capable of being adjusted
as required by means of rods attached to them, the outer ends of the rods being
screwed and passed through the chased bosses of worm wheels carried in suitable
bearings in the framework of the machine. The wheels are operated by worms
fixed on cross shafts which may be geared together and rotated from a common
point or each may be rotated independently by means of a hand wheel or the like.
In order to allow of the card bars being turned round at intervals to enable
fresh card faces to be brought to bear on the cloth and to allow of the other faces
which have been in operation to be cleaned, we mount the bars in bearings
formed in or carried by the reciprocating frame before referred to, and near to
the journals we provide ratchet or similar wheels for the purpose of turning the
bars round and also to enable them to he held in their proper positions whilst
the card faces are at work. To engage with the ratchet wheels we employ a series
of pawl levers carrying springcontrolled pawls, the outer ends of said levers being
coupled to rods common to them all whilst the inner ends are so formed as to push
outwardly a series of holding catches when the time comes for the bars to be
turned round. The rods coupled to the pawl levers are connected to an arrange
ment of levers links and rods one of which is in turn coupled to an eccentric
carried by a shaft running across the machine. This shaft carries an arm which
engages with a dise independently rotated by worm and spur gear from a con-
stantly rotating part of the machine. The disc is provided with a notch at
its edge and each time the notch comes opposite the arm referred to the shaft is
rotated to allow the eccentric to actuate the pawl levers and turn the card bars.
To ensure the shaft rotating it is provided with a weighted lever or similar means
and a space wheel which latter is brought into engagement with a constantly
rotating wheel at suitable intervals of time. The disc before referred to is also
provided with a spring controlled plate to cover the notch each time the shaft has
rotated but which is capable of being pushed aside just previous to the rotation
taking place. By means of this mechanism the card bars may be turned round,
say, every five minutes or at shorter or longer intervals of time.
In order to clean the card faces which are for the time being non-operative we
employ a series of rotary brushes operated by belts chains or the like. These
brushes are carried in a frame so they may come in contact with the cards, the
frame being reciprocated in front of the card bars by an arrangement of levers
operated from a suitable part of the machine by an eccentric or the like.
The reciprocating card bars we have before referred to are chiefly for raising
cloth in the direction of the warp but we may use in conjunction with them one
or more rollers for cross-raising purposes (i.e. in the direction of the weft) such
rollers being rotated at or about the same superficial speed as the cloth and in the
same direction and likewise given a reciprocating movement in the direction of
their axis, this latter movement producing the raising effect. The endwise move-
ment of these rollers may be obtained by a series of eccentrics working in con-
junction with suitable guides carried by brackets attached to the roller shafts.
The whole of the parts of the machine are carried by strong framework and
the machine may be driven in any suitable manner and the various sets of mech-
anism caused to work together in unison by the use of spur wheels, pulleys, chains
and the like.
11000
WILLIAM H. TAYLOR,
Swan Chambers, 69, Market Street, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: We, ROBERT SELLERS, HENRY HEATON, HARRY THORNTON, and THE PREMIER
RAISING MACHINE COMPANY (SELLER'S PATENT) LIMITED, of Prospect Mills,
Scholes, near Cleckheaton, in the County of York, Machine Makers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in machines for raising a nap or pile
upon all classes of fabrics that require to have a pile raised from the yarn of
which such fabrics are composed, the object being to provide a machine or mech-
anism of a more efficient type and such as will be of wider application and of
greater productive powers in the quantity of cloth raised in a given time than
has hitherto been the case.
To this end our invention consists essentially in the use of one or more rect-
angular bars, or burs having a regular polygonal cross-section covered on each
side with wire card clothing; means for reciprocating said bars so that the work-
ing face for the time being shall move as nearly as possible parallel to the face
of the cloth to be raised during the active stroke of the bars and be brought away
from the face of the cloth on the return or non-active stroke; means for auto-
matically and intermittently rotating said bars so as to bring other card faces
into active operation and to enable those faces which have been in operation on
the cloth to have their card teeth cleaned; means for cleaning or removing flocks,
dirt or short fibres from the card teeth: means for adjusting the cloth carrying
rollers simultaneously or independently of each other towards or from the work-
ing faces of the card covered hars so as to obtain a finer or coarser action of the lat-
ter on the cloth carried by the rollers and the combination with the whole or some
of the parts of the afore recited mechanism of cloth-raising rollers moving parallel
to the weft of the fabric in the direction of their axis and lastly means for actu-
ating the various parts of the mechanism together with other details which will
be fully pointed out in the following description and clainis.
The invention will be fully described with reference to the accompanying
drawings in which,
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a nap raising machine constructed in accordance
with our invention,
Fig. 2 a vertical section of same,
Fig. 3 a plan of the machine and
Fig. 4 a horizontal section of same on line a, b, Fig. 1.
Figs. 5 and 6 are respectively side and front elevations partly in section of the
means for reciprocating the hexagonal rollers,
Figs. 7 and 8 side elevation and plan, partly in section of the means for inter-
mittently rotating the hexagonal rollers,
Figs. 9 and 10 side elevation and plan, partly in section of the means for
adjusting the cloth carrying rollers to the hexagonal rollers and,
Fig. 11 side elevation partly in section of the means for operating the brushes
to clean the hexagonal rollers.
In carrying out our invention we provide a suitable framework, to carry the
mechanism, consisting of side frames a coupled together by cross rails . The
cloth or fabric to be raised is indicated by the chain dotted line a", and enters
the machine from a batch of cloth on the floor, passing in the direction of the

page_text: arrow through an adjustable tension rack b, thence to a series of cloth traver-
sing and carrying rollers 61 covered with wire card clothing, the direction of
motion being clearly shown in the sectional view Fig. 2. From the last of these
rollers it is led round guide rollers 6" and thence upward between one or more
rotating brushing and cleaning rollers c the latter being preferably covered with
flexible wire card clothing or bristles arranged to clear the cloth of loose fibres
after it has been raised. These brushing rollers are adjustable so that they may
bear with greater or less insistence on the cloth and after being acted upon by
them the cloth is passed over other guide rollers to an ordinary cutling or
folding device c" which arranges it in folds. The traversing rollers 6¹ may be so
arranged that the cloth is raised on one side only; but we preferably arrange
them so that it may be raised on both sides simultaneously. As will be seen in
Fig. 2 the rollers are arranged in pairs, the series A standing rather further away
from the centre of the machine than series B, each series being in duplicate.
The rollers forming each pair in each series are arranged nearly close together
so that they may hold the cloth in narrow planes, the card wire surface prevent-
ing the cloth slipping when once the latter has come into contact with such sur-
face and so imparting to it the definite speed of the rollers. The arranging of the
cloth in narrow planes is of considerable importance if effective and uniform
raising is to be accomplished and a further feature is that each pair of the series
of pairs of rollers A and B torms the turning point of the cloth for another pair
in the series, so that the cloth may be raised on both sides simultaneously.
The whole of the rollers are driven at a definito rute of speed in accordance
with the character of the cloth being raised, the motion being communicated to
them from the main driving shaft d of the machine by a belt d' communicating
with a cone pulley fixed on an adjustable stud, the latter pulley communica-
ting by a belt with a pulley e mounted on a stud el. The pulley has fixed on it
a pinion gearing with a large spur wheel mounted on a central shaft fi pass-
ing across the top of the machine. Behind the wheel is mounted a pulley fl
and on the ends of the shafts of the upper rollers comprising the series A before
referred to are mounted pulleys g round which is passed an endless belt g¹, the
tension of which is regulated by an adjustable pulley g". The belt g₁ drives the
top rollers at a definite rate of speed which is communicated to the lower rollers
of each pair in the series, by spur wheels h fixed on the ends of the rollers and
geared together by carrier wheels h. The series of carrier rollers B are driven
in a similar manner also from the shaft f¹ by a second endless belt, pulleys and
spur and carrier pinions respectively.
The rollers forming each pair in the series A are adjustable to and from the
raising medium in order that a shorter or longer nap may be raised on the cloth
carried by them. For this purpose the ends of the shafts of each pair of rollers
are journalled in brackets j Figs. 9 and 10 arranged in guide ways formed in the
framing a at each side of the machine. To each bracket is coupled one end of a
rod the other end of which is screwed and passes through a hole formed in the
framing a. Through this hole is passed the internally screwed boss of a worm
wheel chased with a screw corresponding to that on the rod j, the boss being
held in place in the framing by a collar on the end of it. The two worm wheels
engaging with the two rods for moving each pair of rollers may be rotated simul-
taneously in either direction to bring the cloth nearer to or farther from the
raising medium by worms & mounted on shafts carrying operating hand
wheels. By these means each pair of rollers may be adjusted as required,
though all the adjusting means may be connected together to act simultaneously
if desired. The pairs of rollers forming series B may be adjusted in a similar
manner though we prefer them to remain stationary and to adjust the raising
medium.
The cloth may be raised either in the direction of the warp or the weft. Deal-
ing with the means for accomplishing the former we use one or more bars or
rollers having a rectangular or regular polygonal cross section, preferably a

page_text: hexagonal section, the rollers being covered with card clothing of a character
suitable for nap-raising purposes. The rollers are arranged in one or more series
so that either or both sides of the cloth presented by the A series of traversing
and carrying rollers may be acted upon singly or simultaneously. In the draw-
ings two series of hexagonal rollers are shown as being employed, one at each
side of the machine thus illustrating the latter method. Each series of rollers
are mounted in bearings (Figs. 5 and 6) formed in or carried by vertical rods
or bars (one at each inner side of the machine-to which a rapid reciprocating
vertical movement is given. The top end of each rod is coupled to a piston
head moving in a cylindrical chamber and is assisted in its downward move-
ment by suitable springs m which are in compression. Floating on the upper
ends of the springs m are flat plates m which are kept in position by guiding
studs or pins m Above the floating plates are plates of each carrying a
roller and immediately below them and resting against the rollers. is a bar n
formed on its underside with inclined planes and on its upper side with rack
teeth. Engaging with the rack bars at each side of the machine are pinions a
mounted on a shaft running across the top of the machine and supported by
plates o, one end of such shaft carrying a chain or like wheel o¹, round which is
passed a chain o" in communication with the starting motion of the machine.
In order to keep the racks in position centrally and also to enable them to be
moved endwise easily, plates are held in position by locknuts on the guide
pins m. These plates have on their undersides projecting lugs embracing the
sides of the racks, such lugs carrying the small rollers against which the racks
are pressed by springs pl on the lower ends of the pins m". The mechanism just
described is so arranged that when the machine is being stopped the racks are
moved endwise so as to allow the springs m to expand and thus relieve the rods
of pressure. When the machine is set in motion again it will start easier but
immediately it has been so started the racks are moved back so as to compress the
springs m.
The lower ends of the rods are coupled to eccentric straps 7 passing round
eccentrics formed on or attached to the driving shaft and a second shuft du.
parallel thereto. A short distance above the eccentrics q' at each side of the
machine is a rail g" attached to the framing a. These rails have each formed in
them two holes into which are passed discs reach having a pin eccentrically placed
and engaging with the upper inclined end of the eccentric strap g. This mech-
anism forms a link motion of such a character that when the rods are descend-
ing they do so in a line parallel to the face of the cloth to be raised by the hexa-
gonal rollers which latter engage with the cloth on such downward stroke. On
the other hand during the upward stroke, the rods and rollers are brought
clear away from the cloth so as not to disturb the position of the fibres already
raised.
In order to allow of the hexagonal rollers being turned round at intervals to
enable fresh card faces to be brought to bear on the cloth and to allow of the
other faces which have been in operation to be cleaned, we mount the rollers in
herein before mentioned bearings formed in or carried by the reciprocating
rods before referred to. The rollers have each at one end a worm wheel
(Figs. 7 and 8) and carried by one of the rods at each end of the machine is
a vertical shaft & on which is fixed, opposite to each worm wheels, and gearing
therewith a worms". The shaft sis rotated at predetermined intervals which
may be varied as desired by the following means:-On the central constantly
rotating shaft f is fixed a worm gearing with and driving a worm wheel
which gives motion to a train of wheels " actuating a disc formed with two
slots in its edge. The disc is capable of rotating on its fixed supporting
stud D and in addition to the slots w cut in its edge carries on its underside two
thin plates E loosely and slidably supported in the slots by movable studs G.
One of the studs carrying each plate is arranged to rest against one end of a cen-
trally fixed spring H secured to the stud D) and which always tends to keep the

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plates E covering the slots u. The plates can, however, be moved sideways against
the action of the spring H on their forward ends coming in contact with the
finger as the disc slowly rotates. Near to the disc and extending across the
top of the machine is a shaft u¹ on one end of which is fixed a spacewheel ull
which normally is out of gear with the large spur wheel f. The shaft also
carries a weighted arm and a finger, the weight always tending
to press the outer end of the finger r against the underside of the disc (1,
that when the slot u comes opposite the arm the shaft is rapidly rotated through
the action of the weight causing the spacewheel to gear with the spur wheel f.
The shaft u is thus positively rotated until the space is again in position when
it stops until the next slot comes round. During its rotation however, it has,
through bevel wheels w, communicated motion to a short vertical shaft wel geared
by wheels to a second shaft w which in turn drives the shaft s carried by the
rods and so causes the hexagonal rollers to turn one sixth of a revolution and
present a fresh card surface to the cloth. The hexagonal rollers at each side of
the machine are turned simultaneously by gearing the two shafts s¹ together by
bevel wheels and diagonal shaft. The disc before referred to which
rotates very slowly is also provided on its underside with slidably held spring
controlled plates which cover the slots during the time the disc is travelling
round in front of the finger from slot to slot. These plates are pushed aside as
they each come in contact with the side of the finger, allowing the latter to
pass rapidly through the slots u, but immediately springing back and covering
the slots again when the finger has so passed, thus preventing the finger el enter-
ing the slot again until a further revolution has been made and the hexagonal
rollers from being turned more than one sixth of a revolution at a time. Instead
of employing a weighted arm we may cause the shaft u¹ to be turned by fixing
on it a cam against which a bowl or roller carried by a lever may bear. This
lever is pivoted by its lower end to the frame of the machine whilst its
is always pulled towards the cam by a spring. Thus when the finger vi passes
through the slots u the bowl bears on the cam and turns the shaft.
upper
end
Referring now to the mechanism for raising the cloth in the direction of the
weft we provide a cross raising roller or number of rollers 1 of a suitable char-
acter and cover them with card cloth of such construction as will suffice to raise
the pile. Each of these rollers as described in the Specification of our prior
Patent No. 23348 of 1898 is mounted at each end in bearings 2 forming part of
or attached to the frame a of the raising machine and provided with inclined slots
to enable the weight of the roller to bring it into contact with the fabric to be
raised and presented by the B series of traversing and carrying rollers. The
rollers may be easily pushed back by the fabric when the piecing of the latter
comes round and so avoid damage to the fabric or roller. When the piecing has
passed, the roller resumes its normal working position. When cross raising is
not required the rollers are held out of contact with the fabrics by hooks, pivoted
to the supporting brackets at either side of the machine. Each roller 1 is mounted
preferably in or about the position shown and is rotated at or about the same
superficial speed as the cloth and in the same direction by any suitable means
such as, say, spur wheels fixed on the shaft of one of each pair of rollers B and
gearing with similar wheels on the shafts of rollers 1. Each roller 1 is also given
a rapidly reciprocating motion in the direction of the weft of the fabric, by the
following means:-The shafts and in addition to being driven by a strap
have also an endless chain 4 passing round chain wheels on either of them, which
chain also drives a shaft 5 situated between them. The latter passes across the
machine and at the other end has fixed to it a bevel pinion 6 gearing with a bevel
wheel on the vertical shaft 7 which in turn carries eccentrics 8 rotating within
brackets 9 supported on slide pins 10 fixed to and projecting from the side frames a.
The ends of the shafts of the cross raising rollers 1 are extended through arms 11
connected to these brackets, the arrangement being such that the shafts move

page_text: endwise with the brackets 9. Wear of the eccentrics or brackets 9 is taken up
by hardened steel wedges 12 moved endwise on inclined faces formed within the
brackets and held in position after adjustment by setscrews.
The mechanism for removing flock, dirt, etc., from the hexagonal rollers/con-
sists of a series of circular wire brushes 14 (Fig. 11) which are carried by ver-
tical bars or rods 13, the lower ends of which are coupled to the ends of rocking
levers 15 mounted loosely on the shaft 5. These levers are oscillated by eccen-
trics 16 and rods 17 from the shaft of one of the guide rollers 6", thus giving to
the bars 14 a rising and falling movement during which the brushes 13 revolve
in contact with the faces of the hexagonal rollers. The brushes are driven by
straps from the shaft 5. The upper ends of the bars 13 are steadied and guided
by links 18 attached to the bars and to brackets bolted to the side frames . In
operation the cloth is passed in the direction of the arrow X round the tension
rack and thence to the series of rollers A and B which present it as before
described to the hexagonal and cross raising rollers, and 1 respectively, the
former raising the nap warp way of the cloth and the latter cross way or in the
direction of the weft, after which the fabric is cleaned and brushed by the rollers o,
thence being passed over the top of the machine to be folded by the cutling
device.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. In a machine for raising nap on fabrics the use of one or more rectangular
bars, or rollers having a regular polygonal cross section covered on each side with
wire card clothing; means for reciprocating said rollers so that the working face
for the time being shall move as nearly as possible parallel to the face of the
cloth to be raised during the active stroke of the rollers and be brought away
from the face of the cloth on the return or non-active stroke; means for auto-
matically and intermittently rotating said bars so as to bring other card faces
into active operation and to enable those faces which have been in operation on
the cluth to have their card teeth cleaned; means for cleaning or removing flocks,
dirt, or short fibres from the card teeth; means for adjusting the cloth carrying
rollers simultaneously or independently of each other towards or from the work-
ing faces of the card covered bars so as to obtain a finer or coarser action of the
latter on the cloth carried by the rollers and the combination with the whole or
some of the parts of the afore recited mechanism of cloth raising rollers moving
parallel to the weft of the fabric in the direction of their axis and means for
actuating and adjusting the various parts of the mechanism substantially as
described.
2. In a machine for raising nap on fabrics the use of one or more series A of
card covered cloth traversing and carrying rollers, each series being arranged in
pairs to hold the cloth in narrow planes between them, said pairs of rollers being
geared together to operate in unison at a definite rate of speed substantially as
described.
3. In a machine for raising a nap on fabrics the combination of a series A of
card covered cloth traversing and carrying rollers arranged in pairs of one or
more series B of similar rollers arranged in pairs and acting to hold the cloth in
narrow planes, both series of pairs of rollers being geared together so as to rotate
at a definite rate of speed substantially as described.
4. In a machine for raising nap on fabrics the means for guiding and traversing
the cloth through the machine consisting of a tension rack b, a series of pairs of
positively driven card covered traversing and carrying rollers 1 arranged in pairs
forming one or more series such as A or A and B combined, guide rollers u
and c brushing and cleaning rollerse and folding device ell substantially as
described.

page_text: 5. In machines for raising a nap on fabrics the means for giving a positive
motion to the cloth carrying and traversing rollers ¹ of series A consisting in a
rotary driving shaft d, belt d', driving cone pulley d", pulley e mounted on
stud c', pinion ell located on the boss of said pulley e and gearing with spur wheelf,
spur wheel and pulley f" mounted on shaft f, pulleys g mounted on the ends
of rollers b, endless belt g¹ driving said pulleys, tension pulley g" acting on
belt gi, spur wheels fixed on opposite ends of rollers 6 and geared together by
carrier wheels h substantially as described.
6. In machines for raising a nap on fabrics the means for giving a positive
motion to the cloth traversing and carrying rollers b¹ of series. B consisting in a
rotary driving shaft d, belt d¹, driving cone pulley d", cone pulley d", pulley e
mounted on stud e¹, pinion located on said pulley e and gearing with spur
wheel spur wheel 7 shaft f¹, pulleys mounted on the ends of rollers 6',
endless belt g driving pulleys ", spur wheels i fixed on the opposite ends of
rollers and geared together by carrier wheels substantially as described.
7. In machines for raising a nap on fabrics the combination of the means for
giving a definite rate of speed to the series of rollers A with the means for giving
a definite rate of speed to the series of rollers B substantially as described.
8. In machines for raising a napon fabrics the means for independently adjust-
ing each pair of rollers b' in series A nearer to or farther from the raising medium
consisting of bearing brackets ; capable of sliding in guideways formed in
frame a, rods j aftached to brackets j by one end their other ends being
screwed and passed through holes in frame a, worm wheels with screwed bosses
engaging with screwed ends of rods 1, shafts & and worms & thereon engaging
with worm wheels " and hand wheels on shafts substantially as described.
9. In machines for raising a nap on fabrics the use of one or more series of card
covered raising rollers, mounted in bearings formed on rods ", means for
reciprocating said rollers so that the working face for the time being shall move
as nearly as possible parallel to the face of the cloth to be raised during the active
stroke of the rollers and be brought away from the face of the cloth on the return
or non-active stroke and means for automatically and intermittently rotating
said bars so as to bring other card faces into active operation and to enable those
faces which have been in operation on the cloth to have their card teeth cleaned;
substantially as described.
10. In machines for raising a nap on fabrics the means for reciprocating the
rollers and bars and moving them and the rollers to and from the cloth to
be raised consisting of driving shafts d and d, eccentrics g¹ formed on or
attached thereto, straps 7 engaging with eccentrics g¹ rail g, discs located in
said rails, pins or discs r engaging with free ends of eccentric straps, piston head 7111
and springs m located between said piston and plates m¹ substantialliy as described.
11. In machines for raising a nap on fabrics the means for putting pressure
on and relieving pressure from the springs m and rods substantially as described.
12. In machines for raising a nap on fabrics the combination with the starting
mechanism of the machine of means for putting pressure on and releasing pres-
sure from the springs m and rods substantially as described.
13. In machines for raising a nap on fabrics the means for intermittently
rotating the hexagonal rollers so as to present fresh faces of card surfaces to the
cloth substantially as described.
14. In machines for raising a nap on fabrics the means for cleaning the card
faces of the hexagonal rollers substantially as described.
15. In machines for raising a nap on fabrics the use of one or more card
covered rollers having a rotary motion in the same direction in which the fabric
moves and at or about the same superficial speed as the cloth and a rapidly
reciprocating motion across the fabric in combination with a series of recipro-
cating and intermittently rotating raising rollers substantially as described.
16. In machines for raiisng a nap on fabrics the means for rapidly recipro-
cating the cross raising roller across the fabric substantially as described.

page_text: 17. In machines for raising a nap on fabrics, the general arrangement, con-
struction and combination of parts forming our improvements in nap raising
machines substantially as described.
Dated this w7th day of November 190a
WILLIAM H. TAYLOR,
Stephens Buildings, 62, Market Street, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicants.