Improvements in Mechanism or Arrangements applicable to Engines for Carding Fibrous Materials:
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Mars, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 4th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 7th Dec, 1895
Improvements in Mechanism or Arrangements applicable to
Engines for Carding Fibrous Materials:
I, LOUIS ALFRED PORRITT of the Vulcan Works, Rochdale, in the County
of Lancaster, Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention, to be
as follows-
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My invention is applicable to carding-engines, in which the fleece stripped from
the doffer card cylinder is delivered on to an endless creeper or apron, the length+
way of which is parallel to the axis of the doffer, and is gathered from one end of
the creeper and passes to a pair of calender rollers as-a-sliver, and from thence, is
taken to an ordinary single coiler, for coiling the sliver into a can.
Such combination and arrangements of mechanism as hitherto used are
complicated and occupy too much floor space.
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According to my improvements the endless creeper; has the bearings of its
rollers, adjustable in a cross bar on the front of the framing, and if desired one
roller at one end of the creeper is or may be driven from the other by an endless
toothed chain-gearing with suitable wheels on the axes of each roller for the
endless creeper, or other gearing may be substituted for the endless chain.
The endless creeper is arranged to deliver at that side from which the calenders
and other mechanism is to be driven, from gearing on the doffer shaft, and the
calenders are upon the same side and are or may be geared and driven from a spur
wheel on the doffer shaft gearing with a pinion on a stud having a bevel gearing.
with one on a shaft parallel with the axes of the calender rollers which are parallel:
with the axis of the rollers for the creeper from which there is gearing to the
axis of the roller at that end for the endless creeper and from the axis of this.
preeper roller by a short shaft and bevel wheels with the coiler mechanism placed
in front of the creeper, that direction of the coiler which is longest being placed
parallel with the axis of the doffer cylinder.
Dated this Eleventh day of March 1895.
PETER J. LIVSEY, -
Agent.
Improvements in Mechanism or Arrangements applicable to
Engines for Carding Fibrous Materials,
I, LOUIS ALFRED PORRITT of the Vulcan Works, Rochdale, in the County
of Lancaster, Machinist, 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 is applicable to carding engines, in which the fleece stripped from
the doffer card cylinder is delivered on to an endless creeper or apron, the length-
way of which is parallel to the axis of the doffer, and is gathered from one end of

page_text: the creeper and passes to a pair of calender rollers as a sliver, and from thence is
taken to an ordinary single coiler; for coiling the sliver into'a can.
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Such combinations and arrangements of mechanism as hitherto used are
complicated and occupy too much floor space.
According to my improvements the endless creeper has the bearings of its
rollers adjustable in a cross bar on the front of the framing, and if desired one
roller at one end of the creeper is or may be driven from the other by an endless
toothed chain gearing with suitable wheels on the axes of each roller for the
endless creeper, or other gearing may be substituted for the endless chain.
The endless creeper is arranged to deliver at that side from which the calenders
and other mechanism is to be driven from gearing on the. doffer shaft, and the
caleuders are upon the same side and are or may he geared and driven from a spur
wheel on the doffér shaft gearing with a pinion on a stud having a bevel gearing
with one on a shaft parallel with the axes of the calender rollers which are parallel
with the axis of the rollers for the creeper, from which there is gearing to the axis
of the roller at that end for the endless creeper and from the axis of this creeper
roller by a short shaft and bevel wheels with the coiler mechanism placed in front
of the creeper, that direction of the coiler which is longest being placed parallel
with the axis of the doffer cylinder.
Fig. 1, is a front elevation-Fig. 2, is an elevation at the calender roller side of
the engine, and Fig. 3, is a plan; illustrating my invention.
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In Figs. 1 and 3, a part of the middle of the doffer and other mechanism in the
widthway of the engine is supposed to be broken away, in order that those figures
will occupy less space.
a, represents the doffer; a', its axis or shaft.
b, part of the side frames of the engine; 6', a rail in front of the engine secured
to and extending between the two side frames b.
c, represents the stand of an ordinary coiler; d, the can into which the sliver is
coiled.
The mechanism of the eciler (which is ordinary and well known) is driven by a
short horizontal shaft e, having bearings in the stand of the coiler.
Upon the outer end of this shaft there is a bevel wheel e', that gears with one
secured on the end of a shaft f, in bearings on the cross rail b¹, having a drum
upon it for one end of the endless creeper f¹.
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This shaft f, has a spur pinion f, upon it that gears with a carrier wheel f³, on
a stud in the framing, and this carrier wheel gears with a spur wheel on the end of
the shaft g, for the lower calender roller g', the upper calender roller g², has a spur
wheel secured upon it that gears with the one driven by the carrier wheel f³,
which latter also gears with another spur wheel ƒ, secured on the end of a short
shaft h, in bearings on the framing, which has a bevel wheel secured upon its end
that gears with a bevel rotating on a stud ', on the boss of which bevel there
is a spur pinion secured, that gears with a spur wheel a³, on the end of the doffer
shaft a¹.
The other end of the endless creeper f¹, is upon a drum on a shaft ƒ³, having
its bearings in a bracket f, which is arranged to slide on the rail 6', to tighten
the endless creeper f1, this being effected by an adjusting screw f', one end of
which rotates in a bracket from the rail 61, and the other end of which screws
through a projection from the slide or bracket 16.
On each drum shaft f and f, a wheel is secured for an endless jointed chain f³,
to work upon, the teeth of the wheels being made to suit the links of the endless
jointed chain f³.
The sliver a, is doffed from the doffer a, by the ordinary doffer comb i, and it
falls upon the endless creeper f¹, and is taken to and between the calender
rollers g' and g², and from them to the hole in the top of the coiler c, as shown in
peculiar dotted line. The longest length of the coiler,. in plan, is placed parallel
to the axis of the doffer a, as shown in the drawings so as to occupy less ground
space.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. The combination and arrangement of coiler mechanism with carding engines,
having endless creepers for receiving the fleece combed from the doffer, in which
the coiler is arranged and driven along with the endless creeper and calenders by
gearing from the same side of the engine substantially as hereinbefore described
and illustrated by the drawings.
2. In the combination and arrangement of coiler, endless creeper and calender
rollers driven from the same side of the carding engine, the driving of the drum
shaft for one end of the endless creeper from the driven shaft at the other end of
the endless creeper, by an endless jointed chain, substantially as hereinbefore-
described and illustrated by the drawings.
·Dated this Second day of November 1895.
PETER J. LIVSEY, ·
Agent.