The separation of Threads..or Slivers of Cotton, Wool, Silk, or other Fibrous. Materials, Applicable to Carding Engines.
Year: 1886

page_text: The separation of Threads..or
Slivers of Cotton, Wool, Silk, or other Fibrous. Materials,
Applicable to Carding Engines.
We JOSHUA HITCHON, JOSEPH SHEPHERD and JAMES SHEPHERD all of Spring
Wood Mill Ramsbottom in the County of Lancaster Spinners and manufacturers
do hereby declare the nature of our invention for AN APPARATUS as stated in
above title and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:—
Our invention has for its object to prevent the contact or engagement of slivers
of cotton, wool, silk, or other fibrous materials, as they are delivered from the
dividing roller of a carding engine to the rubber leathers for the purpose of con-
densing, it is a well known fact that such occurrences frequently take place, and
when the material is operated upon in the spinning machine results in damage to,
or the breaking of the threads, which damage our invention is intended to obviate
at the same time to dispense with the services or attention of an attendant as is
now necessarily required during the process of forming the threads by the condenser
of the carding engine.
In order that our invention may be understood we have reference to the accom-
panying sheet of drawings Fig. 1. is a side elevation shewing the rubber leathers
and dotting cylinder of a carding engine and being sufficient to illustrate our
invention. Fig. 2 is a plan thereof..
Our apparatus consists of interposing between the dividing roller A. and the
rubber leathers B of the carding engine, a convenient number of pegs or perpen-
dicular pieces C, upon a convenient longitudinal rail F in the direction of the length
of the dividing roller A, which roller, is now used and well known, the rail F with
the pegs C may be secured to, or supported by the framing of the machine, pre-
ferably such a number of pegs are employed and so situated, in order that each
peg C may be in any convenient position between the parts C₁ of the roller A, and
the side B¹ of the rubbers B, as may be desired to guide the slivers between the
rubbers B, the said pieces C may be of circular or other suitable form, and made of
any suitable material, we prefer to adopt an angular form or shape and to construct
the same of glass, as we are enabled to obtain by the use of such pegs a very smooth
surface to allow for the free and easy passage of the slivers when passing from
D

page_text: the dividing roller to the rubbers as is well understood between the said pegs or
pieces C, if desirable we may use pegs made of any other material as may be neces-
sary, the use of the angular shape or form of pegs as indicated in the drawings,
and the positions in which they may be placed, either, in positions opposite to the
ribs A of the roller A, or conveniently between the spaces A" of the said roller,
ensures a more complete division of the slivers before entering the rubbers than
hitherto as been the case without the use of our apparatus. The openings D are
contracted for the purpose of effecting a greater division of the slivers upon
emerging from between the pegs C passing towards and between the rubbers,
by the employment of such pegs as herein before specified a greater number of
"ends " or threads may be produced in the machine than heretofore, and when
so divided or guided between the rubbers ensures a separate or isolated state or
condition for each consecutive thread, thus the threads pass in this condition
between spaces allotted to each, of the guides E, on to the receiving bobbin of the
machine.
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
First. The combination of the rail F with any convenient number of pegs or
pieces C, to be applied at the parts as hereinbefore stated substantially as and for
the purpose herein fully set forth and described in the annexed drawings.