IMPROVEMENTS IN SCRIBBLER CARDING ENGINES
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Houghton and Edwin Knowles of Gomersal in'
the County of York Machine Makers and Thomas Henry Kilner Manager
Levi Mill Kirkheaton in the County aforesaid for an Invention of
IMPROVEMENTS IN SCRIBBLER CARDING ENGINES"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Houghton, Edwin
Knowles, & Thomas Henry Kilner at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents on the 11th September 1883.
WILLIAM HOUGHTON and EDWIN KNOWLES of Gomersal in the County of York
Machine Makers and THOMAS HENRY KILNER Manager, Levi Mill Kirkheaton in
the County aforesaid-IMPROVEMENTS IN SCRIBBLER CARDING ENGINES"
This invention relates to improved apparatus applied to the Scribbler carding
engine so constructed and arranged that the fibre passing through the machine is
placed upon the feed bobbin so that when the latter is removed to the carding
engine the fibres are end wise to the cards on the carding engine and not across or
at right angles to the card teeth as heretofore the carriage requires only about one
half the space heretofore requisite therefor.
For purpose aforesaid we employ two endless travelling sheets or endless lattices
equal to the width of the cylinders and working across the same-The carding or
fibre as stripped from the cards in the form of a film or sheet is received upon the
two endless travelling sheets or lattices referred to and the action of the latter is to
fould or double the carding into two equal halves, one over the other the foulded
carding or fibre thence passes to the carriage which is caused to traverse across
the engine and the carding or fibre is wound upon the feed bobbins so that the
latter when removed to the carding engine presents the ends of the fibre to the
cards on the carding engine that is to say the fibre is presented to the carding
engine in the same relative position to that occupied by it when under operation
on the scribbler.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Houghton, Edwin Knowles, and Thomas Henry Kilner in the
Patent Office on the 11th March 1884.
WILLIAM HOUGHTON and EDWIN KNOWLES of Gomersal in the County of York
Machine Makers and THOMAS HENRY KILNER Manager Levi Mill Kirkheaton in
the County aforesaid "IMPROVEMENTS IN SCRIBBLER CARDING ENGINES
This invention relates to improved apparatus applied to the scribbler carding
engine so constructed and arranged that the fibre passing through the machine is
placed upon the feed bobbin so that when the latter is removed to the carding
engine the fibres are endwise to the cards on the carding engine, and not across or
at right angles to the card teeth as heretofore-the carriage requires only about
one half the space bitherto requisite therefor.
For purpose aforesaid we employ two endless travelling sheets or endless lattices
equal to the width of the cylinder and working across the same The carding or
fibre as stripped from the cards, in the form of a film or sheet is received upon the
two endless travelling sheets or lattices referred to, and the action of the latter is to
fold or double the carding into two halves or equal parts, one over the other, the
folded carding or fibre thence passes to the carriage which is caused to traverse
across the engine and the carding or fibre is wound upon the feed bobbins so that
the latter when removed to the carding engine presents the ends of the fibre to the
cards on the carding engine-that is to say the fibre is presented to the carding
engine in the same relative position to that occupied by it when under operation
on the scribbler.
.
Such being the nature and object of this our said invention the following is a
complete description of the particulars thereof and in order that the invention may
be fully understood we have hereunto annexed 4 sheets of drawings.

page_text: The application and use of the endless traversing lattice sheets 5 and 6 in
combination with and working across or at right angles to the cylinder and layer
rollers 10 and 11 so as to fold and deliver the fibre or carding to the sheet 12 and
bobbin 17 that the fibre when removed to the carding engine is presented end wise
to the cards or in the same relative position to that occupied by the fibre when
under operation on the scribbler as herein described and illustrated by the
drawings
In witness whereof we the said Edwin Knowles and Thomas Henry Kilner
for and on behalf of ourselves and the said William Houghton have hereunto set
our hands and seals this tenth day of March in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty four
Witness
EDWIN KNOWLES
(L.S.)
THOB HEN. KILNER (L.S.)
WALTER BRIERLEY
Patent Agent
Halifax Huddersfield & Blackburn