Improvements in Apparatus or Machinery for Opening and Cleaning Cotton, Wool, and other Fibrous Material
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 20th June, 1889-Accepted, 24th Aug., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus or Machinery for Opening and Cleaning
Cotton, Wool, and other Fibrous Material.
We THOMAS BUCKLEY and SAMUEL BUCKLEY both of Wood Mill, Woodley in the
County of Chester, Wool washers and Carders do hereby declare the nature of our
said invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements upon that class of opener for which Letters
Patent No. 15106 were granted to us on the 20th day of November 1886 and consists
in applying our improved wire grating not only to the side of the opener as heretofore
and as described in our former Specification, but in providing openings in the cast
iron base or dish of the opener and filling in these openings with sections of our
improved grating. In this manner we extend and amplify the surface of grating and
make further provision for the escape of dirt and other impurities and thus we improve
the quality of the cotton or other fibre undergoing treatment.
Dated this 18th day. of September 1888.
JOHN G. WILSON,
Patent Office, 55, Market Street, Manchester, Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus or Machinery for Opening and Cleaning
Cotton, Wool, and other Fibrous Material.
We THOMAS BUCKLEY and SAMUEL BUCKLEY both of Wood Mill, Woodley in the
County of Chester Wool-washers and Carders do hereby declare the nature of our said
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 improvements upon that Class of opener for which Letters
Patent No. 15106 were granted to us on the 20th day of November 1886 and consists
in applying our improved wire grating not only to the sides of the opener as heretofore
and as described in our former specification but in providing openings in the cast iron
base or dish of the opener and filling in these openings with sections of our improved
grating.
On the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 represents a front sectional view of a machine
for opening and cleaning fibrous material embracing our improvements.
a is the vertical shaft carrying knives (not shewn in the drawing) and mounted in
the truncated casing c in the ordinary manner. This casing c is as heretofore and in
accordance with our former invention arranged with a number of segments or frames d
forming the support for a series of wire rods or thin metal bars g secured at the
desired distance from each other. In addition to these segmental gratings d we now
construct the cast iron (or other) base or dish with openings m and fill in these
openings with sections m² of our improved grating as illustrated. These sections m¹
consisting of a similar series of wire rods or thin metal bars secured at the desired
distance from-each other in a thin metallic framework as more particularly described
in our former specification.
In this manner we extend and amplify the area or surface of our improved grating
and make further provision for the escape of dirt and other impurities and thus we
improve the cleanliness and quality of the cotton or other fibre undergoing treatment.

page_text: Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
In the construction of apparatus or machinery for opening and cleaning fibrous
material the employment of openings formed in the base and filled in with sections of
gratings substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described.
Dated this 19th day of June 1889.
JOHN G. WILSON,
Patent Office, 55, Market Street, Manchester, Agent for the Applicants.