Improvements in or relating to Carding Engines
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 19th Aug., 1890-Accepted, 18th Oct., 1890
PROVISIONAL
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Carding Engines
We WILL LORD, of Canal Street Works, Todunorden in the County of York,
Machine Maker, FREDERICK WOODHEAD, of the same place, Draughtsman, and THOMAS
SCHOFIELD WHITWORTH, of 68, Marlborough Road, Hightown, Cheetham, in the
County of Lancaster, Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows :-
Our invention relates first to improved means for setting or adjusting the bearings
for the main cylinder shaft and secondly to improved means for driving the shaft to
which is secured the star wheels or carrier pulleys round which the flats travel and by
which they are driven.
In order to raise or lower the bearings of the main cylinder shaft we fit each
bearing or journal box in slideways in its pedestal and support it upon a wedge shaped
piece which lies in a recess formed to receive it in the pedestal; each pedestal has
secured to it a bracket through which is a hole to permit a screwed stud secured to
the end of the wedge to pass, the stud and wedge being held in position by locknuts
on the stud which bear against the sides of the bracket. If the wedge has its upper
surface tapered we taper the bottom of the bearing or journal box for the cylinder
shaft in the opposite direction so as to obtain perfect contact. Each pedestal is
preferably fitted, in slideways on a slipper block bolted to the flange of the engine
frame the slipper block having a vertical flange at one end drilled to receive a screwed
stud secured to the end of the pedestal so that by turning locknuts on the stud which
bear against the Hange of the slipper block the position of the pedestal can be
adjusted.
By the means described the bearings and the cylinder shaft can be readily adjusted.
In order to drive the shaft to which is secured the star wheels or carrier pulleys for
carrying round the flats we mount loosely on such shaft a compound wheel or pulley
prepared on its surface to be driven by a band from the main cylinder shaft or other-
wise; on the side face of this wheel is a continuous spiral or worm forming teeth
which gear into a toothed wheel secured upon a stud mounted in bearings on the bracket,
of the star wheel shaft; also secured to the stud is a worm which gears into a worm
wheel fast on the star wheel shaft and thus gives notion to it and to the star wheels or
carriers for carrying round the flats.
This driving mechanism is preferably applied at each side of the carding engine.
Dated this 18th day of October 1889
H. B. BARLOW,
Agent for Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Carding Engines.
We, WILL LORD, of Canal Street Works, Todmorden, in the County of York,
Machine Maker, FREDERICK WOODHEAD of the same place, Draughtsman, and THOMAS
SCHOFIELD WHITWORTH, of 68, Marlborough Road, Hightown, Cheetham, 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 :-
Our invention relates first to improved means for setting or adjusting the bearings
for the main cylinder shaft and secondly to improved means for driving the shaft to
which is secured the star wheels or carrier pulleys round which the flats travel and by
which they are driven.
The first part of our invention relating to the adjustment of the bearings of the
main cylinder shaft of a carding engine is illustrated by Figures 1 and 2 of the two
sheets of drawings hereunto annexed and forming part of this Specification.

page_text: In these views a designates the cylinder shaft, & the bearing or journal box, c the
pedestal, & the slipper block and e the flange of the engine franie. We fit each bearing
or journal box b in slideways in its pedestal and support it upon a wedge shaped
piece which lies in a recess formed to receive it in the pedestal c; each pedestal has
secured to it a bracket y through which is a hole to permit a screwed stud secured
to the end of the wedge f to pass, the stud and wedge being held in position by lock-
nuts on the stud which bear against the sides of the bracket g.
If the wedge f has its upper surface tapered we taper the bottom of the bearing
or journal box b for the cylinder shaft a in the opposite direction so as to obtain perfect
contact.
Each pedestal is preferably fitted in slideways on the slipper block d which is bolted
to the flange e of the engine frame. The slipper block d has at one end a vertical
flange drilled to receive a screwed stud i which is secured to the end of the pedestal c
so that by turning locknuts on the stud i which bear against the flange the position
of the pedestal can be adjusted.
By the means above described the bearings and the cylinder shaft can be
readily adjusted.
The second part of our invention relating to the driving of the shaft for travelling
the flats is illustrated by Figures 3 and 4 of the drawings.
In these views is the shaft to which are secured the star wheels or carrier pulleys
for carrying round the flats. On the shaft we mount loosely a compound wheel or
pulley prepared on its surface to be driven by a hand from the main cylinder shaft
or otherwise. On the side face of this wheel is a continuous spiral or worm forming
teeth which gear into a toothed wheel n secured upon a stud o mounted in bearings
on the bracket of the star wheel shaft k; also secured to the stud o is a worm p which
gears into a worm wheel 9 fast on the star wheel shaft and thus gives motion to it
and to the star wheels or carriers for carrying round the flats.
This driving mechanism is preferably applied at each side of the carding engine.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
Lion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
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In a carding engine-
1. The improved means for setting or adjusting the bearings for the main cylinder
shaft said improved means consisting in the combination on each side of the engine
with an adjustable pedestal provided with vertical slideways, of a bearing or journal
box fitted in said slideways and arranged to be raised or lowered by a movable wedge
substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.
2. The improved mechanism for driving the flats consisting of the driven compound
wheel, whicb by its side teeth m drives the toothed wheel the motion of which
is transmitted by worm gearing to the star wheel substantially as herein set
forth.
D: 10th day of Auxuri 1900
H. B. BARLOW.
17. St. Ann's Square, Manchester. Agent for Applicants,