Improvements in Travelling Flat Carding Engines.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 14th May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 14th Feb., 1890-Accepted, 15th Mar., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Travelling Flat Carding Engines.
We, JOHN STOCKS, of Canal Street Works, Todmorden, in the County of York,
Foreman Mechanic, and WILL LORD, of the same place, Machine Maker, do hereby
declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows
In the Invention for which we obtained Letters Patent No. 1758 of 1886 we
employ on each side of the engine a number of radial brackets fitted in slidoways on
the bend or side frame of the engine the upper surface of these brackets being
concentric to the main cylinder and forming the path or working surface upon which
the flats travel.
Our present Invention consists chiefly in an improved arrangment and combination
of parts for effecting the adjustment of the radial brackets in lieu of the adjusting
screw and long arm or plate described in the Specification to our said Patent.
We now propose to mount each radial bracket in a slideway either on the
stationary bend as before or on a rim or wheel mounted loosely on the cylinder shaft
or otherwise suitably supported so as to be free to revolve with and at the same
surface speed as that at which the flats travel.
Each radial bracket has an oblique or diagonal slot or groove formed in it into
which is fitted a stud or equivalent fixed on a ring or semicircular or other part
supported on a turned flange on the bend or on the wheel as the case may be
whereby when the said part is moved the studs thereon moving in the oblique slots
or grooves in the radial brackets force the latter along their slideways and adjust
their position so as to set the flats nearer to or farther from the axis of the main
cylinder as required.
It is obvious that the studs or equivalents might be on the brackets and the
oblique slots or grooves in the movable ring or other part instead of vice versa as
above described.
Dated this 15th day of May 1609.
H. B. BARLOW,
Agent.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Travelling Flat Carding Engines.
We, JOHN STOCKS, of Canal Street Works, Todmorden, in the County of York,
Foreman Mechanic, and WILL LORD, of the same place, Machine Maker, do hereby
declare the nature of this said invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
In the invention for which we obtained Letters Patent No. 1758 of 1886 we
employ on each side of the engine a number of radial brackets fitted in slideways on
the bend or side frame of the engine the upper surface of these brackets being
concentric to the main cylinder and forming the path or working surface upon which
the flats travel.
Our present invention consists chiefly in an improved arrangement and combination
of parts for effecting the adjustment of the radial brackets in lieu of the adjusting
screw and long arm or plate described in the Specification to our said Patent.
And in order that our invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect we will describe the accompanying two Sheets of Drawings reference being had
to the figures and letters marked thereon.

page_text: Figure 1 is a side elevation of a travelling flat carding engine to which our
improvements have been applied.
Fig. 2 is a transverse section and Fig. 3a part plan of the same.
In these views-a is the main cylinder of the carding engine, the side framing
or engine bend supported upon the under framing c, d the chain of travelling top
flats and e designates the series of; radial brackets: Each radial bracket e is as in
our aforesaid Patent mounted in a slide way formed on the stationary bend b; or
each bracket e might be mounted, in a slideway formed on a rim or wheel mounted
loosely on the cylinder shaft or otherwise suitably supported so as to be free to
revolve with and at the same surface speed' as that at which the flats d travel.
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Each radial bracket e has an oblique or diagonal 'slot or groove e¹ formed in it
into which is fitted a stud f¹ or equivalent fixed' on a ring or segment for equivalent
part which is supported on a turned flange 6" as shown or upon the rim or wheel as
the case may be.
When the segment for equivalent part is moved end wise the studs f¹ thereon
moving in the oblique slots or grooves e force the radial brackets e along 'their
slideways and thereby adjust their position so as to set the flats d nearer to or
farther from the axis of the main cylinder a as required.
It is obvious that the studs or equivalents might be on the brackets e and the
oblique slots or grooves in the movable segment for other part instead of vice versa
as above described and as shown.
Any suitable means for moving the segment for its equivalent may be employed.
For example we show on the Drawings rack teeth on the underside of the
segment into which gears a pinion g fixed on a stud which passes through and is
supported by the bend b. Also fixed on the stud is a worm wheel i which is
turned when required by the worm j so as to move the segment in either direction
as required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we déclare that what we
claim is :-
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The combination with the brackets e fitted radially in slideways and provided with
oblique slots or grooves, of the movable segment for equivalent part having studs
projecting into said slots or grooves substantially as and for the purposes herein
described and as illustrated by the accompanying Drawings.
Dated this Thirteenth day of February 1890. ·
H. B. BARLOW,
Agent for Applicants.