IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CARDING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and Foreign
Patent Offices, 24, Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of
France, and 38, Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY FOR CARDING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS."-A com-
munication from Célestin Martin, residing at Pépinster, Verviers, in the .
Kingdom of Belgium, Manufacturer.
Sealed the 24th September 1867, and dated the 28th May 1867.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration on the 28th May 1867, pursuant to the 9th Section of the
Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM, THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 24, Rue du
Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of France, and 38, Porchester Terrace,
Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY FOR CARDING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS," a communi-
cation from Célestin Martin, a person resident at Pépinster, Verviers, in the
Kingdom of Belgium, Manufacturer, and have petitioned Her Majesty to
grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters

page_text: munication.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, do hereby
declare that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and seal,
fully describes and ascertains the nature of the Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawings, and to the letters marked thereon, that is to say :-
The improvements now communicated to me relate to an apparatus and an
entrance way, the object of which is to feed machinery for carding wool and
other fibrous materials by a single sheet of wool.
These improvements are represented in the accompanying Drawings,
Figure 1 of which is an amplified view of a portion of the entrance way;
Figure 2, a front view of the apparatus; Figure 8, a view of the same on
top; and Figure 4, a side view of the same. Like letters of reference
indicate corresponding parts throughout all the Figures.
A, Figure 4, is the rear part of the card's frame; B, Figures 3 and 4, is the
frame which supports and unwinds the bobbin C by means of the cylinders D.
The column E, which supports the two attracting cylinders F and the oscil-
lating lever G, serve to adjust the sheet of wool on the entrance cylinders H,
Figure 1. The rope I, fixed by one end to the oscillating lever G, and by the
other to the piece K, imparts, by reason of the to-and-fro movement of this
latter an upward movement to the oscillating lever G, the object of which is
to keep the sheet of wool arriving by the 'cylinders. F uniformly stretched,
whether the said sheet of wool on adjusting itself in the entrance draws
nearer to or recedes from the centre of the. bobbin. The shaft end L,
Figure 8, by means of an endless screw actuates the two entrance cylinders H
and the cylinder M, Figure 1, which work at a speed equal to that of ordinary
entrance ways; it further actuates by means of the gearing N, Figures 2
and 8, the little shaft O which sets in motion the cylinders D and the piece K
by means of the strap P. The piece K, to which is imparted a to-and-fro
movement by the strap P., supports two gearing Q, to which are fixed 'two
little fluted cylinders R serving to guide the sheet of wool and to spread it
on the entrance cylinders H. 'The two gearing Q alternatively catch in with
the gearing S each time the piece K alters its course either to the right or
to the left. The object of the rope'T, Figures 2 and 3, winding on the
pulley U fixed to the gearing S, is to cause the little fluted pulleys R to work
ever in the same direction, whether the piece K which supports them turns
to the right or to the left. The balance weight V, Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4,
serves to keep always in gearing one or the other of the little gearing Q with

page_text: the gearing S; this balance weight topples to the right each time the piece K
reaches the end of its course on the right, and it topples to the left when the
said piece reaches the end of its course on the left. The two entrance
cylinders A, B, are set in motion by the cylinder B, C, by means of the
gearing C, D; they take up the wool from one of the entrance cylinders H
and from the entrance cylinder M to deliver it to the cylinder B, C; this
latter is relieved of its wool by the cylinder D, E, which at the same time
strips the first working cylinder E, F, Figure 4, and works this wool by
sharing it with the cylinder F, G, after which the wool of the said cylinder,
D, E, is entirely stripped by the big drum G, H. The cylinder F, G, which
has loaded itself with wool by the cylinder D, E, is in its turn stripped by the
cylinder B, C ; each turn or length of the sheet of wool laid on the cylinders H
doubles itself up sufficiently so as to leave no vacancies between them. By
reason of the very small diameter of one of the cylinders Hand of the
cylinder M the upper cylinder A, B, removes a portion of the sheet of wool
whilst it is yet three parts under the cylinders H and M. The upper cylinder
A, B, by reason of its speed which is several times superior to that of the
cylinders H and M, divides the sheet of wool with these to deliver it with the
help of the lower cylinder A, B, in small quantities and in a continuous
manner to the cylinder B, C; the latter cylinder, loaded with the wool
received by the entrance ways A, B, revolves about a number of times equal
to that of the big drum G, H; the upper cylinder D, E, which strips it works.
at a speed about three times quicker, and the cylinder F, G, at a speed about
three times slower than the cylinder B. C. The cylinder F, G, serves to
regulate the entrace of the wool into the machine, that is, to cause the
inequalities produced by the entrance of the sheet of wool to disappear, which
is sometimes double when engaged in the entrance cylinders and sometimes
single; it performs this by receiving the too great quantities of wool engaged
on a single part of the cylinder D, E; this wool with which it has loaded
itself is taken up again when divided by the cylinder B, C. The regular
spreading of the wool throughout the machine not only takes place before
entering the big drum G, H, but also after this one has deposited part of its
wool on the first working cylinder E, F, which is itself stripped by the
cylinder D, E, which again divides the wool with the cylinder F, G.
Having thus described the nature of the said improvements, and the manner
of carrying the same into effect, I claim,―
1º. The system of feeding apparatus in carding machines by a single sheet
of wool and a single bobbin, as herein-before substantially set forth, and
described, and represented in the accompanying Drawings.

page_text: 2º. The feeding of the card by a single sheet of wool adjusting itself in the
entrance cylinders themselves of the machine, without a feed cloth, as herein-
before substantially set forth and described...
3°. The working and arrangement of the cylinders H, M, and A, B, com-
bined together, as herein-before substantially set forth and described.
And, 4°, the mode of compensation or regulating of the entrance of the
material into the card by employing the cylinder F, G, combined with the
cylinders B, C, D, E, and E, F, as herein-before substantially set forth and
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
H. BONNEVILLE.
(LS.)