Improvements relating to Combing Machines.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Apr., 1897-Accepted, 8th Aug.,
1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Combing Machines.
I HERBERT JOHN HADDAN of the firm of Herbert Haddan & Co., of 18 Bucking-
ham Street, Strand W.C., London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention a communication to me from abroad by The Société Sobrinos
de D. Juan Battle of Barcelona, in the Kingdom of Spain, Manufacturers, and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:
When cotton is worked by means of combing machines besides the ribbons
or slivers with long fibres which are obtained from the combing machine there
remain fibres which, although they have not the length required in order to form
part of the ribbons or slivers with long fibres, have however sufficient length
to take part in short fibres and to be submitted to appropriate spinning.
These short cotton fibres which form the remains of the combing machines
leave these machines under the form of thin sheets or veils obtained by means
of beating combs which pull them from certain cylinders with points where the
short fibres are stopped after having been eliminated from the combed material.
These thin veils then fall to the ground or they are collected in receptacles whence
the workmen take them from time to time in heaps in order to carry them to the
general waste deposit.
The invention consists in adding to cotton combing machinery a mechanism
by means of which the short fibres, instead of leaving under the form of thin veils
and being collected in heaps, leave under the form of ribbons or slivers in such a
manner that they can be used for the spinning of the said short fibres, so that all
the operations anterior to the formation of slivers of short fibres may be spared.
Neither the mechanisms of the combing machinery nor those which serve for
the formation of slivers of short fibres are claimed here as new; what constitutes
the novelty is the adaptation to combing machines of the additional mechanisms
intended for the formation of slivers for the purpose of collecting the remains
of short fibres under the form of slivers ready for being drawn and twisted
according to the natural course of spinning instead of collecting them under
the form of waste in bulk as done hitherto.
A manner of practically performing this invention is shown in the annexed
drawing in which Fig. 1 is a horizontal projection of the part of the mechanism
necessary for understanding the invention. Fig. 2 shows a cross section on the
line z-z of Fig. 1.
A, A, are two cylinders provided with points which extract the short fibres
from the material to be combed. Although on the drawing only two cylinders
are shown of this kind, there must be as many as the machine as combing
mechanisms. It is needless to represent on the drawing other organs of the
combing machine as this invention relates only to the part of the combing machine
which is interested in the extraction of the short fibres.

page_text: B₁ B¹ shows the comb or the small beating saw which obliges the fibres stopped
between the points of the cylinders A, A to leave them. The beating movement
of these combs is obtained by slinging the shaft 6 by means of the socket b on
a pin all on a rod C having a strap surrounding an excentric all on the shaft a.
The rotary movement of shaft a is transformed into a movement of the shaft b
to and from the shaft a which transfers it to the shaft on which are fixed
the arms B, B1, B B¹ between which are mounted the combs or saws B¹ B¹.
The thin veils formed by the short fibres pass in a channel D, D', D D', which
narrows and conducts the said fibres to the funnels E, E from where they are
extracted by the abducting cylinders F, F from where they leave, already under
the form of slivers shown in 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 01, 01, 01; these slivers pass then
under the common compressing cylinder G, G, and from here to the rotary
collecting vessel H, the mechanism of which is well known in many spinning
machines.
The cylinders F, F receive their rotary movement from the shaft a by means
of the toothed wheels I, I.
The revolution of the vessel H is obtained from the same shaft by means of
the toothed wheels J, J. Thus in the vessel H are collected the remains of
short fibres under the form of slivers already prepared for the spinning.
It is clear that this machine may be subjected to many modifications of form
without departing from the nature of the invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
A new or improved mode and mechanism for transforming into slivers the
remains of cotton combing machines, characterized by the application of
mechanism intended for the formation of slivers in such a manner, that the
remains of the short fibres which before were extracted from the combing machines
under the form of waste can be obtained under the form of slivers appropriate
for spinning all substantially as illustrated and set forth.
Dated this 20th dow of Amil 1807