Year: 1888

page_text: RESE
Date of Application, 1st May, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 1st Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 2nd Mar., 1889
We, SAMURL CUNLIFFE LISTER, and WILLIAM WATSON the younger, Manufacturers,
Manningham Mills, Bradford, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
At present the chief objection to the self acting dressing frame is the cost of
preparing the raw material for the machine.
According to our invention we take a first draft by the hand dresser on the flat
dressing frame, and whilst doing this instead of allowing the fibrous material to
accumulate on the working combs and when sufficiently loaded to be removed in
books in the usual manner and again dressed, we apply a circular brush which running
at a considerably higher speed than the working combs clears them from fibre and
forms it into a lap which is from time to time removed and in that state taken
to the self acting dressing machine.

page_text: Improvements in Dressing and Hackling Fibrous Material.
We, SAMUEL CUNLIFFE LISTER, and WILLIAM WATSON the Younger, Manufacturers,
Manningham Mills, Bradford, 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 :-
At present the chief objection to the self acting dressing frame is the cost of
preparing the raw material for the machine. In self acting dressing machines the silk
or other fibre to be acted on is fed in by an oscillating feed head and the silk or
fibre must be previously formed into a suitable lap or the oscillating feed head
cannot feed it on to the machine.
The ordinary process hitherto has been to prepare it upon drums and screw gills,
but we find a considerable saving may be effected by putting it through the ordinary
flat dressing frame and in that way obtaining a first draft at the same time
accumulating the uncombed fibres upon a lap drum to be afterwards dressed and
combed upon the self actor.
The hand or flat drum does not require to have the silk prepared in any way. In
it the fibre to be dressed is held between boards which are hinged together like a
book and these books are held side by side in a rectangular frame and the fibre so
held is presented upwards to combs carried at distances apart from one another by
endless chains or bands.
Ordinarily fibre has been allowed to accumulate on the working combs until they
are sufficiently loaded-and then has been removed between boards by hand.
Instead of allowing the fibrous material to accumulate on the working combs as
is for the most part usual we use a circular brush which running at a considerably
higher speed than the working combs clears them from fibre and forms the fibre into
a lap upon a lap drum and when a sufficient quantity has been accumulated the lap is
removed to be afterwards combed on the self acting dressing frame.
The accompanying drawings show the way in which the fibre is removed from the
working combs and formed into a lap on a lap drum.
BB are some of the working combs carried by the endless band of a flat dressing
machine. C is a revolving circular brush which running at a much higher speed
than the revolving combs sweeps the fibre off from the back of the pins and delivers
it on to the teeth of the drum D on which it then accumulates in the form of
a lap.
By employing a flat or hand dressing frame to take out a first draft and to make
a suitable lap of the uncombed fibres we not only make a considerable saving in cost
of working but also obtain more top.

page_text: Having new particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
The herein before described process of dressing and hackling waste silk and other
fibre consisting in first obtaining a draft on the ordinary flat dressing frame and
forming it into a lap upon a lap drum and subsequently dressing and combing such
lap upon a self acting dressing and combing machine.
DL:
1000
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicants.