Improvements in Machines or Apparatus for Cleaning, Combing, and Assorting Fibrous Materials.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Aug., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 30th May, 1895-Accepted, 4th Nov., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines or Apparatus for Cleaning, Combing,
and Assorting Fibrous Materials.
I, WILLIAM SEWARD ARCHER, of Turner's Hotel, 9, Halliwell Street,
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Heretofore the assorting of wool and other kinds of fibres in classes, such as
fine, medium, coarse and rough, has been performed by hand.
The object of this invention is principally to provide means whereby the
assorting of the said fibres as well as of mineral fibres or asbestos is performed
mechanically and whereby the fibres are more efficiently and satisfactory cleaned
and combed without injury or loss of staple and thus finer and more uniform yarn
or gouds are produced, than heretofore has been the case.
According to this invention I employ within a suitable frame or casing a spicked
cylinder hereinafter termed the "picker roller "below which is situated a grid,
the fibres being fed between the said picker roller and grid by a feed apron and a
pair of feed rollers whilst the cleaned and combed fibres are by the picker roller
projected into an assorting chamber for classification.
The said grid is composed of a suitable number of knifed edged metal bars each
having one or more rows of pins or teeth inclining or pointing obliquely in the
direction in which the fibres travel. The cover between the picker roller and the
assorting chamber on its underside is also furnished with pius or teeth pointing
obliquely in the direction in which the fibres travel, so as to cause them to be
thoroughly cleaned and combed before arrival in the assorting chamber. The
periphery of the picker roller I furnish or form longitudinally with radially
adjustable fan blades which serve to create a current of air in the direction of the
said assorting chamber for the purpose of carrying or projecting the cleaned and
combed fibres into the same, the said fan blade being radially adjustable more or
less current of air can be produced as may be required.
For the purpose of assorting any impurities or foreign matter contained in the
fibres a suitable number of partitions are employed extending from the lower edge
of the said grid bars to or near the bottom of the machine. The pin or toothed
grid bars are as well as the underside of the aforesaid pinned or toothed cover
rendered adjustable so as to bring the same, nearer to or further away from each
other as may be required.
In some cases I may employ under the feed rollers a bar without pins or teeth
so as to cause any hard substance or foreign matter in the fibres operated upon to
drop and prevent stricking and damaging the pins or teeth of the other bars.
The lower part of the assorting chamber by means of partitions is formed into a
suitable number of bius adapted to receive the different classes of fibres.
Dated this 3rd day of August 1894.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Machines or Apparatus for Cleaning, Combing,
and Assorting Fibrous Materials.
I, WILLIAM SEWARD ARCHER, of Turner's Hotel, 9, Halliwell Street,
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturer, lo 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:-
Heretofore the assorting of wool and other kinds of fibres in classes, such as fine,
medium, coarse and rough, has been perforined by hand.
The object of this invention is principally to provide means whereby the assorting
of the said fibres as well as of mineral fibres or asbestos is performed mechanically
and whereby the fibres are more efficiently and satisfactory cleaned and combed
without injury or loss of staple and thus finer and more uniform yarn or goods are
produced than heretofore has been the case.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused to
be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures.
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section of a complete machine or apparatus for cleaning,
combing, and assorting fibrous materials constructed in accordance with my
invention.
Fig. 2 is an end view and Fig. 3 a side view of the end portion of the "picker
roller at an enlarged scale.
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In carrying out my invention and referring to the figures generally I employ
within a suitable frame or casing a spicked cylinder hereinafter termed the
picker roller" below which is situated a grid e, the fibres being fed between the
picker roller" and grid c preferably by a feed apron d and a pair of feed
rollers e, whilst the cleaned and combed fibres are projected by the "picker
roller" into an assorting chamber for classification.
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The grid c is composed of a suitable number of knife edged metal bars e cach
having one or more rows of pins or teeth inclining or pointing obliquely in the
direction in which the fibres travel. Between the "picker roller" b and the
assorting chamber fa cover y is employed the underside of which is also furnished
with pins or teeth g' pointing obliquely in the direction in which the fibres travel,
so as to cause them to he thoroughly cleaned and combed before arrival in the
assorting chamber f. The periphery of the "picker roller "61 furnish or form
longitudinally with radially adjustable fan blades which serve to create a current
of air in the direction of the assorting chamber for the purpose of carrying or
projecting the cleaned and combed fibres into the same, the fan blades h being
radially adjustable more or less current of air can be produced as may be required.
In the present instance the blades are mounted in arms ' fixed to the ends of
the roller b, and rendered adjustable therein by means of bolts ' passed through
holes formed in the arms and the ends of the blades h.
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However in some cases the said fan blades may be lowered below the periphery
of the "picker roller" and thus rendered inoperative or a picker roller" without
fan blades may be employed.
For the purpose of regulating or arresting the current of air below the grid cas
may be required, 1 employ a number of partitions 3 extending from the lower
edge of the grid bars c' to or near the bottom of the machine. The grid bars c
are as usually rendered adjustable towards each other and towards the "picker
roller" and the pins or teeth of the cover gy which latter is hinged to the casing a
and thereby rendered adjustable towards the grid c so as to narrow or widen the
passage through which the material under treatment passes from the "picker

page_text: roller" to the assorting chamber as may be required. A flap i resting on the
Cover g
is hinged to the assorting chamber to cover the open space between
the same.
In some cases I may employ under the feed rollers a bar without pins or teeth
so as to cause any hard substance or foreign matter in the fibres operated upon to
drop and prevent striking and damaging the pins or teeth of the other bars.
The lower part of the assorting chamber by means of partitions & is formed
into a suitable uumber of bins k, k, k, k³, adapted to receive the different classes of
fibres; receiving the very coarse, k¹ the coarse, the medium, and the fine
cleaned and combed fibres, whilst a compartment / below the grid c is adapted to
receive the refuse and foreign matter extracted from the fibres. The treated
fibres are removed from the assorting chamber by means of a door or doors
suitably arranged in connection therewith.
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It will be understood that I may use more than one "picker roller"
deemed necessary a pair of carrying rollers between the same in connection with
the said assorting chamber and that I may use any other kind of feeding device
without departing from the nature of my invention.
For certain purposes I may render the bius kinoperative by placing a cover
over the same as shown in dotted lines Fig. 1, or the said bins may be dispensed
with altogether.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim, is-
1st. A machine or apparatus for cleaning, combing and assorting fibrous material
consisting of one or more "picker rollers" and respective pinned or toothed grid
bars e and cover g in combination with an assorting chamber formed with or
without bins k, the said roller or rollers, grid bars, and cover being adapted to
clean and free the fibrous material suitably fed from foreign matter and the said
chamber for the classification of the treated fibres, all substantially as set forth.
2nd. In a machine or apparatus, as specified in the preceding claim, the "picker
roller" furnished with radially adjustable blades h acting as a fau, all substantially
as and for the purpose set forth.
3rd. The general construction and combination of parts constituting my improve-
ments operating substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 29th day of May 1895.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
+ Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicant.