Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 10th June, 1887
Complete Left, 9th Mar., 1883
Complete Accepted, 13th Apr., 1888
THOMAS HOWARD BLAMIRES Yarn Spinner and Manufacturer Phoenix Mills
Leeds Road Huddersfield do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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The object of this invention is in the method of producing yarns from "Gilled" or
"Gilied and Combed" wool or any other fibres or mixture of fibres by introducing
the "Condenser" after the usual "Gilling" or "Gilling & Combing" processes com-
bined or after one or any portion of the said processes. In the first case I accomplish
this by taking the slivers or laps after they come from any kind of "Gilling" machine,
preferrably the screw Gill Lap machine" and passing it through a carding engine
with condenser attached of which there are several forms used in the manufacture
of woollen yarns, any of which may be employed. Secondly. I may take the wool or
other fibres after being "Gilled" and "Combed" through any suitable Gilling and
Combing machinery and in a similar manner pass it through the said Carding engine
with condenser attached. The Condensing Carding Engine being provided with any
suitable arrangement for paying in the "Gilled" or "Gilled and Combed" fibres so
that they pass through the carding engine and condenser and produce the required.
number of threads on the condenser bobbins or spools, which may then be taken and
spun on any suitable spinning machinery without going through the whole of the
usual drawing processes. By these arrangements and new combination of the "Gilling"
& Condensing" or Gilling Combing and Condensing" processes I am enabled to
produce more suitable yarns and of varied effects for weaving into different kinds of
cloth and other fabrics, being also a more direct process than the existing methods of
making "Gilled" or "Combed" fibres into yarn."
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Dated this 9th day of June 1887.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Method of Manufacturing Yarns.
I THOMAS HOWARD BLAMIRES of Phoenix Mills Leeds Road Huddersfield 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
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The object of this invention is in the method of producing yarns from "Gilled" or
Gilled and combed". wool or any other fibres or mixture of fibres by introducing the
"condenser " after the usual “Gilling" or Gilling and combing processes combined or
after one or any portion of the said processes. In the first case I accomplish this by
taking slivers
or laps after they come from any kind of "Gilling" machine prefer-
ably the "
screw gill lap machine" and passing it through a carding engine with
rubber condenser attached of which there are several forms used in the manufacture
of woollen yarns any of which may be employed. Secondly. I may take the woo!
or other fibres after being "Gilled and combed through any suitable gilling and
combing machinery and in a similar manner pass it through the said carding engine
with condenser attached. The condensing carding engine being provided with any
suitable arrangement for paying in the "gilled" or gilled" and "combed" fibres,
so that they pass through the carding engine and condenser and produce the required
number of threads on the condenser bobbins or spools which may then be taken and
spun on any suitable spinning machinery without going through the whole of the usual
drawing process. By these arrangements and new combination of the "gilling" and
condensing" or "gilling," combing," and "condensing "processes I am enabled to
produce more suitable yarns and of varied effects for weaving into different kinds of
cloth and other fabrics, being also a more direct process than the existing method of
making Gilled or combed fibres into yarn.
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In order that my invention may be more fully understood I herein make reference
to the accompanying sheet of Drawings wherein Fig. 1 shews a sliver of wool or other
fibres or mixture of fibres, after leaving the ordinary carding engine, previous to being
gilled. Fig. 2 is sectional side elevation of a screw gill lap machine and Fig.
sectional slde elevation of a carding engine with rubber condenser attached.
In carrying out my invention I first pass the fibre for producing the yarn through
an ordinary carding engine to the rear end of which a balling motion is attached so
that as the sliver is delivered from the rear of the machine is is wound by the said
balling motion into a "lap" such as is shewn at Fig. 1. These slivers are then passed
through one or more ordinary gill boxes. After this I prefer to finish gilling on the
screw gill lap machine hereafter described. A suitable number of balls or slivers are

page_text: placed upon the creel A (see Fig. 2) and the loose ends of the said lap passed between
the fluted feed rollers B and pressed into the teeth of the gill combs a which are
operated so as to open, straighten draw, or gill the fibre in the usual manner.
After the fibre leaves the gill combs it passes between the fluted rollers C and is then
wound in straight sheets or layers upon the rollers D, which is mounted in vertical
bars D' placed at each side of the machine, such bars being capable of sliding up and
down as afterwards explained.
The roller D is rotated so as to wind on the fibre by means of frictional contact with
the surface rollers E and F mounted in suitable bearings in the framework G, the
first named surface roller E receiving rotary motion through the train of gearing H
from the main driving shaft I of the "Gill" machine, and the second named roller F
being driven in the opposite direction to the roller E by means of the intermediate
pinion wheel J.
As the gilled sliver wound onto the roller D gradually increases in diameter it causes
the said roller to raise the vertical bars D' until the projection b on the said bar comes
against a corresponding projection or enlargement c on the looseplate K resting on the
framework G, the result being that the said loose plate is also raised until the open ends
of the bearings in which the roller D is mounted come opposite the space or opening
made between the plates K and the framework G, so that the roller D with the gilled
fibre which has been wound thereon may be removed from the machine and another
empty roller introduced. The bar D' is then lowered so as to place the roller D
in contact with the surface rollers E and F by means of the hand wheel L, on the
shaft d of which are pinions M gearing into the teeth formed at the lower end of the
bar D' so that as the said hand wheel rotated and motion given to the pinions M the
bar D is lowered. A second set of pinions are also mounted on the shaft d which
gear with corresponding pinions on the shaft e which carries friction pulleys N
employed for steadying the bar D' and keeping the teeth thereon in gear with the
pinions M. Pivotted at is a brake strap g which is kept in contact with the brake
pulley on the shaft d, by weight i, the said brake strap being removed from contact
with the brake pulley as and when required by operating the foot treadle j.
The laps or slivers of gilled fibre are now taken and placed onto the feeding apron O
connected to the carding engine shewn in Fig. 3. At any suitable position between
the rollers K, K' around which the lattice sheet travels I place a roller which causes
the said lattice sheet to fall a little on each side of the central roller and thereby form
two hollows or concave beds.
Into the hollow between the roller K and roller 1 I place one two or more laps of
gilled fibre, side by side, and then carry the loose ends of the laps forward to the
ordinary feed rollers of the machine. A second number of laps are then placed into
the hollow between the roller and roller K' so that the said lap or laps rest on the
fibre from the first named laps, so as to thoroughly mix the material, the loose
ends being carried to the feeding rollers in the same manner.
The fibres after passing
through the carding engine are removed in the ordinary manner by the "doffers " P
and Q and passed through the rubber condensers R and S and produce the required
number of threads on the condenser bobbins or spools T which may then be taken and
spun on any suitable spinning machinery.
By the above arrangement and new combination of the "gilling" and "condensing
or gilling, combing, and condensing processes I am enabled to produce more suitable
yarns and of varied effects for weaving into different kinds of cloth and other fabrics,
and which besides being a more direct process than the existing methods of making
gilled or combed fibres into yarn also dispenses with the necessity of the fibre having
to go through the whole of the usual drawing processes.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:―
Firstly. The process of gilling wool or other fibrous substances or mixtures of the
same which, after passing through one or more of the ordinary gill boxes I prefer to

page_text: finish with the screw gill lap machine before taking the laps or slivers to the condenser,
in combination with the use and employment of any suitable kind of condenser carding
engine and condenser for the purpose of making yarns.
Secondly. The employment of the gilling and any of the usual combing processes
combined for the preparation of wool or other fibrous substances, in combination with
the use and employment of any suitable kind of condenser carding engine and condenser
for the purpose of making yarns substantially as herein described and illustrated by the
drawings annexed.