Improvements relating to the Combing of Flax, China Grass, Ramie, and other Fibres.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements relating to the Combing of Flax, China Grass,
Ramie, and other Fibres.
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I, FELIX RENTON, Engineer, 34, Crampton Street, Horton Lane, Bradford, York-
shire, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
I employ a circular machine with 48 inch large circle or larger. Instead of the
creel and ball feed, I employ cans arranged around and in front of the machine, the
said cans resting on foot plates or boards. I also employ in place of the plates or
boards, projecting plates or studs fixed on each side of the said cans, which fit into
holders placed at a suitable distance around the machine: Preference is given to
cans having a division within for each feed box. In place of star strokers, I employ a
thin disc, plain or corrugated, I also employ a sliver guide in the shape of a spout or
half-funnel extending from about the centre of the said cans to the sliver boxes.
Dated this 18th day of February 1897.
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Improvements relating to the Combing of Flax, China Grass,
Ramie, and other Fibres.
I, FELIX RENTON, Engineer, 34, Crampton Street, Horton Lane, Bradford, York-
shire, 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 :—
This invention is designed to dispense with the creel and ball feed in circular
combing machines employed for combing vegetable fibres, in order to lessen the
liability of the sliver being tucked up and breaking; and also for guiding the fibre
to the drawing off rollers."
According to this invention, I employ cans arranged around and in front of the
nachine; the said cans may either be suspended, or they may rest upon foot plates or
boards suitably fixed round the machine. I prefer to have a division in the said cans
for each feed box. I also employ sliver guides extending from the said cans to the
sliver boxes. The said guides may be in the form of spouts or half-funnels.
For guiding the fibre to the drawing off rollers, instead of using the ordinary "star
strokers," I employ a thin disc which may be either plain or corrugated.
The sliver is placed in the aforesaid cans and passes up through the said guides to
he feed boxes. The rest of the operation is the same as in an ordinary circular
combing machine.

page_text: And in order that my said invention may be more fully understood, I will refer to
the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is an elevation of my improvements as
fitted to a combing machine; Figs. 2 to 5 represent details.
The same letters denote the same parts in all the views.
a shows the sliver-box, b the guide-spout, c bracket for cans, d'sliver-can with
divisions (see Fig. 2, which shows detached perspective view of sliver can d),
g (Fig. 3) plain disc stroker, h (Fig. 4) corrugated stroker.
Fig. 5 shows an end view of guide-spout 6.
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
clain is:
1. In circular combing machines, for combing vegetable fibres, the employment of
cans for the purposes set forth.
2. In circular combing machines, for combing vegetable fibres, the employment
of thin discs for the purpose of guiding the fibre to the drawing off rollers.
3. In circular combing machines for combing vegetable fibres, the employment of
guides, to guide the sliver from the cans to the sliver boxes substantially as set forth.
4. Circular combing machines for combing vegetable fibres constructed substantially
as and for the purposes set forth.
Dated this 19th day of November 1897
BROWNE & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant, 9, Warwick Court, Gray's Inn, London, W.C.