"Flats" Used or Employed in Carding-engines.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 4th May, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 4th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 9th Mar., 1889
"Flats" Used or Employed in Carding-engines.
I JAMES EDWARD PLATT of Hartford Iron Works, Oldham in the county of
Lancaster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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My invention relates to metal "flats " used in carding-engines in which
tops" or "cards
are employed and consists in means for securing the
"flats."
flats
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to such
I use or
For the purpose of securing the "cards" or "tops" to metal "flats
employ metal wire bent in the form of a continuity of conjoined staples or prongs.
Each of these staples or prongs may be twisted into the form of a screw.
The "flats" are "drilled "in the usual manner as when rivets are used, the holes
being drilled of the proper pitch to suit the wire staples or prongs aforesaid. The
wire staples or prongs. being inserted or passed through the "card clothing" and the
metal "Hat," the metal wire on the carding or "fillet" side of the "flat" forms as it
were, a continuons length of metal wire and the staples or prongs are sufficiently
long to project through the "flat" and are bent or clinched on the other side of
the flat."
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A further improvement consists in securing the extreme ends of the "tops" or
"cards" to the metal "flats" and at the same time supporting the end wires of the
"cards" in a vertical position. For this purpose I employ strips of metal of a length
equal to the width of the "flat" or thereabouts the said strips being bent in an
angular form the vertical side of the angle supporting the card-wires whilst the other
being placed on the top of the "card" is secured to the metal "flat" by rivets or
screws.

page_text: Improvements in Securing the "Tops" or "Cards" to the Metal
"Flats" Used or Employed in Carding-engines.
I JAMES EDWARD PLATT of Hartford Iron Works Oldham in the County of
Lancaster Engineer 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:—
My invention relates to metal "flats" used in carding-engines in which "flats"
are employed and consists in means for securing the "tops" or
<< cards" to such
"flats.'
For the purpose of securing the "cards" or tops" to metal "flats" I use or
employ metal wire bent in the form of a continuity of conjoined staples or prongs-
Each of these staples or prongs may be twisted into the form of a screw-The
"flats" are "drilled "
in the usual manner as when rivets are used, the holes being
drilled of the proper "pitch" to suit the wire staples or prongs aforesaid--The
wire staples or prongs being inserted or passed through the "card-clothing" and the
metal "flat" the metal wire on the carding or "fillet" side of the "flat" forms as it
were a continuous length of metal wire and the staples or prongs are sufficiently
long to project through the "flat" and are bent or clinched on the other side of the
flat."
This part of my invention is illustrated by Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the accompanying
drawing-
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Fig. 1 shows a metal wire a bent in the form of a continuity of conjoined staples
or prongs a¹. Each of the staples or prongs a¹ is shown as twisted into the form of
a screw but each of the staples or prongs a' may be formed without being twisted-
Fig. 2 is a side view and Fig. 3 an end view of a portion of a "flat" with the "top"
ог "card" secured thereto according to this part of my invention-Through each
side of the flat holes are "drilled" in the usual manner and of proper "pitch" or
distance apart to suit the "pitch or distance apart of the staples or prongs-The
staples or prongs a¹ are passed through the "card-clothing" and through the metal
Hat -The metal wire on the carding or "fillet" side of the "flat" forms as it were
a continuous length of metal wire as shown in Fig. 4 which is a view showing a
portion of the carding or "fillet " side of a "flat." The staples or prongs a¹ after
being passed through the "card clothing" and through the metal "flat" are bent or
clinched on the opposite side of the "flat" b as shown at 6 in Fig. 2.
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A further improvement consists in securing the extreme ends of the "tops" or
"cards
to the metal "flats" and at the same time supporting the end wires of the
cards in a vertical position.
For this purpose 1 employ strips of metal of a length equal to the width of the
"flat" or thereabouts, the said strips being bent in an angular form, the vertical
side of the angle supporting the card-wires whilst the other being placed on the top
of the "card is secured to the metal "flat" by rivets or screws.

page_text: Figs. 5. 6. and 7 of the accompanying drawing illustrate this part of my invention.
Fig. 5 is a plan, Fig. 6 a side elevation and Fig. 7 an end view of so much of a
"flat" as is requisite to illustrate this portion of my invention.
I employ a strip c of metal the length of which is equal to the width of the "flat"
or thereabouts-One portion c¹ of the strip c of metal is bent at an angle to the other
portion thereof.
The vertical portion of the strip of metal supports the card wires d whilst the
other portion of such strip of metal, being placed on the top of the "card" is
secured to the metal "flat" e by rivets for by means of screws.
The two parts of my invention may be used apart from each other or may be used
in conjunction with each other.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of iny said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare what I
claim is :-
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1. For securing the "cards or "tops" to metal "flats" used in carding-engines,
motal wire bent in the form of a continuity of conjoined staples or prongs and used,
substantially in the manner herein before described.
2. For securing the extreme ends of "tops" or "cards" to metal "flats" used in
carding-engines and at the same time supporting the end-wires of the cards in a
vertical position strips of metal such as c formed and bent into an angular form so as
to be capable of being used in the manner herein before described in reference to and
indicated in and by Figs. 5, 6 and 7 of the accompanying drawing.
W. T. CHEETHAM,
.Manchester,
Agent to the Applicant.