Improvements in Apparatus or Machinery for Opening and Cleaning Cotton, Wool, and other Fibrous Material.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Nov., 1886.
Complete Left, 20th Aug., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 23rd Sept., 1887.
Improvements in Apparatus or Machinery for Opening and Cleaning
Cotton, Wool, and other Fibrous Material.
We THOMAS BUCKLEY and SAMUEL BUCKLEY both of Wood Mill Woodley in the
County of Chester Wool washers and Carders do hereby declare the nature of our
invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is improvements in that class of opener for fibrous
material in which a vertical shaft carrying knives revolves in an inverted truncated
casing or grating.
Our improvements relate to the grating and to the means of supplying the same.
Instead of forming the grating of cast iron as heretofore and with angular slits or
openings wide at the bottom and narrower at the top (which have had a tendency to
allow too much fibrous material to pass and to become wasted, and which moreover
have been liable to become choked up by the fibrous material catching between the
slits or openings) we construct a cast iron frame bolted together in segments to form
the truncated casing and from the inner edge of each of which segments a series of
studs project in alternate positions on the inside and thus assist in opening the fibrous
material carried round by the revolving knives. These segmental frames form the
support for our improved grating which consists of a series of wires, rods, or thin
metallic bars secured at the desired distance from each other in a thin metallic
framework which fits inside the segmental frame and is secured thereto by set screws.
We find in practise that these improved gratings have the effect of more perfectly
opening and cleaning the cotton, wool or other fibrous material and this without
permitting so much waste as formerly and which gratings are not liable to become
choked up.
Nab 1906
JOHN G. WILSON,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: Cotton, Wool, and other Fibrous Material.
We THOMAS BUOKLEY and SAMUEL BUCKLEY both of Wood Mill, Woodley, in the
County of Chester, Wool Washers and Carders, do hereby declare the nature of our
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of this invention is improvements in that class of opener for fibrous
material in which a vertical shaft carrying knives revolves in an inverted truncated
casing or grating.
Our improvements relate to the grating and to the means of applying the same.
On the accompanying drawing Fig. 1. represents a front sectional view of so much
of a machine for opening and cleaning fibrous material as is necessary to explain
explain
our improvements which are applied thereto. Fig. 2. is a front exterior view (on a
larger scale) of one of the improved grating or segments shewn separately and
Fig. 3. is a plan of Fig. 2 upon the line a-b.
In Fig. 1. a is the vertical shaft carrying the knives b. and mounted in the truncated
casing c in the ordinary manner. Instead however of forming the grating of cast
iron as heretofore and with angular slits or openings wide at the bottom and narrower
at the top (which have had a tendency to allow too much fibrous material to pass
and to become wasted, and which moreover have been liable to become choked up by
the material catching between the slits or openings) we construct a cast iron frame d
bolted together in segments to form the truncated casing and from the inner edge of
each of which segments (as seen more clearly in Figs. 2 and 3) a series of studs f.
project in alternate positions on the inside and thus assist in opening the fibrous
material carried round by the revolving knives b.
These segmental frames d d form the support for our improved grating which
consists of a series of wire rods or thin metal bars g. g. secured at the desired
distance from each other in a thin metallic framework h. h. which fits inside the
segmental frame d and is secured thereto by set screws i. i.
We find in practise that these improved gratings have the effect of more perfectly
opening and cleaning the cotton, wool or other fibrous material and this without
permitting so much waste as formerly and which gratings are not liable to become
choked up.

page_text: Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of our invention we
declare that what we claim is :-
1st. The improved construction of truncated casing substantially as and for the
purposes herein before described.
2nd. The employment of segmental frames carrying studs and supporting the
improved gratings constructed substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore
described and illustrated on the accompanying drawing.
3rd. The improved arrangement and construction of grating and mode of securing
the same in position substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated on the
accompanying drawing.