Improvements in Travelling Flats for Carding Engines.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 15th June, 1893-Accepted, 15th July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Travelling Flats for Carding Engines.
I, WILLIAM WALTON, of Haughton Dale Mills, Denton, in the County of
Lancaster, Wire Card Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to the invention for which I obtained Letters Patent
numbered 5551 and dated April 12th, 1890 and the essential feature of that inven-
tion consisted in attaching a strip or fillet of card clothing to a strip or backing of
thin sheet metal and then securing the combined fillet and backing to an ordinary
cast iron flat.
According to my present invention I employ as in my aforesaid Patent a metal
backing upon which the card fillet is stretched and secured thereto by tongues or
fangs punched or otherwise formed out of the metal and in combination with the
fillet and backing thus combined I employ sheet metal clips to secure the combined
fillet and backing to the flat. The edges of the clips embrace the margin of the
foundation and also the underside of the flat bar and so secure the clothing firmly
in its position.
Dated this 14th day of September 1892
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Travelling Flats for Carding Engines.
I, WILLIAM WALTON, of Haughton Dale Mills, Denton, in the County of
Lancaster, Wire Card Manufacturer, 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 relates to the invention for which I obtained Letters Patent
numbered 5551 and dated April 12th 1890 and the essential feature of that inven-
tion consisted in attaching a strip or fillet of card clothing to a strip or backing of
thin sheet metal and then securing the combined fillet and backing to an ordinary
cast iron flat.
According to my present invention I employ as in my aforesaid Patent a metal
backing upon which the card fillet is stretched and secured thereto by tongues or
fangs punched or otherwise formed out of the metal and in combination with the
fillet and backing thus combined I employ sheet metal clips to secure the combined
fillet and backing to the flat. The edges of the clips embrace the margin of the
foundation and also the underside of the flat bar and so secure the clothing firmly
in its position.
And in order that my invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect I will describe the accompanying sheet of drawings reference being had to
the figures and letters marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is a plan view of a strip of metal which may be of mild steel or other
suitable metal, preferably of the length and width of a card flat, Fig. 2 is a side
elevation of the same, partly in section.
Fig. 3 is a similar view to Fig. 2, partly in section, with the addition of a card
fillet attached to the strip of metal.

page_text: Fig. 4 is a side elevation of part of a card flat with a combined card fillet and
strip of metal secured to it by means of continuous clips or clamps, and
Fig. 5 is a sectional end view of Fig. 4.
In the drawings,
a is a strip of mild steel of the width of a card flat; this strip of metal has
tongues a punched or formed out of the metal, see Figs. I and 2; b is a fillet of
card clothing, e a carding engine flat, and e e are continuous clips of mild sheet
metal by means of which the combined card fillet and metal strip are secured to
the flat c.
The card fillet is stretched in any convenient manner and secured to the metal
strip a by its tongues a¹ which pass through the fillet and are turned over into the
fillet as shown in Fig. 3; the combined fillet and metal thus prepared can be
forwarded, if desired, to the mill or factory, where they can be readily attached to
the carding engine flats by means of clips such as ee which can be made of any
convenient length (or if desired a single clip for each edge could be used) these
clips preferably cover the tongues a¹ and are bent over the edges of the flat as
shown clearly in Fig. 5.
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 :-
The combination with a fillet or strip of card clothing secured to a metal strip
or backing by tongues formed out of said metal strip, of metal clips which embrace
the edges of the flat and the combined fillet and backing substantially as described
and illustrated.
Dated this 14th day of June 1902
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant.