IMPROVEMENTS IN FLEECE-DIVIDERS FOR CARDING-MACHINES
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Carl Pieper, Civil-Engineer and Patent Agent, resident
at 109-110 Gneisenaustrasse, Berlin, S.W., Prussia, for an Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FLEECE-DIVIDERS FOR CARDING-MACHINES"-a communi-
cation to him from G. Josephy's Erben, of Bielitz in Austrian Silesia, Empire
of Austria
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Carl Pieper at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th April 1883.
CARL PIEPER, Civil Engineer and Patent Agent, resident at 109/110 Gneisenau-
strasse, Berlin S.W; Prussia "IMPROVEMENTS IN FLEECE-DIVIDERS FOR CARDING-
MACHINES, a communication to me from G. Josephy's Erben, of Bielitz in Austrian
Silesia, Empire of Austria,
This invention relates to the fleece-divider described in the British letters patent
No 4588 A.D. 1881, and invented by my correspondent, and it consists in sup-
porting the fleece on its way from the doffer of the carding machine to the dividing
rollers by means of the dividing straps.
For this purpose a roller is arranged close to the doffer near the point where the
fleece is detached by the comb. Around this roller all the straps of the lower series
or system are conducted while they run from the underside of the lower roller to
the top thereof. A support for the fleece is thereby obtained which is of especial
value when the fibres of the material under treatment are very short.. The said
roller may be provided with grooves for the straps to run in.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Carl Pieper in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th October
1883.
CARL PIEPER, Civil-Engineer and Patent Agent residing at 109/110 Gneisenau-
strasse Berlin SW., Prussia IMPROVEMENTS IN FLEECE-DIVIDERS FOR CARDING-
MACHINES a communication to me from G. Josephy's Erben, of Bielitz, in Austrian
Silesia, Empire of Austria
This invention relates to the fleece-divider described in the specification of the
British letters patent No. 4588, A.D. 1881, and invented by my correspondents,
and it consists in supporting the fleece on its way from the doffer of the carding-
machine to the dividing rollers by means of the dividing straps.
In the fleece-divider referred to, as well as in other apparatuses of this kind, the
fleece either remains unsupported on its way from the doffer to the dividing rollers,
or it is carried by special travelling bands or lattices, or a series of guiding rollers.
In the first case the fleece is apt to tear or become unequally stretched, especially
when the fibres composing the same, are short, while in the other case, the said
guiding devices present certain difficulties in their combination with the apparatus
and the disadvantage of being inclined to roll up the fleece.
• By means of the improved arrangement forming the subject-matter of this
invention and represented on the annexed sheet of drawings, the said incon-
veniencies are avoided. A is the doffer of a carding machine, B and C are the
dividing rollers, D and E the two systems of straps, conducted, as shown in the
drawing, around rollers F, G, H, I, or guided in other suitable manner, so that
they will deliver the fleece-ribbons to the rubbers K and L. The straps of the
system E do not, however, run as usual on the roller C while they pass from the
underside of this roller to the top thereof; but they are conducted around a small
roller P placed close to the doffer near the point where the fleece is detached by
the comb M. With this arrangement the straps E receive the fleece almost imme-
diately as it leaves the doffer and support the same during its passage to the
Follers B and C. The roller P may be provided with grooves for the straps to
rún in.
:
The described arrangement may also be applied to other fleece-dividers besides
the one referred to in the foregoing.
Having thus described the nature and object of this invention and the manner
in which it is to be carried out in practice, as communicated to me by my corre-
spondents, I hereby claim as new and important feature of the same:
In a fleece divider for carding machines, the combination with the dividing
rollers B and C, of a roller P, placed close to the doffer A, and around which are
conducted the straps E, substantially as and for the purpose specified.
In Witness whereof, I, the said Carl Pieper, have hereunto set my hand and
seal this eleventh day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and eighty-three.
CARL PIEPER (1.81