IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FEEDING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS TO CARDING ENGINES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Benjamin Acton and John Mustard, both of
Stroud, in the County of Gloucester, Manufacturing Engineers, for
.the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FEEDING WOOL AND
OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS TO CARDING ENGINES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Benjamin Acton and
John Mustard at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 6th May 1873.
We, BENJAMIN ACTON and JOHN MUSTARD, both of Stroud, in the
County of Gloucester, Manufacturing Engineers, do hereby declare the
" IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
nature of the said Invention for
FEEDING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS TO CARDING ENGINES," to be as
follows:-
For the purpose of feeding wool and other fibrous materials to carding
engines we employ apparatus constructed as follows:-The fibrous
material is placed upon an endless apron, by which it is carried forward

page_text: on to a fixed grating, above which is a card roll for drawing the fibrous
material along the grating; the card roll is kept clean by spiked beaters
mounted on a shaft above the roll. Above the end of the apron is a
spiked or plain roller to regulate the quantity of wool to be carried
forward to the grating. Below the grating and at right angles to the
bars of which it is formed is a shaft carrying a bar having spikes or
teeth upon it, which can rise up between the bars of the grating; and a
rocking motion is given to the shaft carrying this bar so as to cause the
spikes carried by it to draw the wool forward along and through the
rack, and throw it on to an endless apron below, by which it is conveyed
to the carding engine. The points of the spikes are made curved so as
to sieze and carry the wool with them in their forward movement, and
not in their backward movement.
The several parts of the apparatus above described have motion
transmitted to them from a shaft mounted in bearings at the lower part
of the side standards of the frame, and which shaft is driven by a belt
from the carding engine. On one end of the shaft is a disc with a crank
pin upon it, from which a connecting rod passes to a crank pin on a disc
or wheel of larger radius, and gives to it an oscillating motion; and this
motion by a crossed or open strap is transmitted to a pulley on the axis
of the spiked bar before mentioned. From another pulley on the driving
shaft a slow continuous revolving motion is given to the card roller to
the endless apron and to the roller above it. From another pulley motion
is transmitted to the shaft carrying the spiked beaters for cleaning the
card roll.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Benjamin Acton and John Mustard in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 6th November 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, BENJAMIN
ACTON and JOHN MUSTARD, both of Stroud, in the County of Gloucester, 3
Manufacturing Engineers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-

page_text: sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Benjamin Acton and John Mustard,
Her special license that we, the said Benjamin Acton and John Mustard,
our exccutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Benjamin Acton and John Mustard, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
FEEDING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS TO CARDING ENGINES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said Benjamin Acton and John
Mustard, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one
of us or them, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Benjamin Acton and John Mus-
tard, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what.
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to
say:
roll is kept clean by spiked beaters
Above the end of the apron is a
For the purpose of feeding wool and other fibrous materials to carding.
engines we employ apparatus constructed as follows:-The fibrous.
material is placed upon an endless apron, by which it is carried forward
on to a fixed grating, above which is a card roll for drawing the fibrous
material along the grating; the card
mounted on a shaft above the roll.
spiked or plain roller to regulate the quantity of wool to be carried.
forward to the grating; below the grating, and at right angles to the
bars of which it is formed, is a shaft carrying a bar having spikes or
teeth upon it, which can rise up between the bars of the grating, and a
rocking motion is given to the shaft carrying this bar so as to cause the
spikes carried by it to draw the wool forward along and through the
rack, and throw it on to an endless apron below, by which it is conveyed.
to the carding engine. The points of the spikes are made curved so as

page_text: which the spikes of the barf project through the grating. p is a pulley
on the driving shaft g, by which a slow continuous revolving motion is
transmitted, as shewn, to the card roll c, apron a, and roller e; & is
another pulley on the driving shaft, which by a belt gives motion to the
shaft which carries the beaters d.
By the arrangement of apparatus above described an even and con-
tinuous supply of wool is maintained on to the rack or grating, and a
to-and-fro rocking motion is imparted in a simple and efficient manner
to the spiked bar, which draws the wool downwards and throws it on to
the feed apron of the carding engine.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, we would have it understood that we claim,
the combined arrangement of apparatus for feeding wool and other
fibrous materials to carding engines substantially as herein described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Benjamin Acton and John
Mustard, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this 4th day of
November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-three.