Improvements relating to the Manufacture of Wadding and to Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Dec., 1897-Accepted, 5th Feb., 1898
[Communicated_ from abroad by ROBERT ZIEGLER, of Villa Zegowitz, Achern,
Baden, in the Empire of Germany, Manufacturer.]
Improvements relating to the Manufacture of Wadding and to
Apparatus therefor.
I, CHARLES JUNGE, of Lincoln Chambers, 75, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Consulting 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:―
This invention relates to the manufacture of wadding and to apparatus therefor.
The wadding is produced from short material by means of a devil, a beating
machine or an express card, and is provided at its upper and under side with a
coating of fleece.
The method consists in conducting on to an endless apron, which passes round
rollers, first the fleece from one or more cards, upon this the wadding from a devil,
and then again the fleece from one or more cards, care being exercised that the
velocity of the endless apron shall be uniform and shall correspond exactly to the
velocity of the two fleeces and the wadding, in order to prevent the tearing of the
several fleeces. From the endless apron the finished wadding is taken by a suit-
able device, such as an endless apron moved at a uniform rate, and conducted to a
winding-up machine.
For carrying this simple method into effect I use the improved apparatus
represented by way of example in the accompanying drawing which shows in
diagram a constructional form.
This apparatus comprises a beating machine A arranged between two cards BB¹
moving in the same direction and at the same velocity, and an endless apron C
arranged below these three machines and moved continuously at a uniform velocity,
such apron taking up the two fleeces and the wadding and conducting them to a
winding-up device D.
As regards the several parts of the apparatus, the beating machine A used for
manufacturing the wadding may on the whole be arranged similarly to any other
beating machine, but in lieu of a beater it possesses a tearing drum a similar to
a rag-tearing machine. Below this tearing drum a is arranged a grate b adapted
to be adjusted according to the material to be treated. In what manner the adjust-
ment of the grate 6 takes place is immaterial. It is expedient to furnish the beat-
ing machine with a feeding device E which operates in connection with the feed
table F conducting the wadding to the feed rollers c c. The feed table F in the con-
structional example is a lath apron e passing round rollers d d to which continuous
and uniform movement is imparted. To this lath apron e the cotton is conducted
by the feeding device E. The latter consists of a casing in which an endless
apron h runs between two vaned shafts g g', said apron passing round rollers i i¹,
which turn continuously at a uniform velocity, and being furnished with fingers
or bars arranged transversely to the direction of motion. The endless apron h
passes in close proximity to the bottom of the casing forming a box at its lower

page_text: part, and, acting similarly to an elevator, transports the cotton, which is introduced
at f, upwards between the vaned shafts g¹ rotating in the same direction. Below
the vaned shaft gl is arranged an inclined guide plate k, the lower edge of which
is directly above the feed table é.
From the cards B and B the fleeces, and from the beating machine A. the wad-
ding, are conducted to the endless lath apron C by endless aprons 7 arranged
obliquely to the latter and moving at the same velocity as C. Such lath apron C
passes below the whole device round guide rollers m m and the upper part, which
takes up the wadding and fleeces, in order to avert sagging, is supported by
several guide rollers n of a smaller diameter.
Between the endless apron C and the winding-up machine D I provide again an
endless apron o passing round suitably arranged guide rollers, such apron spanning
the space between the end of the apron C and the feed rollers of the winding-up
machine D.
The operation of this apparatus is as follows: The card B is set in motion,
thereby moving also the endless apron C according to the velocity of the cards in
the direction of the arrows shown, so as to conduct the fleece under the heating
machine A which latter lays on the wadding produced at the same rate, so that
after passing the beating machine the wadding, being furnished with fleece at its
under side, is conveyed to the second card B₁ which lays its fleece at the same
velocity upon the upper side of the wadding, whereupon the whole is conducted
directly to the winding-up machine.
By this method I am enabled to convert even the shortest material into wadding,
as the fleeces above and below, for which better material is used, afford the requisite
hold.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is:-
First. A method of manufacturing wadding having a coating of fleece on both
sides, characterized by the feature that the wadding, coming from a suitable
machine, is conducted to an endless apron moved at a suitable velocity, which
apron previously and subsequently takes up the fleece from each card, substantially
as set forth.
Second. For carrying out the method described in the First Claim, an apparatus
characterized by the arrangement of a beating machine A between cards B B and
an endless apron C passing under said beating machine and cards around
rollers m m¹ and supported by guide rollers n, which apron C moves at the same
velocity and in the same direction as the wadding coming from the beating
machine A and the fleeces from the cards B B', such wadding and fleeces being con-
ducted by suitably arranged endless feed aprons to said apron C and delivered to
the endless apron o after the union of the two fleeces with the wadding has taken
place, in order to convey the finished wadding to the winding-up device D arranged
behind the last card B³, substantially as set forth.
Th 201 Ja of Tasamba 1907