IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN CONNECTION WITH CON- DENSING, CARDING, AND SCRIBBLING ENGINES FOR PREPARING OR TREATING WOOL AND OTHER LIKE TEXTILE MATERIALS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Philip Charles Evans, of Brimscombe, in the
County of Gloucester, Cloth Manufacturer, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN CONNECTION WITH CON-
DENSING, CARDING, AND SCRIBBLING ENGINES FOR PREPARING OR TREATING
WOOL AND OTHER LIKE TEXTILE MATERIALS."
Scaled the 18th September 1874, and dated the 26th March 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Philip Charles Evans at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 26th March 1874.
I, PHILIP CHARLES EVANS, of Brimscombe, in the County of Glou-
cester, Cloth Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN CONNECTION
WITH CONDENSING, CARDING, AND SCRIBBLING ENGINES FOR PREPARING OR TREATING.
WOOL AND OTHER LIKE TEXTILE MATERIALS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to an apparatus which is intended more parti-
cularly to be used in connection with the condensers (or carding engines)"
and scribblers employed in preparing wool for spinning, and has for its

page_text: object the conveying of the outside threads, which are made by the
condenser or carding engine, back from the said condenser or carding
engine to the feed board of the same, or to the roping or sliver made by
the scribbling engine, or to the doffer or other part of either of the
scribbling engines, so that the said outside threads may become amal.
gamated with the mass of wool and be recarded and used up at once in
lieu of, as heretofore, being fed into the first engine by hand or put asido
to be torn up and mixed in with another mixing of wool.
In carrying out my said Invention I mount on one side of the con-
denser a double pulley, one part of which may have a V groove therein,
whilst the other part is simply flanged. On the other side of the con-
denser I mount a flanged pulley, the said pullies being carried in light
brackets attached either to the framing of the condenser itself or to tho
floor or otherwise.
A driving cord or band is passed round the V part of the double pulley
and round a corresponding V pulley on one of the rubber or other rollers
of the condenser. Round the two flanged pullies before mentioned
there is passed a flat belt of leather or other suitable material; so disposed
as that it shall draw up the outside thread on one side of the condenser
and carry it across to the other side, where it passes up to a double
pulley and to a second belt, and is there joined to or brought in contact
with the outside thread of the opposite side of the condenser. The first
belt merely receives the two outer threads, unites them, and guides them
to the second belt. These belts and pullies may be multiplied or
increased in number if required in order to carry the united threads to
any reasonable distance. The two outside threads are caused to unite
by means of a V or other suitably shaped guide, and when united they
are conveyed by the second flat belt above referred to, also mounted on
flanged pullies carried in brackets, back to the feed board of the engine
or to any other part of the scribbling engines, or to the sliver or roping,
as may be found most desirable. Some or all of the said pullies may
have V pullies fixed to or formed on them so as to be driven by similar
pullies fixed on one of the rollers of the condenser or carding engine, or
driven from each other, as found most convenient. If found requisite
the united threads may be guided into the sliver or roping, or into the
scribbling engine as they leave the last named belt; by a tube, spout, or
other suitable and well known guiding contrivance.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Philip Charles Evans in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 23rd September 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PHILIP
CHARLES EVANS, of Brimscombe, in the County of Gloucester, Cloth
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-seventli
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Philip Charles Evans, Her special license that I,
the said Philip Charles Evans, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Philip Charles Evans, my executors, admini-
strators, 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, excrcise, and vend;
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO
BE EMPLOYED IN CONNECTION WITH CONDENSING, CARDING, AND SCRIBBLING ENGINES
FOR PREPARING OR TREATING WOOL AND OTHER LIKE TEXTILE MATERIALS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Philip Charles Evans, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and scals, 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
Scal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Philip Charles Evans, 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, reference being had to the accom
panying Drawings and to the letters and figures marked theroon, that
is to say:-
My said Invention relates to an apparatus which is intended morą
particularly to be used in connection with the condensers (or carding
engines) and scribblers employed in preparing wool for spinning, and

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has for its object the conveying of the outside threads, which are made.
by the condenser or carding engine, back from the said condenser or
carding engine to the feed board of the same, or to the roping or sliver
made by the scribbling engine, or to the doffer or other part of either of
the scribbling engines, so that the said outside threads. may become
amalgamated with the mass of wool and be recarded and used up at
once in lieu of, as heretofore, being fed into the first engine by hand or.
put aside to be torn up and mixed in with another mixing of wool.
In carrying out my said Invention I mount on one side of the con-
denser a double pulley, one part of which may have a V or other shaped
groove therein, whilst the other part is simply flangod. On the other
side of the condenser I mount a flanged pulley, the said pullics being
carried in light brackets attached either to the framing of the condenser
itself or to the floor or otherwise.
A driving cord or band is passed round the V part of the double
pulley and round a corresponding V pulley on one of the rubber or other
rollers of the condenser. Round the two flanged pullies before men-
tioned there is passed an endless flat belt, so disposed as that it shall
draw up the outside thread on one side of the condenser and carry it
across to the other side, where it passes up to a double pulley' and to a
second belt, and is there joined to or brought in contact with the outside
thread of the opposite side of the condenser. The first belt merely
receives one of the outer threads and guides it to the second belt.
These belts and pullies may be multiplied or increased in number if
required in order to carry the united threads to any reasonable distance.
The two outside threads are caused to unite by means of a V or other
suitably shaped guide, and when united they are conveyed by the second
flat belt above referred to, also mounted on flanged pullies carried in
brackets, back to the feed board of the engine or to any other part of
the scribbling engines, or to tlic sliver or roping, as may be found most
desirable. Some or all of the said pullies may have V pullies fixed to or
formed on them so as to be driven by similar pullies fixed on one of the
rollers of the condenser or carding engine, or driven from each other, as
found most convenient. If found requisite the united threads may bo
guided into the sliver or roping, or into the scribbling engine as they
leave the last named belt, by a tube, spout, or other suitable and well
known guiding contrivance.

page_text: And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood I shall
now proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that purpose
shall refer to the Figures on the explanatory Sheet of Drawings here-
unto annexed, the same letters of reference indicating corresponding
parts in both the Figures.
Figure 1 of my Drawings represents a front view of a portion of a
condenser with my arrangement. of carrying belts attached thereto, and
Fig. 2 is a corresponding side view of a portion of the same in its
position to receive the carded wool from the doffer of the carding engine,
and showing my arrangement of carrying belts also in side elevation.
A, A, are two brackets or light supports bolted to the condenser framing
or standards B, which brackets carry the flanged pullics a, a, for support-
ing and driving in the direction shown by the arrows, the endless travel-
ling belt b, which extends from side to side across the fore part of the
condenser. The flanged pulley a on the left-hand side of Fig. 1 is
formed in one picce with, or has attached to it a ✓ pulley (not seen in
the Drawing) over which passes a driving band c from another V pulley
a fixed upon the shaft of one of the rollers e of the condenser, and thus
imparts motion to the pulley a and its belt b, the pulley a¹ acting simply
as a carrier pulley for the belt b. The pulley a and belt 6 serve to draw
up the waste thread f from the left-hand side of the lower rubber I of
the condenser (see Fig. 1) whilst the belt b also carries such thread f
across to the right-hand side of the condenser, the thread lying upon the
upper surface of tho said belt. On arriving at the right-hand side of
the condenser the waste thread f is joined by the waste thread h, which
is drawn up from the right hand end of the upper rubber i by the action
of the flanged pulley & mounted in the bracket attached to the floor
above or to any other convenient place, and having secured to it a V
pullcy m. The flanged pulley k carries an endless belt n (shown clearly
in Fig. 2) which passes round a corresponding pulley o carried in the
bracket p. This belt n is driven or actuated as shown by the arrows, so
as to carry the two waste threads f and which lie thercon to the pulley
o, from which they descend and are received between the doffer C of the
intermediate engine or scribbler, and the comb D of the same, where
they become amalgamated with the sliver of wool, which is carried from
this doffer into the feed of the carding engine. The V pulley m secured
to the flanged pulley k is driven by a band q from another V pulley »
fixed upon one of the condenser roller shafts s, and thus imparts motion

page_text: to the endless belt n. The flanged pulley o also carries a V pulley (not
seen in Fig. 2) which by means of a short band t drives another V pulley
u mounted in the same bracket p, and carrying two small fan blades
w, w, which by their revolution prevent the waste threads from adhering
to the carrying belt n. E represents the doffer of the carding engine,
and F the swift of the same engine. I prefer to construct the endless
flat carrying belts herein-before described of webbing or canvass either
uncovered, or, which I prefer, covered or coated with any suitable flexible
composition.
:
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used
or carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider
to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to
me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the application
and use in combination with condensing (or carding engines) and :
scribblers usually employed in preparing wool and other textilo
materials for spinning, of the arrangement of carrying belts or any
mere modification thereof, substantially as and for the purpose herein-
before described and illustrated by the Drawings hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Philip Charles Evans, have here- a
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of September,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.