Improvements in Fleece Dividing Apparatus or Mechanism for Carding Engines.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 24th June, 1893-Accepted, 5th Aug., 1893
CODIL LEI DI MUITIATION.
Improvements in Fleece Dividing Apparatus or Mechanism for
Carding Engines.
I, JOHANN SCHMITZ of 30 Stefanstrasse, Aix la Chapelle in the Empire of
Germany, 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 :-
In fleece dividers hitherto known, there have hitherto been always employed two
dividing rollers and two series of belts or steel bands crossing one another, between
which the fleece was divided.
In the fleece divider which forms the object of this invention, on the other
hand, only a single dividing roller is used, and the belts or steel bands are not
crossed.
Two patterns of such a fleece divider are shown on the accompanying sheet of
drawings.
In the one, the division of the fleece is effected by means of belts and steel
bands, and, in the other, only by means of belts alone.
Figures 1 and 2 show the first mode of construction :
Figures 3 and 4, the second.
As many belts are arranged side by side on the smooth dividing roller A,
Figure 1, as it is desired to have threads or slivers. These belts are alternately
carried in different ways according as the strips of fleece are to be taken off in
two or more places. If the fleece, as shown in Figure 1, is to be taken off in two
places, the direct belts are carried in one way and the indirect belts in another.
The direct belts a run, for instance, from the stretching roller 1, lying next the
doffer under the roller b on to the dividing roller A, then under roller c, over
roller d, again on to roller A, under roller e and finally over the roller k back to
the roller . The indirect belts run from the roller / under the roller on to the
dividing roller A, leave this latter at the roller e, run under and round the same
and over the roller f, and return over the roller k back to the roller 7.
Steel bands and are arranged above and corresponding to the belts a and a¹,
which bands are fastened to the fixed shaft g. The steel bands lying on the
belts a pass with them under the rollers c on to the rollers d, whilst the steel
bands 1, corresponding to the belts a', pass under the roller e, and as far as the
roller f. The fleece is thus conveyed between the belts a a¹ and the steel
bands hh, the same passing under the roller b, after it has been released by the
doffer knife or comb from the doffer, to the belts a a¹ lying side by side, and is
carried forward by these until, at the roller g, it comes under the steel bands h h³,
so that it is conveyed onwards between the steel bands and the belts. The fleece
is then divided at the roller c, the belts a and the steel bands h bringing the layer
or strip of fleece held between them to the parts D where it is to be further
treated, whilst the belts a' and steel bands carry the strip of fleece held between
them further up to the roller e, where they leave the dividing roller A and deliver
their strip of fleece to the mechanism D¹.
Figure 2 shows a modification in which the strips of fleece are taken off at still
a third place. The belts a and the steel bands are accordingly arranged in three
different groups a a¹ all and h¹¹¹ in such a way that the first, fourth, seventh,
etcetera, and second. fifth, eighth, etcetera, belt or steel band are always carried in
the same way. The belts a run from the roller under the roller on to the
dividing roller A, leave this latter at the roller c, pass under the latter on to the
roller d, round the latter and again on to roller A, under the roller e and, finally,
over the roller k back to the roller 1. The belts a' run from the roller / under

page_text: the roller b on to the dividing roller A, leave this latter at the roller m, pass
under the latter onto the roller n, and from thence over the roller k back again
tol. The belts a" run from the roller under the roller on to the dividing
roller A pass over this up to the roller e, and run under this latter on to the roller f,
and from thence over roller k back to the roller l.
The steel bands / run correspondingly from the roller to the roller C, and pass
under this latter and on to the roller d. In a similar way, the steel bands h¹ are
carried to the rollers m and n, and the steel bands h", to the rollers e and f. The
layers or strips of fleece pass from the rollers d or n and finto the mechanism D
or D' or D. Small pressure rollers i are arrranged over the ends of the steel
bands, which rollers press the bands against the rollers below them.
Figures 3 and 4 show a small modification of the fleece divider, in which belts
are used in place of the steel bands.
and
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The belts a and a¹ are arranged on the dividing roller A in exactly the same
way as in Figure 1. In place of the steel bands and ', however, the belts /
and are used. The belts 2 run over the rollers
C, and pass with their
lower sides over the circumference of the dividing roller A. The belts h run
from the roller g over the dividing roller A to the roller e, after which they run
back over the rollers p and o to the roller g.
In the fleece divider shown in Figure 4, the strips of fleece are taken off at
three places. The belts a a¹ a", running directly on to the dividing disc or
roller A, are arranged in exactly the same manner as in Figure 2. The steel
bands in this Figure 2 correspond, in Figure 4, to the belts h³ ³ ³
The belts 2 run over the rollers g c. The belts un from the roller g over the
dividing roller A up to the roller m, and then from this latter back over the
rollers d and o to the roller g. The belts 22 run from the roller g over
the dividing roller A up to the roller e, and from this latter over the rollers p mo
back to the roller
9.
The mode of working is thus the same in both arrangements, except that in
the one case the layers or strips of fleece are conveyed between two belts, and, in
the other case, between a belt and a steel band.
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:
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A fleece dividing apparatus or mechanism for carding engines, characterised by
a single dividing roller A with belts lying side by side aud running in one direction,
over which belts other suitable belts or steel bands are arranged, so that the fleece
is always carried over the dividing roller between two belts, or belts and steel
bands, whilst the belts are so arranged that the layers or strips of fleece can be
removed from the dividing roller at two or more places.
Dated this 23rd day of June 1893.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.