IMPROVEMENTS IN CARDING ENGINES
Year: 1885

page_text: We RICHARD CURTIS, of the firm of Messieurs Curtis Sons and Company,
Machine Makers, of the Phoenix Works, Chapel Street, Manchester, Lancashire
and ABRAHAM HOLDEN, of Gorton Villa, Cross: Lane, Gorton, Manchester, afore
said, Spinning Manager, do hereby declare the nature of said. Invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN CARDING ENGINES, to be as follows:-.
Our invention is applicable to roller and clearer carding engines and our object
is to facilitate the setting of the rollers to the cylinder.
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In carding engines of this class the rollers are supported in brackets free
to be adjusted laterally and vertically and the clearers are usually made with
vertical adjustment only; this arrangement for setting the rollers and clearers
is objectionable.
In our invention we first set the rollers parallel to the shaft of the main cylinder
and then secure the roller brackets to the bend of the machine in such manner that
the rollers can be moved to and from the cylinder only, thus dispensing with all
side or lateral adjustment and allowing the rollers to be set correctly and easily.
We provide the brackets which carry the clearers with lateral and vertical
adjustment in order to set them to the cylinder and rollers.
By our Invention the rollers and clearers can be set and adjusted more readily.
than has been possible hitherto,

page_text: We RICHARD CURTIS, of the firm of Messieurs Curtis, Sons, and Company,
Machine Makers, of the Phoenix Works, Chapel Street, Manchester, Lancashire,
and ABRAHAM HOLDEN, of Gorton' Villa, Cross Lane, Gorton, Manchester afore-
Baid, Spinning Manager, do hereby declare the nature of said Invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN CARDING ENGINES, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
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Our invention is applicable to roller and clearer carding engines, and our object
is to facilitate the setting of the rollers to the cylinder.
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In carding engines of this class the rollers are supported in brackets free
to be adjusted laterally and vertically and the clearers are usually made with
vertical adjustment only; this, arrangement for setting, the rollers and clearers
is objectionable.
In our Invention we first set the rollers parallel to the shaft of the main cylinder
and then secure the roller brackets to the bend of the machine in such manner that
the rollers can be moved to and from the cylinder only, thus dispensing with all
side or lateral adjustment and allowing the rollers to be set correctly and easily.
We provide the brackets which carry the clearers with lateral and vertical
adjustment in order to set them to the cylinder and rollers.
By our Invention the rollers and clearers can be set and adjusted more readily
than has been possible hitherto.
And in order that our Invention may be fully understood and readily carried
into effect we will describe the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, reference being
had to the figures and letters marked thereon.
Figures 1, 2 and 3 are elevations of sufficient of a roller and clearer carding
engine to illustrate three applications of our Invention.
In these views a is the carding roller supported in a bracket made up of the
front and back slides bb' respectively of which the front slide b is free to slide
vertically on the back slide b₁ the two slides being secured together and to the
engine bend c by the bolt d which passes through slots in the front and back slides
and screws into the bend c. An adjusting screw e is fitted in the back slide b¹ and
passes through a nut in the slide 6 so that by turning the screw e the front slide b
is moved vertically to set the roller a nearer to or farther from the wire on the
main cylinder. The clearing roller f is supported in a bracket made up of the front
and back slides g and g¹ respectively secured to the bend by a bolt d' and with the
front slide g capable of being adjusted vertically by a screw e¹ to set the clearing
roller nearer to or farther from the main cylinder in a similar manner to that
already described for the carding roller a but in addition to this vertical adjustment
the clearing roller bracket is provided with a lateral adjustment. This is effected
in the arrangement shown in Fig. 1 by means of the two screws h which screw
through the sides of the back slide gl and bear against a lug or projection cast on
the bend c so that by slackening one of the screws h and screwing up the other
screw h the bracket and the clearing roller can be moved nearer to or farther
from the carding. roller a to set it as required,

page_text: Two slightly different arrangements for effecting this lateral adjustment of the
clearing roller fare shown in Figs. 2 and 3.
In Fig. 2, only one adjusting screw h is employed, which screw h passes through
a stirrup g formed on the back slide g and through a lug or projection c¹ formed
on the bend c so that by turning the screw h, the brackets g¹ and g with the
roller can be moved nearer to or farther from the carding roller c
In Fig. 3, two adjusting screws h pass through the sides of the stirrup g² and
bear against the sides of the lug c² so that by slackening the screws h the brackets g g'
and clearing roller ƒ can be moved and adjusted laterally in either direction.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is
1. In a roller and clearer carding engine, a vertical adjustment for the carding
rollers to and from the wire of the main cylinder combined with a vertical and a
lateral adjustment for the clearing rollers.
2. The several constructions and arrangements of parts for effecting the adjust❤
ment of the carding rollers and clearing rollers of a carding engine, substantially
as and for the purposes herein described and as illustrated by Figs. 1, 2, and 3.