IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FEEDING WOOL, COTTON, OR OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS TO CARDING OR OTHER MACHINES.
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry James Hogg King, of Glasgow, in the
County of Lanark, North Britain, Engineer, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FEEDING WOOL, COTTON, OR OTHER FIBROUS
MATERIALS TO CARDING OR OTHER MACHINES. "
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry James Hogg King
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 25th August 1870.
I, HENRY JAMES HOGG KING, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
North Britain, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FEEDING WOOL, COTTON, OR
OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS TO CARDING OR OTHER MACHINES," to-be-as follows,
that is to say :-
This Invention which relates to the feeding of wool, cotton, or other
fibrous materials to carding or other machines, has for its object a more
uniform and satisfactory distribution of the fibrous materials upon the
feed apron or endless travelling cloth that takes them into the carding

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or other machine, and the improved apparatus is more particularly but
Evans and
not exclusively designed to be used in connection with
King's First Feed," a modification of which is described in the Speci-
cation of Letters Patent granted to Philip Charles Evans, and the present
applicant, and dated the 20th January 1869 (No. 184).
The
In carrying out the present Invention a paddle the blades of which are
by preference curved as viewed endways is made to revolve above the
fibrous materials lying on and carried forward by the feed apron, the
paddle blades moving backwards at the under part of their course.
edges of the paddle blades are indented, and the projecting parts work
between a series of fingers which are carried by a transverse horizontal
shaft situated towards. the forward part of the apron with the fingers
projecting backwards. A rocking motion is imparted to the finger shaft
by which the fingers are made to press at intervals upon the fibrous
materials, and so prevent the paddle from beating back too large portions
of them, whilst the fibrous materials are prevented from accumulating
on the fingers by the clearing action which the projecting parts of the
paddle exert in passing between the fingers when these are raised. The
paddle shaft and finger shaft are carried by brackets made adjustable as
to height so as to suit the quantity and kind of fibrous material passing
below.
Another improvement consists in giving a slight vibratory motion to
the board or plate down over which the fibrous materials fall upon the
feed apron, whereby the materials are prevented from adhering and their
supply to the feed apron rendered more regular.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry James Hogg King in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 24th February 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
JAMES HOGG KING, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, a
Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-fourth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and a

page_text: grant unto me, the said Henry James Hogg King, Her special licence,
that I, the said Henry James Hogg King, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry James Hogg King, my
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, COTTON, OR OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS TO
CARDING OR OTHER MACHINES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Henry James Hogg King, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, 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 I, the said Henry James Hogg King, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement in writing, reference being bad to the
accompanying Drawings, that is to say :-
My said Invention which relates to the feeding of wool, cotton, or
other fibrous materials to carding or other machines, has for its object
a more uniform and satisfactory distribution of the fibrous materials
upon the feed apron or endless travelling cloth that takes them into
the carding or other machine, and my improved apparatus is more
particularly but not exclusively designed to be used in connection with
"Evans and King's First Feed," a modification of which is described in
the Specification of Letters Patent granted to Philip Charles Evans and
myself, and dated the 20 January 1869 (No. 184). A modification of
"Evans and King's First Feed" is also delineated and described in the
Specification of Letters Patent granted to the said Philip Charles Evans
and myself, and dated the 13 December 1869 (No. 3600).
And in order that my said Invention and the manner of performing
the same may be properly understood, I hereunto append a Sheet of
explanatory Drawings to be herein-after referred to, and representing my
present improvements as added to the modification of feed apparatus
described in the earlier Specification last herein-before referred to.

page_text: Figure 1 is a side clevation and Figure 2 is an elevation of the front of
the feed machine, which faces the carding or other machine in connection
with which it is to work. These Figures will be recognised as copies of
portions of the corresponding Figures of the earlier Specification No. 3600
of 1869, but with certain additions, and such copied portions are marked
with the same reference numerals as the corresponding parts in the
earlier Specification, a detailed description herein of the whole machine
being thus rendered unnecessary. Figure 3 is a fragmentary plan of a
part of my improved added details, and Figure 4 is a vertical section of
another part thereof.
In carrying out my present Invention a paddle with two blades 40,
which are by preference curved at their outer edges as viewed endways,
is made to revolve above the fibrous materials lying on and carried
forward by the feed apron 39, the paddle blades moving backwards at
the under part of their course, as shown by the arrow. The edges of
the paddle blades 40 are indented, and-the-projecting parts work between
a series of fingers formed on the edge of a plate 41, carried by a
transverse horizontal shaft situated towards the forward part of the
apron with the fingers projecting backwards. A rocking motion is
imparted to the finger shaft by which the fingers are made to press at
intervals upon the fibrous materials and so prevent the paddle from
beating back too large portions of them, whilst the fibrous materials are
prevented from accumulating on the fingers by the clearing action
which the projecting parts of the paddle blades 40 exert, in passing
between the fingers when the plate 41 is raised. The paddle shaft and
the finger shaft are carried by brackets 42, which are made adjustable
as to height by means of screws upon standards 43, so as to suit the
quantity and kind of fibrous materials passing below. The shaft of the
paddles 40 has fast on one end a pulley 44, which is driven by means
of a cord from the pulley 19, and the pulley 44 has fixed or formed on
it a cam 45, which acts on a roller on an arm 46 fixed on the shaft of
the finger plate 41. The arm 46 is kept against the cam by a spring 47,
and the cami as it revolves imparts the desired vibratory motion to the
finger plate.
Another improvement consists in giving a slight vibratory motion to
the board or plate 48, down over which the fibrous materials fall upon
the feed apron 39, whereby the materials are prevented from adhering
and their supply to the feed apron is rendered more regular. The

page_text: desired motion is obtained by fixing on the shaft 17 an eccentric 49, a
rod 50, from which is jointed to the bottom of the plate 48, this plate
being carried by journals 51 at its upper edge, so as to be capable of
vibrating.
Having thus particularly described my said Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I have to state that what I
believe to be novel and original and claim as secured to me by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,―
1. The applying of a backwardly revolving paddle combined with
a vibrating finger plate for distributing or equalising fibrous materials
on a feed apron, as herein-before described.
And 2. The imparting of a vibratory motion to the board or plate (48)
down over which the fibrous materials fall upon the feed apron, as
herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry James Hogg King, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of February,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
one.
Witness,
EDMUND HUNT,
Patent Agent,
Glasgow.
H. J. H. KING. (L.s.)