Improvement in Scutchers or Machines for Opening and Preparing Cotton or other Fibrous Substances.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Aug., 1891
Complete Specification Left. 28th May. 1892-Accepted. 2nd July, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Scutchers or Machines for Opening and Preparing
Cotton or other Fibrous Substances.
WILLIAM NOTON 93 Windsor Road Oldham County of Lancaster Cotton
Spinner: I do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
My invention is an improvement in the regulating or piano motion of scutchers
or machines for opening & preparing cotton or other fibrous anbstances and consists
of a combination of levers resting upon a projection on the indicating levers or on
studs with or without bowls on the said studs, the bowls or studs may be made with
a swelled part to work into tho under side of the lever or the bowl or stud may be
recessed, and the lever with a slight projection or swell to keep the levers in
position. The levers are arranged in series one above another so that the last gives
the average thickness indicated and is connected with the cone drums in any con-
venient manner. Another arrangement is, to suspend the first levers from the
indicating levers and arrange the others above them as already specified.
Dated this 27th day of August 1891.
WILLIAM NOTON.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Soutchers or Machines for Opening and Preparing
Cotton or other Fibrous Substances.
I, WILLIAM NOTON, of 93, Windsor Road, Oldham, in the County of Lancaster,
Cotton Spinner, 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 :-
My invention is an improvement in the regulating or piano motion of scutchers
or machines for opening and preparing cotton or other fibrous substances, and
consists of a combination of levers, resting upon a projection on the indicating
levers or on studs, with or without bowls on the said studs. The bowls or studs
may be made with a swelled part to work into the under side of the lover, or the
bowl or stud may be recessed and the lever formed with a slight projection or swell
to keep the levers in position.
The levers are arranged in series, one above another, so that the last gives
the average thickness indicated and is connected to cone drums in any convenient
manner.
Another arrangement of levers is to suspend the first levers from the indicating
levers and arrango the others above them already specified.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused to
be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures.
Fig. is an end view and Fig. 2 a sectional side view of one form of my
invention.
Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7, are enlarged detached side views of various forms of
connection between the indicating and the rocking or series of levers.
Fig. 8 is an end view of a portion of the rocking and indicating lever, showing a
modification of my invention.
In carrying out my invention and referring to Figs. 1, 2 & 3, the improvements
consist in the combination of a series of levers a, a,.a, resting upon projections or
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page_text: studs b, with or without bowls c, fitted onto the indicating lever d, and which
levers a, a, a, are capable of rocking on each other.
To ensure a perfect sensitive and almost frictionless action between the indicating
lever and the first series of rocking levers a, I preferably form the projections or
studs or the bowls c, with a swelled part e, adapted to project into a recess f
formed in the underside of the lever end a, see Figs. 1, 3 & 4, or the bowls c or
studs b may be recessed and the levers a formed with a slight projection or swelle
to keep the levers a laterally in position, as shown in Fig. 5.
In lieu of a projection e and recess, the underside of the lever a may be curved
and arranged to ride on a bowl c having flanges c', see Fig. 6, or on a bowle with
a concave surface, preferably as shown in Fig. 7.
The levers a', a are arranged in series one above the other, the ends thereof on
the underside being formed with a V projection e adapted to rock in a recess,
respectively formed in the upper side of the levers a, a' as shown in Fig. 1, in such
a manner, that the last lever a' gives the average thickness of fibres indicated.
From the lever a motion is communicated to the cone strap fork 7, by any
suitable means, preferably such as described in Letters Patent No. 8886; granted
to me May, 26th 1891.
Another form of my invention consists in suitably suspending the first series of
levers a from the indicating lever d and arranging the levers u' & a³, above the
same, as shown in Fig. 8.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is-
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"In scutchers or machines for opening and preparing cotton or other fibrous
substances."
1st. The general combination and construction of parts constituting my improve-
ments operating substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
2nd. A series of levers a, a', a positioned above each other, in combination with
the indicating levers d, which levers a, a', a', are carried by the indicating levers d
and are capable of rocking on each other, on the indicating levers.d being raised
and lowered, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 27th day of May 1002.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
+, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicant.