Improvements in Apparatus for Teasing, Combing, or Picking Woollen or other Materials for Upholstery and other Purposes.
Year: 1894

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Teasing, Combing, or Picking
Woollen or other Materials for Upholstery and other
Purposes.
A communication from EUGÈNE FISTIÉ, of 42, Rue du Bailli, Brussels, Belgium,
Engineer.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
Chartered Patent Agent 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 :—
The subject of the present invention is a portable apparatus which may be used
for picking or teasing woollen and other stuffing and bolstering, by saddlers,
upholsterers, or mattress-makers, coach-builders, and others, and the novelty
consists in the reciprocating motion and the adjustment of the combs by means of a
regulator.
The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying
drawings, in which
Figures 1 and 2 represent respectively a front and a side-view of the upper part
of the machine in which the mode of suspension of the movable carding-comb and
of the regulator may be seen.
In Figure 3 the arrangement of the movably suspended upper card or carding
comb is shown in relation to the fixed lower card or carding-comb.
Figure 4 shows the whole arrangement of the machine and the manner in which
it is used for picking the stuffing or bolstering.
On two standards E E which are connected by a crossbar M are fixed at suitable
points opposite one another two vertical guides N in which slide two blocks L.
Pivotting in these blocks is a horizontal rod F from which suspends by suitable
framing C the carding comb A; this latter swings with its teeth close to a fixed
carding comb B.
The teeth S in the carding combs A and B are so arranged in various ways as
shown in Figure 3 that material fed in between the carding combs at X, when the
comb A is oscillated by means of the handle P, will, after being teased, of its own
accord pass out at the end Y.
The blocks L have ratchet teeth cut on one side with which engage the teeth of
wheels G G. These wheels are mounted at each end of a horizontal rod D pivotted
on the standards E E. This rod D also carries another toothed wheel J with
which a pawl K engages and also a handle H by means of which the wheels G G
and J can be rotated thereby raising or lowering the slide blocks L thus varying
the proximity of the carding comb A to the comb B.
A scale and pointer can be arranged on the guides N or in any convenient
manner in order to show the distance between the carding combs A and B.
When the machine is to be used, the workman places himself on the bench or
seat situated in front of the machine, as shown in the drawing. Then the carding-
comb A suspended from the standards E E is adjusted by means of the regulating
handle as above described, according to the quality of the material to be treated.
In the case of materials of ordinary light quality this carding-comb is set to the
first mark or division of the scale, whereas for materials of finer quality the carding
machine is set to the second mark or division and so on.
The material to be treated is placed in the receptacle on the bench whereupon
the workman grasps with one hand the handle-bar P of the movably suspended

page_text: comb A and continuously imparts to the latter the swinging to-and-fro movement
which is required for the work, the material being continuously introduced into the
machine in small quantities with the other hand.
If the comb should become clogged which happens when too great a quantity of
material is introduced into the machine, the movable comb A is raised by means
of the adjusting handle to the third mark or division of the scale.
The teeth of the teasers or combs both in the case of the upper and lower
carding-combs are arranged in preferably three leaves or sections the teeth of the
two outer leaves being arranged in the same direction, whereas those of the central
leaf are turned in the opposite direction. By reason of the upper and lower teasers
or combs of each of the end sections being turned in the same direction, the material
is caused by the swinging movement in each section in the one direction to be picked
in the outer section and in the reverse direction to be straightened out; while,
simultaneously, in the central compartment it is first picked and then straightened
out, the fibres being thus treated in a particularly careful manner and the largest
possible yield of material obtained.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I declare that what 1 claim is :-
1. A portable apparatus for picking or teasing stuffing or bolstering comprising
a lower fixed comb provided with preferably three teasing-sections an upper comb
provided with corresponding teasing-sections suspended in such a manner that the
gauge of the teasing or comb-points can be adjusted a regulating-device for effecting
such adjustment provided with a hand lever which is operated according to the
quality of the material treated the teasers or combs being arranged in such a
position that by the swinging movement in the one direction the material is picked
by the outer-sections and in the other direction straightened out whereas the central
section simultaneously picks and straightens out the material substantially as
described.
2. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the complete apparatus
for picking or teasing woollen and other materials substantially as described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 92nd da
100
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
London, Nottingham, Liverpool, Manchester,
Agents for the Applicant.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
London, Nottingham, Liverpool, Manchester,
Agents for the Applicant.