Improvements in or in connection with Hopper Feeding Apparatus for Cotton and other Fibres.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 18th July, 1895-Accepted, 24th Aug., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or in connection with Hopper Feeding Apparatus
for Cotton and other Fibres.
JOHN LOBLEY 58 Stanley Street Ramsbottom Master Tin and Copper Smith
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
It is a lever fixed above the automatic cotton or wool regulater in cotton or wool
pipe or cistern and connected to electric bell and when the cotton or wool is above
the lever it is forced against pipe or cistern and breaks the connection of the bell.
And when exhausted the lever springs back and rings the electric bell, and givės
the aların to the attendant for more cotton or wool thereby prevents the machine
running short or empty.
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Improvements in or in connection with Hopper Feeding Apparatus
for Cotton and other Fibres.
I JOHN LOBLEY of 58 Stanley Street Ramsbottom, in the County of Lancaster,
Sheet Metal Worker, 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 :-
This invention relates to hopper feeding apparatus such as is employed for
automatically supplying or feeding cotton and other fibres to scutching machines
and more particularly to that class of automatic feeders for which Letters Patent
bearing date the 13th day of April 1894 No. 7344 were granted to James Small page
Hoyle, Charles Southwell, and myself.
The object of the present invention is to give notice to the attendant before the
machine actually runs short of cotton or wool, and to continue to give the alarm
until a fresh supply has been given.
to be performed
The nature of my invention and the manner in which the same
or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference to the
drawing hereunto annexed and the following explanation thereof.
The drawing represents in section an automatic scutcher feeder of the descriptiou
above referred to with my improvements shewn as attached thereto, and the parts
which are marked with the letters from a to f (inclusive) correspond with those
which are similarly marked on the drawing aunexed to the Specification No. 7344
of 1894 above mentioned. According to my present invention I fix a hinged
lever, flap or bars g in the cotton or wool supply pipe or trunk d above the
regulator e, f.
The lever or other equivalent device may be provided with a spring or
springs, not shewn on the drawing, or otherwise be so balanced that it has a
constant tendency to close the passage in the pipe or trunk d, and it is so connected
with an electric bell h in the mixing room above, that the electric circuit remains

page_text: broken so long as the quantity of the cotton or other fibre passing along the pipe
or trunk d to the feeder is sufficient to keep the passage open, but as soon as the
supply in the pipe or trunk d begins to be exhausted the lever or other device g
commences to close the passage, and in so doing it draws the metal point i
connected thereto by a barj into contact with a similar fixed point k, thus uniting
the two wires and and completing the electric circuit, and the bell begins to
ring and give the aların to the attendant before the machine actually runs short
of cotton or other fibre, and the bell will continue to ring until the filling up of
the pipe or trunk d with fresh cotton or fibre causes, the lever to withdraw the
contact piece and thus again break the electric circuit.
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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The combination with an automatic hopper' feeding apparatus for cotton and
other fibres of a lever or other equivalent device placed above the regulator in
the feeding pipe or trunk, and so connected to an electric bell that the passage of
the proper supply of cotton or other fibre through the said pipe or trunk to the
machine will maintain the lever or other equivalent device in such a position as
to keep the electric circuit broken, and the absence of a sufficient supply therein
shall cause or allow the said lever or other equivalent device to move in such a
way as to complete the electric circuit and thus cause the bell to ring and remain
ringing until a fresh quantity of cotton or other fibre has been supplied above the
said lever.
Dated this 17th day of July 1895.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.