AN IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT FOR CLEANING FALLERS AND GILLS
Year: 1885

page_text: JOSHUA VALENTINE EVES of Brooklands, Knock, in the County of Down;
Ireland, Mill Manager do hereby declare the nature of my.invention for AN
IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT FOR CLEANING FALLERS AND GILLS to be as follows:-
This invention consists of an improved arrangement for cleaning fallers and gills
used in preparing and spinning machinery for flax hemp jute and other fibres.
The distinctive feature of this arrangement consists in submitting the fallers and
gills.to the action of a revolving brush or brushes during their passage from the
upper to the lower screws or vice versa.
To obtain room for the application of the revolving brush or brushes the screws,
which carry the fallers and gills forwards and backwards, are set wider apart than
usually so that there are one or more fallers between the screws.
The fallers are so made that during their passage from one set of screws to the
other, the fallers move each other by contact of their heads or ends, the heads of
the fallers are made with projections which are higher than the points of the gill
pins so that there is no chance of the points of the gill pins being injured by the
bottom of the next faller.
The object of this invention is to keep the fallers and gills clean by preventing
any accumulation of dirt or short fibres thereon whilst at work, this object is
obtained by simple modifications in the relative position of what are known as the
top and bottom screws employed for moving the fallers and gills.
Dated this 19th day of May 1885

page_text: JOSHUA VALENTINE EVER of Brooklands Knock in the County of Down, Ireland
Mill Manager do hereby declare the nature of my invention for AN IMPROVED
ARRANGEMENT FOR CLEANING FALLERS AND GILLS and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:―
This invention consists of an improved arrangement for cleaning fallers and gills
used in preparing and spinning machinery for fax hemp jute and other fibres.
The distinctive feature of this arrangement consists in submitting the fallers and
gills to the action of a revolving brush or brushes during their passage from the
'upper to the lower screws or vice versa.
This arrangement will be readily understood by referring to the drawing here-
with in which the same letters and figures of reference employed in the following
description apply to the same or like parts.
Fig. 1 is a cross section through the fallers etc, of an ordinary screw gill drawing
frame and illustrates the general arrangement of the parts.
Fig. 2 and 3 are detached views of parts referred to.
To obtain room for the application of the revolving brush or brushes (b) the
screws (a a¹) which carry the fallers and gills (c) forwards and backwards, are set
wider apart than usually so that there are one or more fallers (c) between the
screws (à a¹).
The fallers (c) are raised from the lower (a¹) to 'the upper screw (a) and lowered
from the upper screw (a) to the lower screw (a¹) by the ordinary cams or tappets (a²)
but instead of the ascending or descending faller (c) going direct from one
screw (a or a¹) to the other there are one or more fallers (c) in transit at the same
time, and the fallers (c) during their passage from one set of screws (a a¹) to the
other, move each other by contact of their heads or ends (c') as shewn in Fig. 2,
the heads (c) of the fallers (c) are made with projections (c) which are higher than
the points of the gill pins so that there is no chance of the points of the gill pins
being injured by the bottom of the next faller coming in contact therewith during
their passage from one set of screws (a a¹) to the other.
To prevent the descending fallers from dropping down into geer with the bottom
screw (a) before the bottom faller has moved out of the way, the heads (c¹) of the
fallers (c) are held between a fixed slide or front block (d) and a loose tongue or
slide (e) held against the back of the fallers by a spring (e¹) or instead of this
arrangement of passing the fallers (c) down through what is practically an elastic
groove, the fallers may be supported by catches which are automatically withdrawn
to allow one faller to pass downwards into the bottom screw (a¹) but the catches
resume their position to prevent the succeeding faller following until its turn
comes.
The ascending faller is lifted by the ordinary cams or tappets (a²) of the bottom
screws (a¹) on to catches (f) and the following faller pushes its predecessor up
off these catches (f) by contact of the projections (c) on the heads (c¹) of the
fallers (c) with the underside of the faller before it-the upper faller being taken
away forward by the top screw (a).

page_text: The revolving brush (b) acting on the front of the fallers and gills (c) is found
practically sufficient to keep them clean, but where desirable a brush may be used
to act upon the backs of the fallers and gills (c) and be placed between the upper
and lower sets of fallers as shewn in dotted lines in fig. 1.
The action of the revolving brush by preference commences at the base of the
pins and carries the dirt or fibres off by the points.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The arrangement of mechanism described for cleaning fallers and gills during
their passage from the upper to the lower screws.