Improvement in Scutchers or Machines for Opening and Preparing Cotton or other Fibrous Substances.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 8th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 30th Sept., 1893
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 do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-—
My improvement consists in an arrangement by which the bottom cone of the
regulating motion for feeding scutchers can be raised or lowered, so that the strap
can be tightened or slackened as required. I accomplish this by making the
bearings of the cone on a plate that can be raised or lowered, preferably by means
of a screw and hinge the plate so that only one side requires to be raised or
lowered another method is to have the bearings on brackets from a shaft that will
also act as a hinge for the purpose of lifting or lowering the brackets and cone.
Dated this 7th day of November 1892,
WILLIAM NOTON,
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Scutchers 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 improvements consist in an arrangement by which the bottom cone of the
regulating motion for feeding scutchers can be raised or lowered so that the strap
can be tightened or slackened as required.
I accomplish this by making the bearings of the cone on a plate that can be
raised or lowered preferably by means of a screw and hinge the plate, so that only
one side requires to be raised or lowered.
Another method is to have the bearings on brackets from a shaft that will also
act as a hinge for the purpose of lifting or lowering the brackets and cone.
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. 1 is an end view and Fig. 2 a side view of the said cone strap tightening
and slackening device.
Fig. 3 is an end view and Fig. 4 a side view showing a modification of the lower
portion thereof.
a is the upper and 6 the lower cone, c, the frame in which the upper cone a is
mounted, & the strap forks operated by the rail e and f the strap. The lower
cone 6 is mounted in a bearing y fixed to or formed on a plate / hinged or pivoted,
by means of studs or pins i to the frame ends c. The front end h¹ of the plate /
is hinged to two rods & the upper ends of which are tied together by means of a
cross bar l. To the latter is movably connected to and carried by a screw
spindle m having a handle m' rendered adjustable in a nut n formed in the top or
the frame c.
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In lieu of employing studs or pins i, a shaft i¹ may be provided, see Figs. 3 & 4,
to form a hinge or a fulcrum for the bracket h which carrys the bearings g.
It will thus be readily understood that on turning the screw spindles m, m¹ in
one direction the lower cone band the plate h, h¹, will be raised through the
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page_text: mediums & and thus the strap slackened, whilst on turning the screw spindle
in the reverse direction the lower cone and plate h, h', will be lowered and thus
the strap tightened as may be required.
In lien of mounting the lower cone bon a hinged or pivoted support or
plate h,, the same may be arranged stationary in a vertical sense and the upper
cone a rendered similarly adjustable, the former plan however is preferable.
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-
"In scutchers or machines for opening and preparing cotton or. other fibrous
substances."
1st. A device for tightening and slackening the cone strap f consisting of a
support or plate h, h', carrying one of the cones a, b, one side of which support or
plate is suitably pivoted or hinged to a stationary part, and the other side adapted
to be raised or lowered, substantially as set forth.
2nd. In a device for tighting and slacking the cone strap f, as specified in the
preceding claim, the cone support or plate h, h', hinged to a stationary part in
combination with the rods k hinged to the said support or plate and tied together
by means of a cross bar 7 suspended from a screw spindle m, m³, rendered adjustable
in a stationary nut n, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 5th day of August 1893
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicant.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicant.