IMPROVE- MENTS IN CARDING AND PREPARING MACHINERY
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Fairburn, of Obelisk Grove, Clifton, near
Mirfield, in the County of York, Card Maker, for the Invention of " IMPROVE-
MENTS IN CARDING AND PREPARING MACHINERY."
Sealed the 22nd July 1879, and dated the 23rd January 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Fairburn at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd January 1879.
EDWARD FAIRBURN, of Obelisk Grove, Clifton, near Mirfield, in the County
of York, Card Maker. "IMPROVEMENTS IN CARDING AND PREPARING MACHINERY."
This Invention relates to machinery or apparatus for carding and preparing wool,
cotton, and other fibrous material, and my improvements consist in the employment
of a comb or a bar or blade of metal or other suitable material placed in the angle
between two cylinders by means of which the fibres during their transfer from one
cylinder to the next succeeding it are “lashed-out" by the said comb, blade, or
bar.
The cylinders may be arranged according to circumstances and material.
under operation.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Edward Fairburn in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 23rd
July 1879.
EDWARD FAIRBURN, of Obelisk Grovo, Clifton, near Mirfield, in the County
of York, Card Maker. "IMPROVEMENTS IN CARDING AND PREPARING MACHINERY."
This Invention relates to machinery or apparatus for carding and preparing wool,
cotton, and other fibrous substances, and my improvements consist in the employ-
ment of a comb or a bar or blade of metal or other suitable material placed in the
angle between two cylinders by means of which the fibres between their transfer
from one cylinder to the next succeeding it are "lashed-out" by the said comb,
blade, or bar.
In order that iny Invention may be more fully understood I hereto annex a Sheet
of Drawings, of which Fig. 1 represents a combing or preparing machino in side
elevation, the arrangement of cylinders being such as I have found it convenient to
use, although I make no claim to any novelty in this respect, as the cylinders may
be arranged according to circumstances and the material under operation. What-
ever arrangement of cylinders may be adopted, my improvements are applicable
wherever it is desired to transfer the wool from one cylinder to another where the two
cylinders are revolving in opposite directions at the point of contact, or where the
transfer takes place, this being the case between the cylinders A and B, or B and C,
which revolve in the direction indicated by the arrows thereon, as shown in Fig. 2,
where the material is supposed to pass from the cylinder A to the cylinder B. In
the upper angle between these two cylinders I fix a comb D in such a position that
the fibres after being caught by the card teeth of the cylinder B, and as
they are leaving the tecth of the cylinder A, shall be drawn through the
teeth of the said comb D and "lashed-out" or straightened thereby.
Fig. 3 I have shewn detail of comb D, which is composed (by preference) of a thin
strip of steel or other metal a having stamped teeth c, this strip being secured to a
bar or blade b, the ends of which are supported in brackets or suitable bearings at
each side of the machine. Instead of the strip a having teeth in the form of a comb
a straight-edge or blade may be employed, which will answer the purpose, though
not so effectually as a comb.
In
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention and the manner in
which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into practice, I would have
it understood that I do not confine myself to any particular construction of comb
or to the manner of fixing the same, but what I claim as my Invention and consider
to be new is,―
The employment of a comb, blade, or straight-edge for retarding, lashing, or
straightening the fibres during their transfer from one card-cylinder to the other in
manner substantially as herein shewn and described.
In witness whereof, I, the Edward Fairburn, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fifteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-nine.
Witness,
A. B. CROSSLEY,
Tasker & Crossley,
Patent Agents,
Halifax.
EDWP. FAIRBURN. (L.S.)