Year: 1899

page_text: We, CONRAD KOENIG, Spinning Manager, and SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME CÉLESTIN
MARTIN, Machine Makers, both of Wegnez, near Verviers, in the Kingdom of
Belgium, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to dividing apparatus for continuous carding engines of
the kind wherein steel strips are employed.
According to the invention the regularity of the division is ensured by collars,
straps or the like of leather, india-rubber or other suitable material which are
arranged in such a manner that the fleece of wool or other textile material which
passes between the steel strips is nipped between the said strips and the collars
which feed it. To this end the dividing cylinders are provided with shallow.
flat grooves in which are fixed by means of screws or by cementing collars of
leather which project slightly from the dividing cylinders. Between the sides
of one cylinder and the straps of the other cylinder there are arranged steel
strips which are directed respectively downwards and upwards. The fleece of wool
or other textile material which passes between these strips is divided into two
series of slivers which are conveyed to any suitable rubbers to be rolled into
coils. The adhesion of the leather straps to the wool or other similar material
is such that the division into slivers is effected with regularity the more so as
the said straps or collars do not touch.
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The collars form with the steel strips two series of clips which are adapted to
divide the fleece into slivers of uniform breadth as all the collars have exactly
the same breadth, this being also the case with the steel strips.
In carrying out the invention the dividing cylinders are advantageously
recessed to a depth of about one millimetre so as to form flat grooves in which
are fixed leather collars of about two millimetres in thickness forming thereby
projections of about 1 millimetre in depth upon the peripheries of the cylinders.
Between the two dividing cylinders there pass strips of steel which are fixed
or caused to reciprocate and which cross in the usual manner so that half the
strips are directed downwards, whilst the other half are directed upwards. The
wool fleece detached from the doffing cylinder by the doffer is seized by the
collars and the strips and is divided into slivers which are conveyed to the
rubbers. Brushes continuously clean the surface of the collars and rollers serve
to press the strips against the collars.
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1011
1900
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
_ Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: Improvements in Dividing Apparatus for Carding Engines.
We, CONRAD KOENIG, Spinning Manager, and SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME CÉLESTIN
MARTIN, Machine Makers, both of Wegnez, near Verviers, in the Kingdom of
Belgium 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 dividing apparatus for continuous carding engines of
the kind wherein steel strips are employed.
According to the invention the regularity of the division is ensured by collars,
straps or the like of leather, india-rubber or other suitable material which are
arranged in such a manner that the fleece of wool or other textile material which
passes between the steel strips is nipped between the said strips and the collars
which feed it. To this end the dividing cylinders are provided with shallow
flat grooves in which are fixed by means of screws or by cementing collars of
leather which project slightly from the dividing cylinders. Between the sides
of one cylinder and the straps of the other cylinder there are arranged steel
strips which are directed respectively downwards and upwards. The fleece of wool
or other textile material which passes between these strips is divided into two
series of slivers which are conveyed to any suitable rubbers to be rolled into
coils. The adhesion of the leather straps to the wool or other similar material
is such that the division into slivers is effected with regularity the more so as
the said straps or collars do not touch.
The collars form with the steel strips two series of clips which are adapted to
divide the fleece into slivers of uniform breadth as all the collars have exactly
the same breadth, this being also the case with the steel strips.
In the accompanying drawing,-
Figure 1 is a transverse section of our dividing apparatus, and
Figure 2 is a longitudinal elevation of a portion of the dividing cylinders.
Figure 3 is a section of part of the dividing cylinders drawn to a larger scale.
The dividing cylinders D1, D2 are advantageously recessed to a depth of about
one millimetre so as to form flat grooves in which are fixed leather collars C¹, C³
of about two millimetres in thickness forming thereby projections of about 1
millimetre in depth upon the peripheries of the cylinders. Between the two
dividing cylinders there pass strips of steel A1, A2 which are fixed or caused to
reciprocate and which cross in the usual manner so that half the strips are
directed downwards, whilst the other half are directed upwards. The wool
fleece N detached from the doffing cylinder P by the doffer is seized between
the collars C¹. Cand the strips A1, A2 and is divided into slivers which are
conveyed to the rubbers. Brushes B1, B2 continuously clean the surface of the
collars C¹, C2 and rollers E1, E2 serve to press the strips A¹ A2 against the collars.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. A dividing apparatus for carding engines having steel strips wherein the
strips pass between two grooved dividing cylinders having collars of leather,
india-rubber or other similar material, which collars project from the peripheries

page_text: of the dividing cylinders and carry along the fleece of wool or other similar
material which is thereby divided into slivers, substantially as set forth.
2. The improved dividing apparatus for carding engines herein before described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicants.