IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR FEEDING WOOL, COTTON, AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS INTO MACHINES FOR PREPARING THE SAME FOR SPINNING
Year: 1863

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Pickersgill at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 4th August
1863.
I, THOMAS PICKERSGILL, of Huddersfield, in the County of York, Manu-
facturer of Mill Strapping for Machinery, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR FEEDING
WOOL, COTTON, AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS INTO MACHINES FOR PREPARING THE
SAME FOR SPINNING," to be as follows:-
My Invention has for its object the more regular feeding of the fibrous
material from the scribbler on to the feed cloth or creeper of the carder or
condenser whence the material passes in the form of a twisted sliver on to a
bobbin in preparation for the roving machine. For this purpose I adapt and
apply to or connect with the machines above referred to a traversing feeding
arm, worked from an axis or centre of motion, combined with a stationary
segmental or other suitably formed guide with springs for laying the wool or
other fibrous material regularly in a series of curved or otherwise formed layers
on to the feed cloth or creeper of the carder or condenser. The feeding arm,
which is or may be formed so as to be capable of sliding in and out from the
axis, is furnished with pulleys for carrying and conducting the sliver, and has a
traversing motion imparted to it by which it is caused to traverse as required
from side to side of the machine, the loop of wool or other fibrous material
formed on the return of the arm being caught at each side alternately, and held
by a projection from a spring fixed at each side of the guide while the feeding

page_text: arm is traversing or being worked to the other side, the springs being re-
spectively withdrawn as required by means of cords or of a chain or rod fixed
to the arm. I prefer to have two or three differently shaped guides to each
machine, so that by the use of either or any one of them the sliver may be fed
into the machine in layers of the form required corresponding with the shape
of the guide employed. By means of the above combination of parts the wool
or other fibrous material as it is received through an aperture in the axis or
centre of motion of the feeding arm, and passed over the carrying pulleys of
the same, is guided by a staple and two other pulleys or rollers on the end
of the arm and is arranged by means of the suitably formed guide in regular
curved or otherwise formed layers on the feed cloth or creeper of the carder or
condenser. There are also wires or springs for keeping the layers regularly
on the feed cloth or creeper after passing under the guide. In some cases the
wool or other fibrous material might be introduced into the apparatus at the
outer end of the feeding arm instead of through an aperture in the axis or
centre of motion and at the inner end thereof as above described. The above-
described feeding apparatus may be adapted and applied to or connected
with other preparing machines, besides the scribbler and the carder or
ondenser above referred to.