Improvements in Carding Engines.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 1ûth May, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 5th Feb., 1895-Accepted, 6th Apr., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Carding Engines.
I HENRY MAUDSLEY of 312 Blackburn Road, Accrington in the County of
ancaster, Smith, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to carding engine flats and cylinders and is designed with
the object of facilitating the method of applying the card clothing to the flats and
cylinders and simplifying the removal and renewing of the same and for this purpose
I form a flat of cast iron, steel or other suitable metal with a groove or trough with
beveled sides or other suitable form and the required width for cards. Into this
groove or trough I fix a fillet of wood or other suitable material and secure it to the
flats by screw bolts, and upon this I cement or tack the card cloth which can be
easily removed when required and renewed without the aid of machinery. In the
cylinder I form horizontal grooves around the periphery of similar form to those
in the flats and secure fillets into the same by screw bolts the card cloth being
wound and cemented or tacked on to them.
Dated this th d f .. 1004
HENRY MAUDSLEY.
1, HENRY MAUDSLEY, Smith, of 312, Blackburn Road, Accrington, in the
County of Lancaster 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, reference being had to the annexed drawings :-
This invention relates to improvements in carding engines and more particularly
to the "flats," cylinders and rollers used on carding engines and is designed with
the object of facilitating the method of applying the card clothing to the "flats,"
cylinders and rollers and simplifying the removal and renewal of the same.
"
This
For this purpose I make a "flat as shown in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 Sheet 1, of
iron or of any other suitable material with a longitudinal recess, groove or trough, 2,
with vertical or bevelled or dove-tailed sides, or sides of other shape.
recess 2 may be filled with a liner of timber 3 or any other material including
plastic materials such as plaster of Paris. If timber is used the same may be secured
to the flat shown in Figures 1, 2, 34 and 5 Sheet 1 at 1 by screws 4 or otherwise
or if the groove 2 be made bevelled on both sides as shown in section Figures 2 & 4
at 2, the wood liner may be driven in from one end or 2 shorter liners may be used,
one driven in from one end and the other from the other end of the flat 1 and
afterwards truly planed up and covered with the card clothing shewn at 5 in
Figures 1 & 5 Sheet 1.
To liner 3, I attach the card clothing 5 by means of cement, tacks, staples,
clamps or by other means enabling me to remove it easily and renew it without the
aid of machinery as at present used.
The liner 3 may also be made of 2 pieces or strips of wood running the whole
length of the flat and glued together, the grain of the wood in one half running to

page_text: the right, and the grain of the other half running to the left thus preventing any
possibility of the timber becoming bent or "flying."
In the case of cylinders, rollers or clearers, Figures 6, and 7 Sheet 2, 1 make
longitudinal recesses or grooves 7 at certain distances around the periphery of
the cylinders or rollers and insert liners of wood or of other suitable material rigid
or plastic and these grooves 7 may have bevilled or straight sides as shewn at 7
and 8 and the liners of wood may be of one or several pieces.
The card clothing in the case of cylinders may be put on in sheets one edge of
which may be fastened by means of tacks, cement or otherwise to one of the wood
liners and the other edge to the next liner on the periphery, or the clothing may be
wound round the periphery of the cylinder or roller, helically in a continuous fillet
or band, being tacked, cemented or otherwise fixed at intervals to the wood liners
or strips or cemented and fastened to the metal surface direct.
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 :-
1. The combination of metal flats in revolving flat carding engines with liners of
wood or other material inserted into grooves or recesses in said flats substantially as
hereinbefore described and illustrated by the drawings.
2. The combination of metal cylinders, rollers or clearers used in carding engines
with liners of wood or other material inserted into grooves in said cylinders, rollers
and clearers substantially as shewn on the drawings and hereinbefore described.
Dated this the Fourth day of February One thousand eight hundred and
ninety-five.
HENRY MAUDSLEY.