Improvements in Carding Engines.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Dec., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 19th Sept., 1900-Accepted, 27th Oct., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Carding Engines.
A communication to me from EMIL SCHNEIDER, of Biala, in the Empire of
Austria, Engineer, and RUDOLF SCHNEEWEISS, of Bielitz, in the Empire
of Austria, Student.
I, EDMUND EDWARDS, of the Firm of Edwards and Co., Chartered Patent
Agents & Engineers, of 65 & 66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object a carding engine, in which the loose fibre and
waste from the drum is collected and converted to a uniform web in a subsidiary
machine, and then by means of dotting cylinders conveyed to and combined with
the fleece or web from the principal carding cylinder.
The main cylinder of the principal carding engine, which is similar to
eordinary carding engines, has the carded fibre taken from it in the ordinary
well-known way by a doffing cylinder. Below the point where the carding
cylinder and the doffing cylinder adjoin each other, are arranged small rollers,
which take up the loose fibres and transfer them back to the main carding
cylinder from which they are taken off by means of a rapidly revolving roller
(Volant") with a cleaning roller which collect the waste and loose fibres,
which still remains on the cylinder, raising and loosening them so that a second
doffing cylinder can entirely remove them. The web is removed from this
second dolling cylinder by a doffing comb, and delivered upon an endless apron,
by which it is fed to a subsidiary carding machine, arranged below the doffing
cylinder of the principal carding engine. This second carding engine is of the
ordinary construction, except that it has no special doffing cylinder, but its
carding cylinder works with the doffing cylinder of the main carding engine,
from which both the webs or fleeces, from the principal and the subsidiary
machines, are removed together.
The two machines are separated by a suitably arranged partition, by which any
injurious effect from the current of air caused by the rapidly revolving roller
above described is prevented.
The different rollers are armed, in the usual way, with suitable wire teeth.

page_text: Improvements in Carding Engines.
A communication to me from EMIL SCHNEIDER, of Biala, in the Empire of
Austria, Engineer, and RUDOLF SCHNEEWEISS, of Bielitz, in the Empire
of Austria, Student.
I, EDMUND EDWARDS, of the Firm of Edwards and Co., Chartered Patent
Agents & Engineers, of 65 & 66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement and accompanying drawing, that is to say:
-
This invention has for its object a carding engine, in which the loose fibre and
waste from the drum is collected and converted to a uniform web in a subsidiary,
machine, and then by means of doing cylinders conveyed to and combined with
the fleece or web from the principal carding cylinder.
The accompanying drawing is in illustration of the invention, and shows the
general arrangement of the improved carding engine.
The main cylinder a of the principal carding engine, which is similar to
ordinary carding engines, has the carded fibre taken from it in the ordinary,
wellknown way by à dotting cylinder b. Below the point where the carding
cylinder a and the doffing cylinder 6 adjoin each other, are arranged small
rollers c, d, which take up the loose fibres and transfer them back to the main
carding cylinder a from which they are taken off by means of a rapidly revolving
roller (Volant") e with a cleaning roller f which collect the waste and loose
fibres which still remain on the cylinder, loosening and raising them so that a
second cylinder can entirely remove them. The web is removed from this
second doffing cylinder by a doffing comb and delivered upon an endless
apron by which it is fed to a subsidiary carding machine, arranged below the
dolfing cylinder b of the principal carding engine. This second carding engine
is of the ordinary construction, except that it has no special doffing cylinder,
but its carding cylinder m works with the doffing cylinder of the main carding
engine, from which both the webs or fleeces, from the principal and the sub-
sidiary machines, are removed together.
The two machines are separated by a suitably arranged partition by which
any injurious effect from the current of air caused by the rapidly revolving
roller above described is prevented.
The different rollers are armed, in the usual way, with a suitable wire teeth.
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. A carding engine, in which the fibrous material removed from the main
cylinder by a second doffing cylinder is transferred back to the first doffing
cylinder and the main cylinder of which engine is provided with a rapidly
revolving cylinder ("Volant") and cleaning roller in front of the second doffing
cylinder, the loose fibre being taken by rollers c, d, arranged below the point
where the main cylinder and the first doffing cylinder adjoin each other and
transferred back to the main cylinder, the stuff being then removed from the
main cylinder by the second dofting cylinder, and removed from the latter by
a comb to an endless apron which conveys it to a second carding engine
arranged below the first doffing cylinder, the cylinder m of which carding engine
transfers again the worked stuff to the first doffing cylinder.

page_text: 2. In a carding engine constructed according to Claim 1, the arrangement
of a partition n between the principal and secondary carding cylinders, to prevent
the injurious effect of the current of air caused by the rapidly revolving cylinder
("Volant").
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of Deprem .
EDWARDS AND Co.,
Chartered Patent Agents, 65 and 66, Chancery Lane, London,
Agents for the Applicant