Improvements in Apparatus for Clearing the Rollers of Drawing Frames and other Textile Machinery.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Dec., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 5th Sept., 1899-Accepted, 7th Oct., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Clearing the Rollers of Drawing
Frames and other Textile Machinery.
We, JOHN MCQUEEN, of John Hetherington and Sons Limited, of Vulcan
Works, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Maker, and DYSON
BARKER, of the same Firm's l'hoenix Works, Manchester, aforesaid, Fitter, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in apparatus for clearing the rollers of
drawing frames and other textile machinery in which endless band revolving
clcarers are employed, and the object of our improvements is to dispense with the
driving shaft and gearing hitherto employed to drive the endless band clearer for
the top drawing rollers.
In carrying our improvements into effect we hinge a comb to the front of the
ordinary reciprocating stuffer by which the top of the endless band is cleared of
fluff and fly in the usual way. As the stuffer moves backward and cleans the top
of the endless band the comb slides over the same without actuating it, but as the
stuffer moves in the reverse direction the teeth of the comb engage the endless
band and turn it partly round, this action being repeated at each stroke of the
stuffer.
Instead of a comb we might employ card clothing or the like, or we might
employ any equivalent device for causing the reciprocating stuffer to intermit-
tently engage the endless band and move it during part of a stroke.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants.
Improvements in Apparatus for Clearing the Rollers of Drawing
Frames and other Textile Machinery.
We, JOHN MCQUEEN, of John Hetherington and Sons Limited, of Vulcan
Works, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Maker, and DYSON
BARKER, of the same Firm's Phoenix Works, Manchester, aforesaid, Fitter, 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:
Our invention relates to improvements in apparatus for clearing the rollers of
drawing frames and other textile machinery in which endless band revolving

page_text: clearers are employed, and the object of our improvements is to dispense with the
driving shaft and gearing hitherto employed to drive the endless band clearer for
the top drawing rollers."
In carrying our improvements into effect we hinge a comb to the front of the
ordinary reciprocating stuffer by which the top of the endless band is cleared of
fluff and fly in the usual way.
In the accompaying sheet of drawings-
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation and Figure 2 a plan of our improved apparatus
for clearing the top rollers of drawing frames.
In these views, designates the bottom or fluted drawing rollers, the top or
leather covered rollers, c the endless band clearer, & guide rollers upon which the
clearer c is supported, e the top plate or cover, f the ordinary reciprocating stuffer,
and the oscillating shaft upon which it is mounted and by which it is actuated
in the usual way.
C
In addition to the ordinary comb by which the top of the endless band c
is cleared of fluff as the reciprocating stuffer f moves the comb backward in the
direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 1 we hinge according to our improve-
ments a combat to the stuffer f, and this comb j as the stuffer f moves back-
ward slides over the top of the band e without actuating it; but as the stuffer f
moves forward in the reverse direction to that indicated by the arrow the teeth
of the comb j engage the endless band c and turn it partly round this action being
repeated at each stroke of the stuffer.
C
Instead of the comb i we might employ card clothing or the like, or we might
employ any equivalent device for causing the reciprocating stuffer to intermit-
tently engage the endless band c and move it during part of a stroke.
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. Dispensing with the driving shaft and gearing hitherto employed to drive
the endless band clearer for the top drawing rollers and substituting a comb or
equivalent device hinged or otherwise suitably attached to the reciprocating
stuffer for the purpose of actuating the endless band substantially as herein set
forth.
2. The combination with an endless band clearer for the top drawing rollers,
of the comb or equivalent device hinged or otherwise suitably attached to the
ordinary reciprocating stuffer substantially as and for the purposes herein
described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 2nd day of September 1899.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants, 17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.