IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLICABLE TO MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR CARDING AND OTHERWISE PREPARING WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES FOR SPINNING
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Brooke, of Brighouse, in the County of
York, Card Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPLICABLE TO MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR CARDING AND OTHERWISE
PREPARING WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES FOR SPINNING."
Sealed the 26th October 1869, and dated the 2nd July 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Brooke at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on tho
2nd July 1869.
I, SAMUEL BROOKE, of Brighouse, in the County of York, Card Maker,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN OR APPLICABLE TO MACHINERY OR APPARATUS POR CARDING AND OTHERWISE
PREPARING WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES FOR SPINNING," to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to improved means of dividing or producing
strips or ribbons of carded wool or fibre in stripping it from the doffer
of the carding engine to be condensed or rubbed into rovings or
threads by the ordinary rubbers of the condenser; and the improvements
consist,-

page_text: Firstly. In the employment of a doffer clothed either with card
filleting or parallel rings as heretofore, also of an ordinary card stripper
to work in contact with the said doffer, and to the under angle formed
by the said doffer and stripper I apply a roller on which are a series of
circular knives or flanges fixed at suitable distances apart according
to the required width of the strips to be produced. This roller is
adjusted or set so that the knives will enter into or betwixt the card
teeth, and the said roller is driven at a higher or quicker surface speed
than that of the doffer or the stripper, whereby the carded wool or fibre
is divided and taken off in strips, which are thence conducted by a
grooved roller to the rubbers.
Secondly. In the application of a series of knives, blades, or wires
in front of the doffer cylinder at suitable distances apart, and so as to
enter slightly into or between the card teeth of the doffer. Also in the
employment of a series of combs or doffing plates so formed as to work
or reciprocate in betwixt the knives or blades for stripping the carded
wool or fibre from the doffer in strips or ribbons.
Thirdly. In forming grooves at suitable distances apart in the cards
of the doffer when clothed with filleting by depressing the teeth to the
depth and width required, and then introducing flatted wire or strips
of metal or other material joined to form rings imbedded into the
grooves, thus forming divisions of the card surface. Also to the under
angle of the swift and doffer I apply a roller having a series of metal
flanges with either plain or serrated edges arranged to act in contact
with the wire rings of the doffer; or instead of these metal flanges I may
apply narrow rings of card clothing to the said roller.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Samuel Brooke in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 31st December 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL 30
BROOKE, of Brighouse, in the County of York, Card Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of July, in the year of

page_text: our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Samuel Brooke, Her special licence
that I, the said Samuel Brooke, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel Brooke, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN OR APPLICABLE TO MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR CARDING AND OTHERWISE PRE-
PARING WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES FOR SPINNING," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Samuel Brooke, my executors or ad-
ministrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, the I, the said Samuel Brooke, 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 Sheet of Drawings (that is to
say) :-
:-
.
This Invention relates to improved means of dividing or producing
strips or ribbons of carded wool or fibre in stripping it from the doffer
of the carding engine to be condensed or rubbed into rovings or
threads by the ordinary rubbers of the condenser; and the improvements
consist,―
Firstly. In the employment of a doffer clothed either with card
filliting or parallel rings as heretofore, also of an ordinary card stripper
to work in contact with the said doffer, and to the under angle formed
by the said doffer and stripper I apply a roller on which are a series
of circular knives or flanges fixed at suitable distances apart according
to the required width of the strips to be produced. This roller is
adjusted or set so that the knives will enter into or betwixt the card
teeth, and the roller is driven at a higher or quicker surface speed than
that of the doffer or the stripper, whereby the carded wool or fibre is

page_text: divided and taken off in strips, which are thence conducted by a grooved
roller to the rubbers.
Secondly. In the application of a series of knives, blades, or wires
in front of the doffer cylinder at suitable distances apart, and so as to
enter slightly into or between the card teeth of the doffer. Also in the
employment of a series of combs or "doffing plates," so formed as to
work or reciprocate in betwixt the knives or blades for stripping the
carded wool or fibre from the doffer in strips or ribbons.
Thirdly. In forming grooves at suitable distances apart in the cards
of the doffer when clothed with filliting by depressing the teeth to
the width required, and then introducing flatted wire or strips of metal
joined to form rings embedded into the grooves, thus forming divisions
of the card surface. Also to the under angle of the swift and doffer
I apply a roller having a series of metal flanges with either plain or
serrated edges arranged to act in contact with the wire rings of the
doffer; or instead of these metal flanges I may apply narrow rings of
card clothing to the said roller.
This Invention will be readily understood by reference to the two
accompanying Sheets of Drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a part of the
side elevation of an ordinary carding machine or such parts thereof
as are necessary to shew the application of the first part of my im-
provements thereto; and Figure 2 are the same parts of the said
machine shewing the second and third parts applied thereto.
A is the swift; B is the doffer, and C is an ordinary stripper; D is
the roller, having a series of circular knives or flanges fixed thereon at
suitable distances apart, and which roller is placed in the under angle
betwixt the doffer and stripper, and so set as to enter into the teeth
of the cards, and it is driven at a higher or quicker surface speed than
that of either the stripper or doffer by which the fibre is divided into
strips, which are thence conducted by a grooved roller to the rubber in
the usual manner.
The second part of this Invention is shewn at Figure 2, where the
swift A and doffer B are constructed and arranged as in Figure 1, but
instead of the stripper C and the flanged roller D are a series of knives,
blades, or flattened wires E, arranged at suitable distances apart upon a
two rods F and G fixed in suitable bearings attached to the framing of
the machine. These wires are arranged or set so as to penetrate into
the card clothing or betwixt the card teeth. A series of combs or

page_text: "doffing plates" H are fixed on arms I and hinged so as to be operated
by a connecting rod J from a crank pin K, receiving motion from any
convenient part of the machine. These combs or plates work in betwixt
the knives or wires, and so divide or separate the carded wool or fibre
into strips or ribbons.
The third part of this Invention will be easily understood without the
aid of Drawings. The card clothing being of the kind technically known
as "filliting," which is a narrow sheet of card clothing in a long length
wound spirally and tightly around the doffer cylinder until its whole
surface is covered therewith, then by means of a series of tools or pointed
instruments of suitable breadth of point according to the width of the
grooves required applied to the surface of the doffer in a fixed position,
and then the doffer turned round; it is evident the card teeth coming
in contact therewith will be depressed or bent down against the leather
or other material in which they are set or fixed, thus forming grooves
in the said doffer cylinder, and in order to secure or maintain these card
teeth in the depressed state and keep the grooves open to the proper
width I bend flattened wire or strips of metal of the width required and
of any sectional form into the said grooves and join the ends by either
solder, screws, pins, or other suitable means, so as to form rings and
thus maintain the grooves or spaces betwixt the card teeth open. I
also apply to the under angle betwixt the swift and doffer a shaft with
a series of flanges M similar to those applied under the stripper in
Figure 1, and in some cases I may serate or make rough the edges of
these flanges so as to lay hold on the fibres which may be left in the
grooves, and so clear them away, keeping the grooves open.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and shewn
by Drawings how the same is to be or may be performed or carried
into practical operation, I would have it understood that I do not confine
myself to the precise details herein shewn and described; but what I
claim as my Invention is,―
Firstly. In the application and use of a roller (having a series of
circular knives or flanges set at suitable distances apart) to the under
angle of the doffer and stripper when employing a doffer clothed with
either filliting or rings and an ordinary card stripper to operate in
manner and for purposes substantially as described."
Secondly. In the application and use of a series of knives, blades, or
wires to such doffer when not employing a card stripper and a series

page_text: of "doffing plates" or combs to work betwixt the knives, blades, or
wires, in manner and for purposes substantially as herein described.
Thirdly. In forming grooves in the card clothing by depressing the
card teeth when employing doffers clothed with card filliting, and in
applying or placing in such grooves rings of wire or metal of any
sectional form; also in the application to the under angle betwixt the
swift and doffer of a roller having a series of circular knives or flanges,
or instead of these flanges narrow rings of card clothing, in manner
and for purposes substantially as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the Samuel Brooke, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
Signed, sealed, and delivered
by the within-named Samuel
Brooke, in the presence of
W¹. TASKER,
Patent Agent,
Halifax & Bradford.
SAM. BROOKE. (L.S.)