Improvements relating to Carding-engine Flats.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Apr., 1899-Accepted, 17th June, 1899
[Communicated from abroad by CHARLES MILLS and ROBERT WINSLOW HUNTON,
both of Newton, in the County of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts,
United States of America, Gentlemen.]
Improvements relating to Carding-engine Flats.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
45, Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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:-
This invention relates to an end clip for card flats, which has a thin main bar
to extend across the end of the clothing and two parallel arms extending at a
right angle from the ends of the main bar and adapted to be fastened to the cloth-
ing simultaneously with the attachment of the side clips to the clothing and to be
further secured during the attachment of the clothing and side clips to the flat,
the arms extending between the clips and clothing and between the prongs of the
clips and their outer sides.
We prefer to make the clip of the shape represented in the drawings and to pro-
vide the ends of the arms with up-turned prongs to enter the clothing, but we
do not confine ourselves to this form.
Referring to the accompanying drawings.
Figure 1 represents in perspective a piece of card clothing with the side clips
and one end clip united thereto preparatory to attachment to the flat.
Figure 2 is a view in vertical section through a flat end and its attached clothing.
Figure is a view in perspective of the end clip alone.
A is the card clothing; B, B' the side clips which are attached to the clothing
by integral prongs, and which also secure the clothing to the flats. C is one of
the end clips and D) the flat.
Preliminary to the securing of the side clips to the clothing the end clips are
located on the outer side of the clothing at or near each end thereof such as b, and
with their arms between the outer portions of the side clips and the clothing and
between the sides of said clips and their prongs so that when the side clips are
fastened by their prongs to the clothing the arms of the end clips are tightly held
or clamped between the side clips and the clothing, and when the arms of the end
clips have up-turned ends they are caused to enter the clothing and thereby assist
in the securing of the end clips to the clothing.
c represents the thin cross-bar of an end clip. Its edges c¹, 2 are parallel, its
outer corners, preferably are rounded. Its arms c, extend from the corners
parallel with each other and they may be provided with up-turned ends c, 8. The
arms may be strengthened where they leave the bar by being widened upon their
inner sides at 9, 10 respectively, and may be so rounded where they leave the bar
as to cause the edge c¹ of the bar between them to be somewhat pronounced with
respect to the corners and so as to make a sharp engagement with the card cloth-
ing which covers it when in place.
The up-turned ends c². 8 may be pointed if desired.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is:
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1. The end clip for card flats herein described, the same having a thin bar
adapted to extend across the card clothing near its end, and parallel arms extend-
ing from the corners of the bar, adapted to be held between the side clips and the
card clothing, and either with or without their up-turned pointed or other ends.
2. In an end clip for card flats, a thin cross bar and arms extending from the
inner corners of said cross bar which are increased in width on their inner sides
at said corners.
3. In an end clip for card flats a thin cross bar, arms extending from the inner
corners thereof and rounded at said corners in a manner to make pronounced and
slightly raised the upper straight edge c of the bar between them.
Dated this 18th day of April 1899.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.