IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS. FOR CLEANING AND THE FIBRES OF TOW, OAKUM AND OTHER FIBROUS OR SEPARATING TEXTILE MATERIALS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Friedrich Carl Glaser, of Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia
and Empire of Germany, Engineer and Patent Solicitor, for an Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS. FOR CLEANING AND
THE FIBRES OF TOW, OAKUM AND OTHER FIBROUS OR
SEPARATING
TEXTILE MATERIALS Communicated to him by Th: Calow & Co., a firm
residing at Bielefeld in the Kingdom of Prussia and German Empire.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Friedrich Carl Glaser at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st January 1883.
FRIEDRICH CARL GLASER, of Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prus-ia, and Empire
of Germany, Engineer and Patent Solicitor "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR
AND
APPARATUS FOR CLEANING AND SEPARATING THE FIBRES OF TOW, OAKUM
OTHER FIBROUS OR TEXTILE MATERIALS" Communicated to me by Th: Calow & Co.,
a film residing at Bielefeld in the Kingdom of Prussia and German Empire.
Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional Elevation of a machine or apparatus
embodying this Invention, Figure 2 being an Elevation and Figure 3 a cross section
through the same at the line ay Fig: 2
This Invention relates to a Machine intended to supersede the expensive cleaning
of Tow by hand labour, thereby supplying a long felt want.
In this machine the fibres of the Tow are almost entirely liberated from adhering
bodies and become symmetrically placed close together.
The tow to be cleaned is spread out on the table a and reaches the machine over
the inclined plane b. Here a number of rows of tines or teeth z, z, arranged beneath
each other on an inclined plane and swinging to and fro on the points c, c, seize
the material, shake it, and free it from adhering bodies or fluff. The cleaned Tow
falls on to the screen d' from which it is led or brought wherever required, and the
fluff and waste fall on to the screen & This latter also oscillates and sifts off the
Huff which falls into a space or receiver beneath this screen.

page_text: The movement of the rows of tines or teeth in connection with the screen e is
effected by the bent axle f which, by the thrust rod g, moves the rails h. These
rails are suspended on the levers i which are firmly connected to the tine shafts h,
and thus communicato an oscillating notion to them. With the rails h is also
connected the screen e, which receives its movement from them. The flaps or
inclined pieces check the descent of the tow so that it does not fall too fast."
It will be understood that this machine is not only applicable to the cleaning of
Tow or Cakum but also to cleaning other fibrous material.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of the Invention communicated
to me as aforesaid and in what manner the same is or may be performed
I Claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent :—
A machine for cleaning and separating tow, oakum and other fibres, consisting :—
a) in a number of rows of tines or teeth arranged beneath each other in an
inclined plane, which rows of tines are fixed on the axles , in combination with
the levers, the rails 7, the thrust rod g, and the bent shaft f, for the purpose of
communicating oscillating movement to the rows of tines.
b) in the oscillating screen e connected with the rails h.
The whole substantially as hereinbefore described and shown on the accompanying
Sheet of Drawing.
In Witness whereof I the said Friedrich Carl Glaser have hereunto set my
hand and seal this Twenty ninth day of December in the Year of Our Lord
One thousand Eight hundred and Eighty two