Improvements in the Method of and Means Employed for Feeding the Fibre or Lap from one Carding Engine or Scribbler to the next.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Aug., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 6th May, 1898-Accepted, 6th Aug., 1898
Improvements in the Method of and Means Employed for Feeding the
Fibre or Lap from one Carding Engine or Scribbler to the next.
I, SERVAIS LEBE, of 19, Market Street, Cleckheaton, in the County of York,
Machine Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the method of and means employed
for transferring the fibre or lap from one carding engine or scribbler to the next
machine in such a manner that the lap or fibre is laid and fed onto the ordinary
feed apron continuously, and with the fibre laid lengthwise instead of across the
apron as heretofore. By these improvements the labour of piecing together the
successive laps is obviated and a better and more even yarn is produced at less
cost.
As the lap is laid on the feed apron it may be divided by knives or wires at
each end so that a series of such laps lie one on top of the other, the fibres of the
several laps or layers being all parallel one to the other.
For fibres such as are used for blankets, cheviots, serges, and low quality goods
for which the yarns are coarse spun, the knives or wires may be dispensed with
and the lap or material folded continuously on the apron without being divided
at each end.
According to this invention I employ a feed apron as ordinary and also a
creeper which instead of working across the width of the apron as ordinary, works
or travels to and fro the length of the apron of the succeeding machine. At
each end and each side of the feed apron I mount a knife which extends half way
across the feed apron, and each knife is caused to move through an arc of a circle
by means of a stud on the creeper which comes in contact with a stud on a link
connecting the two knives on one side of the frame, the two knives on the opposite
side of the frame being operated in like manner. As the knives move across the
feed apron the lap is cut or divided and laid over a comb supported by balanced
levers, the knives working between the feed rollers and the comb. When the lap
is laid over the comb and cut or divided by the knives and the creeper leaves this
end of the feed apron, the balance levers allow the comb to rise and lay the lap
on the feed apron.
When the creeper arrives at the opposite end of the feed
apron, the creeper, or a part of it, comes in contact with the balance levers of the
comb at that end and raises the comb ready for the fibre to be divided by the
knives.
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Instead of the knives above described, a wire may be used, such wire extending
across the width of the feed apron and carried on balanced levers mounted on the
creeper. As the creeper comes to the end of the feed apron the levers come into
contact with stops or studs which cause the levers and wire to move through the
arc of a circle, and the wire cuts or divides the lap and lays it over the comb.
The above described appliances are specially designed for operating on fine
fibres.
For coarse fibres and goods it is preferable that the lap should be continuous, i.e.,

page_text: not divided at each end of the apron, and for this class of goods the knives, or
wires, are dispensed with and the delivery rollers of the creeper lay the lap con-
tinuously on the apron, folding it over at each end.
In all cases the object of the invention is attained by laying the fibre lengthwise
on the apron so that the fibres are presented endwise to the feed rollers of the
succeeding machine.
Dated this 4th day of August 1907
BRIERLEY & HOWARD,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax, Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in the Method of and Means Employed for Feeding the
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Fibre or Lap from one Carding Engine or Scribbler to the next.
I, SERVAIS LEBE, of 19, Market Street, Cleckheaton, in the County of York,
Machine Maker, 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 improvements in the method of and means employed
for transferring the fibre or lap from one carding engine or scribbler to the next
machine in such a manner that the lap or fibre is laid and fed on to the ordinary
feed apron continuously, and with the fibre laid lengthwise instead of across the
apron as heretofore. By these improvements the labour of piecing together the
successive laps is obviated and a better and more even yarn is produced at less
cost.
According to this invention I employ a feed apron as ordinary and also a
creeper which instead of working across the width of the apron as ordinary works
or travels to and fro the length of the apron of the succeeding machine."
In all cases the object of the invention is attained by laying the fibre lengthwise
on the apron so that the fibres are presented endwise to the feed rollers of the
succeeding machine.
Such being the nature and object of my said invention the following is a com-
plete description of same reference being had to the accompanying drawings in
which,
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the improved apparatus.
Fig. 2 is a like view of the opposite end of the machine.
Fig. 3 is a plan view.
At A is a doffer and stripper B the fibre being received on the creeper C thence
passing over the train of rollers D' 1) D D to the lattice E thence through ordinary
feed rollers at F to the carding engine.
The train of rollers D D D D³ are carried at their ends by the swing lever B
pivoted at its lower end to the carriage G which slides on supporting rails G¹ the
axis H, being the hinge on which the train of rollers swing. The carriage G is
driven by means of the chain K. At L, L, L, L2, are four tilting rollers mounted
on a swing lever A2 pivoted to the carriage G at the point T and connected to the
chain K by means of a stud S. The two end rollers L³, L³, are the pressure rollers
for laying the lap on the lattice E, whilst the two centre rollers L, L, (one of the
series alternately as the lever tilts by the chain K passing round the pullies N)
act as guide rollers for the lap on its passage from the rollers D¹, D, D, D³, to
the lattice E. The gear wheels M and N for communicating the requisite motion
from the driven wheel M, to the chain K, are shewn by thick dotted lines and the
driven wheel M may be driven from any convenient going part of the machine.

page_text: The waved line P, indicates course of transit of the fibre, the frictional contact of
which drives the rollers D¹, D, D, D and the presser roller D3 and the rollers L',
L, L, L and the rollers L, L, and L', La may be also connected with driving
chains L, L if desired.
The train of rollers D¹, D), D, D² may be positively driven from the creeper C
which drives the shaft or axis H, on which is a gear wheel driving a chain of
wheels indicated by the thick dotted lines, the last wheel Z, of the train by
pinions R driving the rollers L, L, which by chains L, L communicate the
motion to the rollers L', L.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
In machines for purpose aforesaid a creeper such as C, a series of guide rollers
such as D, oscillating and a carriage such as G, and lattice creeper E, all in con-
junction with an adjacent carding engine for purpose and as.described herein and
illustrated by the annexed drawings.
Dated this 5th day of May 1898.
By his Agents,
SERVAIS LEBE,
Brierley & Howard,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax.