Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Oct., 1887
Complete Left, 24th May, 1888
Complete Accepted, 29th June, 1888
I WILLIAM EVANS of 274 Bolton Road Irlams o'-th'-Height, near Manchester in
the County of Lancaster, Mechanic do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to
be as follows:-
My said Invention relates to apparatus for raising cut pile fabrics and is particularly
applicable in the treatment of long pile fabrics such as plushes, imitation seal skin,
and similar goods. It is of importance that the pile of such fabrics should be made
to stand crect from the foundation and to obtain this result it is customary that the
fabric is passed between rollers one of which has a carding surface by which the nap
or pile is partly raised, the process being completed by means of manually operated
batting" sticks by which the surface of the fabric is beaten so as to raise the pile
as much as is possible with these imperfect appliances. A disadvantage attendant upon
the use of the said batting sticks is that they leave marks which are indelible when
the goods are dried.
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According to my invention I provide a machine in which the entire raising
process is effected in a much improved manner and with superior results. Instead
of leading the fabric between a carding and a plain roller as heretofore I lead
the fabric over an edge situated beneath the carding roller so that at the moment
the pile is raised by the carding roller the fabric is led away in an angular
direction from the carding roller the pile being thus set by the carding roller at
about right angles to the foundation of the fabric. After having passed over the
said edge the fabric is led to the batting portion of the apparatus in which it is
taken round guiding and stenting rollers and beaten on the back by the arms or
blades of a rapidly revolving or reciprocating beater. When being thus beaten
the fabric is in a horizontal plane the pile being on the under side, the beater
acting on the upper side so as to shake the pile fibres apart and into a directly
vertical position. From the beater the fabric is led to be dried as usual. The
carding portion of the apparatus is carried upon end frames which support the guiding,
feeding, and carding rollers. The edge or stay over which the fabric is led is situated
as aforesaid beneath the carding roller and slides vertically between the end frames.
For the purposes of adjustment it is carried by screws which can be simultaneously

page_text: revolved by a shaft and hand wheel so that the edge can be set as close to the carding
roller as is thought desirable, and rapidly lowered while the lengths of fabric are
passing through so as to avoid the usual metallic connections between the various
pieces. The fabric passes first between drag rollers then over a guide bar or roller
to the raising edge beneath the carding cylinder and thereafter downward to a drawing
roller from whence it is led to the "batting" arrangement. The fabric is here led
first over a guide roller and then downward to the first of a pair of drawing rollers
in passing between which it is beaten on the back by the aforesaid rapidly revolving
or reciprocating beater and is thereafter led to the drying stove. As the back of the
fabric only is beaten by the revolving beater all marking of the surface of the fabric
is avoided, and an improved result obtained in appearance and in finish.
Dated this Twelfth day of October 1887.
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DUTTON & FULTON,
1, St. James Square, Manchester,
Agents.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for "Raising" Cut Pile Fabrics.
I WILLIAM EVANS of 274 Bolton Road Irlams-o'th Height, near Manchester in the
County of Lancaster, Mechanic, 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 and accompanying drawings :-
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My said Invention relates to apparatus for raising cut pile fabrics and is particularly
applicable in the treatment of long pile fabrics such as plushes, imitation seal skin and
similar goods.
To render my Invention more clear I will describe it with reference to the annexed
two sheets of drawings. Fig. 1 on sheet 1 of the drawings is a vertical section
between the frames of the machine while Fig. 2 on sheet 2 is a front elevation.
Referring to these figures the parts of the machine are supported upon end frames a
held together by stays. A roller 6 is supported in bearings on the top of the frames
and is driven by a fast and loose pulley c d on one end of the roller shaft. At the
other end is a worm e which gears with a worm wheel and drives a shaft g which
imparts a slow motion by means of the bevel gearing h¹ to the shaft of a drawing
roller i over which the material passes after it has been raised by the roller b. The
roller is covered with a carding surface as clearly shown at Fig. 1. Beneath
the roller b is situated a bar j having a narrow edge as shown. The bar j can be raised
and lowered towards and from the roller 6 by means of the supporting screws k which
are carried in the end frames. The said screws have bevel wheels / which
gear with
bevel wheels m on a shaft which extends between the frames and which can be turned
by means of a handwheel n seen in Fig. 2. By means of this shaft and hand wheel
the screws are turned simultaneously and the bar can be set at the desired distance
from the roller b. I arrange guide rollers o and p between the frames in addition to
the drawing roller i. The imitation sealskin or plush or other material which is
marked z is placed upon a table w the various lengths of the material being connected by
the usual metallic or other fastenings. The roller bis set in motion in the indicated
direction and the material is led over the stays r. s and partly around the guide roller o
from whence it passes over the narrow edge of the bar j beneath the roller b. As it
passes beneath the said roller the carding surface raises the pile. The material is
drawn forward by the roller i which has a carding surface and passing over the guide
roller P is led to the batting portion of the apparatus. Here the material is first led
over the roller t then over the roller u and thence across to the roller v which has
also a carding surface and which is driven from the pulley v seen in Fig. 1. From
the roller the material is led to the drying room or to another suitable situation.
In passing from the roller u to the roller v the material is subjected to the action of
the batting paddle which is driven by a belt from a pulley on the shaft of the
roller b. It will be observed that the moment the pile is raised by the carding roller b
the material z is led away in an angular direction from the carding roller. The pile
is thus set by the carding roller at about right angles to the foundation of the fabric.

page_text: In passing beneath the batting paddle the fabric is beaten rapidly on the back so as
to shake the pile fibres apart and cause them to hang in a vertical or nearly vertical
position. When the metallic or other connections which unite the various lengths
approach the carding roller the hand wheel n is turned so as to lower the bar jand
allow these connections to pass without touching the roller b. As the back of the
fabric only is beaten by the revolving paddle all marking of the surface is avoided and
an improved result in appearance and finish is obtained. My improved apparatus may
also be employed as a substitute for the ordinary teazling machine.
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:
(1) The general arrangement and combination of apparatus for raising cut pile
fabrics substantially as described and shown.
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(2) In apparatus for raising cut pile fabrics the roller covered with a carding
surface, in combination with the bar having a narrow edge over which the fabric is
led so as to approach at an angle and leave at an angle, the said bar j being arranged
to be raised and lowered toward and away from the roller b by means of screws, all
substantially as herein before described and shown.
DUTTON & FULTON,
1, St. James Square, Manchester,
Agents.