Improvements in Scribblers or Carding Engines for Carding Fibres.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 18th July, 1894-Accepted, 18th Aug., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Scribblers or Carding Engines for Carding Fibres.
We ERNEST CROWTHER and WILLIAM HENRY CROWTHER both of Priestley
Mills Pudsey in the County of York, Carding Engine Cleaners, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to improvements designed to ensure the cleaning of the
"workers or rollers of scribblers and carding engines and consists of improved
arrangement of workers and combining therewith other card covered rollers or
brushes whereby the accumulation of grease and dirt on the workers is in a great
measure prevented and consequently the labor of keeping the said workers clean is
materially lessened.
Instead of a worker and a stripper then another worker and another stripper as
heretofore we employ the workers each in contact with the next worker that all
the workers touch each other and in the angle or space where each two workers
diameters converge there is applied either in all such spaces or in alternate spaces
a small diameter card covered roller the teeth of the cards preferably being made
straight, that is to say without knee or bend, or instead of said roller a card bush
of V section may be applied between each two workers.
Dated this 14th day of October 1893.
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax.
Improvements in Scribblers or Carding Engines for Carding Fibres.
We ERNEST CROWTHER and WILLIAM HENRY CROWTHER both of Priestley
Mills, Pudsey in the County of York, Carding Engine Cleaners, 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 designed to ensure the cleaning of the
"workers" or rollers of scribblers and carding engines and combining therewith
other card covered rollers or brushes whereby the accumulation of grease and dirt
on the workers is in a great measure prevented and consequently the labor of
keeping the said workers clean is materially lessened.
Instead of a worker and a stripper then another worker and another stripper as
heretofore we employ the workers each in contact with the next worker that all the
workers touch each other and in the angle or space where each two workers
diameters converge there is applied either in all such spaces or in alternate spaces
a small diameter card covered roller the teeth of the cards preferably being made
straight that is to say without knee or bend, or instead of said roller a card bush
of V section may be applied between each two workers.
Such being the nature and object of our said invention the following is a
complete description of same reference being had to the accompanying drawings
in which :-
Fig. 1 is a diagrammatic view of a single cylinder scribbler constructed according
to our invention.

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It will be seen that instead of as heretofore arranging around the main cylinder 1
(Fig. 1) first a "worker," then a stripper" then another "worker" and then
another "stripper" and so on, we arrange the workers 2, 2, so that they are in
contact with each other and also with the main cylinder, the centres of said
workers being in an arc of a circle drawn from the centre of the main cylinder
and in the angle or space above the workers where the circumference of the workers
converge we place, either in all of such spaces or preferably in alternate spaces
a card covered roller 3 of small diameter for cleaning purposes, the teeth of
the cards of the rollers 3 being preferably straight, that is to say without knee or
bend.
Instead however of said rollers a card brush 4 of V section may be applied
between the workers as illustrated in Fig. 3. These brushes are arranged above
and in contact with each pair of workers, and are provided with straight teeth,
shaped to fit the interstices between the workers for the purpose of cleaning the
same.
It is preferred to have the cleaners arranged in alternate spaces for the reason
that then each worker is acted on by the cleaner, and yet there are only half as
many cleaners used as would be required to put one in each of said spaces above the
workers.
It will be seen that the mass of fibre 5 is carried partially round each worker 2
and is then removed therefrom by the next worker which rotates in the same
direction and so passes through the machine until it is removed by a stripping
roller 6 as shown in Fig. 1 or by a fly comb 6 as shown in Fig. 2 which is an
illustration of a scribbler having two cylinders 1. 1. and provided with our
improvements.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature and object of our
said invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is :-
The combination with a scribbler or carding engine having a number of workers,
of card covered cleaners, arranged above the workers and projecting into the angle
where the circumferences of the workers converge, and in contact with two adjacent
workers, for the purpose of cleaning the same, substantially as described and
illustrated by the accompanying sheets of drawings.
Dated this 16th day of July 1894.