IMPROVE- MENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR BREAKING, SCUTCHING AND COMBING TEXTILE PLANTS AND MATERIALS.
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Benjamin Joseph Barnard Mills at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th February 1883.
Communicated to him from abroad by Norbert de Landtsheer of Paris in the
Republic of France
BENJAMIN JOSEPH BARNARD MILLS of the firm of Harris and Mills of
23 Southampton Buildings in the County of Middlesex Patent Agent. IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR BREAKING, SCUTCHING AND COMBING
TEXTILE PLANTS AND MATERIALS. A communication to me from abroad by Norbert
de Laudtsheer of Paris in the Republic of France
The present Invention consists in a new arrangement of machine whereby the
breaking, scutching and combing of textile plants and materials can be effected
automatically and simultaneously either in the dry or green state.
This arrangement enables the degree of intensity of each of these operations to
be varied with respect to the others
The new arrangement can be applied to the construction of
(a) Machines for breaking only
(b) Machines for breaking and scutching
(c) Machines for scutching and combing
(d) Machines for breaking, scutching and combing.
To enable the invention to be readily understood I have represented it in
the accompanying drawings which show clearly the work of these different
arrangements as also the various parts constituting the same.
The materials to be treated entering laterally are continuously worked upon
their entire length; by drawing together or by separating the concentric surfaces
of the drums which effect the work, the action thereof can be regulated upon the
different parts of the material.
The material being turned in order to work the second extremity, this operation
permits of working it upon the two faces and of working its central part according
to the degree desired.
The accompanying drawings sheets 1 to 4 and sheets 5 to 8 represent two
improved arrangements of breaker and scutcher. These two machines differ only

page_text: in the arrangement of the parts operating the pincers feeding the material to
bo worked.
In each set of these sheets Figure 1 represents a front elevation of the machine
and Figure 2 a corresponding plan or top view Figures 3 and 4 represent
respectively a left hand end view and a right hand end view of the same machine.
Figure 5 represents a vertical section of the same drawn on the line A B and
Figure 6 a vertical section drawn on the line C. D. of Figure 2.
In these figures the same letters of reference designato like parts.
In these two arrangements, the material is held and fed by iron pincers, but in
sheets 1 to 4 the change in position of the pincers is obtained by means of laths
having an alternate rectilinear movement.
The speed given to these laths regulates the degree of work given to the
material, whilst in the arrangement shown in sheets 5 to 8 these laths are replaced
by endless cords or ropes having a continuous rectilinear movement.
A are the frames or standards of cast iron.
B cross bars connecting the end frames
C⚫Axes of the scutching and combing drums
D Axis of the breaking drum.
E Breaking drum composed of two discs F carrying between them six grooved
rollers e mounted loosely upon their axle.
G grooved concentric surfaces of the breaker drum
H discs of the scutching and combing drum carrying at I pallets of wood or
metal and at I' pallets brushes or combs..
K surface of sheet iron or openwork with wood or metal laths concentric with
the scutching and combing drum. The degree of intensity of the work is regulated
by_varying the distance between the surface K and the pallets or the combs.
L pincer carriage
M pincers holding the material to be worked and feeding it to the machine
N laths carrying moveable clicks n controlling the movement for changing the
position of the pincers.
O toothed driving gear of the breaker drum, having a slower motion than the
scutching and combing drum.
P gearing giving motion to the laths.
Q Fixed and loose pulleys on the driving shaft of the machine.
In the six figures of sheets 5, 6, 7 and 8 the same letters indicate the same parts
as in those of sheets 1, 2, 3 and 4
P gearing giving motion to the endless cords or ropes n for changing the position
of the material to be worked.
N cords or ropes replacing the laths N of sheets 1, 2, 3 and 4, for changing the
position of the material to be worked and the speed of which regulates the degree 4
of work given to this material.