Improvements in Combined Exhaust Openers and Lap Machines used in the Preparation of Cotton and other Textile Fibres.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Jan., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 16th June, 1890-Accepted, 23rd Aug., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Combined Exhaust Openers and Lap Machines used
in the Preparation of Cotton and other Textile Fibres.
I, WILLIAM TAYLOR, of 19 Hill Street, Oldham in the County of Lancaster,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in combined exhaust openers and lap
machines used in the preparation of cotton and other textile fibres.
I apply my improvements to such a machine in which the cotton or other fibrous
material is drawn from the breaker through a trunk or pipe by a fan set preferably at
right angles to the axis of the beater. After passing through the fan the fibre is
drawn forward to the first cage or cages and in the ordinary course would be taken
directly to a beater.
I now propose according to my improvements to pass the fibre forward from the
first cage or cages through a pair or pairs of feed rollers by which the fibre is held as
it enters an additional opening cylinder where it is further opened. From the opening
cylinder the fibre passes to a second cage or cages and thence through a pair or pairs
of feed rollers by which it is held as it enters the ordinary beater or beating cylinder
from which it passes forward to the lap machine.
Dated this 30th day of January 1890.
H. B. BARLOW,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Combined Exhaust Openers and Lap Machines used
in the Preparation of Cotton and other Textile Fibres.
I, ROBERT TAYLOR, Administrator of the Estate of William Taylor, of 19 Hill
Street, Oldham, in the County of Lancaster, Engineer, deceased, 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in combined exhaust openers and lap
machines used in the preparation of cotton and other textile fibres.
I apply my improvements to such a machine in which the cotton or other fibrous
material is drawn from the breaker through a trunk or pipe by a fan set preferably at
right angles to the axis of the beater. After passing through the fan the fibre is
drawn forward to the first cage or cages and in the ordinary course would be taken
directly to a heater.
I now propose according to my improvements to pass the fibre forward from the
first cage or cages through a pair or pairs of feed rollers by which the fibre is held as
it enters an additional opening cylinder where it is further opened. From the opening
cylinder the fibre passes to a second cage or cages and thence through a pair or pairs
of feed rollers by which it is held as it enters the ordinary beater or beating cylinder
from which it passes forward to the lap machine.
And in order that my invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect I will describe the accompanying two sheets of drawings reference being had
to the figures and letters marked thereon.
Figure 1 is a side elevation and Fig. 2 an end view of a combined exhaust opener
and lap machine embodying my improvements. Figs. 3 and 4 are similar views
respectively of an alternative arrangement in which the fan shaft is placed parallel
with the beaters instead of at right angles thereto as in the first arrangement.
Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

page_text: In these views, a designates the trunk or pipe through which the fibrous material is
drawn from the breaker by an exhaust fan the shaft b' of which is in the arrange-
ment Figs. 1 and 2 shown placed at right angles to the axis of the beater while in the
arrangement Figs. 3 and 4 it is placed parallel therewith.
From the fan the fibrous material is drawn through the first pair of cages c
beneath which is placed the dust fan d and according to my present improvements
employ a pair of revolving feed rollers e through which the fibrous material as it
leaves the cages c passes forward through another pair of rollers to an additional
opening cylinder g. Thence the fibrous material passes through the second pair of
cages h beneath which is placed a dust fan i, and through two more pairs of feed
rollers lettered and k respectively to the ordinary beating cylinder whence the
fibrous material passes forward to the lap machine and are treated in the usual
manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is
1. In a combined exhaust opener and lap machine the combination with the ordinary
beater or beating cylinder, of an additional opening cylinder with a pair or pairs of
feed rollers and a pair of cages substantially as herein set forth.
2. The general combination and arrangement of parts embodying my improvements
in combined exhaust openers and lap machines as and for the purposes herein described
and as shown on the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 14th da
1000
H. B. BARLOW,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.