Improvements in Mechanical Feeders for Openers or Scutchers for Cotton or other Fibrous Materials.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 27th June, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 27th Mar., 1895--Accepted, 27th Apr.. 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Mechanical Feeders for Openers or Scutchers for
Cotton or other Fibrous Materials.
1 HUGH AUGUSTINE CORRIGAN of 11 Grafton Street Chorlton-on-Medlock,
Manchester in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention is applicable especially to that class of mechanical feeders or
hoppers wherein an adjustable feed box is used; and for which Letters Patent
No. 11996 dated June 19th 1893 were applied for by John Corrigan, the object of
this invention being to enable the hinged side of such feed box to have an automatic
adjustable motion imparted thereto so as to accommodate itself to the varying
densities of the cotton, and thus to give greater regularity in the delivery thereof
to the scutcher or opener.
This I propose to effect by attaching a rod or arm in any suitable manner to one
or both of the weighted levers usually employed for regulating the rise and fall of
the feed rollers on the scutcher.
The other end of this rod or arm is connected to a bell crank lever or other
suitable device which is attached to, and actuates by suitable means, the hinged
side of the said feed box, so that as the feed rollers on the scutcher rise or fall
according to the density of cotton, motion is conveyed through the said weighted
levers and rods aforesaid to the hinged side of the box, which brings the sides
nearer together or further apart, and thus greater regularity in the quantity of
cotton fed to the scutcher is obtained.
I sometimes connect the adjustable part of the feed box to a lever, the other end
of which carries one of a pair of rollers between which the cotton passes from the
feed box to the scutcher or opener lattice, and thus the position of the adjustable
side is regulated, as more or less cotton passes between these rollers.
1 would here remark that the adjustable side of the feed box may be actuated in
other ways providing that the said side is automatically adjusted with regard to the
delivery rollers according to the amount of cotton delivered by the said roilers.
1 also sometimes make one of the sides of the feed box (preferably the fixed side)
in the form of a travelling apron or lattice with projecting transverse ribs or their
equivalent, the said lattice being caused to move in such a direction that the cotton
will be carried downwards to the delivery roller or rollers.
Dated this 26th day of June 1894.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant

page_text: Improvements in Mechanical Feeders for Openers or Scutchers for
Cotton or other Fibrous Materials.
1 HUGH AUGUSTINE CORRIGAN of 11 Grafton Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock,
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Engineer, 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 is applicable chiefly to that class of mechanical feeders or hoppers
wherein an adjustable feed box is used, and for which Letters Patent No. 11996,
dated June 19th 1893 were granted to John Corrigan, the object of this invention
being to enable the hinged side of such feed box to have an automatic adjustable
motion imparted thereto so as to accommodate itself to the varying densities of the
cotton, and thus to give greater regularity in the delivery thereof to the scutcher
or opener.
It will be evident however that the invention is applicable to other
feed boxes which are similarly applied to mechanical feeders for openers or
scrutchers.
My invention will be readily understood from the following description on
reference to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 shews how the feed box can be adjusted automatically by the feed rollers
of the scutcher or opener a is the adjustable side of the feed box b₁ the feed rollers
of the scutcher and c the scutcher lattice.
Figs. 2 and 3 illustrate the feed box automatically adjusted by the feed rollers at
the bottom of the same.
According to my invention I attach a rod d or its equivalent in any suitable
manner to one or both of the weighted levers e usually employed for regulating the
rise and fall of the feed.rollers b b on the scutcher, see Fig. 1.
The other end of this rod d (or other link) is connected to a bell crank lever e',
or other suitable device, which is attached to, and actuates by suitable means as
shewn on Fig. 1, the hinged side a of the said feed box, so that as the feed
rollers 6 b' on the scutcher rise or fall according to the density of cotton, motion is
conveyed through the said weighted leverse and rods aforesaid to the hinged side a
of the box, which brings the sides of the box nearer together or further apart, and
thus greater regularity in the quantity of cotton fed to the scutcher is obtained.
I sometimes connect the adjustable part a of the feed box by the lever el or
otherwise to a leverf (see Figs. 2 and 3) the other end of which carries one (say the
lower roller g) of a pair of rollers g g between which the cotton passes from the
feed box to the scutcher or opener lattice c, and thus the position of the adjustable
side a is regulated, as more or less cotton passes between these rollers g g¹.
1 would here remark that the adjustable side a of the feed box may be actuated
in other ways providing that the said side is automatically adjusted with regard
to the delivery rollers g g' according to the amount of cotton delivered by the said
rollers g g'.
I alco sometimes make one of the sides of the feed box (preferably the fixed
side) in the form of a travelling apron a+ see Fig. 2 or lattice with projecting
transverse ribs or their equivalent, the said lattice being caused to move in such a
direction, shewn by the arrow, that the cotton will be carried downwards to the
delivery roller or rollers g g'.
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 combination with the hinged or adjustable side of a feed box, for delivering

page_text: cotton and the like to the lattice of the scutcher or opener, of a rod or its equiva-
lent connected to the weighted levers employed for regulating the rise and fall of
the feed rollers on the said scutchers or opener, whereby the amount of cotton or
other fibre delivered from the feed box is regulated by the feed rollers of the
scutcher or opener substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the
annexed drawings.
2. The combination with the hinged or adjustable side of a feed box for the
purpose above described of a cranked lever or its equivalent connected to a lever
carrying one of a pair of feed rollers between which the cotton passes from the feed
box to the scutcher or opener lattice substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated by the annexed drawings.
3. The combination with the hinged or adjustable side of a feed box for the
purpose above described of means for automatically adjusting the same according to
the amount of cotton delivered from the said feed box.
4. The combination in a feed box of the above description provided at the lower
end thereof with a delivery roller or a pair of delivery rollers, of a suitable lattice
at one side of the feed box for carrying the cotton or other fibre downwards to the
said roller or pair of rollers.
Dated this 26th day of March 1895.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.