An Apparatus for Compressing and Facilitating the Winding of Cotton, Wool, Silk, and other Fibrous Materials, which . Invention is Applicable to Carding Engines.
Year: 1886

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An Apparatus for Compressing and Facilitating the Winding
of Cotton, Wool, Silk, and other Fibrous Materials, which .
Invention is Applicable to Carding Engines.
We JAMES SCHOFIELD of the firm of Schofield and Coy River Street Rochdale
in the County of Lancaster Machinist and JOSHUA HITCHON of the firm of
Hitchon and Shepherd Spring Wood Mill Ramsbottom Spinnier and Manufac-
turer of the aforesaid County, do hereby declare the nature of our invention for
"AN APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSING AND FACILITATING THE WINDING OF COTTON,
WOOL, SILK, AND OTHER FIBRIOUS MATERIALS WHICH INVENTION IS APPLICABLE TO
CARDING ENGINES and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
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Our invention is to be applied to carding engines, for carding cotton, wool, silk,
and other fibrous materials; at convenient parts of the winding or receiving roller
or bobbin, which roller, is well known, and consists of a number of cylinders or
rollers preferably two.
The objects or purposes of our invention, are to compress the material when on
the receiving roller, and to more effectually wind the material thereon, than as
hitherto been the case, which objects are effected, as the material is received from
the condensor by the receiving roller.
It is evident that by means of compression, a greater quantity or weight of
material can be wound or stored upon the receiving bobbin or roller, than without
such means, at the same time, the receiving roller must contain a material of close
fibre, which it has, more or less, accordingly as the material is more or less com
pressed and which is an important condition or qualification in the production
of yarn in the case of some materials of inferior or low quality.
In order that our invention may be understood we have reference to the
accompanying sheet of drawings, in which, Fig. 1. is a side elevation shewing
our invention with so much of a frame of a carding engine as is necessary to
illustrate the said invention.
Fig. 2. is a front elevation thereof, shewing the winding or receiving roller
partly occupied with material.
Fig. 3. is a plan of our said invention.
We employ near to the surface drum A. which is well known, at a convenient
distance therefrom, a cylinder or drum B. with its axis paralell to the axis of the

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surface drum, in such a position so that their surfaces shall not coincide or engage
with each other, the cylinder B. may be of any suitable material, may have a
suitably indented, fluted, or smooth surface, or, may be covered with any suitable.
substance such as cloth, leather, & as may be required, so as to accommodate the
various classes of material to be operated upon by the said cylinder B., a rotary
motion is imparted to the cylinder B from the surface drum shaft C, by the aid of
the chains D. D₁ and wheels E E and E¹ E¹, on the extremities of the surface drum
shaft C and the shaft F passing through the cylinder B. respectively, or any other
mode of imparting motion to the cylinder B. from the shaft C or other driving shaft
may be employed as may be necessary.
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At the upper part of the cylinders or drums A and B., is situated the winding or
receiving roller G upon which the material H. is to be wound; when the winding
of the material is commenced the motions of the cylinders A. and B. cause the
receiving roller G to have a motion in a suitable direction, as indicated in the
drawings Fig. 1. in this manner the material is wound thereon, the use of
the cylinder B. at the part as shewn in the drawings, is for the purpose of more
effectually transmitting motion to the receiving roller G when winding, than as
hitherto been the case by the use of one surface drum or cylinder A. only, as at
present used, the cylinder B. obviously acts as an auxiliary to A. for the purpose
of winding, by the use of the said cylinder B. We claim to accomplish oven and
firm winding, thus to avoid the formation of soft parts or places in the material
when wound upon the receiving roller G.
At the upper part of the receiving roller G between its flanges or end plates I. I'
in the longitudinal direction thereof, we provide a cylinder or roller J. of any
suitable material which we term the compressing roller, their surfaces are allowed
to coincide with each other, the roller J. is supported in position (so as to be free
to revolve about its axis also to suitably slide) by guides K. and K₁ one at each
extremity of the shaft L. which passes through the same, the guides K. K₁ are fixed
to any convenient part of the framing M of the machine, as shewn in the drawings
they (the guides) are secured to one of the stay rods N of the machine, and are
provided with conveniences at O. O. and O¹ 0¹ for the reception of empty rollers...
The operation of our invention is as follows.-Assume the operation of winding
to have commenced, and the material in position between the surfaces of the
receiving roller G and the compressing J. as the material increases in quantity
upon the receiving roller during winding, the compressing roller J. is caused to
rise or be elevated in the slots P P of the guides K. K¹, at the same time presses
or applies a force due to its weight, upon the whole surface of the material during
its rotation with roller G, and so on continues to compress or influence the density
of the material, until the receiving roller G is fully occupied therewith.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, wo declare that
what we claim is
1. The combination of the cylinder or roller B., the cylinder or roller J, the
guides K. K¹ the chains D. D¹, the wheels E E, and the wheels E¹ E', substantially
and for the purposes herein fully set forth and described in the annexed
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drawings.
JOHN H. BUTTERWORTH,
Agent for the Applicants.