A New or Improved Machine for Dusting and Cleaning Wool, Waste Rags, and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Dec., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 28th Sept., 1897-Accepted, 24th Dec., 1897.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Machine for Dusting and Cleaning Wool, Waste
Rags, and the like.
JOHN EDWIN TOLSON Meadow House Dewsbury Carbonizer and Engineer do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention is in relation to the dusting and Cleaning of Wool Waste Rags
and the like, and consists of two surfaces having teeth set so that when a
oscillating motion is given to one or both of the aforesaid surfaces it will carry
the material between the two surfaces. The spaces between the teeth are provided
with a sive or grate to allow the dust to escape which may be assisted by blowing
or exausting air through both surfaces during the passage between the surfaces of
the material. The advantage I clain for this process is that it brushes the dust
out and does not break the staple. All other known process of dusting causes
great waste and breaks the fibre.
Dated thie 96th day of Door 1908.
"A New or Improved Machine for Dusting and Cleaning Wool, Waste,
Rags, and the like,"
I JOHN EDWARD TOLSON of Meadow House, Dewsbury in the County of York
Carbonizing 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 relates to the Dusting and Cleaning of wool, waste, rags, and the
like, and consists of two surfaces having teeth set so that when an oscillating
motion is given to one or both of the aforesaid surfaces it will carry the material
between the two surfaces, the spaces between the teeth are provided with a sieve or
grate to allow the dust to escape which may be assisted by blowing or exhausting
air through both surfaces during the passage between the surfaces of the material :
The advantage I claim for this process is that it takes the dust out and does not
break the staple. All other known processes of dusting cause great waste and break
the fibre.
Such being the nature and object of my said invention, the following is a
complete description of same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,
in which::-
Kio is a side elevation of a mechine according to this invention

page_text: Fig.
plan view.
Fig. 3 is an end view shewing the rocking levers for carrying the table.
At 1. 1. are the side frames of the machine, at 2 is a frame carrying a series of
parallel blades 3 provided with teeth 4' and carried by screw rods 5-5 so as to be
readily adjusted in relation to a like series of toothed blades 6 under the blades 3.
The lines of teeth 6-6 are opposite the spaces between the upper teeth 4 and are
secured in a frame 7. The frame 7 is provided with arms 8, the latter enclosing
the eccentric 9 driven by cross shaft and pulleys 10, so that the eccentric gives an
oscillating motion to the frame 7 and the series of toothed plates 6-6. The
frame 7 is supported at each end by rocking levers 11 engaging with the shaft 12
in brackets 13 bolted to the frame 7. The material when dusted and cleaned is
subjected to an opening out and shaking the resulting dust and dirt falls through
a sieve or grating 14 formed of strips of wire mesh placed between the toothed
bars 6:and secured at each end by means of bolts. As the dust falls through the
sieve 14 it is carried away by means of fans 15-15 on a shaft 16 on which is
mounted a pulley 17 driven by belt 18 and pulley 19 on the shaft 10. In the
drawings I have shewn, and herein described the under lines of teeth as moving, but
for some class of fibres it may be advantageous to reciprocate both the upper and
the lower series. of lines of teeth.
At 20 is a feed board, 21-22 taking in rollers, and these are of ordinary
construction and driven as is usual in fibre feeding machinery,
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :--
(1) In machines for purpose aforesaid the general construction, combination, and
arrangement as described herein and illustrated by the annexed drawings.
(2) In machines for purpose aforesaid the use of spaced toothed surfaces or bars
one or both caused to reciprocate for purpose of operating on fibrous materials and
as illustrated and herein described
Dated thin 7th dan of Santambor 1907
JOHN EDWARD TOLSON.
By his Agents Brierley & Howard.
Penny Bank Chambers Halifax.