Improvements in Apparatus or Machinery for Feeding Wool and other Fibrous Materials into Carding and other Machines.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Left 27th June, 1889-Accepted, 24th Aug., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus or Machinery for Feeding Wool and
other Fibrous Materials into Carding and other Machines.
We, WILLIAM HORSFALL GREENWOOD, Commission Wool Comber, and FREDERICK
FARRAR, Manager, both of Upper Castle Street, Bradford, in the County of York, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
This invention relates to improvements in machinery or apparatus for feeding wool
or other fibrous materials into carding or other machines in which the fibrous
material is conveyed by a creeper or apron.out of a hopper and passed on to the
weighing apparatus or on to the carding or other machine and in which an oscillating
comb commonly called the "regulator" is employed to sweep down the said creeper
and remove surplus fibres or projecting tufts thus leaving the remaining fibres
uniformly distributed upon the creeper.
It is found in practice that tufts of fibres are liable to cling or become attached to
the said oscillating comb frequently becoming matted and thereby prevent it perform-
ing its function of removing surplus fibres and generally regulating their supply as
well as damaging the matted fibres. The object of this invention is to obviate this
deffect.
The said improvements consist in employing a cleaning comb, plate, rubber or
brush to remove any fibres clinging or becoming attached to the said regulator.
To carry out our improvements we preferably mount a cleaning comb, plate, rubber
or brush above the regulator in such a manner that at the termination of each upward
stroke of the regulator it engages the said cleaning comb or other cleaning device
which removes any fibres clinging thereto and drops them back into the said
hopper.
As it is necessary from time to time to adjust the position of the said regulator in
relation to the creeper according to the nature of the fibres being fed, we preferably
mount the cleaning device upon arins attached to and moving with the bearings of the
said regulator thus the position of such cleaning device is not relatively altered in
regard to the regulator when such regulator is adjusted.
The said arms on which the cleaning device is mounted are each preferably con-
nected by a suitable bolt to the top of the hopper which bolt passes through a slot or
one of a series of bolt holes in the arm and in the hopper to allow for adjustment.
Dated this 26th day of September 1888.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford
Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus or Machinery for Feeding Wool and
other Fibrous Materials into Carding and other Machines.
We, WILLIAM HORSFALL GREENWOOD, Commission Wool Comber, and FREDERICK
FARRAR, Manager, both of Upper Castle Street, Bradford in the County of York, 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 improvement in machinery or apparatus for feeding wool
or other fibrous materials into carding or ether machines in which the fibrous material
is conveyed by a creeper or apron out of a hopper and passed on to the weighing
apparatus or on to the carding or other machine and in which an oscillating comb
commonly called the "regulator" is employed to sweep down the said creeper and

page_text: remove surplus fibres or projecting tufts thus leaving the remaining fibres uniforumy
distributed upon the creeper.
It is found in practice that tufts of fibres are liable to cling or become attached
to the said regulator and frequently becoming matted thereby prevent it per-
forming its function of removing surplus fibres and generally regulating their 5
The object of this invention is to
supply as well as damaging the matted fibres.
obviate this deffect.
The said improvements consist in employing a cleaning comb, plate, rubber or
brush to remove any fibres clinging or becoming attached to the said regulator.
To carry out our improvements we preferably mount a cleaning comb, plate, rubber
or brush above the regulator in such a manner that at the termination of each upward
stroke of the regulator it engages the said cleaning comb or other cleaning device
which removes any fibres clinging thereto and drops them back into the said
hopper.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying sheet of drawings forming a part of
this specification in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in
each of the figures.
Figure 1, represents a sectional elevation of a hopper and such other parts of the
apparatus for feeding carding machines as are necessary to illustrate the application
of our improvements.
Figure 2, is a rear elevation of the same.
Figures 3 and 4 are respectively a side-view and plan on a larger scale of one of
the arms upon which the said cleaning comb is mounted.
The regulator A mounted upon arms B projecting from the rocking shaft is
attached in the usual manner and regulates the quantity of fibre raised by the
creeper D from the hopper E. A fine comb F with short teeth G is arranged to
engage the regulator A at the top of each stroke and remove any fibres entangled in
the teeth of such regulator.
The comb F is fixed to the arms H having eyes J at the rear by which they are
mounted upon the sleeve bearings K of the rocking shaft, which arrangement allows
the regulator to be adjusted without altering its position in relation to the cleaning
comb F. A bolt L passing through slots M and N respectively formed in each
arm H and side of the hopper is provided to fix the parts after adjustment.
A sheet metal guard P is fixed to the upper side of the regulator and its upper
edge R is arranged not to pass below the comb F so as to prevent workmen's hands
being caught between the regulator and F.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare what we
claim is :
The combination with said regulator of a cleaning comb or the like arranged sub-
stantially as herein shown and described and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 95th day of June 1889.
STATIT TT
DRACUT & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.