Improvements in Apparatus for Ensuring and Indicating Accurate Adjustment of Card Flats.
Year: 1885

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for Ensuring and Indicating
Accurate Adjustment of Card Flats.
I EDMUND TWEEDALE of Globe Works Accrington in the County of Lancaster
Manager do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS FOR ENSURING AND INDICATING ACCURATE ADJUSTMENT OF CARD
FLATS to be as follows:-
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The Improvements hereinafter described relate to the class of carding engine
whereon the flats are mounted upon or bends" having and being movable in
relation to and upon inclined or angular supports and the invention consists of
screw and index appliances whereby the moving and accurate adjustment of the
bends and flats is ensured and indicated the chain gear being dispensed.
According to this my invention I employ adjusting screws by which the bend is
set or adjusted each screw is provided with a nut and attached to or forming part
of which nut is an index or dial plate, a pointer or finger being fixed upon the
framing so that if to adjust and set the bend and flats at one end to required and
relative positions suppose the nut of the first adjusting screw and its indicating
plate or dial be moved from zero to 5-5 before the bend is in required position
then the whole of the adjusting screws and dials must be moved and set to 5-5
whereon there will be true radius between the cards on the cylinder and the
whole of the card flats wherein locking nuts on each adjusting screw will be
tightened up.
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WALTER BRIERLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Ensuring and Indicating
Accurate Adjustment of Card Flats.
I EDMUND TWEEDALE of Globe Works Accrington in the County of Lancaster
Manager do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR ENSURING AND INDICATING ACCURATE ADJUSTMENT OF CARD
FLATS, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:--
The improvements hereinafter described relate to the class of carding engine
whereon the flats are mounted upon "bends" having, and being movable in
relation to and upon inclined or angular supports, and the invention consists of
screw and index appliances whereby the moving and accurate adjusting of the
bends and flats is ensured.
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
forming a part of this specification in which
Fig. 1. is a sectional elevation of part of carding engine, card flat, and adjusting
apparatus, whereby the bends and flats are set or adjusted.
Fig. 2. is a front elevation of Fig. 1. being view of part of the end of the
machine.
Fig. 3. is a side view shewing the several adjusting screws and dials and which
may be four or more in number.
At 1. is ahewn a card flat, its end rests upon the flexible bend 2, the weight of
the flats press the said bend firmly to the angled or inclined surface of the radius
"cone" 3, which by screw, nut, and locking pin 4.-5.-6. is secured to the screwed
bolt 7. so that the cone 3. may be drawn or moved upon the radius frame 8.
and the flexible bend 2. expanded or contracted, whereby the distance between
the cards 9a on the flats may be adjusted in relation to the cards 10a on the
cylinder 11.-On each of the screwed bolts 7. is an adjusting nut having an
indicating dial 9. attached to or forming part thereof, and at 10. is a pointer or
index finger attached to the frame of the machine.-12.-is a nut on the opposite
side of the bracket 13.
When the the adjustment of the bends and card is made-or required to be
altered or changed-the nuts 12. will be slacked and the dial nut 9. turned until
the distance between the cards 9a-10a is secured, whereon all the dial nuts must
be turned or set so that they read off or hold exactly the same position in relation
to their pointers 10. that is to say.-
If the dial nut by which one end of the bend is set, reads say 1.-5. then all the
dial nuts must be set 1.-5. and the outer nuts 12. are then to be tightened up and
there will be no back lash or play.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
The dials 9. nuts 9.-12. and brackets 13. all in combination as and operating in
manner and for purpose herein fully described.
The combination of the flexible bend 2. radius cone 3. screw 4. and adjusting and
holding nuts 9. and 12. brackets 13. and constructed as and for the purpose herein
fully described and illustrated by drawings annexed.
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.