Improvements in Scribblers or Carding Engines for Carding Fibres.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 24th Dec., 1894-—Accepted, 26th Jan., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Scribblers or Carding Engines for Carding Fibres.
I, JOHN HAIGH of the Firm of John Haigh and Sons, Limited, Priest Royd
Iron Works, Huddersfield in the County of York, General Machinists, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to, and has for its object improvements in machines for
carding wool, cotton, and other like fibres.
According to this my invention, the surface of the swift is wholly enclosed by
workers nearly to the doffer and in the angle between the junction of the swift and
doffer is an angle roller.
To admit of such combination of parts the fancy or cleaning roller is applied to
the under diameter of the swift.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Scribblers or Carding Engines for Carding Fibres.
I, JOHN HAIGH, of the Firm of John Haigh and Sons, Limited, Priest Royd
Iron Works, Huddersfield, in the County of York, General Machinist, 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, and has for its object improvements in scribblers or
machines for carding wool, cotton, and other like fibres.
According to this invention, the surface of each swift is wholly enclosed by
workers, or workers and strippers nearly to the doffer, and in the angle between
the junction of the swift and doffer is an angle roller.
To admit of such combination of parts, the fancy or cleaning roller is applied to
the under diameter of the swift.
Such being the nature and object of my said invention, the following is a
complete description of same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing,
in which :-
Fig. 1 is a sectional side elevation of a carder constructed according to my said
invention.
According to this invention, the upper half of the swift 1 is entirely enclosed by
workers 2, 2, or workers and strippers, the last worker being in close proximity to
the doffer 3. In the angles formed by the swift 1 and doffer 3 are the angle
rollers 4. 4, and an angle roller 5 is placed between the licker in 6 and the swift 1.
The fancy or cleaning roller 7 is placed under the swift 1, so as to be entirely
out of the way of the workers 2 and doffer 3. A second fancy or cleaner 8
may be placed under the swift 1, and between each fancy 7, 8 and the swift 1 is the
stripper 9.

page_text: The fibre to be operated upon is fed onto the sheets 10, and by the feed rollers 11,
licker in 6, and angle roller 5, delivered onto the swift 1, after which it passes
round the latter, and is operated upon by the workers 2, 2, or workers and strippers,
in the ordinary manner, and delivered onto the doffer 3.
It will be seen that the fibre when passing from the feed end of the machine to
the doffer, will be effectually cleansed and straightened and delivered onto the
doffer 3, without coming near the fancys 7, 8, so that the latter have practically no
connection with the fibre, and are consequently efficient in their cleaning action of
the swift. What little fibre is removed by the fancys 7, 8 is laid by the
strippers 9. 9 onto the swift 1, to be again operated upon.
The several parts are driven and operated by any of the ordinary and well
known means.
The improved combination of parts herein set out may be applied to one or more
swifts or cylinders.
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 I am
aware that swifts with workers, or workers and strippers, arranged around them
as herein described, are not new, and to such I lay no special claim, but what I
claim is :-
(1.) In scribblers or carding engines, the construction, arrangement, and com-
bination of a cylinder or swift, around the upper half of which are the workers, or
workers and strippers, the fancy roller or rollers being at the under part of the
swift or cylinder, between the licker in and the doffer, as herein described and
substantially as illustrated by the annexed drawing.
(2.) The cylinder or swift 1, workers 2, 2 or workers and strippers, fancy roller
or rollers 7, 8, angle rollers 4. 4, and stripper or strippers 9. 9 all arranged and in
combination as herein described, and illustrated by the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 22nd day of December 1894.
JOHN HAIGH,
By his Agents, Brierley & Howard,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax.