An Appliance for Cleaning Hackle Pins while in Motion on Machines for Hackling Flax or other Fibres.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 24th May, 1889-Accepted, 29th June, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
'An Appliance for Cleaning Hackle Pins while in Motion on
Machines for Hackling Flax or other Fibres.
JAMES GORDON of 41 Bridge Street Ballymena County Antrim Ireland Mill
Manager do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The hackle pins employed in machines for hackling flax are liable to become
coated with dirt'especially the fine hackles and when working gummy material which
causes the dirt to adhere to the pins thus destroying their efficiency and making the
hackles more difficult to strip of tow. The object of this invention is to prevent this
coating of the pins and to keep them in good working condition.
This object is attained by causing the pins while in motion to pass through
stationary metallic brushes made of wire of suitable thickness to pass between the
hackle pins as they move. The wires of which the brushes are made are set at a
convenient angle to the pins so that as the pins approach the fixed metallic brushes
they do so with the points of the pins in advance so the wires of the fixed brushes
pass readily between the pins the rubbing of the surfaces of the pins and the.
metallic brushes effectually preventing the pins from becoming coated with dirt and
so the working of the machines is improved.
Dated this 12th dort of Santa 1888
JAMES GORDON,
41, Bridge Street, Ballymena, Co. Antrim, Ireland.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance for Cleaning Hackle Pins while in Motion on
Machines for Hackling Flax or other Fibres.
JAMES GORDON of 41 Bridge Street Ballymena County Antrim Ireland Mill
Manager 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:-
The hackle pins employed in machines for hackling flax are liable to become coated
with dirt especially the fine hackles and when working gummy material which causes
the dirt to adhere to the pins thus destroying their effeciency and making the hackles
more difficult to strip of tow.
The object of this invention is to prevent this coating of the pins and to keep
them in good working condition..
The means whereby this object is attained will be understood by reference to the
drawing along with the following description the same letters. of reference being
employed to indicate like parts.
Fig. 1 is a sectional view of so much of an ordinary vertical sheet intersecting
brush and doffer hackling machine as is necessary to explain the appliance I have
invented.
Figs. 2 and 3 are enlarged sectional views of the metallic brushes employed.
The object of this invention is attained by causing the hackle pins (a) while in
motion to pass through stationary metallic brushes (6) made of wire of a suitable
thickness to pass between the hackle pins (a) as they move round the rollers (c) which
carry them.
The wires of which the brushes (b) are made are set at a convenient angle to the
pins (a) either by using bent wires as in Figs. 1 and 2 which I prefer or straight
wires fixed at a suitable angle as in Fig. 3 so that as the hackle pins approach the
fixed metallic brushes (b) they do so with the points of the pins (a) in advance so the

page_text: wires of the fixed brushes (b) pass readily between the pins (a). The rubbing of the
surfaces of the pins (a) and the metallic brushes (b) effectually preventing the hackle
pins (a) from becoming coated, with dirt and so the working of the machines is
improved by this simple and effective.appliance:s
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the samer is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The application-tor hackling machines of stationary metallic brushes through which.
the hackle pins pass for the purpose, of keeping the hackleapins clean as described.
Dated this 22nd day of May, 1889.1
JAMES GORDON..