A NEW METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR FEEDING WOOL AND OTHER TEXTILE AND FILAMENTOUS SUBSTANCES INTO CARDING, COMBING, AND OTHER MACHINES FOR TREATING SUCH SUBSTANCES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Goudchaux Alcan, of Chaumont, in the Empire
of France, Gentleman, Father and Administrator of Emile Alcan, late-
of King Street, in the City of London, Merchant, deceased, for the
Invention of "A NEW METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR FEEDING WOOL AND
OTHER TEXTILE AND FILAMENTOUS SUBSTANCES INTO CARDING, COMBING, AND
OTHER MACHINES FOR TREATING SUCH SUBSTANCES."-A communication
from abroad by Jean Sebastien Bolette, of Goffontaine, Cornesse
Belgium.
Sealed the 29th January 1864, and dated the 2nd September 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Emile Alcan at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 2nd
September 1863.
I, EMILE ALCAN, of King Street, in the City of London, Merchant, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW METHOD OF
AND APPARATUS FOR FEEDING WOOL AND OTHER TEXTILE AND FILAMENTOUS
SUBSTANCES INTO CARDING, COMBING, AND OTHER MACHINES FOR TREATING SUCH
SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
This new method consists in feeding the wool or other textile or filamentous
substance by means of an apparatus which consists of a case, with the appliances
hereafter stated, into which the substance, say, wool, is thrown. At the lower
part of this case there is an ordinary endless belt moving horizontally, and

page_text: which brings the wool against an inclined or vertical endless belt armed with
hooked teeth or blades; these blades carry up the wool to a height level with
the entrance into the carding engine or other machine to be fed. When the
wool reaches that level it is stripped by a roller furnished with teeth and with
leather, and is thrown by it upon a short endless belt which delivers it to the
carding engine or other machine. At the front of the short belt there is a
roller with teeth for the purpose of taking off any excess of wool raised by the
vertical belt and returning it into the case. The vertical belt is calculated to
bring up more wool than necessary to ensure a full supply to the short belt
and a regular and continuous feed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Goudchaux Alcan in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
2nd March 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GOUDCHAUX
ALCAN, of Chaumont, in the Empire of France, Gentleman, Father and
Administrator of Emile Alcan, late of King Street, in the City of London,
Merchant, deceased, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Goudchaux Alean, Her special licence that I, the said Goudchaux Alcan, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Goudchaux
Alcan, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A NEW METHOD OF
AND APPARATUS FOR FEEDING WOOL AND OTHER TEXTILE AND FILAMENTOUS
SUBSTANCES INTO CARDING, COMBING, AND OTHER MACHINES FOR TREATING SUCH
SUBSTANCES,"
," (communicated to the said Emile Alcan from abroad by Jean Sebas-
tien Bolette, of Goffontaine, Cornesse, Belgium,) upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Goudchaux Alcan, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed

page_text: in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Goudchaux Alcan, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof; reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say :-
This new method consists in feeding the wool or other textile or filamentous
substance by means of an apparatus which consists of a case, with the
appliances hereafter stated, into which the substance, say, wool, is thrown. At
the lower part of this case there is an ordinary endless belt moving horizontally,
and which brings the wool against an inclined or vertical endless belt, armed
with hooked teeth or blades; these blades carry up the wool. to a height level
with the entrance into the carding engine or other machine to be fed. When
the wool reaches that level it is stripped by a roller furnished with teeth and
with leather, and is thrown by it upon a short endless belt which delivers it to
the carding engine or other machine. At the front of the short belt there is a
roller with teeth for the purpose of taking off any excess of wool raised by the
vertical belt and returning it into the case: The vertical belt is calculated to
bring up more, wool than necessary to ensure a full supply to the short belt
and a regular and continuous feed.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a sectional elevation showing
apparatus arranged according to this Invention, and applied to feeding wool
to a carding engine. H is the case, at the lower part of which is an ordinary
endless belt G which brings the wool against an inclined or vertical endless
belt F formed, by preference, of metal laths attached to leather straps and armed
with hooked teeth or blades; a portion of this belt is shewn detached and on
an enlarged scale in face and edge views in Figure 2; the hooked teeth or
blades carry up the wool or other fibre to a height level with the entrance into
the carding engine or other machine to be fed. When the wool or other fibre
reaches that level it is stripped by the roller D (which is furnished with teeth
and with leather), and is thrown by it upon the short endless feeding belt B
which delivers the wool or other fibre through the opening or mouth-piece C
to the carding engine. At the front of the short belt B and of the belt F
there is a roller E with teeth for the purpose of taking off any excess of wool
raised by the belt F, and such excess is returned by the roller E into the case.
a is a plate hinged to the case, and raised and lowered as required by a
screw' b to regulate the thickness of the supply to the carding engine.
Figure 3 is a sectional elevation of apparatus also arranged according to this

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Instead of the roller
The
Invention, but slightly modified from that before described.
reference indicate corresponding. parts to those in Figure 1.
with teeth D. (Figure 1) a shaft c, having combs or blades d backed with leather
or other suitable yielding material e mounted on it, is employed. This instrument
acts as the roller D in Figure 1 to strip the wool from the belt F and to throw
it on to the belt B, and carries it through the mouth-piece. In place of the
roller with teeth E (Figure 1) blades fare fixed to a revolving shaft
shaft g is fitted in a block or bearing which is adjustable by means of a screw h
to any required position in a slot in the inside of the case H in order to
regulate the quantity of wool supplied by the belt F. In the apparatus,
Figure 3, the belt F is carried over three rollers in the manner shewn for the
purpose of submitting the wool or fibre to the action of the combs din a.more
inclined position. It will be observed that in each of the arrangements shewn
in the Drawings the wool or fibre which is taken up by the endless belt F is
stripped from it by a roller or revolving instrument having teeth or beaters,
and is thereby thrown loosely on to another endless belt which carries it into
the carding, combing, or other machine, and it is this which forms the important
feature of my Invention. ...
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is, the method
of and apparatus for feeding wool and other.textile and filamentous substances
into carding, combing, and other machines for treating such substances, as herein-
before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Goudchaux Alcan, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of February, One thousand eight