Improvements in Gill Boxes for Preparing Wool and other Fibre.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Mar., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 11th Jan., 1898-Accepted, 12th Feb., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gill Boxes for Preparing Wool and other Fibre.
We, JOHN TYNE THORNTON, of Paddock, near Huddersfield, Yorkshire, Oil
Merchant, and ADAM JESSOP KILNER, of No. 221, Pellon Lane, Halifax, Yorkshire,
aforesaid, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to gill boxes employed in preparing wool and other fibre.
In this class of machine a number of "fallers" are used which by means of two
sets of screws are worked backwards and forwards, the gills or pins in the "fallers"
traversing through the fibre whereby it is dressed or combed.
According to our invention we dispense with these "fallers" and use instead
thereof a horizontal revolving roller or comb, the teeth of the said comb passing
through the fibre whereby the said fibre is lashed out and combed. In order to
keep the teeth of the revolving roller free from loose fibre it may revolve in contact
with a brush. By means of our invention, the construction of the machine is
very much simplified and the cost considerably reduced.
Dated this 10th day of March 1897.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gill Boxes for Preparing Wool and other Fibre.
We, JOHN TYNE THORNTON, of Paddock, near Huddersfield, Yorkshire, Oil
Merchant, and ADAM JESSOP KILNER, of No. 221, Pellon Lane, Halifax, Yorkshire,
aforesaid, Engineer, 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 gill boxes employed in preparing wool and other fibre.
In the class of machine referred to a number of "fallers" are used which, by
means of two sets of screws, are worked backwards and forwards, the gills or pins
in the "fallers" traversing during their forward movement through the fibre
whereby it is combed and straightened.
According to our invention we dispense with such "fallers" and instead thereof
employ a horizontal revolving roller or comb, the teeth of the said comb being at an
angle to its axis and are passed and worked through the fibre as the latter is fed
and passes through the machine whereby the said fibre is combed and straightened.
In order to keep the teeth of the revolving roller comb free from loose fibre it
may revolve in contact with a bṛush.

page_text: Our invention will be fully understood by reference to the annexed drawing
forming a part of this specification, in which:-
Fig. 1 is cross section of such parts as are necessary to shew the application of
our invention; and Fig. 2 is longitudinal elevation of the horizontal spiked roller
or comb we intend to employ in carrying out our invention.
Referring to the drawings letter A represents a horizontal roller, shaft or cylinder
comb having on its periphery inclined pins or gills a arranged at suitable intervals
apart. The said roller comb occupies a position intermediate of the feeding
rollers B and the drawing rollers C and is supported at a suitable height in relation
to the rollers B, B, to admit of the teeth or pins a piercing the sliver as it is fed
by the rollers B to the rollers C the roller A revolving in the direction in which
the sliver is fed through the machine as indicated by arrow.
The inclination of the teeth or pins a ensures their leaving the sliver gradually
and without displacement of the fibres. The said roller comb A can be employed
in any description of gill box or like machine for preparing slivers of wool and
other fibres and its speed can be regulated to suit the "draught," and class of fibres
to be prepared, with the same ease and accuracy as in the case of the ordinary
"fallers" whose place the said roller takes."
In order to keep the teeth of the revolving roller comb free from loose fibre we
employ a rotating brush or wiper D which is driven in the same direction as the
comb A.
By means of our invention, the construction and working of the machine is very
much simplified and the cost considerably reduced.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
Firstly. The general construction arrangement and combination of parts illus-
trated by Fig. 1 of the drawings annexed and herein fully described.
Secondly. The parts A, D, C, in combination and as illustrated and described.
Thirdly. In a gill box, a revolving horizontal roller or comb and a brush or
wiper revolving in contact with the said roller for clearing or removing the loose
fibres from the pins arranged substantially as herein shewn and described.
Dated this 10th day of January 1898.
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Patent Agents.