Improvements in Hand Strickle Card Grinders.
Year: 1898

page_text: Improvements in Hand Strickle Card Grinders.
I, JOHN SYKES, of Acre Mills, Lindley, Huddersfield, in the County of York,
Card Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in appliances for cylinder grinding and
pointing card teeth, the appliance consisting of a hand tool comprising two or
more horizontal strips of consolidated emery having cross or transverse V shaped
or angular recesses formed along their length, and of a metallic holding device
for securing the said emery strips in position on the block or base of the grinder.
According to this invention two or more longitudinal strips of consolidated emery
are made so that their surfaces consist of continuous V or angular recesses,
the backs of such strips being widened out or bevelled so as to form a dovetail. The
strips are passed endwise into metal holders of corresponding section so that the
emery strips are secured in the metallic strips, the latter being secured by screws
to a base block provided with handles, the whole forming a strickle grinder, which
when applied, the inclined sides of the emery spaces operate upon and grind the
two sides of the wire, and the bottom of the V spaces grind the points of the
wire.
The strickle grinder may comprise any number of such consolidated V spaced
strips and they may be arranged and spaced upon a flat faced, convex, or concave
carrying block.
Improvements in Hand Strickle Card Grinders.
I, JOHN SYKES; of Acre Mills, Lindley, Huddersfield, in the County of York,
Card Manufacturer, 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 improvements in appliances for cylinder grinding and
pointing card teeth, the appliance consisting of a hand tool comprising two or
more horizontal strips of consolidated emery having cross or transverse V shaped
or angular recesses formed along their length, and of a metallic holding device
for securing the said emery strips in position on the block or base of the grinder.

page_text: 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,
in which:-
Fig. 1 is a view in elevation of the improved hand strickle.
Fig. 2 is a plan view of the under side of the strickle.
Fig. 3 is an end view of the strickle.
According to this invention the improved hand strickle consists of a wooden
base block provided with loops or handles 2 preferably made of leather or other
pliable substance. The underside or face of the strickle is preferably slightly
convex and has. two, three, or more strips of consolidated emery 3 secured thereto,
the strips 3 being in cross section of dovetail shape and are received in dovetail
recesses 4 formed by strips of metal 5, 5 screwed to the face of the base block 1,
said strips 5, 5 having slightly bevelled edges in order to constitute the dovetail
recess 4, 4.
The face of each emery strip 3 is formed like a toothed rack by having con-
tinuous or angular shaped recesses formed therein (see Fig. 1) and the inclined
edges of such teeth or spaces operate upon and grind the two sides of the wires,
dents, or teeth of the cards upon the cylinder when the strickle is applied thereto
in the ordinary manner.
The strickle grinder may comprise any number of such consolidated V spaced
strips 3 and they may be arranged and spaced upon a flat faced, convex, or.concave
carrying block 1.
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 improved hand strickle as herein described and substantially as illustrated
by the annexed drawings.