Improvements in or relating to Carding Machinery.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 18th July, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 8th Apr., 1892-Accepted, 14th May, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Carding Machinery.
I, WILLIAM SCOTT Jr., of Mid Wynd Works, Mid Wynd, Dundee, in the
County of Forfar, N.B., Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to carding machines, employed in the preparation of textile
materials, and is specially adapted for use in connection with machines for carding
jute; although I do not by any means confine myself exclusively to these, as the
details of my invention may be modified to suit other carding machines, such as
those used in the treatment of cotton, or the like.
The object of my invention is to automatically pass the material under preparation
from the one machine to the other.
In carding jute, it is usual to pass the fibre in the first place through what is
termed a "breaker" card, and then through a "finisher," the sliver being conveyed
from the one machine to the other by attendants.
In carrying out my invention, I place the feed cloth of the "finisher" in such a
position as to enable the "breaker," by means of a lapping or faking board, to
deposit the sliver on the said feed cloth in folds.
Dated this 17th day of July 1891.
GEO. C. DOUGLAS & Co.,
Applicant's Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Carding Machinery.
I, WILLIAM SCOTT Jr., of Mid Wynd Works, Mid Wynd, Dundee, in the
County of Forfar, N:B., 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 carding machines, employed in the preparation of textile
materials, and is specially adapted for use in connection with machines for carding
jute; although I do not by any means confine myself exclusively to these, as the
details of my invention may be modified to suit other carding machines, such as
those used in the treatment of cotton, or the like.
The object of my invention is to automatically pass the material under prepara-
tion from the one machine to the other.
In carding jute, it is usual to pass the fibre in the first place through what is
termed a "breaker" card, and then through a "finisher," the sliver being conveyed
from the one machine to the other by attendants.
The accompanying sheets of explanatory drawings illustrate the method of
carrying out my invention.
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Figure 1. (Sheet No. 1.) represents a sectional elevation at A. A. (Sheet No. 2.),
and Figure 2. (Sheet No. 2.) a plan shewing part views of the "breaker
"finisher" cards fitted with my improvements.
Figures 3. and 4. (Sheet No. 3.) represent respectively a sectional elevation and
a plan of a modified apparatus for laying the sliver.
In these drawings the same reference numerals are used to mark the same or like
parts wherever they are repeated.
In carrying out my invention, I place the feed cloth 5. of the "finisher" 6. in
uch a position as to enable the "breaker
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7, by means of a lapping or faking

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board 8, to deposit the sliver 9. on the said feed cloth 5. in folds, or sheets.
the "breaker" delivery roller, 11. cams made to rotate by means of the system of
spur wheels 12. in connection with the delivery roller, and at such a speed as to
cause the point 13. of the faking board to move at the same velocity as the surface
speed of the delivery roller 10. The feed cloth 5. of the "finisher" is made to
move at the required velocity by the system of wheels 14. driven from the feed
roller 15. 16. is a pressing roller for laying the sliver, also driven from the feed
roller by means of the rope 17. and the pulleys 18. and 19. 20. is another modifica-
tion which may be used instead of the pressing roller 16. for laying the sliver, it
being actuated by a pusher 21. attached to the extremity of the lapping board 8,
and a lever 22. on the shaft 23. 20. is counterbalanced by the weights 24. acting
through the pulleys 25.
The apparatus is used in the following manner :-
The sliver is delivered from the "breaker" 7. by means of the delivery roller 10.
and allowed to pass or slide down upon the lapping board 8, the said board being
made to vibrate about the pivot 26. by means of the cams 11. in this manner
depositing the sliver on the feed cloth 5, as shown. The feed cloth moving in the
direction of the arrows, carries the sliver under the pressing roller 16. and from
thence to the feed roller 15. of the "finisher." Instead of using the pressing
roller 16. the laying board 20. may be made to flatten the sliver at the proper
time.
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 what I
claim is :-
(1) In carding machinery, the employment of the lapping or faking board 8. and
its appurtenances, the parts being combined and arranged as hereinbefore described,
with reference to Figures 1. and 2. of the accompanying drawings.
(2) In carding machinery, the employment of the lapping or faking board 8, and
its appurtenances, the parts being combined and arranged as hereinbefore described,
with reference to Figures 1. 3. and 4. of the accompanying drawings.
GEO. C. DOUGLAS & Co.,
41, Reform Street, Dundee, Agents for Applicant.
GEO. C. DOUGLAS & Co.,
41, Reform Street, Dundee, Agents for Applicant.