IMPROVED Machinery for PreparING WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES FOR FEEDING CARDING ENGINES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to David Horsfall, of Lockwood, Huddersfield,
in the County of York, Woollen Spinner, for the Invention of
"IMPROVED Machinery for PreparING WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
FOR FEEDING CARDING ENGINES."
Sealed the 7th October 1871, and dated the 11th April 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said David Horsfall at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th April 1871.
I, DAVID HORSFALL, of Lockwood, Huddersfield, in the County of
York, Woollen Spinner, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR PREPARING WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS
SUBSTANCES FOR FEEDING CARDING ENGINES," to be as follows:-
This improved machinery consists of a creeper or an endless apron
mounted in a frame which is hinged at one end so as to be capable of
oscillating, and to the other end of this frame is hinged another similar
oscillatory frame carrying two creepers or endless aprons, which are
so arranged that the two adjoining surfaces are parallel to each other
and capable of moving together in the same direction. This frame
is hinged to a travelling or reciprocatory carriage, or pair of traversing
and rotary rollers, which carriage is caused to reciprocate across another

page_text: creeper placed at right angles to the former. Wool or other fibrous
substances partly carded by the scribbler carding engine is received as
stripped from the doffer thereof by the first-named creeper in a sheet,
which is carried forward and delivered between two creepers which
deliver it to the pair of rollers, and they by their traversing and rotary
motion deliver it to the cross creeper in folds one upon another forming
a bat of suitable width equal to the width of the card clothing on the
cylinders of the carding engine intended to be fed therewith, and this
creeper again delivers the bat to a roller upon which it is wound, thus
forming a roll or lap thereof capable of being transferred to feed other
carding engines. The reciprocatory motion of this carriage is effected
by mangle motion or rack attached thereto operated by a toothed wheel
or a shaft receiving motion in any convenient manner from the scribbler
carding engine, and the travelling motion of the creepers and rotary
motion of the rollers is given by endless chains and toothed wheels or
similar means from the aforesaid shaft. By means of the two creepers
working together I am enabled to have them to oscillate equally on
both sides of the fulcrum or the part to which they are hinged on the
first creeper, and thereby to occupy less space at the end of the carding
engine for the formation of the bat than heretofore.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said David Horsfall in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 11th October 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DAVID
HORSFALL, of Lockwood, Huddersfield, in the County of York, Woollen 2
Spinner, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in tho thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give a
and grant unto me, the said David Horsfall, Her special licence that I,
the said David Horsfall, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said David Horsfall, my exccutors, adminis-
trators, 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, usc, excrcise, and vend,

page_text: within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR
PREPARING WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES FOR FEEDING CARDING ENGINES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said David Horsfall 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 in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said David Horsfall, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, and accompanying Sheet of Drawings (that
is to say) :-
:-
This improved machinery consists of a creeper or endless apron
mounted in a frame which is hinged at one end so as to be capable of
oscillating, and to the other end of this frame is hinged another similar
oscillatory frame carrying two creepers or endless aprons, which are so
arranged that the two adjoining surfaces are parallel to each other and
capable of moving together in the same direction. This frame is hinged
to a travelling or reciprocatory carriage or pair of traversing and rotary
rollers, which carriage is caused to reciprocate across another creeper
placed at right angles to the former. Wool or other fibrous substances
partly carded by the scribbler carding engine is received as stripped from
the doffer thereof by the first-named creeper in a sheet, which is carried
forward and delivered between the two creepers, which deliver it to the
pair of rollers, and they by their traversing and rotary motion deliver it
to the cross creeper in folds one upon another, forming a bat of suitable
width equal to the width of the card clothing on the cylinders of the
carding engine intended to be fed therewith, and this creeper again
delivers the bat to a roller, upon which it is wound, thus forming a roll
or lap thereof capable of being transferred to feed other carding engines.
The reciprocatory motion of this carriage is effected by mangle motion.
or rack attached thereto operated by a toothed wheel on a shaft receiving
motion in any convenient manner from the scribbler carding engine, and
the travelling motion of the creepers and rotary motion of the rollers is
given by endless chains and toothed wheels or similar means from the

page_text: aforesaid shaft. By means of the two creepers working together I am
enabled to have them to oscillate equally on both sides of the fulcrum
or the part to which they are hinged on the first creeper, and thereby to
occupy less space at the end of the carding engine for the formation of
the bat than heretofore.
In order that this Invention may be more clearly understood I have
herein given reference to an accompanying Sheet of Drawings illus-
trating the same, wherein Fig. 1 is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 is a front
clevation of such portions of a scribbler carding engine or machinery for
preparing wool or other fibrous substances for feeding other carding
engines.
A is the doffer cylinder mounted on the framing B, and C is the
doffing comb, cach receiving their motions from other parts of the engine
in the usual manner; D is the creeper or endless apron mounted in a
frame E, which is hinged at one end E' to the frame B so as to be
capable of oscillating thereon. To the other end of this frame E is
hinged (by one end) another frame F carrying two creepers G and G'.
The other end of the said frame F is mounted upon a carriage H, the
wheels I of which bear and run upon rails J. This carriage carries two
rollers K arranged to run upon or over another creeper L which is
placed at right angles to the creeper D, motion being given to these
rollers K by a cord K' passing around pullies fixed on the axes of the
said rollers and attached at each end to the frame M. Reciprocatory
travelling motion is given to the carriage H by means of a mangle
motion or chain N passing around toothed wheels fixed on the ends of
the shafts P and P', in which chain is a pin or stud R entering a slot
hole in the frame F, so that as the chain circulates the stud will pro-
duce reciprocatory motion of the carriage. The shaft P receives motion
by chain S from a shaft T, which by gear wheels T', T, and T receives
motion from the doffer cylinder. On the shaft T is a pulley U, which by
chain or cord U' and pulley U fixed on the shaft V gives motion to the
creeper D. On the shaft V is also another pulley V, which by chain or
cord V, pulley V, and spur gearing W gives motion to the two creepers
G and G' in the direction of the arrow. It will now be seen that as
the partly carded wool or other fibre is doffed from the cylinder A by
the comb C it is conveyed in a sheet or film upon the creeper D to and
passes in betwixt the creepers G and G¹ which convey and deliver it
to or upon the creeper L, the reciprocatory motion of the carriage H

page_text: traversing and laying it in folds thereon, and the rollers K press the said
folds together to produce adhesion thereof, thus forming a bat, which is
thence delivered to the rollers X and Y which form it into a roll Z. It
will also be observed that by the use of two creepers, as G and G³, the
carriage H can travel equally on both sides of the fulcrum or part to
which they are hinged on the end of the first creeper, whereby the
creeper L can be placed closer to the end of the scribbler carder, and
consequently to occupy less space than heretofore.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and shewn by
Drawings in what manner the same is to be performed or carried into
practical operation, I would have it fully understood that I make no
claim to any of the parts of the mechanism when separately considered,
or to the forming of a bat or roll of the partly carded fibre, nor do I
confine myself to the precise arrangement of machinery for the purpose
as herein shewn; but what I do claim as of my Invention is,―
Firstly. The application to and use in connection with a scribbler
carding engine of double creepers or the two creepers G and G¹ working
together for conducting the sheet or film of partly carded fibre from the
creeper D to the creeper Lou which it is to be folded to form a bat or
roll, as shewn and described.
Secondly. The general arrangement of mechanism or apparatus for
the purpose set forth in manner shewn by the Drawings and described
herein.
In witness whereof, I, the said David Horsfall, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventh day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
roll, as shewn and described.
Secondly. The general arrangement of mechanism or apparatus for
the purpose set forth in manner shewn by the Drawings and described
herein.
In witness whereof, I, the said David Horsfall, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventh day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within named David Horsfall, in
the presence of
Wч. TASKER,
Patent Agent,
DAVID HORSFALL. (L.S.)
Halifax & Bradford.