Improvements in and relating to Bale Breakers and other Machines for Opening Cotton and other Fibres.
Year: 1898

page_text: Improvements in and relating to Bale Breakers and other Machines
for Opening Cotton and other Fibres.
We, ASA LEES AND COMPANY LIMITED Muchinists, of Soho Iron Works, Oldham,
in the County of Lancaster, and ROBERT TAYLOR, Junior, Engineer, and THOMAS
BOSWORTH, Foreman of the Scutcher Department, both of the same address, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to bale breakers and other machines for opening cotton
and other fibres and consists principally in improved means for feeding cotton
packed in cylindrical bales on to a bale breaker or other opening machine.
In carrying our invention into effect we fit an inclined feed lattice to the feel
apron of a bale breaker or opening or scutching machine or we might adjust and
set the ordinary feed lattice so that it would form the inclined lattice; close to the
bottom of the inclined lattice we fit a roller or it might be several rollers placed
horizontally and drive it or them in the same direction as the inclined lattice, or
instead of these rollers a horizontal lattice could be employed. The cylindrical
bales after their wrappers have been removed are mounted upon axles guided in
slots in the machine frame, and placed upon the rollers or horizontal lattice, by
the movement of which the cylindrical bales are rotated and the cotton as it is
unwound is carried forward up the inclined lattice to the bale breaker or directly
into an opening or scutching machine. In the case of a single bale the axle may
be dispensed with and only one roller with the inclined lattice need be employed.
We also propose to place a feed regulator or regulating apparatus between the
inclined lattice and the rollers of the bale breaker and to pass the cotton from the
breaking machine directly on to the feed apron or equivalent part of an exhaust
opener or scutcher; or exhaust cages and other lap mechanism might be attached
to the bale breaker so that the cotton would be formed in a lap on the bale breaker.
When applied to a bale breaker the inclined lattice might be set at a right angle
or other suitable angle to the feed apron, this is desirable in cases in which the
cylindrical bale is wider than the working parts of the machine and when the
cotton has to be delivered on to a mixing the feed regulator would not be
required.
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15th day of January 1898.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT.
Agents for Applicants, 17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.

page_text: Improvements in and relating to Bale Breakers and other Machines
for Opening Cotton and other Fibres.
We, ASA LEES AND COMPANY, LIMITED, Machinists, of Soho Iron Works, Oldham,
in the County of Lancaster, and ROBERT TAYLOR, Junior, Engineer, and THOMAS
BOSWORTH, Foreman of the Scutcher Department, both of the same address, 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;-
Our invention relates to bale breakers and other machines for opening cotion
and other fibres and consists principally in improved means for feeding cotton
packed in cylindrical bales on to a bale breaker or other opening machine.
In carrying our invention into effect we fit an inclined feed lattice to the feed
apron of a bale breaker or opening or scutching machine or we might adjust and
set the ordinary feed lattice so that it would form the inclined lattice; close to the
bottom of the inclined lattice we fit a roller or it might be several rollers placed
horizontally and drive it or them in the same direction as the inclined lattice, or
instead of these rollers a horizontal lattice could be employed. The cylindrical
bales after their wrappers have been removed are mounted upon axles guided in
slots in the machine frame, and placed upon the rollers or horizontal lattice, by
the movement of which the cylindrical bales are rotated and the cotton as it is
unwound is carried forward up the inclined lattice to the bale breaker or directly
into an opening or scutching machine.
In the accompanying four sheets of drawings-
:
Figure 1 is a side elevation and Figure 2 a plan of mechanism for feeding cotton
from cylindrical bales on to a bale breaker or other opening machine. Figures 3
and 4 are similar views to Figs. 1 and 2 respectively of an alternative arrangement.
In Figures 1 and 2 we show our feed mechanism applied to the travelling feed
apron 1 of a bale breaker A or it might be of an opening or scutching machine.
Near the lower end of the apron 1 we arrange a series of rollers 2 supported horizon-
tally and free to rotate in bearings in a frame 3. These rollers 2 support a lattice 4
which is driven from the pulley 5 on the roller shaft of the feed apron 1 by a belt (i,.
pulley 7 and gears 8 and 9 or by any other convenient arrangement of driving
gear. The cylindrical bales 10 are mounted on axles 11 which are guided in slots
formed in plates or brackets 12 preferably hinged to the frame 3 for convenience
in placing the bales in position on the travelling lattice 4 by the movement of
which the cylindrical bales 10 are rotated and the cotton as it is unwound is carried
forward up the feed apron 1 and delivered to the bale breaker A or directly into
an opening or scutching machine.
In the case of a single bale 10 its axle 11 and the lattice 4 may be dispensed
with and only a single roller 2 be employed placed near the lower end of the
travelling feed apron 1 which together with the roller 2 supports the bale and
unwinds it as described.
We may if desired place a feed regulator or regulating apparatus between the
feed apron 1, and the rollers of the bale breaker A and pass the cotton from the
breaking machine directly on to the feed apron or equivalent part of an exhaust
opener or scutcher; or exhaust cages and other lap mechanism might be attached
to the bale breaker A. so that the cotton would be formed in a lap on the bale
breaker. When the cotton has to be delivered on to a "mixing" the feed regulator
would not be required.
When applied, as shown in Figures 3 and 4 to a bale breaker A the feed apron 1
of which is narrower than the cylindrical bale 10 we set an inclined travelling

page_text: feed lattice 13 at a convenient angle to the feed apron 1 and drive this lattice 13
as well as the horizontal lattice 4 by the means indicated on the drawings or by
any other convenient arrangement of driving gear.
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;-
-
1. The combination with a bale breaker, of mechanism for unwinding a
cylindrical bale or bales and delivering the cotton to such machine.
2. The combinations and arrangements of mechanism herein described and illus-
trated for unwinding a cylindrical bale or bales and delivering the cotton to a bale
breaker.
Tuted this 15th Jove of Út 1800
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants, 17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.