IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO CARDING ENGINES
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Harry Marsden, of Huddersfield, in the County of
York, Woollen Scribler and Spinner, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
Sealed the 20th October 1864, and dated the 25th April 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Harry Marsden at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 25th
April 1864.
I, HARRY MARSDEN, of Huddersfield, in the County of York, Woollen
Scribler and Spinner, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention'
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO CARDING ENGINES," to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to means of preparing wool or other fibres for feeding
carding engines in a regular or uniform manner, so as to obtain yarn or
threads of equal thickness and strength, and the improvements consist in the
application of a creeper or travelling apron to the delivery end of the scribler
or first carding engine, to receive the wool or fibre as it is doffed therefrom,
and carry it forward in a film or sheet. Also, in constructing and applying a
carriage capable of traversing or reciprocating underneath the aforesaid

page_text: creeper to receive the sheet of wool or other fibre in layers thereon. The said
carriage is provided with gearing and rollers, to which intermittent rotary
motion is given, so as to wind laterally the several layers of fibre on to a
bobbin, thus forming a "lap" or roll, which is then transfered to the
feeding end of the second or other carding engines, whether clearer, carder, or
condenser.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Harry Marsden in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 24th
October 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HARRY
MARSDEN, of Huddersfield, in the County of York, Woollen Scribler and
Spinner, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Harry Marsden, Her special licence that I, the
said Harry Marsden, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Harry Marsden, my executors, administrators, 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, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO CARDING ENGINES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Harry Marsden, my executors or admini-
strators, 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 Harry Marsden, do hereby declaro
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and accompanying Sheet of Drawings (that is to say):-
This Invention relates to means of preparing wool or other fibres for feeding

page_text: carding engines in a regular or uniform manner, so as to obtain yarn or
threads of equal thickness and strength, and the improvements consist in the
application of a creeper or travelling apron to the delivery end of the scribbler
or first carding engine, to receive the wool or fibre as it is doffed therefrom,
and carry it forward in a film or sheet. Also, in constructing and applying a
carriage capable of traversing or reciprocating underneath the aforesaid
creeper to receive the sheet of wool or other fibre in layers thereon. The said
carriage is provided with gearing, to which intermittent rotary motion is
given, so as to wind laterally the several layers of fibre on to a bobbin, thus
forming a "lap" or roll, which is then transferred to the feeding end of
the second or other carding engine, whether clearer, carder, or condenser.
The manner in which this Invention is performed will be readily understood'
by reference to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a
side elevation of a part of the delivery end of a scribbler with my improve-
ments applied thereto; Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same; and Fig. 3, a
plan view.
A represents a portion of the scribbler frame; B, the doffer cylinder; and
C, the creeper or travelling apron, which receives the fibre and conducts it to
the traversing or reciprocating carriage D, which is mounted by wheels don
the rails E, fixed to the floor; F and G are two rollers, which have inter-
mittent rotary motion imparted to them through the medium of the train of
gearing H1, H3, H³, H, and H³, by the action of a ratchet wheel I and pawl
lever J, which are actuated by an inclined rail K. This ratchet and pawl
lever are shewn half full size at Figs. 4, 5, and 6. The first gear wheel H³ is
fixed on one end of a roller L, which carries one end of a creeper or travelling
apron M, which is carried at the other end by a roller N. The ratchet
wheel I is fixed on the other end of the roller L by which intermittent motion
is given to the creeper M simultaneously with the gearing H', wbich turns the
rollers F and G intermittently. These rollers may have an increased surface
speed given to them by changing the wheels H¹ and H for others of a
different relative number of teeth, and thereby produce a draught. O is the
ordinary crank shaft for working the doffing apparatus P, which is usually
placed underneath the end of the scribbler, but which I have removed and
placed as herein shewn, in order to allow the carriage to reciprocate or travel
to and fro underneath to receive the fibres from the creeper C, which
between the rollers Q and Q', thence under one or other of the rollers Q₁i
and Q to the creeper M, and by wbicli every layer or film of fibre is
pressed on the preceding layer, forming a compact sheet or web, which is
pass

page_text: drawn forward intermittently under a pressing roller M', and wound on a
roller or bobbin forming a lap or roll T, which is thence removed to feed a
carder, as herein-after explained. R is an endless rack or double-sided rack
fixed on the carriage in which works a pinion S receiving continuous rotary'
motion from the doffer cylinder, and drives the carriage backward and
forward, or causes it to reciprocate in and out under the carder to receive the
fibre. This pinion can be thrown out of gear with the doffer, so as to stop
the action of the carriage when desirable.
Fig. 7 is a sectional view of the feeding end of a carder or second carding
engine, shewing the manner in which I apply the lap or roll T after it has
been formed, as previously described. The lap rests upon a creeper, which is
driven by the chain U, acting on the roller V in the direction of the arrow,
which causes a slackness or curvature on the upper part of the creeper,
forming a recess or hollow in which the "lap" rests, thus giving a great
extent of surface bearing and support to the lap, and thereby effecting or
producing a regular feed of fibre to the carder.
It will be evident that an endless apron or creeper placed upon two rollers
so as to allow a slackness, as described, may be used in the formation of laps
instead of the drum surfaces, if found desirable.
This apparatus and means of preparing fibre and mode of feeding may be
applied to any kind of carding engine, as will be readily understood by those
conversant with the working of carding engines. Also, it will be observed
that very little additional room is required more than in hand feeding, and the
laps thus made may be taken to feed or supply any carder or condenser of the
same width or double width with bobbins.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is or may be performed or put into practical effect, I would
have it understood that I do not confine myself to the precise details of
construction or arrangement of the parts or apparatus herein set forth; but
what I consider new and claim as of my Invention is,-
Firstly, the combination and arrangement of mechanism or apparatus
and mode of application thereof, for the purposes set forth, substantially
as herein described and illustrated by the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
Secondly, the construction and application of a carriage capable of traversing
or reciprocating under the delivery end of a scribbler to receive carded fibre
therefrom, and form it into a "lap" or roll.
Thirdly, the method of forming a lap or roll by the friction of two or more
drum surfaces, or the concave surface of a creeper or endless apron.

page_text: Fourthly, the peculiar arrangement and application to a scribbler of a
creeper and delivery rollers in combination with a traversing carriage, as
herein shewn and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Harry Marsden, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of October, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-four.
HARRY MARSDEN. (L.B.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered
by tho within-named Harry
Marsden in the presence of
THOMAS HOWARD BLAMIRES.