IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING CLOUDED, FLAKED, OR SPOTTED YARN
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Benjamin Norton, of the Firm of Norton Brothers and
Company, "Limited," of Nortonthorpe, near Huddersfield, in the County of
York, Manufacturers, and Crossley Turner, of the same Place, Yarn Manager,
for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF AND APPARATUS
FOR MAKING CLOUDED, FLAKED, OR SPOTTED YARN."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Benjamin Norton and
Crossley Turner at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
5th September 1881.
BENJAMIN NORTON, of the Firm of Norton Brothers and Company, " Limited,"
of Nortonthorpe, near Huddersfield, in the County of York, Manufacturers, and
CROSSLEY TURNER, of the same Place, Yarn Manager: "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING CLOUDED, FLAKED, OR SPOTTED YARN."
The object of this Invention is to produce clouded, flaked, or spotted yarn which
we accomplish by placing the variously color'd fibres on the swift of a carding
engine previous to being formed into a thread by the "rubbers." For this purpose
we employ a condensor bobbin having condenser threads thereon drawn off by
feed rollers through guide eyes or raddlers, and conveyed to the swift.
On the said swift we place an additional roller or stripper, having card teeth
thereon at intervals apart, so that as the said stripper revolves it tears or pulls a
piece off each condenser thread and deposits them on the swift piece by piece, and
they are carried around by the swift and blended or mixed with other fibre of a
different color, all of which are carried through the machine and finally rubbed
into one thread, producing clouded, Baked, or spotted yarn. In order to ensure
the condenser threads breaking off, a knife or bar is employed for the stripper to
strike against.
When it is required to produce clouded or spotted yarn composed of three colors,
an additional condenser thread and stripper are employed, the cards thereon being
so arranged that they shall place the fibre on the swift in consecutive order, one
color after another.
If the spots on the yarn are required to be placed nearer to or further from
each other, the stripper is caused to revolve quicker or slower, and so deposit the
fibre on the swift as required.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Benjamin Norton and Crossley Turner in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 4th March 1882.
BENJAMIN NORTON, of the Firm of Norton Brothers and Company, "Limited,"
of Nortonthorpe, near Huddersfield, in the County of York, Manufacturers, and
CROSSLEY TURNER, of the saine Place, Yarn Manager. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING CLOUDED, FLAKED, OR SPOTTED YARN."
The object of this Invention is to produce clouded, flaked, or spotted yarn,
which we accomplish by placing the variously color'd fibres onto a swift, and
applying it in conjunction with a carding engine previous to being formed into a
thread by the "rubbers." We also employ one or more condenser bobbins having
condenser threads thereon, which is drawn off by feed rollers through guide eyes
or raddlers and conveyed to the swift. On the additional swift we place a stripper
having card teeth thereon at intervals apart, so that as the said stripper revolves,
it tears or pulls pieces off the condenser thread and deposits them on the swift
piece by piece, and they are carried around thereby and placed on the doffer on
which is other fibre of a different color, all being carried through the machine and
finally rubbed into one thread, producing clouded, flaked, or spotted yarn. In
order to insure the condenser threads breaking off, a roller or bar is employed for
the stripper to strike against.
In order that our improvements may be better understood we herein give
reference to the accompanying Sheets of Drawings illustrative thereof, wherein
Fig. 1 is end elevation of so much of a carding machine as is necessary to shew
our improvements; Fig. 2 is plan view of same; Fig. 3 (Sheet 2) is a section
shewing the parts more clearly, and Fig. 4 is an opposite end view, to Fig. 1 to
shew the method of driving. A is the framing of the machine; B, the cylinder; C, the
doffer; D, the rubbers; and E, the condenser bobbins on to which the thread is
wound, all being arranged in the usual manner.
In order to carry out our Invention and produce clouded or spotted yarn, we
employ-suitable-framework_G-carrying additional condenser bobbins H and I,
surface drums J and K, and raddlers or guide eyes L and M. We also employ-a-
small swift N, strippers O and P, and feed rollers R and S for purposes hereinafter
explained. The swift N is provided with card teeth on the whole of its surface,
but when making spotted yarn the strippers have only one or more pieces of
card teeth on their surface, so that as they revolve they will deposit tufts or bits
of yarn on to the swift, which is carried forward thereby, and left on the doffer to
be mixed and blended with fibre of a different color.
In order to insure the stripper breaking or tearing off a piece of the thread, a
roller T (or a bar may be employed) is placed in such a position that the pieces of
card teeth on the strippers will strike against it, whereby a tuft is always broken
off. When clouded yarn is being made the strippers Ŏ and P are covered with
card teeth.
The action of the apparatus is as follows:-
The condenser bobbins H and I contain threads of different color to the fibre
passing through the machine, the threads pass through the guides L and M to the
feed rollers R and S, when a piece of such thread is torn off by the strippers and
deposited on the swift N which carries such pieces of thread and deposits them on
to the doffer C, where it becomes mixed with other fibre and carried to the
rubbers D to be rubbed into one thread and wound on the condenser bobbins E,
forming a clouded, flaked, or spotted thread. It will be seen that the Drawings
shew a construction of apparatus for making a clouded. or spotted yarn composed

page_text: of three colors; if however a yarn composed of only two colors is required, the same
color of material is placed upon both bobbins; or either one or other of condenser
bobbins H and I and its delivery rollers may be dispensed with.
The various rollers, doffers, and cylinders may be caused to revolve in their
several directions by several arrangements of driving gear; we have however shewn
in Fig. 4 an arrangement of driving which has been found in practice to answer.
very well. The swift N is driven by strap U, and through the intervention of
gear wheels and chain V the feed rollers are driven, and by bevil gearing W the
surface drums J and K are driven. If the spots on the yarn are required to be
placed nearer to or further from each other, the strippers are caused to revolve
quicker or slower, and so deposit the fibre on the swift as required.
Having now shewn and described the nature and particulars of our Invention
and shewn by Drawings how the same may be carried into practical effect, we
would have it understood that we do not limit nor confine ourselves to the exact
details herein set forth, as some of them may be varied without departing from
the main features of the Invention, but what we believe to be new and therefore
claim is,―
The general arrangement, substantially as herein shewn and described, for making
clouded, flaked, or spotted yarn.
In witness whereof, we, the said Benjamin Norton and Crossley Turner, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this First day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
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25 Witness,
THOMAS NORTON,
Nortonthorpe & Cuttlehurst Mills.
BENJAMIN NORTON. (L.S.)
CROSSLEY TURNER.
(L.S.)