Improvements in Clearers used on Machines for Spinning Cotton and other Fibrous Materials.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application; 12th July, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 13th Apr., 1895-Accepted, 18th May, 1825
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clearers used on Machines for Spinning Cotton
and other Fibrous Materials.
I, GEORGE PALEY, Cotton Spinner, Bank Top Mills, Preston do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The ordinary forms of clearers used for clearing the under rollers are made of a
triangular shape having the two sides, which are held against the corresponding
sides of the bottom rollers, slightly concave and are held in place by weights from
which strings are passed over the rollers in front.
No. 1. My improved clearer is made preferably in a square form having the
sides concave by preference and I so arrange the means of support and carriage
that the clearers may be reversed-thus presenting a new and clean portion of the
same to each of the surfaces of the under rollers and allowing the waste to be
picked off without stopping the machine.
No. 2. With the under clearers now used waste is constantly collecting between
the bottom rollers in the space above the under clearers; this I prevent by filling
up the space named with wood or other suitable material shaped to the required
form and configuration.
Dated this 11th dow of Tul. 1904
GEORGE PALEY.
Improvements in Clearers used on Machines for Spinning Cotton
and other Fibrous Materials.
I, GEORGE PALEY Cotton Spinner Bank Top Mills Preston, 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:-
The ordinary forms of clearers used for clearing the under rollers are made of a
triangular shape, having the two sides, which are held against the corresponding
sides, of the bottom rollers, slightly concave and covered with flannel. They are
held in place by weights from which strings are passed over the rollers in front.
No. 1. My improved clearer is made preferably in a square form having the
sides concave by preference and I so arrange the means of support and carriage
that the clearers may be reversed, thus presenting a new and clean portion of the
same to each of the surfaces of the under rollers and allowing the waste to be
picked off without stopping the machine.
No. 2. With the under clearers now used waste is constantly collecting between
the bottom rollers in the space above the under clearers, this I prevent by filling
up the space named with wood or other suitable material shaped to the required
form and configuration.
The nature of my said invention and the manner in which the same is to be
performed or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference
to the drawings hereunto annexed and the following explanation thereof.

page_text: Fig. 1. on the drawings is a sectional end elevation showing my improved
clearers as applied to a drawing frame.
Fig 2. shows a side elevation of the upper clearer illustrating the means of
support and adjustment.
As shown on Fig. 1. A A A A represent the under corrugated or fluted rollers
of a drawing frame, B B B B are the top rollers ordinarily covered with flannel
and leather, C. C. are my improved under clearers inade of wood or other suitable
material preferably of the shape shown being of a square triangular or similar
form with hollow or concave sides which are covered with flannel or other suitable
material. They are supported and carried at each end by the hook F, to which
the weight D is attached by means of the string E. The hook F allows the
screw G and with it the clearer to be easily rotated.
This arrangement may be varied by making the ends of the under clearers round
and carrying or fixing the string from the weight D round such circumference.
Through being arranged as above described the clearers C can be easily moved
round or reversed and clean surfaces be presented to the under corrugated rollers
and the waste collected can be removed by the attendant from the portions of the
clearers exposed. H H H are the upper clearers and are shown also in Fig. 2.
I make them preferably of wood and they are carried and regulated by the nut or
washer L and the threaded wire M which engages with and is screwed into a small
brass projection fixed at each end as shown at K Fig. 2, the nut or washer L is
carried by and between the two roller stands as shown; of course other means of
support and carriage may be used.
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
The peculiar construction of each of the clearers as hercinbefore set forth and
represented on the drawings annexed.
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