Improvements in Mechanical Feeders for Openers or Scutchers for Cotton and other Fibrous Materials
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 4th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 6th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Mechanical Feeders for Openers or Scutchers for
Cotton and other Fibrous Materials.
I JOSEPH HIGGINSON the Younger of No. 9 Wharf Street Ancoats,
Manchester in the County of Lancaster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the construction of that class of
mechanical feeders for cotton opening machinery which consists of a hopper or
other receptacle in which works a spiked lattice, the fibres being taken by a doffing
roller from the lattice and fed onto a shoot and thence to a creeper leading to the
opener or scutcher, the superfluous fibre being taken away and returned into the
hopper by a spiked roller (or lattice) at the back of the feeding lattice and at
the upper end thereof and consists first in using the spiked lattice to take the
superfluous fibre or overflow from the hopper either with or without rollers to
throw it onto the said lattice; the latter being provided beneath with one or more
rollers or supports to carry it and prevent it from bulging from the straight line.
Secondly in placing the beater in such a position with reference to the spiked
lattice that it will throw the superfluous fibre or overflow onto or over the spiked
roller. In the latter case a guard will be required above the said roller.
Thirdly in so placing and arranging the beater which strips the spiked lattice that
it will strip the spiked roller also.
Fourthly in providing a roller to assist the main beater above the spiked
roller to return the overflow, at the same time that it may strip the spiked roller.
Fifthly when the feed hopper is fitted with an adjustable plate, in providing
the same with a graduated index plate to show the exact position of the
adjustable plate.
Sixthly in making the rollers or bowls which carry the endless spiked lattice
with circumferential grooves or recesses to carry the endless leather bands or
straps so that both the straps and the canvas backing of the lattice will run in
actual contact with the surface of the rollers or bowls.
Dated this 2nd day of December 1893.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Mechanical Feeders for Openers or Scutchers for
Cotton and other Fibrous Materials.
I JOSEPH HIGGINSON the Younger of No. 9 Wharf Street Ancoats
Manchester in the County of Lancaster, Engineer, 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:-
:―
This invention relates to improvements in the construction of that class of
mechanical feeders for cotton opening machinery which consists of a hopper or
other receptacle in which works a spiked lattice, the fibres being taken by a doffing
roller from the lattice and fed onto à shoot and thence to a creeper leading to the
opener or scutcher, the superfluous fibre being taken away and returned into the

page_text: hopper by a spiked roller (or a lattice) at the back of the feeding lattice and at
the upper end thereof, and my invention consists first in using the spiked lattice to
take the superfluous fibre, or overHow from the hopper, either with or without
rollers to throw it onto the said lattice; the latter being, if necessary, provided
beneath with one or more rollers or supports to carry it and prevent it from bulging
from the straight line.
My invention will be clearly understood from the following description on
reference to the accompanying drawing which is a sectional elevation of a
mechanical feeder constructed according to my invention.
a is the hopper, the spiked lattice, c the creeper leading to the opener or
scutcher, d the doffing roller for removing the fibres from the spiked lattice.b.
e e¹ is the feed box or shoot kept full of fibre by the doffing roller and supplying
the said creeper c with the fibre.
As before stated, the invention consists in using the spiked lattice b to take the
superfluous fibre or overflow from the hopper, as it accumulates above the said
feed-box or shoot ee'. This I effect either by the assistance of a roller (or
rollers) to throw the cotton or other fibre upon the spiked lattice b (as shown on
the drawings), or the roller may be dispensed with and the fibres as they accumulate
above the edge of the plate e will fall down the incline g to the said lattice b,
which will return the said fibres into the hopper a.
I prefer however to make use of the roller f to throw the cotton or other fibres
upon the lattice & the said roller revolving in the direction shown by the arrow
thereon.
I would here remark that whereas in my Provisional Specification I described
various other parts of the machine which I considered parts of my invention I
have since found them not sufficiently useful or not sufficiently novel to make
special claim thereto and I therefore omit them from the present Specification.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manuer the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The use substantially as herein before described of the spiked lattice to take
away the overflow or superfluous fibre coming from the hopper as it accumulates
above the feed box or shoot and return it to the said hopper.
Dated this 3rd day of September 1894.
4,
GEO. DAVIES. & SON,
St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.