IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FEEDING WOOL, COTTON, OR OTHER PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION FIBROUS MATERIALS TO CARDING OR OTHER MACHINES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry James Hogg King, of Glasgow, in the
County of Lanark, North Britain, Engineer, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FEEDING WOOL, COTTON, OR OTHER
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry James Hogg
King at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 9th March 1871.
I, HENRY JAMES HOGG KING, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
North Britain, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FEEDING WOOL, COTTON, OR OTHER
FIBROUS MATERIALS TO CARDING OR OTHER MACHINES," to be as follows, that is
to say :-
This Invention relates in part to what is known as Evans and King's
"first feed" apparatus, Patent dated January 20, 1869, No. 184, and in
part to intermediate feed apparatus connected with carding and other
machines dealing with wool, cotton, or other fibrous materials.

page_text: One improvement is applied in connection with the weighing scale
which forms an important feature of the said "first feed" apparatus, and
consists in rendering the weighing action more accurate and uniform,
and so that materials resting upon different parts of the scale shall not
act with different leverages, by suspending the scale by journals or pivots
above its centre of gravity from the levers carrying it, instead of fixing
it to those levers as heretofore.
In one modification pins or projections are arranged at the ends of
the scale so as to come into contact with the levers and cause the scale
to turn over when the levers descend in order to empty it; whilst in
another modification the pendent link by which the emptying is effected
is jointed to an arm fixed to the scale and turns the scale round on its.
pivots, the main carrying levers resting on a stop as soon as they descend
a little and put the pendent link into gear.
Another improvement in the "first feed" apparatus consists in
applying a contrivance for causing an alarm to sound or the machine
to be stopped, or both, when the filling and emptying of the scale is
from any cause not effected in proper time. On the shaft of the cam
which periodically sets the feed action in motion there is fixed a notched
cam that acts on a balanced bar carrying a bell and pushes the bell
into a position to be struck by a revolving wheel when required. A
small rod fixed to the bar through which the feed action is started
pushes the balanced bell bar out of the way of the cam whenever the
filling and emptying of the scale is effected in proper time in consequence
of the bar being then down, but when anything goes wrong and delay
occurs the bell is made to ring. The balanced bar may be connected
to a spring belt-shifting lever so as to throw off the driving belt and stop
the machine under the same circumstances.
The improvement in intermediate feed apparatus, that is, apparatus
for feeding or transferring the fibrous materials from the first carding
machine (the "scribbler") to the second machine (or "finisher"), or
from any other machine to the onc following it, has for its object
principally to economise space whilst effecting the thickening or massing
together of the stream of fibrous materials, and consists in employing
a compound oblique apron or endless cloth for receiving the fibrous
materials as doffed from the first machine, and for delivering them upon
the transversely moving apron by which they are at present laid in folds
on the entering apron of the next machine. This compound apron

page_text: consists of a number of narrow bands which pass round a series of
obliquely placed pulleys ranged in a transverse line where the fibrous
materials fall upon them. These bands are of graduated lengths and all
pass round one roller, at their other ends delivering the materials over
that roller down upon the transversely moving apron below.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry James Hogg King in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 8th September 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
JAMES HOGG KING, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain,
Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Henry James Hogg King, Her
special licence that I, the said Henry James Hogg King, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry James
Hogg King, 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 APPARATUS FOR FEEDING WOOL, COTTON, OR OTHER FIBROUS
MATERIALS TO CARDING OR OTHER MACHINES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Henry James Hogg King, my executors or
administrators, 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 Henry James Hogg King, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by

page_text: the following statement in writing, reference being had to the accom-
panying Drawings, that is to say :—
My said Invention relates in part to what is known as Evans and
King's "first feed" apparatus, and in part to intermediate feed appa-
ratus connected with carding and other machines dealing with wool,
cotton, or other fibrous materials.
And in order that my said Invention and the manner of performing
the same may be properly understood, I hereunto append a Sheet of
explanatory Drawings, to be herein-after referred to, and representing
various modifications of my improved arrangements. In these Drawings
the same reference numerals are used to mark the same or like parts
wherever they are repeated.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of Evans and King's first feed apparatus
as fitted with one modification of one of my present improvements.
This improvement is applied in connection with the weighing scale 1,
which forms an important feature of the said "first feed" apparatus, and
consists in rendering the weighing action more accurate and uniform,
and so that materials resting upon different parts of the scale shall not
act with different leverages, by suspending the scale 1 by journals or
pivots 2 above its centre of gravity from the levers 3 carrying it, instead
of fixing it to those levers as heretofore. In the modification shown in
Figure 1 the levers 3 are connected by a spindle and supported by pivots
or knife edges upon the pillars 4, as heretofore (only one lever 3 and one
pillar 4 being seen in the Figure in consequence of the others being
directly behind these at the other side of the machine), and when the
levers are turned down by the action of the pendent link 6 the scale 1 is
made to turn also and become emptied of its contents in consequence of
its outer part coming into contact with the spindle connecting the
levers 3.
In another modification which is shown in Figure 2 the pendent
link 6 by which the emptying is effected is jointed to an arm 7 fixed to
the scale 1, and turns the scale round on its pivots, the main carrying
levers 3 resting on a stop 8 as soon as they descend a little and put the
pendent link into gear.
Or, again, a lug or projection may be fixed on the scale 1, as shown
at 9 in Figure 3, and coming in contact with a stop 10 cause the
scale to be tilted when the levers 3 are drawn down by the pendent
link 6.

page_text: Another improvement in the "first feed" apparatus consists in
applying a contrivance for causing an alarm to sound or the machine
to be stopped, or both, when the filling and emptying of the scale 1 is
from any cause not effected in proper time. On the shaft 11 of the cam
which periodically sets the feed action in motion there is fixed a notched
cam 12 that acts on a balanced bar 13 carrying a bell 14, and resting on
a pin 15, and pushes the bell into a position to be struck by a pin 16 on
a revolving wheel when required. A rod 17 fixed to the bar 18 through
which the feed action is started pushes the balanced bell bar 13 out of
the way of the cam 12 whenever the filling and emptying of the scale 1
is effected in proper time in consequence of the bar 18 being then down,
but when anything goes wrong and delay occurs the bell is made to ring.
A heavy sliding stop 19 is arranged to drop behind a projection on the
bell bar 13 and hold it when pushed into the ringing position until
the parts are re-arranged by an attendant. The balanced bar 13 may.
be connected to a spring belt-shifting lever so as to throw off the
driving belt and stop the carding machine or machines under the same
circumstances.
My improvement in intermediate feed apparatus, that is, apparatus for
feeding or transferring the fibrous materials from the first carding
machine (the "scribbler") to the second machine (or "finisher") or
from any other machine to the one following it, is shown in the diagrams
Figures 4, 5, 6, which correspond respectively to a plan, a front elevation,
and a side elevation. This improvement has principally for its object
to economise space whilst effecting the thickening or massing together
of the stream of fibrous materials, and consists in employing a compound
oblique apron or endless cloth 20 for receiving the fibrous materials as
doffed from the cylinder 21 of the first machine, and for delivering them
upon the transversely moving apron 22, by which they are at present
laid in folds on the entering apron 23 of the next machine. This com-
pound apron 20 consists of a number of narrow bands which pass round
a series of obliquely placed pulleys 24 ranged in a transverse line where
the fibrous materials fall upon them. These bands are of graduated
lengths and all pass round one roller 25, at their other ends delivering
the materials over that roller down upon the transversely moving apron 22
below.

page_text: restrict myself to the precise details herein described or delineated, but
that what I believe to be novel and original, and claim as the Invention
secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent
is, -
1. The suspending of the weighing scale to its carrying levers by
pivots for the purpose and substantially in the manner herein-before
described.
2. The fitting of the apparatus with details for sounding an alarm or
stopping the machine or machines when the scale does not get filled soon
enough, as herein-before described.
3. The applying of a compound oblique apron (20) as part of the
intermediate feed apparatus, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry James Hogg King, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of September,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
one.
Witness,
EDMUND HUNT,
Patent Agent,
Glasgow.
H. J. H. KING. (L.S.)