and Preparing Cotton and other Fibre.
Year: 1884

page_text: and Preparing Cotton and other Fibre.
We JOHN BUCKLEY and GEORGE HORROCKS both of Queen Street Ironworks,.
Stalybridge, Lancashire, Machinists do hereby declare the nature of said Invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF AND MACHINERY FOR OPENING AND
PREPARING COTTON AND OTHER FIBRE to be as follows:-
Our invention consists in drawing out and partially opening the lumps of raw
cotton or other. fibre as they are fed toward and before they reach the pedal or
plate feed motion of the opening or scutching machine.
To effect this we employ, in combination with an ordinary pedal or plate feed
motion, two or more consecutive pairs of rollers, each pair being geared together
and driven at an increasing speed the nearer they are placed to the main cylinder.
The fibre to be opened or scutched may be placed upon the usual travelling feed
apron, which carries it to the first pair of rollers; we prefer to use a spiked roller
above and a fluted roller below; the fibre is carried forward by the first pair to a
second pair of similar rollers, which are driven at a greater speed than the first
pair; the lumps of,fibre are thus pulled apart, and carried forward to a pair of
geared fluted rollers, which have a still greater surface speed than the last pair,
and these feed the fibre forward to the ordinary pedal or plate feed motion and so
to the main cylinder of the opening or scutching machine where the opening.
process is completed.
Any number of pairs of rollers may be used, each roller being either spiked
fluted or plain. The upper rollers or any of them may be weighted by springs or
otherwise.

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Improvements in the Method of and Machinery for Opening
and Preparing Cotton and other Fibre.
We JOHN BUCKLEY and GEORGE HORROCKS, both of Queen Street Ironworks,
Stalybridge, Lancashire, Machinists, do hereby declare the nature of said Invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF AND MACHINERY FOR OPENING AND
PREPARING COTTON AND OTHER FIBRE, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
Our invention consists in drawing out and partially opening the lumps of raw
cotton or other fibre as they are fed toward and before they reach the pedal or
plate feed motion of the opening or scutching machine.
To effect this we employ in combination with an ordinary pedal or plate feed
motion two or more consecutive pairs of rollers each pair being geared together
and driven at an increasing speed the nearer they are placed to the main cylinder.
The fibre to be opened or scutched may be placed upon the usual travelling feed
apron which carries it to the first pair of rollers: we prefer to use a spiked roller
above and a fluted roller below; the fibre is carried forward by the first pair to a
second pair of similar rollers which are driven at a greater speed than the first
pair; the lumps of fibre are thus pulled apart, and carried forward to a pair of
geared fluted rollers which have a still greater surface speed than the last pair and
these feed the fibre forward to the ordinary pedal or plate feed motion and so to
the main cylinder of the opening or scutching machine where the opening process
is completed.
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Any number of pairs of rollers may be used, each roller being either spiked,
fluted or plain.
The upper rollers or any of them may be weighted by springs or otherwise.
And in order that. our Invention may be fully understood and readily carried
into effect we will describe the accompanying sheet of Drawings, reference being
had to the figures and letters marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is a view, partly in section, of part of the feed apron and the main ór
beater cylinder of an opening or scutching machine to which our Improvements
are applied. Figs. 2 and 3 are an end view and a front view respectively of one
of the segments of which the upper feed rollers are composed.
a is the feed apron; b one of the rollers round which it travels; c ca pair of
rollers geared together; d d¹ are a second pair of rollers also geared together;
e e are a pair of fluted rollers geared together and with the feed roller f, which
roller is supported in bearings above the pedal levers g, weighted at g¹; the main
cylinder h is secured to the shaft ¹; rods i and springs ; are employed to put
pressure on the top rollers c and d.
The cotton or other fibre is fed on to the travelling feed apron a and is carried
on it to the pair of revolving rollers c c¹ between which it passes to the rollers d ď
which have a greater surface speed than the rollers c c¹; these rollers c c¹ grip the
fibre which is held by them, the lumps or masses of fibre being gradually pulled
apart by the rollers & revolving at'a greater surface speed.

page_text: We prefer to use spiked top rollers c and d and fluted bottom rollers c¹ and d¹,
each of the spiked rollers c and d being built up of a number of segments, one
of which is shown in Figs. 2 and 3. Any other rollers, however, of suitable
construction and form may be employed, the top rollers preferably being weighted
as shown by springs or their equivalents in order to obtain the necessary grip on
the fibre. When the fibre is carried through the rollers & dit is caught between
the fluted rollers e c which are driven at a greater surface speed than the
rollers & d'and the fibre thus again undergoes a pulling out or drawing process:
from the rollersee the fibre passes under the feed roller fand between it and the
weighted pedal levers g where it is held and fed forward to the main cylinder h of
the opening or scutching machine, the operation of which is well understood.
By our Improvements the fibre is delivered to the feed roller f in a loosened
or partially opened condition whereby the fibre is opened more thoroughly by
the opening or scutching machine which requires less power to drive it. than
formerly.
We have shown and described three pairs of feed rollers, each pair running at an
accelerated speed the nearer they are placed to the main cylinder, but two pairs or
any greater number of pairs of rollers may be employed in combination with the
pedal or plate feed motion of an opening or scutching machine and the rollers may
be spiked fluted or plain in any combination so long as they enable the fibre to be
drawn or pulled out on its passage from the apron to the feed roller f, substantially
in the manner herein set forth or in an equivalent manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed. we declare that what
we claim is
In an opening or scutching machine, the combination with the ordinary pedal or
plate feed motion of two or more pairs of rollers, each pair being driven at an
increased speed the nearer they are placed to the main cylinder, substantially in
the manner and for the purposes herein set forth.