Improvements in Machinery for Opening, Cleaning, and Soutching Cotton or other like Fibres.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 9th June, 1892-Accepted, 13th Aug., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Opening, Cleaning, and Soutching
Cotton or other like Fibres.
I JAMES TASKER, of Globe Works Accrington, in the County of Lancaster
Mechanical Draughtsman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to machinery used in opening, cleaning and scutching of
cotton and other fibres, the said fibres being operated upon by a conical vertical
beater well known in the trade as a Crighton opener.
The cotton is fed to the beater at the small end, which is surrounded or cased in
by a corrugated dish, in which the cotton is beaten loose, and afterwards drawn
upwards, to be dashed against the grid or grating, which surrounds the larger part
of the conical beater.
The shell or casing composing the dish is usually made solid, on account of the
difficulty in casting holes through the sides of a conical dish and such holes when
cast have been cored and are then rough and the cotton adheres thereto.
According to this my invention 1 build up the dish in segments which segments
are cast separately and afterwards bolted or screwed to rings so as to form a dish,
the requisite holes being cast in the several segments and are cleaner, better and
cheaper than could be produced by coring the dish.
There is also another advantage in the built up dish viz. When any hard sub-
stance is fed in with the cotton it generally results in breaking the dish and the
whole dish is to be replaced whilst with the built up dish only the damaged one
of the segments requires to be replaced which would be much easier and cheaper to
replace than to replace the whole dish as in case of breakage was as heretofore
necessary.
Holes in the dish are a decided advantage, as they allow the dirt to be extracted
and escape from the cotton at once, instead of being broken up and mixed with
same which makes it more difficult to extract afterwards but for reasons before
mentioned these holes have not been generally adopted this invention affords
facilities whereby the desired perforations may be produced at little cost and with
regularity or smoothness thus enhancing the efficiency of the machine.
Dated this 8th day of September 1891.
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Bank Chambers, Waterhouse Street, Halifax, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Opening, Oleaning, and Soutching
Cotton or other like Fibres.
I, JAMES TASKER, of Globe Works, Accrington, in the County of Lancaster,
Mechanical Draughtsman 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 machinery used in opening, cleaning and scutching of
cotton and other fibres, the said fibres being operated upon by a conical vertical
beater well known in the trade as a Crighton opener.
The cotton is fed to the beater at the small end, which is surrounded or cased in
by a corrugated disb, in which the cotton is beaten loose, and afterwards drawn
upwards, to be dashed against the grid or grating which surrounds the larger part
of the conical beater.

page_text: Dated this 8th day of June 1892.
JAMES TASKER,
By his Agent, Walter Brierley,
Penny Bank Chambers, Waterhouse Street, Halifax.