IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR CARDING OPENING OR DISINTEGRATING HAIR AND FIBRE
Year: 1885

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SPECIFICATION.
I. CHARLES GAUNTLETT of the firm of C. Gauntlett & Compy of Union Factory
Trowbridge in the County of Wilts Manufacturer and Merchant do hereby declare
the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR CARDING
OPENING OR DISINTEGRATING HAIR AND FIBRE," and in what manner the same
is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
My invention relates to improvements in the arrangement and construction of
hair and fibre carding machines of the character described in the specification of
Letters Patent granted to Samuel Gauntlett and myself dated 4th April 1878
N° 1343.
My present improvements in carding machines relate to the arrangement of the
machine with two carding cylinders revolving at different speeds and fitted or set
with bright tempered steel spikes supplied by a continuous feed so as to effect a
quick delivery of the hair or other fibrous material passed through the machine
which is specially adapted for opening hair and other fibrous materials used by
upholsterers, carriage building trades railway companies ship builders and others
requiring to disintegrate large quantities of hair and fibre.
And in order that my improvements may be clearly understood and readily
carried into practice I will now describe the drawing hereto annexed which shows
a vertical section of a machine arranged and constructed in accordance with my
invention.
a is the driving axis which may be actuated by hand or by a steam engine or
other motive power (when a steam or other motive power engine is used the
driving drums are fixed on the axis e¹). On the axis a the toothed pinion a¹ is
fixed which actuates the wheel b fixed on one end of the axis b¹ upon which the
smaller carding cylinder c is mounted. On the other end of the axis 6' a toothed
wheel 6 is fixed which actuates the toothed wheel & fixed on the axis d of the
feed roller d over which the endless feed apron d* travels.
The toothed wheel a fixed on the driving axis a gives motion to the pinion e³
fixed on the axis e¹ upon which the large carding cylinder e is mounted set with
bright steel spikes as shown to work with the steel spikes on the smaller cylinder c.

page_text: The distance between the cylinder c and the feed apron may be adjusted to vary
the feed as required.
The front stay bar f is set forward so as not to obstruct the free delivery of the
hair or other fibre as it is discharged from the opening g between the cover h and
the spiked drum or cylinder e.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The improved arrangement and construction of hair and fibre carding machines
by the combination of the two carding drums or cylinders c and e set with bright
steel spikes and actuated substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein
described and represented in the drawing hereto annexed.
Dated this 18th day of February 1885.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings,
Agents for the Applicant.