Improvements in Machinery for Preparing and Carding Cotton and other Fibrous Materials.
Year: 1896

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Complete Specification Left, 23rd Feb., 1897-Accepted, 8th May, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Preparing and Carding Cotton and
other Fibrous Materials.
I THOMAS RODGERSON MARSDEN of Bank View, Derker Street, Oldham, u
the County of Lancaster, Manager, in the employ of Messrs. Platt Brothers & Co.
Limited, of Oldham, Machinists, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
My invention refers to a class of machines for one of which Letters Patents have
been granted to me No. 17478 of 1894 and No. 5697 of 1895, for regulating the
automatic feeding of hopper feeders.
My invention refers to the combination of a bale breaker, auxiliary opener, or
other machine of this class for the preparation and treatment of cotton or other
fibrous material, with a hopper feeder provided with a feeding lattice and automatic
feeding devices. Devices of this kind operate in such a manner that when the
material being fed accumulates to too great an extent the accumulation operates a
moving part which stops the feed. Arrangements of this class are shown in
Specifications No. 17478 of 1894 and 5697 of 1895, but any equivalent automatic
feeding device may be used for the purpose of my invention.
According to my invention I combine the hopper feeder with the preparatory
machine in such a way that the automatic mechanism of the hopper feeder controls
not only the feeding devices leading the material to the hopper feeder but also
controls the movements of the preparatory machine. I am thus enabled to obtain
a continuous co-operation of the two sets of appliances without the intervention of
any manual labour.
In the first arrangement, the feed lattice of the bale breaker, and the first pair
of feed rollers which receive the fibrous material from the feed lattice, are
connected together and so arranged, that the shaft which operates the feed lattice
of the filling apparatus of the hopper feeder, will also communicate motion to the
feed lattice of the bale breaker, so that when the feed lattice of the hopper
feeder is feeding the hopper feeder the feed lattice of the bale breaker and
the first pair of feed rollers will be feeding the bale breaker. Whenever, in
consequence of the hopper feeder having received more than a sufficient supply of
fibrous material, the feed lattice of the filling apparatus of the hopper feeder is
automatically stopped, this stoppage of the feed lattice also stops the feed lattice
and the first pair of rollers of the bale breaker. As soon however, as the accumu-
lation in the hopper is sufficiently reduced, so that the automatic apparatus operates
to give a renewal of the supply of fibrous material, the driving belt will be traversed
on to the fast or driving pulley, in order to drive the feed lattice of the filling
apparatus of the hopper feeder, and at the same time motion will be again com-
municated to the feed lattice and the first pair of feed rollers of the bale breaker.
When this takes place, the fibrous material which is spread upon the lattice of the
bale breaker, will be automatically transferred, without the exercise of any further
manual labour to the hopper feeder.
My second arrangement refers to the combination of an auxiliary opener usually
provided with a feed lattice, breaker rollers, "opening" cylinder, cage, aud delivery
lattice, and a hopper feeder provided with an automatic feed lattice.

page_text: In this arrangement, the feed lattice of the auxiliary "opener" and the first pair
of breaker rollers of the auxiliary "opener," receive motion from the shaft which
drives the feed lattice of the filling apparatus of the hopper feeder, so that when
the feed lattice of the filling apparatus is feeding the hopper feeder, the feed lattice
of the auxiliary "opener" and the first pair of breaker rollers will be feeding the
auxiliary "opener," but whenever, in consequence of the hopper feeder having
received more than a sufficient supply of fibrous material for the time being, the
feed lattice of the filling apparatus of the hopper feeder is stoppel, then the feed
Inttice and the first pair of breaker rollers of the auxiliary "opener" will also be
stopped.
My third arrangement consists in the combination of a bale breaker provided
with a feed lattice and conveying lattices, and a hopper feeder provided with a
filling apparatus. By these means the cotton or other fibrous material can be
spread ou to the feed lattice of the bale breaker, passed through the bale breaker
on to the conveying lattice and by it transferred from the room in which the bale
breaker is situated, to the room in which the hopper feeder is placed, and deposited
on to the feed lattice of the filling apparatus of the hopper feeder.
In this arrangement the feed lattice and the first pair of rollers of the bale
breaker, and the conveying lattices receive motion from the shaft which drives the
feed lattice of the filling apparatus of the hopper feeder, so that when the feed lattice
of the filling apparatus of the hopper feeder is filling the hopper, the feed lattice of
the bale breaker and the first pair of feed rollers will. be feeding the bale breaker,
.and the conveying lattices will be conveying the fibrous material to the feed lattice
of the filling apparatus of the hopper feeder, but whenever. in consequence of the
.hopper feeder having received more than a sufficient supply of fibrous material,
the feed lattice of the filling apparatus of the hopper feeder is stopped, then the
feed lattice and the first pair of feed rollers of the bale breaker, and the conveying
lattices, will also be stopped or arrested, until the automatic devices of the hopper
feeder again indicate that a further supply of fibrous material is required, when the
various parts will again be put into motion and the cotton or other fibrous material
again supplied to the hopper feeder.
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
5 Dalton Street, Manchester, Chartered Patent Agents.
Improvements in Machinery for Preparing and Carding Cotton and
other Fibrous Materials.
I THOMAS RODGERSON MARSDEN of Bank View, Derker Street, Oldham,
in the County of Lancaster, Manager, in the employ of Messrs. Platt Brothers & Co.
Limited, of Oldham, Machinists, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what mauner the same is to be performed to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement and accompanying drawings:-
My invention refers to a class of machines for one of which Letters Patents have
been granted to me No. 17478 of 1894 and No. 5697 of 1895 for regulating the
automatic feeding of hopper feeders.
The present invention refers to the combination of a bale breaker, auxiliary
opeuer, or other machine of this class for the preparation and treatment of cotton
or other fibrous material, with a hopper feeder provided with a feeding lattice
and automatic feeding devices. Devices of this kind operate in such a manner that

page_text: when the material being fed accumulates to too great an extent, the accumulation
operates a moving part which stops the feed. Arrangements of this class are shown
in Specifications No. 17478 of 1894 and 5697 of 1895 but any equivalent automatic
feeding device may be used for the purposes of my invention.
According to my invention I combine the hopper feeder with the preparatory
machine in such a way that the automatic mechanism of the hopper feeder controls
not only the feeding devices leading the material to the hopper feeder but also
controls the movements of the preparatory machine. I am thus enabled to obtain a
continuous co-operation of the two sets of appliances without the intervention
between them of any manual labour.
In order that my said invention may be clearly understood I have annexed three
sheets of illustrative drawings to this specification, which I will now proceed to
describe.
On Sheet 1:
Fig. 1 is a side view of a combined arrangement of bale breaker and feed
hopper, in which the automatic regulating device of the feed hopper is caused
to exercise a regulating effect upon the feed lattice of the bale breaker.
Fig. 2 is an enlarged side view of the driving gear of the feed lattice of the
hopper feeder and of the connection between the regulating board of the hopper
feeder and the belt fork.
Fig. 3 is a partial plan of Fig. 2.
On Sheet 2 :-
Fig. 4 is a side view illustrating the combination of an auxiliary opener with a
hopper teeder, the feed of the auxiliary opener being controlled from the automatic
regulating device in the hopper as in the case of Fig. 1.
Fig. 5 illustrates the combination of a bale breaker and conveying lattices for
transporting the cotton for some distance to the lattice feed of a hopper feeder, the
movements of the whole of the feeding and transporting lattices being controlled
from the automatic regulating device in the hopper feeder.
On Sheet 3 Figs. 6 and 7 illustrate the method of driving the transporting
lattices.
Keferring to Sheet 1, in Fig. 1 the feed lattice of the bale breaker is marked A;
the bale breaker is marked B; the feed lattice to the hopper feeder, C; and
the hopper feeder D. The feed hopper D contains a suspended pivotted board a
counterbalanced by the weight b and carried on a pivot shaft c and practically
forming a movable back to the hopper feeder as set forth for instance in the
Specification of my former Patent No. 5697 of 1895. As shown in Fig. 1 but
also more clearly in Figs. 2 and 3 the lever d on the end of the pivot shaft e
communicates by a rod e with one arm of a bell crank lever pivotted on a
bracket attached to the lattice casing. The other arm of the bell-crank
lever engages with the tail 4 of the pivotted belt fork h which can shift the
belt from the fast pulley i to the loose pulley ¹ or vice versa. The stud carrying
the fast and loose pullies carries also a pinion j fixed to the boss of the fast
pulley i and gearing with a spur wheel k on the shaft of the lattice roller. Thus
it will be understood that when the hopper feeder D has received more than a
sufficient supply of fibrous material, the board a is moved back so as to shift the
belt fork and stop the feed lattice C, while when the pressure is relieved the board
returns to its normal position and again starts the lattice. These arrangements
and functions are all set forth in my said former patents. It will be noticed on
reference to Fig. 3 that the fast pulley carries a rope pulley n which being secured
to it partakes of the motion of the fast pulley i.
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A driving rope passes partly around the pulley n and after being brought round
guide pullies m m passes partly around a rope pulley ¹ from which by means of
gearing the proper motion is imparted to the lattice A and the first pair of rollers oo
of the bale breaker B.
So long as matters are in their normal condition, the cotton laid on the lattice A
is fed through the bale breaker B and thence to the lattice C by which it is conveyed

page_text: to the hopper feeder D. Should it happen however that the hopper. feeder D
becomes overloaded, the lattices C and A are simultaneously stopped so that not
only is the feed to the hopper feeder interrupted but also the supply to the bale
breaker.
I do not limit myself to the particular arrangement of mechanism described and
shown so long as a vinculum is established between the automatic regulating device
of the hopper feeder which regulates the hopper foeder lattice, and the feeling
arrangement or lattice of the bale breaker.
Fig. 4 on Sheet 2 shows a hopper feeder D combined with an auxiliary opener E
the driving gear of the feed lattice F of the said opener E being governel from the
automatic regulating device of the hopper feeder D exactly as in the arrangement
shown in Sheet 1.
The auxiliary opener shown in Fig. 4 has the usual feed lattice F, breaker rollers,
opening cylinder, cige and delivery lattice p by which the opened cotton is delivere.
to the feed lattice C of the hopper feeder D. In this arrangement the feed lattice F
of the auxiliary opener and the first pair of breaking rollers receive motion from
the pullies which drive the feed lattice C of the hopper foeder so that yhaa th
feed lattice C of the hopper feeder is at work, the feel lattice F of the auxiliary
opener is also at work. When in consequence of the hopper feeder having recaivel
more than a sufficient supply of fibrous material for the time being, the feed
lattice C is stopped, then the feed Inttice F and the first pair of breaker rollers of
the auxiliary opener are also stopped. I have not thought it necessary to give
more than the diagram of the arrangement shown in Fig. 4 as the mechanis n by
which the invention is carried into effect is sufficiently shown in Sheet 1.
In Fig. 5, I illustrate the combination with a hopper feeder of a bale breaker
and transporting lattices for carrying the cotton from the breaker to the hopper
feeder the whole being regulated from the automatic governing device in the
hopper feeder.
The hopper feeder is marked D, the hopper feeder lattice C the bale breaker B
and the feed lattice to the bale breaker A. The hopper feeder D contains and
carries the automatic feed regulating board and gearing already described with
reference to Sheet 1.
The fast pulley of the feed hopper lattice driving gear communicates by a band
or rope g with a pulley ron a shafts. Another pulley t on the shaft s carries a belt u
which drives a pulley v on the shaft w. The same shaft w carries another pulley
which by means of a belt a drives a pulley y on the shaft y¹.
Another pulley z on the shaft y' drives a pulley by means of a belt . The
latter pulley communicates the desired motion to the feed lattice A of the
bale breaker B. The cotton from the bale breaker B is deposited upon the lattice G
and advanced to the vertical double lattice H by which it is raised to the
horizontal lattice I which advances the cotton to the lattice J by which it is
directed into the perpendicular trunk K which deposits it upon the lattice C of the
hopper feeder. Figs. 6 and 7 are elevation and plan showing the method of driving the
transporting lattices G, H, I and J. Upon the shaft w is mounted a rope pulley 1
which drives the rope pulley 2 upon the shaft of the transporting lattice G by means
of a rope 3.
The inside lattice of the vertical double lattice H is mounted on and driven by
the shaft w. The outer vertical lattice is driven by means of the toothed wheel 4
which gears with the toothed wheel 5 on the shaft w. A spur wheel 6 on the
shaft w gears with a carrier wheel 7 which in turn drives the spur wheel 8 on the
lattice shait 9 and thus communicates motion to the transporting lattice I. Upon
the lattice shaft 9 is mounted a bevel wheel 10 gearing with the bevel wheel 11
which communicates motion by a side shaft 12 to the bevel gearing 13 and thus
drives the lattice J. In such an arrangement as this the bale breaker might be in
one room and the hopper feeder in another, the transporting lattices G, H, I and J
carrying the cotton to the required position.
In this as in the foregoing arrangements, the feed lattice, the first pair of rollers

page_text: of the bale breaker, and the transporting lattices, receive motion from the shaft
which drives the feed lattice of the hopper feeder, so that when the feed lattice of
the hopper feeder is feeding the hopper, the feed lattice of the bale breaker and
the first pair of feed rollers will be feeding the bale breaker, and the conveying
lattices will be conveying the cotton to the feed lattice of the hopper feeder. If
however the hopper feeder should receive more than its due supply of cotton, the
feed lattice of the hopper is stopped and at the same time the motion of the feed
lattice and the first pair of feed rollers in the bale breaker and the conveying
lattices, will also be stopped or arrested until the automatic regulating board device
of the hopper feeder again indicates that a further supply of fibrous material is
required, whereupon the various parts are again put in motion and the supply of
cotton or fibrous material again re-established.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is.
1. The herein before described improvements in machinery for preparing and
carding cotton and other fibrous materials substantially as set forth.
2. The combination of a hopper feeder (constructed with automatic feed
regulating devices) with preparatory machinery of the indicated nature in such a
way that the automatic mechanism of the hopper feeder controls not only the
feeding devices leading the material to the hopper feeder, but also controls
the movements of the preparatory machinery so that they will synchronise with the
movements of feed devices of the hopper feeder substantially as described.
3. The combination of a hopper feeder (constructed with automatic feed
regulating devices) with preparatory machinery of the indicated nature, the
feed lattices or the feed and conveying lattices of such preparatory machinery
being arranged to synchronise in their movements with those of the feed lattice or
lattices of the hopper feeder, by the means and substantially in the manner herein-
before described and shown.
4. A hopper feeder furnished with automatic feed regulating devices for
governing the movements of the feed lattice, in combination with a bale breaker,
the movements of the feed lattice of the bale breaker being governed by and
synchronising with the movements of the feed lattice of the hopper feeder,
substantially as described and as illustrated in Sheet 1 of the drawings.
5. A hopper feed furnished with automatic devices for regulating the movements
of the feed lattice, in combination with an auxiliary opener, the movements of the
feed lattice of the auxiliary opener being governed by, and caused to, synchronise
with the movements of the feed lattice of the hopper feeder, by the means and
substantially as hereinbefore described and shown.
6. A hopper feed furnished with automatic feed devices in combination with a
hale breaker and conveying lattices for transporting the fibrous material from the
bale breaker to the hopper feeder lattice, the movements of the bale breaker feed
lattice and rollers and of the conveying lattices being governed by, and caused to,
synchronise with the movements of the feed lattice of the hopper feeder, by the
means and substantially as hereinbefore described and shown.
Dated this 22nd day of February 1807