CERTAIN NEW AND USEFUL MACHINERY FOR CARDING COTTON OR OTHER LIKE MATERIAL, AND SEPARATING FROM IT CERTAIN MOTES OR MATTERS.
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Jordan Goodwin, of the County of
Hampden, of the State of Massachusetts, of the United States of
America, for the Invention of "CERTAIN NEW AND USEFUL MACHINERY
FOR CARDING COTTON OR OTHER LIKE MATERIAL, AND SEPARATING FROM IT
CERTAIN MOTES OR MATTERS.'
Sealed the 16th February 1872, and dated the 29th December 1871.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Charles Jordan Goodwin
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition
and Declaration, on the 29th December 1871, pursuant to the
9th Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
JORDAN GOODWIN, of the County of Hampden, of the State of
Massachusetts, of the United States of America, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention of "CERTAIN NEW
AND USEFUL MACHINERY FOR CARDING COTTON OR OTHER LIKE MATERIAL, AND
SEPARATING FROM IT CERTAIN MOTES OR MATTERS," and have petitioned Her
most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria to grant unto me, my
executors, administrators, or assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the
same, and have made solemn Declaration that I am the first and true
Inventor thereof.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that 1, the said Charles Jordan Goodwin, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention to be as follows,
reference being had to the accompanying Drawing, which denotes a
vertical section of parts of a cotton carding engine with my addition or
additions thereto, the object of such addition or additions being to
discharge from the carding engine and collect in a mass certain motes
or matters, which entering the machine with the fibrous material would
otherwise be fixed in the latter when carded.
Heretofore the process of cleaning cotton has been imperfect, and
conducted on false principles, as will appear from consideration of the
nature of the matters necessary to be removed. They consist of small
bits or pieces of the boll and of the leaf of the cotton plant, they
being held among the fibres of the cotton, but not absolutely attached
thereto.
There are other matters in cotton such as what are termed nits, which
are attached to the fibre and are a sign or evidence of imperfect
formation of it.
The motes or matters which it is the purpose of my addition or
additions to the carding engine to effect the removal from the cotton
or fibrous material while or preparatory to being carded are common to
such cotton as now picked, and are increasing in comparison to what
has heretofore resulted, as there is not now so much care bestowed on
the picking as was the case a few years ago. Then extraneous matters
exist more in the "bottom land cotton" than in the "upland cotton,"
for the reason that the crop of the former is more abundant, and has to
be picked with greater rapidity. Hence the Red River and Texas cottons
usually contain more of the motes than other kinds of cotton; these
motes or extraneous matters not being attached firmly to the fibres are
removable therefrom. The processes heretofore adopted to effect such
have been by opening and picking the cotton by machinery furnished
with beaters and seives, or other equivalent devices, the intention being
to shake or beat out the motes; but owing to circumstances all such
modes of procedure have not had the desired effects, and it is still a
desideratum to find some better or perfect mechanism to accomplish
the end desired with the least injury to the staple.
With the methods heretofore used to cleanse the cotton of its
impurities a considerable amount of the motes have remained in the

page_text: bat, and as a consequence have passed into the slivers and been twisted
into the yarn, and subsequently woven into the cloth to the detriment
thereof.
My Invention effects very thoroughly the intercepting of the said
foreign substances as they are discharged from the cotton just above
the feed rollers of the carding engine; by thus intercepting the said
motes or matters they are prevented from being caught between the
main card cylinder and the top flats and again mingled with the
cotton.
In most if not all carding engines there is a space between the feed
rolls and the lower of the top flats, such space at its rear being bounded
by the "front board," and at its front by the card cylinder; in this space
through the action of the card cylinder and the blast of air created
thereby the motes will be separated from the fibres while being
delivered by the rolls, or while on the cylinder; and such motes with
force will be thrown upward within the space. It has been found that
most of the motes are here substantially separated from the fibres, since
if the front board or boards" be removed a current of motes will
be seen thrown off and passing over the feed rolls and falling upon
the lap or cotton outside of such.
The nature of my Invention may be said to consist as follows:—
First. In a mote receptacle or receiver combined with the carding
engine, and arranged relatively to its feeding rolls and top flats, so as to
intercept and gather the said motes after they may be discharged by
the main card cylinder and prevent them from being carried again
into the cotton, or that upon the card cylinder.
Second. In a deflector and a mote receiver or receptacle combined
with the carding engine, and arranged relatively to its feed rolls and
top flats, so as to intercept the motes as discharged from the cotton
in the space between the said rolls and top flats, and deflect such
motes into and collect them in the said receiver or receptacle, so as
to prevent them from falling upon the lap or being thrown upon the
cotton of the card cylinder.
The Drawing shows the main operative parts of a carding engine with
which my additions are combined, and co-act; A being the main card
cylinder; B, B, the series of top flats; C, the delivery apron roller; and
D, D, the feed rolls; E is the "front board" made in two parts,

page_text: a, b, hinged together; F is the receiver trough or box arranged
immediately over the feed rollers and open at top. It may be applied
to the frame of the engine so as to be capable of being removed
therefrom and secured thereto as circumstances may required; above
this receptacle is the deflector G which projects from and extends 5
horizontally along the "front board" on its inner surface and between
the receiver F and the first or lowermost top flat.
In the operation of the machine the motes discharged from the cotton
by the main card cylinder while the cotton may be in the act of being
delivered by the feed rollers will be thrown upward against the 1
deflector and by it will be reflected into the box or reservoir, from which
they may be removed as occasion may require; thus they will be
prevented from being thrown upon the cotton so as to be carried
between the cylinder and the top flats.
When the lower top flat has its edge projecting inward beyond the 1
front board, so as to serve as a deflector, it will frequently happen
that no other deflector need be used with the receiver, in which case
the receiver would have to be the main addition to the carding engine
to effect the purpose desired.
I claim as my Invention as follows, viz.:-I claim the mote receiver 2
or receptacle F, combined with the carding engine and arranged relatively
to its feed rolls D, D, and top flats B, substantially in manner as
described.
I also claim the deflector G, and the mote receiver F, combined with
the carding engine and arranged relatively to its feed rolls and top flats 2
substantially in manner as explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Jordan Goodwin, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of December
A.D. 1871.
CHARLES JORDAN GOODWIN. (L.S.)