Improvements in Automatic Feeders for Feeding Openers and Scutchers with Cotton or other like Materials.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 7th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 2nd Feb., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Automatic Feeders for Feeding Openers and
Scutchers with Cotton or other like Materials.
I, GEORGE HORROCKS, of Kay Street, Stalybridge in the County of Chester
Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to automatic feeders for feeding openers and scutchers with
cotton and like materials.
The object of this invention is to cause a supply of the material that is being
machined to be fed up to the lifting apron with regularity. I attain this object by
the means hereinafter set forth, and as shown in the accompanying sheet of
drawings, in which a is a hopper that is hinged at 6 and supported by swivel
brackets such as cand d. Said brackets are expansible, and may be placed so as to
be nearly in the same plane, or they may be folded together. If these brackets
are extended, the lower portion a¹ of the hopper a will be raised, but if the brackets
are folded together said lower part of the hopper will be lowered.
For the purpose of regulating the rise and fall of the aforesaid hopper I attach
to each end, or to one end only, of a shaft e and outside at the end or ends of the
machine, a weight as f either as represented in Fig. 1 or as in Fig. 2, or as other-
wise preferred.
Said weight is calculated so as to raise the aforesaid hopper a when only a small
quantity is resting thereon, and is counterbalanced when a larger quantity of
material is resting on said hopper which is thereby lowered. By these means a
supply of cotton or other material is always kept fed up to the lifting apron g.
The aforesaid brackets c and d are prevented from assuming an angular position
in a downward direction by means of a stop, which will not permit the weight fƒ to
fall below a fixed point.
Dated this 7th day of March 1894
THOMAS PRESCOTT,
53, Arcade Chambers, St. Mary's Gate, Manchester,
Agent for Applicant.
Improvements in Automatic Feeders for Feeding Openers and
Scutchers with Cotton or other like Materials.
I, GEORGE HORROCKS of Kay Street, Stalybridge, in the County of Chester,
Machinist 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 automatic feeders for feeding openers and scutchers with
cotton and like materials.
The object of this invention is to cause a supply of the material that is being
machined to be fed up to the lifting apron with regularity. I attain this object by

page_text: the means hereinafter set forth and as shown in the drawings left with the
Provisional Specification, in which
Fig. 1 represents in section a part of an automatic feeding machine with my
invention applied:
Fig. 2 is a modification of the same invention.
In these views similar letters refer to similar parts.
The side a of the hopper is hinged at b and supported by swivel brackets such
as c and d. Said brackets are expansible and may be placed so as to be nearly in
the same plane as in Fig. 1 or they may be folded together. If these brackets are
extended the lower portion a¹ of the hinged side a will be raised, but if the brackets
are folded together, said lower part will be lowered.
For the purpose of regulating the rise and fall of the aforesaid hinged side I
attach to one or both ends of a shaft e and outside at the end of the machine, a
weight as f, either as represented in Fig. 1 or as in Fig. 2 or as otherwise preferred.
Said weight is calculated so as to raise the aforesaid hinged side a of the hopper
when only a small quantity of material is resting thereon. When a large quantity
of material is resting on said hinged side the weight is counterbalanced and the
hinged side is thereby lowered.
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By these means a supply of cotton or other material is always kept fed up to the
lifting apron g.
The aforesaid brackets c and d are prevented from assuming an
angular position in a downward direction by means of a stop which will not permit
the weight to fall below a fixed point.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
In automatic feeders for feeding openers and scutchers with cotton or other like
materials, the use of a hinged side as a in combination with extensible brackets
as e and d, and a balance weight as for their equivalents, in the manner and for
the purpose substantially as herein before described.
Dated this 5th day of January 1895.
THOMAS PRESCOTT,
53, Arcade Chambers, St. Mary's Gate, Manchester,
Agent for Applicant.