Improvements in the Manufacture of Yarns.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 19th Nov.. 1892-Accepted, 11th Mar., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Yarns.
THOMAS HOWARD BLAMIRES Manufacturer Phoenix Mills Leeds Road
Huddersfield, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is an improvement upon a Patent No. 8330 dated
and granted to me June 10th 1887 for "An improved method of manufacturing
yarns from gilled and combed or gilled fibrous substances by the use of a
condensing carding engine. My improvements consist in the use of an additional
arrangement or attachment for the use and purpose of directing the slivers in a
more even and regular manner than in my previous Patent.
This arrangement or attachment is preferably connected to the gilling machine
and is somewhat after the manner of what is technically called a balling cheese, or
bank feeding machine, which I connect or attach to the gilling box or machine.
By these means I am enabled to bring out or deliver more even and continuous
slivers than in my previous Patent. By this method it does not necessitate having
the individual slivers or webs to rewind and put them through another machine in
order to make a suitable web or feeding lap to supply the carding engine and
condenser. When thus connected it is then governed by the same motion and
driven at the same speed directly and in connexion with the gilling machine so as
to enable me to make the feeding laps in an improved and more direct way, and to
give more evenness to the lap or sliver.
By my present method the slivers or tops are also made wider and more open
than in my previous Specification. By so doing the process of making even and
suitable feeding laps from the slivers or tops by means of my improvement is both
a readier, improved and an automatic one, being now one machine and driven by a
train of wheels or gearing in connection and conjunction with what is now equivalent
to the gill box which I employed under my previous Patent, which gill box was
followed by another seperate and independent process of making the laps on another
machine called the lap machine-this lap machine I now dispense with; consequently
there is both a saving of time and labour with additional advantages to the process
of feeding the condensing carding engine: whereby I am enabled to produce more
even and stronger yarns for various kinds of cloth or other fabrics being also a
more direct and improved process than in my previous Patent 8330 of June 10th 1887
and also over any of the present existing methods of making gilled or combed fibres
into yarns.
Dated this 17th day of February 1892.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Yarns.
THOMAS HOWARD BLAMIRES Manufacturer Phoenix Mills Leeds Road
Huddersfield 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 :-
The object of this invention is an improvement upon a Patent No. 8330 dated
and granted to me June 10th 1887 for "An improved method of manufacturing
yarns from gilled and combed, or gilled fibrous substances, together with a
condensing carding engine.

page_text: One of my improvements chiefly consists of an additional arrangement or attach-
ment to the gilling machine, for the use and purpose of directing the slivers in
a more even and regular manner than in my previous Patent No. 8330 of
June 10th 1887.
This modification and adaptation is somewhat after the manner of what is
technically called a balling cheese or bank feeding machine. By these means I am
enabled to bring out or deliver more even and continuous slivers than in my
previous method under Patent 8330 of June 10th 1887 and at the same time it does
not necessitate rewinding the individual slivers or webs through another machine in
order to make a suitable web or feeding lap to supply the carding engine and
condenser.
When thus connected it is then governed by the same motion, and driven at the
same speed directly, and in connexion with the gilling machine, so as to enable me
to make the feeding laps, in an improved and more direct way, and to give more
evenness to the laps or slivers.
By my present method the slivers or laps are also made wider, and more open
than those under my previous Specification, consequently the process is both an
improved, and a readier one, and at the same time automatic, thus there is both a
saving of time and labour with additional advantages to the processes of feeding the
condenser carding engine; thereby I am enabled to produce more even and stronger
yarns for various kinds of cloth or other fabrics, being also a more direct and
improved process than in my previous Patent granted to me June 10th 1887, and
also over any of the present existing methods, of making gilled or combed fibres
into yarns.
This I effect by means of the combined processes of gilling, combing, or gilling
alone, the application to, and adaptation of the condensing carding engine, to the
other above arrangements.
In order that my invention may be more fully understood, I herein make referance
to the accompanying sheet of drawings wherein :-
Fig. 1 (a) represents a creel containing a number of laps or slivers (A) of combed
or gilled fibres or worsted balls or tops, or other fibres from a scribbling carding
engine. These said slivers, laps, or tops, may be run either separately, or combined
for the purpose of producing various mixed or coloured yarns.
After being placed in the creel (A), the laps or slivers are then passed under the
fluted rollers (B), and pressed into the gilling combs (C) which are operated so as
to open, straighten, draw, or gill the fibres in the usual manner.
The fibres, after leaving the gilling combs, pass under the fluted rollers D, and
are then carried forward to the spool or bobbin represented by G 1, upon which the
sliver or web is now wound, and instead of being in a round sliver, is now straight
and open, and in a broad flat sheet or web.
G 2 is another spool or bobbin which comes into position when G 1 is full as in
the present balling or bank, cheese, machine. H represents a large plate wheel
which carries the spindles upon which G 1 and G2 revolve. The wheel H. is
driven by a train of gear wheels E 1. E 2. E 3. E 4. Figure 3. shows the form of
the laps as they leave the combined gilling and lap making machine.
These laps are now placed in the angle formed by the rollers or drums shown
by I in Fig. 2, in such a way that the balls or laps lay in the angle, and are
unwound by surface contact, and paid or fed into the feed rollers L, of the con-
densing carding engine. The surface rollers I, are driven by a pair of bevil
wheels, geared with a pinnion fixed on the end of the top feed roller. The
motion is then communicated by a horizontal shaft, gearing, by means of a pair of
bevils, with the upright shaft K. upon which is a bevil wheel for conveying the
motion to each of the surface rollers I. The fibres or slivers, after passing through
the condensing carding engine, are removed in the ordinary manner by the doffers P
and Q, and passed through the condenser rubbers R and S, and produce the
required number of threads on the bobbins or spools T, which may then be taken,
and spun on any ordinary suitable spinning machinery.

page_text: By the above arrangement and new combination of combing, gilling, and con-
densing processes, I am enabled to produce more even and suitable yarns of varied
effects, the fibres being laid longitudinal, and straight, besides being a readier, and
more direct process, than the existing methods of making gilled or combed fibres
into yarns.
The said slivers or laps after being passed through my compound machine
represented by Fig. 1, which consists in the combination and adaptation of gilling,
with the winding process, which at the same time forms a proper lap or ball Fig. 3,
for the purpose of feeding the condensing carding engine, thus dispensing with the
fibres having to go through the whole of the usual drawing processes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, declare that I do not
claim any novel parts in the construction of the above machines, but what I do
claim is :-
The combination and arrangement of the gill-box, with the balling, bank, cheese
feeding machine, for automatically forming laps or balls of slivers, for feeding
the condenser carding engine, in order to effect the above required purposes,
substantially as herein described and illustrated in the drawings annexed.
Dated this 18th day of November 1892.
THOMAS HOWARD BLAMIRES.