facture of Surgical Lint and other Linted or Piled Fabrics.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd July, 1887
Complete Left, 21st Apr., 1888
Complete Accepted, 25th May, 1888
facture of Surgical Lint and other Linted or Piled Fabrics.
We CHARLES EDWARD BENNETT of Union and Bengal Street Mills, Ancoats
Cotton Doubler, and WILLIAM TYRALL BROWNE of 76 Prussia Street Machinist, both
of Manchester in the County of Lancaster do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to more perfectly manufacture or lint the surface
of fabrics such as surgical lint and other woven material requiring as essential
qualities softness, absorbency and a linted surface, and the invention consists
principally of a mechanical arrangement or combination of parts for increasing or
decreasing the distance traversed horizontally to-and-fro of the knife cushion, and
knife carriage of machines used in such manufacture, so as to adjust or accommodate
such traverse to suit the nature of the woven fabric under operation and the quality
of linted surface desired to be produced.
To the end of the knife carriage we screw or otherwise attach a stud which moves
to and fro horizontally with the same.
At or near the end of this stud we mount a brass step or bearing (preferably in two
parts) fitting in a vertical slot in a reciprocating lever. This lever is hung from a
pin or stud fixed to a nut which is capable of sliding up or down in a vertical slot in
a bracket or pedestal attached to the frame.
The said nut (and consequently the pin or stud attached thereto which forms the
fulcrum of the reciprocating lever) can be moved up or down in this slot by means
of a screw passing through the nut; which screw can be turned by a hand wheel or
winch.
In the slot of the reciprocating lever (below the stud attached to the knife carriage)
is another step or bearing through which passes an excentric or crank pin fixed on

page_text: or formed with a revolving shaft which works through the slot, and it will be evident
that the revolution of this shaft with its crank pin or excentric will thus give a
reciprocating motion or traverse to the knife carrier, knife and cushion, and that the
length of this traverse will depend upon the position (either higher or lower) of the
pin or stud which forms the fulcrum on which the slotted lever reciprocates. And as
above described the raising or lowering of this pin or stud is effected by turning the
screw by means of the hand wheel or winch, and thus a perfect command is obtained
over the reciprocating action of the knife and its' adjuncts the result of which will be
a more even linting of the surface of the fabric being operated upon.
Dated this 22nd day of Tul. 1997
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: facture of Surgical Lint and other Linted or Piled Fabrics.
We CHARLES EDWARD BENNETT of Union and Bengal Street Mills, Ancoats,
Cotton Doubler and WILLIAM TYRALL BROWNE of 76 Prussia Street Machinist both
of Manchester in the County of Lancaster 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 to more perfectly manufacture or lint the surface of
fabrics such as surgical lint and other woven material requiring as essential qualities
softness, absorbency, and a linted surface and the invention consists principally of a
mechanical arrangement or combination of parts for increasing or decreasing the
distance traversed horizontally to and fro by the knife cushion and knife carriage of
machines used in such manufacture, so as to adjust or accommodate such traverse to
suit the nature of the woven fabric under operation and the quality of linted surface
desired to be produced.
Such being the nature of our said invention the manner in which the same is to be
performed or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference to
the annexed drawing and the following explanation thereof.
The drawing represents an elevation (partly in section) of that portion of a linting
machine to which our invention relates, a being a part of the framing, 6 one end of
the knife carriage and c the horizontal slot in the frame in which the end of the
carriage slides to and fro.
To the end of the knife carriage we screw, or otherwise attach a stud d which
moves to and fro horizontally with the same.
At or near the end of this stud we mount a brass step or bearing e (preferably in
two parts) fitting in a vertical slot fin a reciprocating lever
is hung
This lever
g.
from a pin or stud h fixed to a nut which is capable of sliding up or down in a
vertical slot k in a bracket or pedestal attached to the frame a.
The said nuti (and consequently the pin or stud h attached thereto which forms the
fulcrum of the reciprocating lever g) can be moved up or down in this slot k by means
of a screw m, passing through the nut, which screw can be turned by a hand wheel n
or by a winch.
In the slot of the reciprocating lever g (below the stud d attached to the knife
carriage) is another step or bearing o, through which passes an excentric or a crank
pin q fixed on or formed with a revolving shaft p which works through the slot fand
it will be evident that the revolution of this shaft p with its crank pin q or
excentric will thus give a reciprocating motion or traverse to the knife carrier b
and consequently to the knife and cushion, and that the length of this traverse
will depend upon the position (either higher or lower) of the pin or stud / which
forms the fulcrum on which the slotted lever g reciprocates-And as above

page_text: described the raising or lowering of this pin or stud is effected by turning the
screw m by means of the hand wheel n or winch, and thus a perfect command is
obtained over the reciprocating action of the knife and its adjuncts the result of
which will be a more even linting of the surface of the fabric being operated upon.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
The mechanical arrangement or combination of parts (substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated by the drawings annexed) for increasing or decreasing the
traverse to and fro of the knife, cushion, and knife-carriage so as to adjust such
traverse to suit the nature of the woven fabric under operation and the quality of
the linted surface desired to be produced.