Improvements in Carding Machines.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Jan., 1897-Accepted, 13th Feb., 1897
Improvements in Carding Machines.
We, WILLIAM DAYTON ROSENCRANTZ, and EVAN ARTHUR LEIGH, both
of 152 Market Street, in the City of Paterson, County of Passaic and State of
New Jersey, U.S.A., Gentlemen, 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 :-
I
The object of this invention is to provide the condenser of a carding machine,
with sectional take-up-tubes-or-rollers,-on which a series of one or more slivers of
roving can be wound (after said roving has left the condenser), and-which-
tubes or rollers after being full are doffed and put in the creel of a spinning
frame.
The invention consists in the arrangement of a series of take-up tubes or rollers
on a sectional drum or delivery roller of the condenser of a carding machine, and
on a sectional drum parallel therewith, and in the combination and arrangement of
the various parts thereof, substantially as will be hereinafter more fully described
and finally embodied in the clauses of the claims.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a condenser of a carding machine provided with our
improvements, only those parts of the condenser being shown, which are necessary
to fully illustrate the nature of our said invention ;
Fig. 2 a detail side elevation of the left hand upper portion of Fig. 1;
Fig. 3 a front elevation of Fig. 2;
Fig. 4 a detail front elevation illustrating a modification;
Fig. 5 a detail side elevation of Fig. 4;
Fig. 6 a sectional view on the line of Fig. 4;
Fig. 7 a detail view showing the arrangement of the sectional rollers and their
guiding supports, as illustrated in Fig. 4, and
Fig. 8 a detail front elevation illustrating still another modification.
In said drawings (Figs. 1 to 3) A represents a portion of a finishing carding
machine and a the frame of the condenser in connection therewith.
The roving carrying aprons m, m 1, are supported on the rollers i 2, i and i 3, il
respectively, arranged in the frame a in the usual and well known manner.
On the shafts of the rollers i and il are mounted the grooved pulleys h1, h2
connected by the endless belt g, passing over the intermediate pulley hand over
the pulley e, which latter is secured on the shaft b, having its bearings in the
brackets 1, as clearly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. On said shaft bis
mounted the sectional delivery roller or drum c 1, which co-operates with a sectional
drum c 2, arranged parallel thereto and mounted on shaft bi, which latter has its
bearings in the brackets a 2, secured to and projecting from the condenser frame,
as clearly shown.
The drums c1 and c2 are operated by an endless belt d passing over pulleys
arranged on the ends of the shafts b and b 1. On said sectional drums are loosely
arranged a series of tubes or rollers 7, provided with heads or flanges f 1, adapted
to engage the space between adjoining sections of said drums cl and c2; said
rollers or tubes are adapted to be in frictional contact with said drums and thus
be operated by the latter. The roving from the apron m is delivered upon the
tubes or rollersf, whilst the roving from the apron m 1 is delivered upon the tubes
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page_text: or rollers 2, having flanges ƒ3, and being loosely arranged on the sectional
drums c 3 and c4, supported-in a manner similar to the one above described-in
the brackets a 3 and a 4 respectively, and receiving motion through belt d 1 or in
any desired manner.
In the modification illustrated in Figs. 4 to 7 inclusive, the sectional drums c1, c2
are done away with; the series of rollers are each provided with trunnions,
resting ou the L-shaped and reversed T-shaped inclined projecting portions a 6 of
the brackets a 5, which latter are adjustably arranged in and secured at certain
intervals to the cross bar a 7. Said cross bar is provided with an elongated slot a 8,
penetrated by the bolts a 10, which pass through the elongated slots a 9, arranged
in the brackets a 5. The series of rollers frest on and are in frictional contact
with the drum or delivery roller c 0 mounted on the shaft b, as clearly shown.
In
the modification illustrated in Fig. 8, the series of rollers fare done away with and
are substituted by a series of tubes f6, removably arranged on the shaft f5, which
latter rests on the inclined portions a 6 of the end brackets a 5. The rollers and
their trunnions, in Figs. 4 to 7, are free to revolve and are adapted to receive a
series of one or more threads of roving m, passing from the condenser over the
drum c 0, and while thus being built up-slowly slide upward on the inclined
portions a 6 of the guide brackets a 5, as will be manifest.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim, is:
1. In a carding machine, the combination with the frame of its condenser and
the roving delivery apron arranged therein, of a sectional drum or delivery roller
mounted in said frame and in front of the apron, a sectional drum also mounted in
said frame and in front of said drum or roller and parallel thereto, and a series of
tubes or rollers loosely arranged on said sectional drun and roller and in
frictional contact therewith, all said parts, substantially as and for the purposes
described.
2. In a carding machine, the combination with the frame of its condenser, and
the roving delivery apron arranged therein, of a sectional drum or delivery.roller
mounted in said frame and in front of the apron, a sectional drum also mounted
in said frame and in front of said drum or roller and parallel thereto, a series of
tubes or rollers loosely arranged on said sectional drum and roller and in frictional
contact therewith, and a head or flange on the ends of each tube or roller and
engaging between adjoining sections of the drum and frictional roller, all said
parts, substantially as and for the purposes described.
3. In a carding machine the combination with the frame of its condenser, and
the roving delivery apron arranged therein, of a shaft in front of said apron and
mounted in the frame, a sectional drum or delivery roller secured on said shaft,
a shaft in front of said sectional drum or roller and parallel thereto, a sectional drum
secured on said parallel shaft, and a series of tubes or rollers loosely arranged on
said sectional drum and roller and in frictional contact therewith, all said parts,
substantially as and for the purposes described.
4. In a carding machine the combination with the frame of its condenser, and
the roving delivery apron arranged therein, of a shaft in front of said apron and
mounted in the frame, a sectional drum or delivery roller secured on said shaft,
a shaft in front of said sectional drum or roller and parallel thereto, a sectional
drum secured on said parallel shaft, a series of tubes or rollers loosely arranged
on said sectional drum and roller and in frictional contact therewith, and a head or
flange on the ends of each tube or roller and engaging between adjoining sections
of the drum and frictional roller, all said parts, substantially as and for the
purposes described.
5. In a carding machine, the combination with the frame of its condenser, of a
sectional drum or delivery roller mounted in said frame, a sectional drum also
mounted in said frame in front of the said drum or roller and parallel thereto,

page_text: and a series of tubes or rollers loosely arranged on said sectional drum and roller
and in frictional contact therewith, all said parts, substantially as and for the
purposes described.
6. In a carding machine, the combination with the frame of its condenser, of a
sectional drum or delivery roller mounted in said frame, a sectional drum also
mounted in said frame in front of said drum or roller and parallel thereto, a series
of tubes or rollers loosely arranged on said sectional drum and roller and in
frictional contact therewith, and a head or flange on the ends of each tube or roller
and engaging between adjoining sections of the drum and frictional roller, all said
parts, substantially as and for the purposes described.
7. In a carding machine, the combination with the frame of its condenser, of
the drum or delivery roller mounted in said frame, a series of parallel guide
brackets projecting from said frame, and a series of rollers or tubes loosely mounted
on said guide brackets and in frictional contact with said drum or delivery roller,.
all said parts, substantially as and for the purposes described.
Dated this 4th day of January 1897
J.-P. BAYLY,
18 Fulham Place, London, W., Agent for the Applicants.