MENTS IN JOURNALS, SPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO MACHINES FOR CARDING WOOL, COTTON, SILK, AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I, WILLIAM EASTWOOD, of N° 16 Lansdowne Place, Bradford, in the County of
York, Wool Comber, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for IMPROVE-
MENTS IN JOURNALS, SPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO MACHINES FOR CARDING WOOL,
COTTON, SILK, AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS, to be as follows :— ·
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The object of this invention is to prevent the shaft near the Journals being
wrapped with wool or other fibrous materials, to prevent sand, grit, and wool,
getting into the Journal 'itself, as is the case with machines working with ordinary
Journals, and further to give more facilities for the setting of the cards.
I accomplish my object in the following manner;-
i By constructing an open Journal of such form, as will readily allow of a sleeve
or covering for the shaft of round form where fitted into the Journal and continued
right and left of the centre say for five or six inches or as long as is required, this
extra length of bearing allows of the setting of the cards with greater nicety than
has hitherto been accomplished, the shaft revolves inside this sleeve.
Within and near to each end of the sleeve or covering I make a circular recess,
the two recesses are connected by a groove of about the same depth for the
purpose of retaining the oil, my improved Journal requiring oiling only at long
intervals as the groove and recesses retain the lubricant."
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Dated this
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page_text: I, WILLIAM EASTWOOD of N° 16 Lansdowne Place, Bradford, in the County
of York, Wool Comber, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN JOURNALS SPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO MACHINES FOR CARDING
WOOL, COTTON, SILK, AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS, 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 prevent the shaft near the journals being
wrapped with wool or other fibrous material, to prevent the sand, grit and wool
getting into the journal itself as is the case with machines working with ordinary
journals, and further to give more facilities for setting the cards; and consists in
constructing an open journal somewhat after the form of a cup which will readily
allow the shaft sleeve or journal to adjust itself to the shaft, the sleeve or shaft
journal extending for some distance on each side of the cup, allows the card rollers
to be set to a greater nicety, prevents the fibre wrapping round the shaft, and by
cutting grooves in the sleeve the oil is retained.
In order that my invention may be better understood, I will describe the same
more in detail by aid of the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1. represents
the end elevation of my improved journal fixed in position. Fig. 2., is a front view
of the same. Fig. 3. is an enlarged sectional. detail of the journal, and Fig. 4. is a
plan of the same.
The open journal or cup A, is fitted on the bend pin B, which is secured to the
curved side plate C in the usual manner; and mounted in the open journal or
cup A, is the sleeve or shaft journal D, formed with a curved swell D¹ in the centre,
which fits easily in the hollow part of the open journal or cup A, and is provided
with a circular pin E at the bottom, which fits into a circular recess formed in
the bottom of the open journal or cup A, for the purpose of preventing the sleeve
or shaft journal D revolving along with the shaft F.
By mounting the card rollers in open journals as described, the sleeve or shaft
journals D adapt themselves with greater precision to the roller shafts when the
rollers are being adjusted; and by cutting one or more grooves in the interior of
the sleeve or shaft journals, they only require oiling at long intervals, as the
grooves retain the lubricant; and is therefore not absorbed by the fibre, nor does
grit get into the journal as is the case when the roller shafts run in open journals
of the ordinary construction; and the sleeve being stationery, the fibre does not
wrap around the same as with shafts mounted in the usual manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is;-Carding machine journals formed by the combination of an open
journal or cup A, with a long sleeve or shaft journal D, in which the shaft F
revolves, all arranged substantially in the manner described, and as illustrated by
the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 5th day of November 1884.