IMPROVEMENTS IN FALLERS USED IN THE PREPARING OF FLAX, SILK, WOOL, OR OTHER FIBROUS "
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Walter Bradley, of Bradford, in the county of
York, Machine Wool Comb Maker for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
FALLERS USED IN THE PREPARING OF FLAX, SILK, WOOL, OR OTHER FIBROUS
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Walter Bradley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th July 1883.
JOHN WALTER BRADLEY of Bradford in the county of York, Machine wool
Comb Maker IMPROVEMENTS IN FALLERS USED IN THE PREPARING OF FLAX,
SILK, WOOL, OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
"
My invention consists in the construction of Fallers with, round, flat, or other
shaped pins inserted through the Faller stocks instead of inserting the pins in
plates of brass and soldering the same to the stocks; by which means I construct
Fallers of superior manufacture and prevent the breakages so often taking place
in Fallers heretofore employed.
For this purpose the faller's stock is partly cut out leaving a bar through which
I drill a series of holes and through which are inserted the pins, which are first
passed in the recess cut out, and then through the holes in the bar and therein
tirnly secured
By my system of cutting out the faller stocks, I prevent the points of the pins
striking against the other faller when rising in the box by the action of the cam;
thereby preventing the usual frequent breakages of the gills and of the pin
points.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said John Walter Bradley in the Patent Office on the 26th January
1884.
JOHN WALTER BRADLEY of Bradford in the county of York, Machine Wool
Comb Maker IMPROVEMENTS IN FALLERS USED IN THE PREPARING OF FLAX,
SILK WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
"J
The said invention consists in the construction of fallers with round, flat or
other suitably shaped pins inserted through the fallor stocks instead of inserting
the pins in plates of brass and soldering the same to the stocks, by which means
I construct fallers of superior manufacture and prevent the breakages so often
taking place in fallers as heretofore employed.
For this purpose the faller stock is partly cut out leaving a bar through which
I drill a series of holes in which are inserted the pins which are first passed
through the recess cut out and then through the holes in the bar and therein
firmly secured. By this method of cutting out the faller stocks I prevent the
points of the pins striking against the other faller when rising in the box by the
action of the cam; thereby preventing the usual frequent breakages of the gills
and of the pin points.
In order to enable my improvements to be fully understood I will proceed to
describe the same by reference to the accompanying drawing in which figure 1,
represents a side elevation of a faller stock having single pins and constructed
according to my invention; figure 2, is a transverse section of the same; figure 3,
is a plan of the underside of the faller stock; figure 4, represents a side elevation
of a faller stock in which double pins are inserted; figure 5, is a transverse section
of the same and figure 6, is a plan of the under side of the faller stock. Similar
letters of reference are used in all the figures to represent similar parts.
In figures 1, 2, and 3 A, is the faller stock partly cut out at B, and C, as shewn
leaving the bar D, through which is drilled a series of holes in which are inserted
the pins E, firmly secured therein. In figures 4, 5 and 6 which represent views
of a faller stock having a double row of pins, the stock is partly cut out as herein-
before described leaving the bar D, in which is drilled the series of holes for the
pins E and F; the plate C, is left with the bar D, projecting on each side so that
the holes of the pins may be drilled on each side of the plate C, into the bar D.
By this arrangement of cutting out the faller stock I prevent the points of the
pins from striking against the other faller when rising in the box by the action of
the cam and thereby prevent frequent breakage of the gills and pin points.
Having thus described the nature of my invention and the manner of performing
the same what I claim is :-
The construction and employment of fallers having the stock partly cut out
leaving a bar through which is drilled a series of holes in which are inserted
round, flat or other shaped pins for single or double rows substantially as and for
the purpose herein before described and represented in the several figures of the
accompanying drawing.
In witness whereof I tho said John Walter Bradley have hereto set my hand
and seal this twenty-fourth day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty four