Improvements in the Feeding and Drafting Rollers to be Used or Applied to the Various Machines Employed in the Preparation and Combing of Flax, Wool, Silk, Woollen, or other Textile Material.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 18th June, 1887
Complete Left, 16th Mar., 1888
Complete Accepted, 27th Apr., 1888
Improvements in the Feeding and Drafting Rollers to be Used or
Applied to the Various Machines Employed in the Preparation
and Combing of Flax, Wool, Silk, Woollen, or other Textile
Material.
DANIEL BATEMAN BRIGGS Commission Wool Comber of Ludlam Street, Bradford,
County of York, and WILLIAM EASTWOOD Commercial Traveller of 31 Great George
Street, Leeds County of York, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
It consists in making the Feeding and Drafting Rollers (which work and rotate in
pairs together and parallel to each other and are placed in longitudinal or vertical
position suitable to their application to the numerous and varied machines for the
preparation and combing of Wools, Silks, Flax &c.) the bottom feeding or drafting
rollers are made or cast with half round lugs or buttons on and around the face or
external circumference of rollers at equal and regular distances and standing out or
protruding from the face of rollers, and are termed or called the driving or male
rollers, the corresponding top rollers are cast or made with hollows sunk or made in
the face or cuped out to receive the lugs of corresponding driving roller at equal and
regular distances and are termed the driven or female rollers.
Dated this 17th day of June 1887
DANIEL BATEMAN BRIGGS.
WILLIAM EASTWOOD.

page_text: Improvements in the Feeding and Drafting Rollers to be Used or
Applied to the Various Machines Employed in the Preparation
and Combing of Flax, Wool, Silk, Woollen, or other Textile
Material.
We, DANIEL BATEMAN BRIGGS, Commission Wool Comber, of Ludlam Street,
Bradford, in the County of York, and WILLIAM EASTWOOD, Commercial Traveller,
of 31 Great George Street, Leeds, in the County of York, 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 :—
This invention relates to certain improvements in the feeding and drafting rollers,
which work in pairs, of the numerous and varied machines used for the preparation
and combing of wool, silk, flax, and other textile fibres, and consists in replacing the
usual plain or fluted feeding and drafting rollers by our improved rollers.
The bottom roller we construct with a number of semi-spherical lugs or protrusions
placed at equal and regular distances on its periphery, and the upper roller we
construct with a number of hollows or indentations to receive the lugs or protrusions
of the lower roller.
In order that our invention may be more easily understood we append a sheet of
drawings in which Fig. 1 represents a front view of a pair of feeding or drafting
rollers constructed after our improved pattern, and Fig. 2 is a cross section on
line a-b in Fig. 1.
The lower roller A which we term the driving or male roller, we construct with a
number of semi-spherical lugs or protrusions B, placed at equal and regular distances
on its periphery, and the upper roller C, which we term the driven or female roller,
we construct with a number of indentations or hollows D to receive the lugs or
protrusions B of the male or driving roller A. These rollers wo mount in horizontal
or vertical journals as the case may be, exactly in the same manner as plain or fluted
rollers, and are applicable to any of the numerous and varied machines employed in
the preparation and combing of wool, silk, flax, or any other textile fibre, in which
the wool or other textile fibre has to pass between plain or fluted feeding or drafting
rollers, the advantage gained in using our improved rollers in place of the ordinary
plain or fluted rollers being due to the lugs or protrusions B of the driving or male
roller A pressing the wool or other textile fibre into the indentations or hollows D of
the driven or female roller C, whereby a greater quantity of wool or other textile
fibre can be drawn through the rollers with an increased length of sliver, and the
wear and tear to the leathers when used is far less than with the old plain or fluted
rollers.
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Fig. 3 shows a section of a gill box for wool with our improved rollers A and C
applied in place of the ordinary plain or fluted feeding and drafting rollers, the other
portions of the machine remaining identically the same; the rollers A and C being

page_text: equally applicable to any machine used for the preparation and combing of wool or
other textile fibre in which plain or fluted feeding or drafting rollers are used.
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 rollers A and C applied to any of the various machines employed in the
preparation and combing of wool, flax, silk, or other textile fibre, the roller A having
a number of lugs or protrusions on its periphery, and the roller C having a number
of indentations or hollows to receive the lugs or protrusions of the roller A, all
arranged substantially in the manner as shown and described, and for the purpose
herein set forth.