IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR CARDING WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Howard Blamires, of Huddersfield, in
the County of York, Woollen Spinner and Manufacturer, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR CARDING WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES."
Sealed the 7th March 1871, and dated the 9th September 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Howard Blamires
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 9th September 1870.
I, THOMAS HOWARD BLAMIRES; of Huddersfield, in the County of York,
Woollen Spinner and Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR CARDING WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates generally to what is technically known as the
"feed motion" of carding engines or the means of supplying the wool
or other fibrous substances to the machine to be carded thereby, and

page_text: more particularly in this case it relates to improved means or method
of taking the partially carded wool or other fibrous substance from the
scribbler or first carder in such manner that it may be transferred and
supplied to another, or second, or third carder, uniformly, regularly, or
evenly in a soft, loose, or untwisted state.
The improvements consist in the employment of a modified arrange-
ment of the apparatus well known as the "Scotch feed motion" which
comprises a pair of fluted rollers mounted on a carriage caused to
traverse or travel to and fro in front of the doffer cylinder, or the delivery
end of the scribbler to receive the partially carded fibrous substance and
lay it in regular layers upon a creeper or endless apron either straight
or diagonal. Also in the employment in combination with and imme-
diately in front of the aforesaid apparatus an arrangement of rollers
suitable to wind the same soft material into a lap or roll the breadth of
the second or finishing engine. And in the transferring of these rollers
-or-laps-to-feed-another carding engine, I place one or more rolls together
or side by side to feed from so as further to cqualize the feed or supply
of the wool or other fibrous substances, by this means I disconnect the
engines and gain other advantages.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Howard Blamires in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 9th March 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
HOWARD BLAMIRES, of Huddersfield, in the County of York, Woollen
Spinner and Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-fourth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Thomas Howard Blamires, Her special licence
that I, the said Thomas Howard Blamires, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas Howard Blamires, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the

page_text: term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
OR APPLICABLE TO MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR CARDING WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS
SUBSTANCES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas
Howard Blamires, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to
be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Howard Blamires, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is. to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in aud
by the following statement and accompanying Sheets of Drawings, that
is to say:-
This Invention relates generally to what is technically known as the
"feed motion " of carding engines or the means of supplying the
wool or other fibrous substances to the machine to be carded thereby,
and more particularly in this case it relates to improved means or
methods of taking the partially carded wool or other fibrous substance
from the scribbler or first carder in such manner that it may be
transferred and supplied to a second or third carder uniformly, regularly,
or evenly in a soft, loose, or untwisted state.
The improvements consist in the employment of a modified arrange-
ment of the apparatus well known as the "Scotch feed motion," which
comprises a pair of fluted rollers mounted on a carriage caused to traverse
or travel to and fro in front of the doffer cylinder, or the delivery end of
the scribbler, to receive the partially carded fibrous substance and lay it
in regular layers upon a creeper or endless apron either straight or
diagonal. Also in the employment in combination with and imme-
diately in front of the aforesaid apparatus an arrangement of rollers
suitable to wind the said partially carded substance in the soft state
into a lap or roll the breadth of the second or finishing engine. And in
the transferring of these rolls or laps to feed another carding engine, I
place one or more rolls together or side by side to feed from so as
further to equalize the feed or supply of the wool or other fibrous

page_text: In order that this Invention may be clearly understood I herein give
reference to the accompanying two Sheets of Drawings illustrating the
same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
"
Fig. 1 represents a portion of the side elevation of the delivery end
of a carding engine, technically called a " scribbler or first carder, with
my improvements applied thereto; Fig. 2 is a portion of the opposite side
elevation, and Fig. 3 is the front elevation of same, partly in section,
taken through the dotted line A, B. In the former Figs. C is the
ordinary doffer cylinder mounted on the framework D of the carder in
the usual manner; E, are the pair of fluted rollers mounted on a
carriage F, caused to travel to and fro on rails_G-and-G₁-in-front of the
_ doffer-cylinder by means of the endless belt and finger H, or may be
moved by rack and mangle wheel motion as usual. The carded fibre
as it is doffed or stripped from the doffer cylinder falls upon an endless
travelling belt I which conducts it to a pair of rollers J, and passing or
being delivered from which it is conducted by rollers K, K', and K²,
and guide K³ to the said fluted rollers E, which by their travel to and
fro in the usual manner and by aid of additional plain rollers E' operated
in conjunction with the said fluted rollers they lay it upon a creeper or
endless apron L which carries it forward between a series of toothed
wheels M which press the layers into each other in a zig-zag manner,
and thereby cause them to adhere together forming a mat or matted web
or sheet which thence passes to the rollers N and N', and by them it is
wound upon the roller P forming a lap or roll Q. The wheels M are
shewn in detail at Fig. 4 on their shafts in the manner in which they
work. The sliver is maintained at an equal tension by means of the
jointed arm R which also forms rotary shafts for driving the fluted
rollers E and the conducting rollers K, K', and K for carrying and
driving the sliver. This arm or shaft R is supported in long bosses R¹
and R², the former being hinged on the shaft of the roller J, and the
latter on the shaft of one of the fluted rollers E, and it is jointed or
connected by a joint piece R³, the pin of which forms the axis of the
roller K. Rotary motion is communicated to the fluted rollers and
the conducting rollers from the roller J by means of bevil gear S and
the arm or shaft R which is in two parts jointed at Rs, the peculiar

page_text: construction and arrangement of which joint is shewn at Figs. 5 and 6
full size, wherein the joint pin forms the stud for the roller K to rotate
upon and a pulley on the said roller by means of cords gives motion to
the rollers K and K2, or instead of gearing and jointed shaft as here
shewn the fluted rollers may be driven by endless cords or chains from
the said roller J, but I prefer shaft and gearing as being a positive motion.
And instead of the rollers K' and K2 I may use an endless sheet to
conduct the sliver from the rollers J to the rollers E, and which rollers
instead of being fluted may be plain rollers, or this pair of rollers may
be dispensed with by the said sheet being carried over one roller. The
length of the roller P and the travel of the fluted rollers E are determined
and arranged so as to produce a lap or roll of the length suitable to the
width or breadth of the cards of the engines to be fed therewith. As
the said laps or rolls are produced they are transferred or removed to
any convenient place and stored up ready to feed with, and in the
feeding I use two or more of such rolls together so that by their inter-
mixing they equalize the feed or render the supply more uniform or
The reciprocatory motion of the carriage F is effected by the belt
and pin H entering a slot in the carriage frame, but a mangle wheel.
motion or rack and pinion or means similar to those now in use for
working the apparatus known as the "Scotch feed motion" may be used.
The creeper or endless apron with the rollers for effecting the formation
of the laps or rolls of the carded fibre receive motion from the carder
by the shaft U, worm and wheel V, shaft and gearing W which will be
readily understood. Instead of the rollers for forming the laps or rolls
being arranged in front of and parallel with the doffer as shewn they
may be placed in any other convenient position and manner.
even.
By means of this Invention the scribbler carder can be worked
without the second or third carders being obliged to be worked in
connection therewith, as the rolls when formed in the manner above
described can be stored up till wanted to be applied for feeding the said
second or third carders. Also the fibre when treated in this manner is
void of twist and in a soft loose state in the lap or rolls, and the method
of supplying two or more together effects a better mixing of fibres and
thereby more even yarn can be obtained.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and shewn
by Drawings in what manner the same is performed or put into practise

page_text: I would have it understood that I do not confine myself to the precise
details shewn and described, but what I claim as my Invention is,―
Firstly. The combination of mechanism in manner substantially as
shewn and described or in such manner that laps or rolls to feed other
engines can be made from slivers or narrow strips of fibre as it is taken
off the doffer of a scribbler carding engine in a soft or untwisted state,
and whereby the several carding engines can be worked, disconnected, or
independently of each other.
Secondly. The application and use of rotary shafts for carrying and
driving the sliver, also toothed wheels for matting the same together as
applied to a soft sliver "Scotch" or "cross feed" motion for carding
engines.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Howard Blamires, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of March, in
the year of our Lord_One_thousand-cight-hundred-and-seventy-
one.
THOMAS HOWARD BLAMIRES. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered
.
by the within-named Thomas
Howard Blamires in the
presence of
WM. TASKER,
Patent Agent,
Halifax & Bradford.