Improvements in Apparatus for Stripping the Flats of Carding Engines.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Sept., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 1st May, 1900-Accepted, 2nd June, 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Stripping the Flats of Carding
Engines.
I, JAMES WILLIAMS, of Springfield Works, Springfield Lane, Salford, in the
County of Lancaster, Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for stripping the revolving
flats of carding engines.
It has been specially designed and arranged to meet the requirements of the
newest or latest make of cards in which the wire fillet on the flats is brought
close to the edge of the. working surface leaving no room on the face of the
flat against which an adjusting or regulating screw can bear.
It consists essentially in the combination with a stripper comb mounted in
bearings or brackets sliding upon a fixed bracket and provided with an adjust-
able distance screw of a pivoted or swivelling plate or bracket bearing against
the face of the working surface with which the distance screw engages.
I mount the stripper comb in sliding blocks or brackets which are held or
pressed in one direction by a spring or weight the brackets resting upon fixed
brackets bolted to the card sides. These brackets are provided with a distance
screw and are held up to their work by spring or weight.
- In front of the bracket I pivot a plate one side of which successively bears
against the working surfaces of the flats as they advance and against the other side
the distance screw bears.
The swivelling plate is preferably shaped on one side with a step or an incline
to engage the working surface of the flat and is preferably pivoted to an arm
and stud affixed to the fixed bracket which supports the sliding comb brackets.
The swivelling plate may however be supported in any other way or may be
pivoted by a suitable ball and socket pin or other joint to the end of the distance
screw.
Dated this 15th day of September 1899.
Improvements in Apparatus for Stripping the Flats of Carding
Engines.
I, JAMES WILLIAMS, of Springfield Works, Springfield Lane, Salford, in the
County of Lancaster, Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
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page_text: 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 improvements in apparatus for stripping the revolving
flats of carding engines.
It has been specially designed and arranged to meet the requirements of the
newest or latest make of cards in which the wire fillet on the flats is brought
close to the edge of the working surface leaving no room on the face of the
flat against which an adjusting or regulating screw can bear.
It consists essentially in the combination with a stripper comb mounted in
bearings or blocks sliding upon a fixed bracket and provided with an adjustable
distance screw or stud of a pivoted or swivelling plate or wedge interposed
between such adjustable screw or stud and the working surface of the flats and
bearing against the latter.
It will be fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1. Side elevation showing the plate or wedge in position while the flat
is being stripped.
Fig. 2. Plan.
Fig. 3. Front elevation of end of flat and the plate or wedge.
Fig. 4. Side elevation showing the position of the plate or wedge when the
flats are moved out of the path of the stripping comb.
Fig. 5.. Side elevation showing modified arrangement of lever or link for carrying
the plate or wedge.
Fig. 6. Plan of same..
Fig. 7. Front elevation of the plate or wedge and the lever or link by which
it is carried.
The stripper comb A is mounted to oscillate in bearings in sliding blocks B
which are held or forced in the direction of the flats C by a spring D which may
be of any suitable form or by a weight or its equivalent. The blocks B. rest upon
a fixed bracket E upon which they are free to slide and secured thereon by a
set screw & or otherwise. The bearing blocks B are each provided with an
adjustable distance screw or stud by which the stripper comb is maintained
at any desired distance from the flat.
Between the end of the adjustable screw or stud F and the flat I pivot or hinge
a swivelling plate or wedge G one surface of which bears against the working
surfaces of the flats successively as they advance or travel forward across the
path of the stripper comb A and against the other side of the swivelling plate or
wedge the end of the adjustable distance screw or stud F bears.
The swivelling plate or wedge G is preferably shaped on the side next the flats
with a step or incline at g to engage or bear upon the working surface of
the flats to compensate for the heel or bevel of the Hats and maintain the comb A
in the proper position relative to the wires of the flats during the whole period of
stripping.
The swivelling plate or wedge G may be pivoted (by any suitable swivelling
joint) to the end of the adjustable distance screw or stud F preferably by means
of a pivoted stem gl clamped to the head of screw F as shown in Figs. 1 to 4.
Or it may be pivoted on a stud. H tó a swivelling arm or lever h mounted upon
a fixed stud h¹ bolted to the bracket E or it may be mounted in any other way
to act freely between the end of the screw or stud F and the end of the flat C.
Clamped to the head of the screw F is a stem gl carrying a roller g² which presses
against the back of the plate G see Figs. 5 and 6.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
1. In apparatus for stripping the flats of revolving cards the combination with
the stripper comb journalled in sliding bearing blocks and a distance screw

page_text: or stud adjustably fitted thereto of a swivelling plate or wedge interposed between
the end of the adjustable screw or stud and bearing against the working surface
of the flats substantially as described.
2. Apparatus for stripping the flats of revolving carding engines constructed
with an oscillating plate or wedge pivoted to the end of an adjustable distance
screw or stud carried by the bearing block or between it and the flat substantially
as described.
3. Apparatus for stripping the flats of revolving carding engines having the
several parts constructed and arranged in combination substantially as described
and shown.