Improvements in Carding Engines.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 12th Aug., 1889-Accepted, 14th Sept., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Carding Engines.
I FREDERICK WILKINSON of 13 India Buildings, Cross Street, Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster Yarn Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to
be as follows:-
My present invention relates to the Invention for which I obtained Letters Patent
No. 2366 dated the 18th February 1886 and consists in certain improved or alternative
arrangements for some of the arrangements therein set forth.
In place of the spider wheels described in my said Patent I may employ a ring
of metal or other suitable material at each side of the carding engine to support the
ends of the flats; each of these rings is supported upon a grooved wheel or pulley
and other guides or upon two or more grooved wheels all secured adjustably to the
engine bend or framo so that by adjusting the position of these wheels or equivalents
the position of the flats may be adjusted concentrically to the card cylinder. When
the main cylinder shaft is supported in adjustable pedestals I may support each ring
on a fixed flange or equivalent stationary part or parts secured to or formed with the
engine bend which flange is turned concentric with the main cylinder. In this case I
should adjust the main cylinder to the flats and not the flats to the main cylinder as
in the previous instance.
The weight of the flats resting on the rings causes them, to revolve at the same
surface speed as that at which the flats travel and for the purpose of reducing the
diameter of the rings when the card clothing is ground I employ fine milling cutters
or other suitable tools mounted in adjustable bearings on the frame of the machine
by which means the revolving rings can be slowly reduced in diameter while the
card is in operation. The rings if made of metal may be covered with layers of
paper or other suitable material on which the flats bear.
After the two rings have been fitted in position and turned or ground until the
clothing on the flats and cylinder have been accurately adjusted
propose to fit
into each ring a finely divided scale the end of the scale being exactly flush with
the periphery of the ring. By an examination of the scales after any subsequent
grinding it is at all times possible to see whether the rings still correspond with one
another and further to note the duration of the card clothing.
Dated this Tenth day of November 1888.
H. B. BARLOW,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Carding Engines.
I, FREDERICK WILKINSON, of 13 India Buildings, Cross Street, Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Yarn Agent, 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:-
My present invention relates to the invention for which I obtained Letters Patent
No. 2366 dated the 18th February 1886 and consists in certain improved or alternative
arrangements for some of the arrangements therein set forth.
In place of the spider wheels described in ny said Patent I may employ a ring
of metal or other suitable material at each side of the carding engine to support the
ends of the flats; each of these rings is supported upon a grooved wheel or pulley
and other guides or upon two or more grooved wheels all secured adjustably to the
engine bend or frame so that by adjusting the position of these wheels or equivalents
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page_text: the position of the flats may be adjusted concentrically to the card cylinder. When
the main cylinder shaft is supported in adjustable pedestals 1 may support each ring
on a fixed flange or equivalent stationary part or parts secured to or formed with the
engine bend which flange is turned concentric with the main cylinder. In this case
I should adjust the main cylinder to the flats and not the flats to the main cylinder as
in the previous instance.
The weight of the flats resting on the rings causes them to revolve at the same
surface speed as that at which the flats travel and for the purpose of reducing the
diameter of the rings when the card clothing is ground I employ fine milling cutters
or other suitable tools mounted in adjustable bearings on the frame of the machine by
which means the revolving rings can be slowly reduced in diameter while the card
is in operation. The rings if made of metal may be covered with layers of paper or
other suitable material on which the flats bear as in my said previous Patent.
And in order that my invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect I will describe the accompanying Sheet of Drawings reference being had to the
figures and letters marked thereon.
Figure 1 is a side elevation and Fig. 2 a transverse vertical section illustrating the
application of my improvements to a carding engine.
In these views a designatos the main cylinder and 6 the cylinder shaft supported in
a bearing in the pedestal c; d is the ongine bend; d' the lower framing and e the
travelling flats; ✓ is the ring of metal or other suitable material or combination of
materials which I employ according to my present invention on each side of the
machine in lieu of the spider wheels or disc wheels described in the Specification to
my aforesaid Patent.
In the Drawing the ring f is shown supported upon three flanged pulleys 9 but it
might be supported upon more than three pulleys; or it might be supported upon
a fixed flange on the engine bend concentric to the main cylinder or equivalent
stationary part or parts provided that the main cylinder were mounted in adjustable
bearings as hereinbefore mentioned.
The weight of the flats resting on the rings f causes them to revolve with and at
the same surface speed as the flats.
For adjusting purposes each pulley g is mounted in a slot d radial to the axis of
the main cylinder and the perimeter of each ring f may be reduced when necessary
by grinding the same by means of a revolving milling cutter or grinding roller
mounted in a bracket j secured adjustably to the bend d. When grinding the ring f
I should prefer to place the grinding roller i opposite to one of the lower pulleys g.
After the two rings have been fitted in position and turned or ground until the
clothing on the flats and cylinder have been accurately adjusted I propose to fit radially
into each ring a finely divided scale the end of the scale being exactly flush with the
periphery of the ring. By an examination of the scales after any subsequent grinding
it is at all times possible to see whether the rings still correspond with one another
and further to note the duration of the card clothing.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The use and application as supports for the travelling top flats of two rings
mounted one on either side of the engine and arranged to revolve on adjustable
pulleys or other supporting surfaces as described at the same speed as that at which
the flats travel.
2. The combination with the travelling flats, of the rings f and the adjustable
pulleys g substantially as and for the purposes herein described with reference to the
Drawings annexed.
H. B. BARLOW,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.