Improvements in Machines for Disintegrating Peat and other Fibres and for like purposes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Improvements in Machines for Disintegrating Peat and other Fibres
and for like purposes.
We, SAMUEL CAREY ROGERS GAUNTLETT, of Yerbury Mills, Trowbridge, in the
County of Wilts, Machinist, and JAMES LEECH BOTTOMLEY, of 7 Leamington
Avenue, Didsbury, Nr. Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manager, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in the arrangement and construction of
machines for carding opening up or tearing cotton, silk, wool, hemp, flax, jute,
peat, or any other fibres; or yarns spun from or waste from such materials, the
bject of our invention being to produce a machine in which a slow motion can be
given to the feeding gear, without the necessity for the employment of a number of
train wheels belts or chains now generally employed upon machines used for
carding or disintegrating these materials.
In carrying our invention into effect as applied to an opening or disintegrating
Eachine we employ the usual cylinder having spikes or teeth of any suitable form
rranged all around the periphery. We mount this cylinder or drum upon a
central axle running upon bearings within the framing of the machine, and we
cover the cylinder as far round as may be desired with a casing having spikes
arranged upon the inner surface, these spikes being placed so as to suit the spikes
or tearers mounted upon the cylinder. We form the teeth or spikes either as
separate individual points, or we may arrange strips or bars which we provide with
a number of teeth and attach these bars or strips to the casing, and to the drum,
by screws, or other ordinary fastening appliances. We feed the material to be
operated upon into the cylinder and casing by. means of spiked or fluted rollers or
roller mounted outside the cylindrical casing of the machine and we give motion
to this spiked roller by means of a double worm and worm wheel arrangement of
gearing communicated from the main or central axle of the machine. By means
of this double worm and worm wheel combination we are enabled to drive the
cller at a slow speed with a minimum amount of gearing and we are enabled to
cbviate the employment of the ordinary train of teethed wheels, chains or pulleys
now found necessary when constructing machines for similar purposes.
We feed our machine by means of any ordinary feed apron or travelling belt
passing through a trough or slide in the usual manner, the trough or slide being
carried from the framework of the machine and the belt revolving or moving upon
rollers mounted conveniently thereon.
Dated thio 4th day of September 1896
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents.

page_text: Improvements in Machines for Disintegrating Peat and other Fibres
and for like purposes.
We, SAMUEL CAREY ROGERS GAUNTLETT, of Yerbury Mills, Trowbridge, in the
County of Wilts, Machinist, and JAMES LEECH BOTTOMLEY, of 7 Leamington
Avenue, Didsbury, near Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manager, do
bereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
Ferformed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
.
Our invention relates to improvements in the arrangement and construction of
machines for carding opening up or tearing cotton, silk, wool, hemp, flax, jute peat,
or any other fibres, or yarns spun from or waste from such materials the object of
my invention being to produce a machine in which a slow motion can be given to
the feeding gear, without the necessity for the employment of a number of train
wheels belts or chains now generally employed upon machines used for carding or
disintegrating these materials.
In the two accompanying sheets of explanatory drawings Figure 1 is a side
elevation and Figure 2 a plan of our improved machine.
In carrying my invention into effect I employ the usual cylinder A having
spikes or teeth of any suitable form arranged all around the periphery. I mount
this cylinder or drum A upon a central axle B running upon bearings 6 within
the framing C of the machine, and I cover the cylinder as far round as may be
desired with a casing having spikes arranged upon the inner surface, these
spikes being placed so as to suit the spikes or tearers mounted upon the cylinder A.
1 form the teeth or spikes either as separate individual points, or I may arrange
strips or bars which provide with a number of teeth and attach these bars or
strips to the casing, and to the drum, by screws or other ordinary fastening
appliances. I feed the material to be operated upon into the cylinder and casing
by means of spiked or fluted rollers or roller E mounted outside the cylindrical
casing of the machine and I give motion to this spiked roller by means of a double
worm and worm wheel arrangement of gearing FF FF communicated from the
main or central axie B of the machine. By means of this double worm and
worm wheel combination F, I am enabled to drive the roller E at a slow speed with
a minimum amount of gearing and I am enabled to obviate the employment of
the ordinary train of teethed wheels, chains or pulleys now found necessary when
constructing machines for similar purposes.
I feed my machine by means of any ordinary feed apron or travelling belt G
passing through a trough or slide H in the usual manner, the trough or slide H
being carried from the framework of the machine and the belt revolving or moving
upon rollers K mounted conveniently thereon.
I do not limit the application of my improved driving arrangement of roller
to machines which are to be employed for disintegrating or tearing fibrous
materials only, but I employ the same simple form of driving and transmitting
gear on any machines which are now arranged with train wheels belts or chains
for the purpose of transmitting gear from one part of such machine to another.
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 clan is;
1. The improvements in machines for tearing or disintegrating peat or other
fibrous material substantially as hereinbefore described.

page_text: 2. In machines for disintegrating or tearing peat or other fibrous material the
construction and arrangement of slow speed worm driven feeding mechanism
substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and as illustrated
in the accompanying drawings.
D
1000
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents.