IMPROVEMENTS IN CARD-SETTING MACHINES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William
Southowram, near Halifax, in
Barber and Charlton Barber, of
the County of York, Card Makers,
and Edward Baines, of the same Place, Card-setting Machine
Tenter, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CARD-SETTING
MACHINES."
Sealed the 5th March 1872, and dated the 8th September 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Barber,
Charlton Barber, and Edward Baines at the Office of the Com-
missioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 8th September
1871.
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We, WILLIAM BARBER and CHARLTON BARBER, of Southowram,
near Halifax, in the County of York, Card Makers, and EDWARD
BAINES, of the same Place, Card-setting Machine Tenter, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CARD-
SETTING MACHINES," to be as follows:-
or
This Invention relates chiefly to machines for setting "fillets"
narrow strips of leather cloth or other material used for the manufacture

page_text: Thirdly. We mount our ripping and guiding apparatus and our
crookers upon the same plate so-that both work in the same slot or
slide bed, and are both adjusted by one bolt or set screw at any required
angle, by which means we obtain a firm and steady movement of the
crookers.
Fourthly. We apply all or any of the above improvements to
machines for the setting of any other description of cards.
crookers.
Fourthly. We apply all or any of the above improvements to
machines for the setting of any other description of cards.
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and steady movement of the
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Barber, Charlton Barber, and Edward
Baines in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 8th March 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
BARBER, and CHARLTON BARBER, of Southowram, near Halifax, in the
County of York, Card Makers, and EDWARD BAINES, of the same Place,
Card-setting Machine Tenter, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said William Barber, Charlton Barber,
and Edward Baines, Her special licence that we, the said William
Barber, Charlton Barber, and Edward Baines, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said William Barber,
Charlton Barber, and Edward Baines, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times thereafter during the 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 CARD-SETTING
MACHINES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
William Barber, Charlton Barber, and Edward Baines, our executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or

page_text: 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 we, the said William Barber, Charlton Barber,
and Edward Baines, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement and
accompanying two Sheets of Drawings (that is to say) :-
or
This Invention relates chicfly to machines for setting "fillets "
narrow strips of leather, cloth, or other material used for the manu-
facture of cards, but is applicable also to machines for the manufacture
of other descriptions of cards.
Heretofore machines for the purpose of setting "fillets" have been
constructed and operated by two methods, namely, one where the head-
work traverses or is moved across the leather, cloth, or other material,
by being caused to move backwards and forwards before it by means of
a screw motion, and the other, where the headwork remains stationary,
and the leather, cloth, or other material is caused to move backwards
and forwards before the headwork by means of what is technically
known as a cam wheel," and in the latter method separate cam
wheels" of different and suitable forms must be provided, and a change
"cam wheel" used whenever a change either in the width of the rib or
twill of a fillet is required.
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In both the above methods the portion of the headwork known as the
'setting part" or apparatus is carried either on slide plates or on barrels
or sliding tubes, and the nipping and guiding apparatus and the crookers
are fixed separately and require separate adjustment.
Now our improvements consist,—
Firstly. In dispensing entirely with the use of "cam wheels" for
regulating the width of fillets. This is effected by causing the leather,
cloth, or other material to be embraced in a suitable frame moving
backwards and forwards before the headwork by means of a screw shaft
having suitable intermittent and reversible or reversing motions, and
capable of being regulated and adjusted so as to alter and reverse at any
desired point or place according to the width of the leather, cloth, or

page_text: other material embraced in the frame. In the manufacture of ribbed,
filleting such leather, cloth, or other material can be set its entire
width at each traverse of the frame, and afterwards cut into strips of
one, two, three, or more ribs, as required, whereby the waste in paring
edges is greatly reduced.
Secondly. Instead of using the ordinary kind of setting apparatus
we mount our setting apparatus on the top ends of levers, the bottom
ends whereof work on a pin or stud, which is fixed at a point beneath
about in a vertical line with the point at which the teeth are intro-
duced, into the leather, cloth, or other material, whereby the wear by
friction, which is great in the ordinary setting apparatus, is thus'
avoided.
Thirdly. We mount our nipping and guiding apparatus and our
crookers. upon the same plate, so that both work in the same slot
or slide bed, and are both adjusted by one bolt or set screw at any
required angle, by which means we obtain a firm and steady move-
ment of the crookers..
Fourthly. We apply all or any of the above improvements to
machines for the setting of any other description of cards. By means
of these improvements we are enabled to run such setting machines
at a greater speed and consequently to produce a greater amount of
work in a given time.
Such being the nature and object of this our said Invention, we will
now proceed to describe the same in detail, and in order that the
improvements may be clearly understood we have hereunto annexed
two Sheets of Drawings, and have marked the same with figures and
letters of reference, the same letter referring to the same part in the
various views or Figures.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a machine constructed in accordance
with this our said Invention. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same.
Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken through the line A, B, in Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is a detail or detached plan view shewing apparatus for
effecting the traverse of the guides and fillet. Fig. 5 is an end view
of Fig. 4.
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At A, Figs. 1 and 3, is shewn a frame, the sides a of which are
moveable, and may by means of the adjusting or nip, screws a' be set so
as to receive and embrace any width of leather or other material a² to

page_text: be set with cards. The frame is caused (by the screw B, actuated by
catches and catch wheels hereafter described,) to traverse backwards
and forwards, conveying the material to and fro before the ordinary
headwork C of the machine. The screw B has intermittent and
reversible or reversing motion obtained through the agency of the
catches D and D¹, and catch wheels E and E¹, the latter wheels
being on the screw shaft E². The catches are worked by means of
the eccentrics F and F¹, imparting to the screw B the intermittent and
reversing motion previously referred to, and as the frame A is connected
with and to the screw B by means of the nut G working on the said
screw, the desired motion of the slide frame A (and material held
thereby) is obtained. The degree of traverse is regulated and adjusted
by means of the stops H and H³ (see Fig. 4), which are set and
adjustable on a rod H², on which is also set an adjustable clip H.
On the nut G is fixed a stand H', which by the motion of the said nut
comes into contact with the said stops H and H' (alternately), thereby
causing the clip H³ to operate a slide boss I, on which are fingers I'
and I, bringing them alternately into position for contact with the
tappets J. and J¹ fixed on the driving shaft K, which tappets raise the
catches D and D' (see Figs. 1 and 2) by means of the arms D², D³, and D',
alternately, clear of the catch wheels E and E', which said wheels are
actuated by the catches D and D¹ and tappets F and F. These catches
are held out of gear by pins D³ and D projecting from the said
catches D and D' so as to secure a traverse according to the width of
"fillet" or material to be set with cards. The setting apparatus C we
mount on the top ends of the levers J' and J³, the bottom ends of which
work on the pin or stud L, which is fixed at a point about vertically
under the place where the teeth M are introduced into the leather,
cloth, or other material. The nipping and guiding apparatus N and
the crookers R are mounted on the plate S working in the slide
bed T which is secured, to the bracket U, so that both nippers and
crookers work in the said slide bed, which is set or adjusted on the
bracket U by means of the adjusting bolt and nut W to any
required angle whereby a steady and firm movement of the crookers R
is secured. The motion of the said crookers is obtained from the cam X
fixed on the driving shaft K, actuating a lever X', which lever is fixed
on one end of a shaft X², on the other end of which is fixed a lever Y,
to which is attached a rod Y¹, connected to the plate S, aided by the
spring Z:

page_text: Having thus fully described the nature of our said Invention, and
shewn by Drawings in what manner the same is to be or may be
performed or carried into practise, we would have it understood that we
do not confine ourselves to the precise details in the construction of card-
setting machines as herein shewn and described, but what we claim as of
our Invention, and believe to be new is,-
Firstly. The application and use of a frame for embracing and
traversing the material to be "set," actuated and adjustable, as and for
the purpose herein fully described.
Secondly. The application and use of levers for carrying the setting
apparatus, as herein fully described and illustrated.
Thirdly. Mounting the nipping and guiding apparatus and crookers
upon the same plate, working in the same slot or slide, and adjustable
by set screw, as herein fully described and illustrated.
Lastly. The general construction, combination and arrangement of
mechanism, as comprised under the several headings or parts, and set
forth as our improvements in the above description, and fully shewn in
the Drawings.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Barber, Charlton Barber,
and Edward Baines have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Twentieth day of February, in the year of our Lord One thou-
sand eight hundred and seventy-two.
WILLIAM BARBER.
(L.S.)
CHARLTON BARBER. (L.S.)
EDWARD BAINES.
(L.S.)
Witness,
W*. TASKER,
Tasker & Brierley,
Patent Agents,
Halifax & Bradford.