Improvements in Carding Engines.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Aug., 1889-Accepted, 7th Sept., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Carding Engines.
Wo JOHN THOMPSON of the firm of Messieurs Curtis Sons and Company of
Phoenix Works Manchester, in the County of Lancaster Machine Makers and
THOMAS BARKER of the same place Foreman do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to the means of fixing the "mote knives" and the feed
rollers of carding engines, and of adjusting the same with regard to the surface of
the "taker-in."
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Usually the plummer-blocks" of the "taker-in" are bolted direct onto the side
frames of the engine, and the "mote knives" and the feed rollers are fixed to other
separate brackets also bolted to the said frame and when (to compensate for the
wear of the wire teeth) it became necessary to adjust the "taker-in'
main cylinder, this adjustment caused the "taker-in" to recede from the feed rollers
and "mote-krives" and these also consequently required separate re-adjustment with
regard to the "taker-in."
nearer to the
According to our invention we fit onto the upper side of the main framing at each
side of the engine a plate or slide which is provided with slots through which pass
bolts connecting the plates to the frame and at the same time allowing them to slido
thereon when the bolts are slackened. The front end of each slide is turned
downwards over the end of the frame and is provided with a set screw whereby its
position can be adjusted.
The plummer blocks of the "taker-in" are bolted to these slides (instead of being
bolted to the frame) and the "mote-knives" are carried in brackets also bolted to the
slides..
Upon the top of each slide is also bolted a second or upper slide which carries the
feed roller, and is capable of sliding upon the former by means of the bolts and slots.
It is also provided with a set screw wheroby its position can be adjusted.
The "mote-knives" are mounted in their brackets upon pivots at each end also
provided with set screws by means of which they can be set and fixed at a more or
less acute anglo and nearer to or further from the "taker-in."
Thus it will be evident that by merely turning the first named set screw the
taker-in," the "mote-knives" and the "feed roller" can be all set collectively
towards the main cylinder without disturbing their individual adjustment, and that
when necessary the individual adjustment of either of them can be separately
regulated in any required degree by means of their separate set screws.
Dated this 5th day of November 1888
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Carding Engines.
We JOHN THOMPSON of the firm of Messieurs Curtis Sons and Company of
Phoenix Works Manchester in the County of Lancaster Machine Makers and
THOMAS BARKER of the same place Foreman 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 :—
Our invention relates to the means of fixing the "mote knives" and the "feed
rollers" of carding engines and of adjusting the same with regard to each other and
to the surface of the "taker in."

page_text: The nature of the said invention and the manner in which the same is to be
performed or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference to
the drawing hereunto annexed and the following explanation thereof.
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The drawing represents in section so much of the feeding end of a carding engine
as is necessary to illustrate our invention, a being part of the side frame, b the
lap roller," the "feed roller," d the "mote knife and e the "taker-in.".
The dotted curved line shows the position of the "main-cylinder."
Usually the plummer blocks of the "taker-in" are bolted direct onto the side
frames of the engine, and the "mote knives" and the feed rollers are fixed to other
separate brackets also bolted to the said frame; and when (to compensate for the
wear of the wire teeth) it became necessary to adjust the "taker-in"
main cylinder this adjustment caused the "taker-in" to recede from the feed rollers
and "mote knives," and these also consequently required separate re-adjustment with
regard to the "taker-in."
nearer to the
According to our invention we fit onto the upper side of the main framing at each
side of the engine a plate or slide g which is provided with slots through which pass
bolts connecting the plates to the frame and at the same time allowing them to
slide thereon when the bolts are slackened.
The front end of each slide is turned downwards over the end of the frame a and
is provided with a set screw p whereby its position can be adjusted.
The plummer blocks of the "taker-in" e are bolted to the slides g (instead of
being, bolted to the frame) and the "mote-knives" d aro carried in brackets & also
bolted to the slides g.
Upon the top of each slide y is also bolted a second or upper slide which
carries the feed roller c, and is capable of sliding upon the former by means of
bolts m and slots. The slide is bolted to the "balloon plate" and is also provided
with a set screw o whereby its position can be adjusted.
The "mote-knives" d are mounted in their brackets upon pivots at each end,
and also provided with set screws by means of which they can be set at a more or
less acute angle and thus nearer to or further from the "taker-in" e and fixed by the
set screw g.
Thus it will be evident that by merely turning the first named set screw
the
"taker-in," the "mote-knives" and the "feed-roller" can be all set collectively
towards the main cylinder without disturbing their individual adjustment, and that
when necessary the individual adjustment of either of them can be separately
regulated in any required degree by means of their separate set screws.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what wo
claiin is-
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The construction and arrangement of parts substantially as hereinbefore described
and illustrated by the drawing annexed whereby the "taker-in" the mote knifo
and the feed roller can be separately and individually regulated and adjusted with
regard to each other and to the taker in, and that the whole arrangement can be
collectively adjusted with regard to the main cylinder without disturbing their
individual adjustment.
Dated this 2nd day of August 1889.
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for the Applicants.