Cylinders with Card Fillets.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 17th May, 1887
Complete Left, 17th Feb., 1888
Complete Accepted, 23rd Mar., 1888
Cylinders with Card Fillets.
We NATHAN WHITLEY and FREDERICK WHITLEY THOMSON Card Manufacturers
and HENRY HOYLE Manager all of Brunswick Mills Halifax in the County of York,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improved apparatus for purpose aforesaid, and the object
is, to effect such operation without exposing the fillot to an uneven or undue strain,
consequent on the use of apparatus as heretofore constructed, and also to indicate the
degree of tension, on the fillet during the operation of covering a cylinder and to
dispense with certain parts hitherto in use.
The apparatus for the purpose aforesaid constructed according to this our said
invention consists of a carriage plate, operated or caused to traverse on a bed in front
of the card cylinder by screw, or the carriage plate may be caused to traverse by
means of gear winding pulley and cord or chain driven from the axis of the cylinder.
Upon the carriage plate rests, the bottom plate of a frame the plate of the frame
is hinged to the carriage plate at its back or edge nearest the cylinder to be covered.
The frame carries a fixed or nonrotating barrel around the circumference of which
is a spiral rim or worm of pitch about equal to the width of the foundation of the
widest fillet.
The barrel is at a slight angle or oblique to the cylinder to be covered.
Attached to the carriage plate is a vertical stud passing through a hole in the
bottom plate of the frame and on the stud is a spiral spring and adjusting lock nuts,
or a lever and weights may be substituted for the spring.
A bracket or arm of the frame carries alguide or trough having a moveable cover or
presser plate, the pressure upon which is determined and regulated by an adjustable
spring or weighted lever.
To the bottom plate of the frame is attached a finger the projecting end of which
is received in a slot or fork formed in the shorter arm of a lever, the upright arm
of which is tapered and forms a pointer or index finger which works for purpose
hereinafter described, radially along a radius dial or index plate.

page_text: The operation is as follows:—
The end of the fillet being passed into the guide and therein spirally around the
barrel until it reaches the cylinder to be covered and to which its end is secured.
The pressure plate of the guide and the pressure lever are then to be placed in
position and the pressure spring adjusted.
As the cylinder to be covered is caused to slowly revolve the pressure plate of the
guide together with the grip of the fillet on the barrel, puts tension on the fillet
accordingly to the pressure on the pressure plate by the lever and weight or spring.
The tension on the fillet tends to raise the frame on its hinges and against the
spiral spring or weighted lever and as the finger connected with the lever is attached
to the bottom plate of the frame just in proportion to the lift of the bottom, so will
the longer or upright arm of the lever indicated on the radius plate, the amount of
tension on the fillet, and to avoid or instantly give warning of any material variation
of tensile strain from that determined (arising from unseen causes), an electric bell
may be operated by contact of the index pointer of the lever above referred to.
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Town Hall Buildings, Halifax,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: Cylinders with Card Fillets.
We, NATHAN WHITLEY and FREDERICK WHITLEY THOMSON, Card Manufacturers,
and HENRY HOYLE, Manager all of Brunswick Mills, Halifax, in the County of York 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:-
This invention relates to improved apparatus for purpose aforesaid, and the object
is to effect such operation without exposing the fillet to an uneven or undue strain
consequent on the use of apparatus as heretofore constructed, and also to indicate
the degree of tension on the fillet during the operation of covering a cylinder and to
dispense with certain parts hitherto in use.
The apparatus for the purpose aforesaid constructed according to this our said
invention consists of a carriage plate operated or caused to traverse on a bed by a
screw, or the carriage plate may be caused to traverse by means of gear, winding
pulley, and cord or chain driven from the axis of the cylinder.
Upon the carriage plate rests a platform this platform is hinged to the carriage
plate at its back or edge nearest the cylinder to be covered.
The platform carries a fixed or non-rotating barrel around or partly around the
circumference of which, is a spiral rim or worm, of "pitch" about equal to the width
of the "foundation" of the widest fillet in ordinary use.
The barrel is at a slight angle or oblique to the cylinder to be covered.
Attached to the carriage plate is a vertical stud passing through a hole in the
platform, and on the stud are a spiral spring and adjusting lock nuts, or a lever and
weights may be substituted for the spring.
A bracket or arm attached to the barrel carries a guide or trough having a moveable
cover or presser plate, the pressure upon which is determined and regulated by an
adjustable spring.
To the platform is attached a stud, the projecting end of which works in a slot or
fork formed in the shorter arm of an L lever, the upright arm of which is tapered
and forms a pointer or index finger which works for purpose hereinafter described,
radially along a radius dial or index plate.
The operation is as follows-
The end of the fillet being passed into the guide and therefrom spirally around
the barrel until it reaches the cylinder to be covered, and to which its end is secured.
The pressure plate of the guide and the adjustable spring are then to be placed in
position and adjusted.
As the cylinder to be covered is caused to slowly revolve, the pressure plate of the
guide together with the grip of the fillet on the barrel puts tension on the fillet
according to the pressure on the presser plate by the spring.

page_text: of any material variation of tensile strain from that determined (arising from unseen
causes) an electric bell may be operated by contact of the index pointer of the L lever
above referred to with adjusting studs.
Such being the nature and object of this our said Invention, the following is a
complete description of same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of our improved apparatus.
Fig. 2 is a plan view of Fig. 1 also showing the bearing rest or slide bed.
Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the apparatus partly in section shewing a portion of
the cylinder covered, also the driving gear for imparting the requisite traversing
motion of the improved apparatus.
Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are details or parts of the apparatus shewn detached.
Fig. 7 is a plan view of the driving gear.
At 1 is the carriage plate which is mounted upon a gantry or slide bed 2 in which
is the screw 3 gearing with a worm wheel 4 by means of which the apparatus is
traversed along the gantry 2 so as to lay the card fillet 5 evenly upon the cylinder 6.
The platform 9 is hinged at 8 to the carriago plate 1.
At 10 is a fixed barrel around or partly around the circumference of which is a
spiral rim or worm 11 of "pitch" about equal to the width of the "foundation" of
the widest fillet in ordinary use.
The barrel 10 is at a slight angle to the cylinder 6 to be covered.
At 12 is a guide or trough through which the fillet 5 passes in its course to and
around the barrel 10, the trough 12 is provided with a cover or presser plate 13
which bears upon the card, and the pressure thereon is determined and regulated
by the spiral spring 14, and adjusting screw 15 carried by the standard and boss 16,
the platform 9 has, at its loose end a projecting stud 17 which works in the slot 18 of
the lever 19, the upper end or point of which acts as an indicator on the radius
dial or index plate 20 whereby the strain or tension on the fillet 5 is indicated, because
the barrel 10 is fast to the platform 9, and as the tension on the fillet, 5 is greater or
less so will the platform 9 be lifted on its hinge 8 more or less.
At 21 is a spiral spring (or it may be lever and weights) which as the platform 9
rises is thereby forced upwards and compressed against lock nuts on the upper end of
the spindle 22, and it is the yielding of the spring 21 which prevents undue strain
being put upon the fillet during the winding on, the exact amount of tension on the
fillet being indicated by the finger 19 on the radius dial or index plate 20.
At 23 is an electric battery connected to the bottom plate 1 by wire 24, the opposite
pole wire is 25, the insulation being at 26.
At 27, 28 are two adjustable stops. These stops are adjusted on the radius dial 20,
so that on the pointer 19 reaching either, the circuit will be completed, and a bell
rung, one stop indicating when the maximum tension to be put on the fillet is reached,
the other warning the attendant should the tension from slipping or other cause be
reduced below a desired limit.
The means by which the traversing screw 3 and worm wheel 4 are operated, consist
of the chain 29 driving the wheel 30 on the axis of the worm 3, the motion being
taken from the axis 31 of the cylinder 6 through the intervention of the train of
wheels shewn at Fig. 7, the gear being supported by the detachable frame 32, and is
temporarly applied to the carding engine for the purpose of driving the improved
apparatus for applying the card filleting to the cylinder 6 as described; and we would
have it understood that we lay no claim to such gearing, or to such bed or to the
method of traversing the carriage.

page_text: 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 we
claim is;
Firstly The improved apparatus comprising the barrel mounted upon the hinged
platform the spiral spring 21 (or weighted lever) dial and indicating finger with the
electric indicating appliances all in combination for purpose described and illustrated.
Secondly-The improved apparatus comprising the barrel mounted upon the hinged
platform the spiral spring 21 (or weighted lever) dial and indicating finger all in
combination and as described and illustrated.
Thirdly The improved apparatus comprising the barrel mounted upon the hinged
platform the spiral spring 21 (or weighted lever) electric indicating appliances, all in
combination, and as described and illustrated.
Fourthly The barrel 10 mounted upon a hinged platform in combination with the
spiral spring 21 (or weighted lever) as described and illustrated.
NATHAN WHITLEY.
F. W. THOMSON.
HENRY HOYLE.
By their Agent, Walter Brierley,
Town Hall Buildings, Halifax.
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