IMPROVEMENTS IN FEEDING MACHINES FOR FEEDING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES TO .CARDING MACHINES
Year: 1884

page_text: I, WILLIAM CLIFFE of Ley Moor, Golcar, Yorkshire, Machine Maker do hereby
declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FEEDING MACHINES
FOR FEEDING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES TO .CARDING MACHINES
to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to construct and arrange feeding machines so
that the fibre delivered therefrom shall be free and open, and regular in quantity.
To carry out my invention I employ the usual hopper and the spiked lattice
sheet, but I make the upper roller over which the lattice sheet travels of much
larger diameter than usual; whereby it becomes a kind of toothed cylinder or
swift.
In contact with this false swift I place a swift proper, which is covered with
teeth and caused to run in the same direction as the false swift, so that the teeth
of each roller run in an opposite direction whereby the loose portion of fibre is
stripped from the false swift and carried around by the proper swift until it is met
by a rotary brush or its equivalent, running in contact with the teeth of both
swifts which removes the fibre therefrom, allowing it to drop into the ordinary
weighing scale, or onto another Creeper sheet placed to receive it. A vibrating
beater or comb is placed in connection with the swift and is employed for removing
the superfluous fibre which the said swift may be carrying around.

page_text: MELE
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I, WILLIAM CLIFFE, of Ley Moor, Golcar, Yorkshire, Machine Maker do hereby
declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FEEDING MACHINES
FOR FEEDING_WOOL, AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES TO CARDING MACHINES,"
and in what manner_the_same is to be performed,-to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement: S
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The object of my invention is to construct and arrange feeding machines so that
the fibre delivered therefrom shall be free and open, and regular in quantity:
Such being the nature and object of my invention, I will now proceed to describe
-the same more fully.
The accompanying sheet of drawings-illustrates_sectional elevation of my
improvements, and certain other parts in connection therewith.
A is the hopper in which the fibre is placed-in-tho-ordinary manner, and B is
the usual spiked lattice sheet employed for lifting the fibre out of the hopper as it
travels around the rollers C and D..
Hitherto these two rollers have been of the same diameter, but according to my
invention I make the upper roller D of much larger diameter than is usual, for
the purpose of converting one part of the said roller into a toothed cylinder or
false swift as will be seen and understood on reference to the drawings.
In contact with the false swift D I place a proper swift E covered with suitable
teeth and caused to revolve in the same direction as the false swift, so that the
teeth of each swift where they come into contact revolve in an opposite direction,
whereby the loose portions of fibre are partly stripped from the false swift and
carried around by the proper swift E until it is met by a rotary brush F or its
equivalent. This rotary brush is caused to run in contact with the teeth of both
swifts for the purpose of removing the fibre therefrom which it throws onto the
ordinary weighing scale G, or onto a travelling creeper placed to receive it, and
when necessary a roller I is employed to keep the brush clean.
A vibrating beater or comb H is placed in connection with the swift E and is
employed for removing the superfluous fibre which the said swift may be carrying
around.
By the combination and arrangement of the several parts enumerated, a regular,
continuous, and even quantity of fibre is removed from the hopper, and deposited
either into a scale, or upon a creeper as explained, consequently more uniform yarn
is spun, and better cloth produced. The manner of giving rotary motion to the
rollers, and an oscillatory motion to the beater is not shewn and described, as they
may be various, as will be well understood by machinists.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
Firstly. In a creeper B, the employment of the upper roller D, when it is made.
of such a diameter as to be converted into a swift in manner and for purposes
set forth.
Secondly. The peculiar combination of the parts D, E, F, and H caused to
rotate in the manner and employed for purposes substantially as shown and
described.
Dated this 22nd day of May 1885.
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Patent Agents,
Commercial Street, Halifax,
Agents for the Applicant.