IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CARDING, DRESSING, AND OPENING WOOLLEN AND COTTON FLOCKS, HAIR, AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS."
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Gauntlett and Charles Gauntlett, of the Firm
of S. Gauntlett and Company, of Trowbridge, in the County of Wilts,
Bedding Manufacturers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
FOR CARDING, DRESSING, AND OPENING WOOLLEN AND COTTON FLOCKS,
HAIR, AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Gauntlett and Charles
Gauntlett at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th April
1878.
SAMUEL GAUNTLETT and CHARLES GAUNTLETT, of the Firm of S. Gauntlett
and Company, of Trowbridge, in the County of Wilts, Bedding Manufacturers.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CARDING, DRESSING, AND OPENING WOOLLEN
AND COTTON FLOCKS, HAIR, AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS."
This Invention relates to improvements in machinery for carding, dressing, and
opening woollen and cotton flocks, hair, and other fibrous materials, and is applicable
mainly to the dressing and redressing of flocks employed in the manufacture of
bedding, mattresses, and flock or fibrous stuffing of various kinds.
Our improvements are applicable to machines which are well known and in
common use for the above purposes, which consist of a revolving drum set with
teeth and having an endless feed apron and feed rollers, and our improvements
consist in arranging and applying a series of teeth to the inner circumference of part
of the casing surrounding the revolving drum and in the application of a feed hopper
for feeding the flock or other fibrous materials to be dressed between the toothed
surfaces of the drum and casing, by which we obtain a better result than heretofore,
and in much less time.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Samuel Gauntlett and Charles Gauntlett in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 4th October 1878.
SAMUEL GAUNTLETT and CHARLES GAUNTLETT, of the Firm of S. Gauntlett
and Company, of Trowbridge, in the County of Wilts, Bedding Manufacturers.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CARDING, DRESSING, AND OPENING WOOLLEN
AND COTTON FLOCKS, HAIR, AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS."
This Invention relates to improvements in machinery for carding, dressing, and
opening woollen and cotton flocks, hair, and other fibrous materials, and is
applicable mainly to the dressing and redressing of flocks employed in the manu-
facture of bedding, mattresses, and flock or fibrous stuffing of various kinds.
Our improvements are applicable to machines which are well known and in
common use for the above purposes, which consist of a revolving drum set with
teeth and. having an endless feed apron and feed rollers; and our improvements
consist in arranging and applying a series of teeth to the iuner circumference of part
of the casing surrounding the revolving drum and in the application of a feed hopper
for flock or other fibrous materials to bo drossed between the toothed surfaces of the
drum and casing, by which we obtain a better result than heretofore, and in nuch
less time.
And in order that our improvements may be clearly understood and readily
carried into practice, we will describe the Drawings hereto annexed.
Figure 1 shows a longitudinal section, and Figure 2 a plan of a machine arranged
and constructed in accordance with our improvements, suitable for carding, dressing,
and opening woollen and cotton flocks.
a is the driving axis, which may be actuated by hand, or by a steam engine, or
other motive power; (when steam power is used the driving drums are fixed on the
axis el). On the axis a the toothed pinion a¹ is fixed, which gives motion to the
toothed wheel b fixed on the axis of the lower feed roller c, a toothed pinion c¹ on
the other end of which gives motion to the toothed pinion a fixed on one of the
rollers which carry the feed apron d to give motion thereto; a² is a toothed wheel
fixed on the driving axis a, which gives motion to a toothed pinion e* fixed on the
axis e of the revolving drum e, set with card teeth as shown; f,fl, are blocks set
with card teeth around part of the inner circumference of the casing partly sur-
rounding the drum e; and g is a feed hopper for feeding the flock or other fibrous
materials to be dressed between the double-toothed surfaces of the drum e and
casing f
The shaft or axis a also acts as a sliding shaft for throwing the continuous feed
apron & out of gear, thereby giving direct and simple action when feeding down
the hopper g.
Having thus described the nature of our improvements and the manner of per-
forming or carrying the same into practice, we would remark that we do not claim
any of the parts separately, which are well known and in common use, but what we
claim is the improved arrangement, combination, and construction of machinery for
carding, dressing, and opening woollen and cotton flocks, hair, and other fibrous
materials in which a series of teeth f¹ are applied to the inner circumference of part
of the casing partly surrounding the carding drun e with feed hopper g, arranged

page_text: substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein-before described, and repre-
sented in the Drawings annexed.
In witness whereof, we, the said Samuel Gauntlett and Charles Gauntlett, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Thirtieth day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
SAMUEL GAUNTLETT. (L.S.)