A NEW AND USEFUL IMPROVEMENT IN THE CARDING MACHINE
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Noone, of Peterboro', in the County of Hillsboro',
and State of New Hampshire, of the United States of America, for the
Invention of "A NEW AND USEFUL IMPROVEMENT IN THE CARDING MACHINE,"
-A communication from abroad by Joseph Davis, residing at East Wilton,
of the County and State aforesaid.
Sealed the 12th September 1860, and dated the 5th July 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Noone at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th July 1860.
I, JOSEPH NOONE, of Peterboro', in the County of Hillsboro', and State of
New Hampshire, of the United States of America, do hereby declare the
nature of the Invention for "A NEW AND USEPUL IMPROVEMENT IN THE CARDING
MACHINE," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object a new and useful improvement in the
carding machine, and the principal object for which it is designed is to
prevent the wool and its finer fibres from falling from the lower side of the
main cylinder of the card as much as takes place with ordinary wool cards,
and at the same time to allow the dirt and other foreign matter, not fibrous,

page_text: to drop from the machine. A series of smooth cylinders are applied to the
lower or under part of the main cylinder of the machine. The axes of the
cylinders so applied to the under side of the main cylinder are supported in
bearings at each end; the cylinders are preferred to be about eight inches
diameter, but this is not essential, and they are somewhat longer and extend
beyond the main cylinder. The additional cylinders receive rotatory motion
by means of a strap. By this improvement the dirt received on to the
surfaces of the smooth cylinders, if it be hard and smooth, will fall off and pass
between the smooth cylinders to the floor; and if fibres fall on to the smooth
cylinders, they will, by the revolving motion of the cylinders, be brought up
to the card teeth of the main cylinder, which will catch the fibres and carry
them round to the workers.
The peculiarity of the Invention consists in the combination and arrangement
of a series of smooth surfaced rollers with the main card cylinder of a carding
machine and its workers or its workers and strippers.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Noone in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
31st December 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
NOONB, of Peterboro', in the County of Hillsboro', and State of New Hamp-
shire, of the United States of America, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Joseph Noone, Her special licence that I, the said Joseph Noone, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph Noone, my
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 "A NEW AND USEFUL IMPROVEMENT
IN THE CARDING MACHINE," (the same having been communicated to me by one
Joseph Davis, residing at East Wilton, of the County and State aforesaid,)

page_text: upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Joseph Noone, my execu-
tors or administrators, by an instrument in writing, under my or their, or 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 I, the said Joseph Noone, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
The Invention or improvement is specially applicable to cards commonly
used for carding wool, and the principal object for which it is designed is to
prevent the wool and its finer fibres from falling from the lower side of the
main cylinder of the card as much as ordinary wool cards do, and at the same
time to allow the dirt and other foreign matter, not fibrous, to drop from the
machine.
These cylinders are supported
M, M, M, M, M, M, and aro
In using the improvement it is adapted to the common woollen cards, as
shown in the Drawings, where the main cylinder is represented at A and its
outer circumference at B, B, B, in red lines; the feed apron at C; the feeding
rolls at D, D; the burring cylinder at E; the licker in at F; the workers
at G, G, G, G; the strippers at H, H, H, H; and the fancy or brush at I;
the doffing arrangements are not shown, as they are well known, and are
differently constructed in different carding machines. With the cards thus
constructed, I add to the lower part of the card frame a series of smooth
wooden cylinders L, L, L, L, L. L, L, L, L.
in bearings at each end, as shown, at M, M, M,
from four to eight inches in diameter, and are longer than the width of the
main cylinder of the card. A belt O passing around the pulley P and the
binder Q, and thence around the outer part of all the cylinders L, L, L, L, L,
L, L, L, L, and also over the pulleys on the workers, is made to give the
cylinders a revolving motion. In the operation of carding, the wool is
fed upon the apron, and passing from it to the burring machine, is cleared
from large burs and sticks, and is taken from the burring cylinder by the
licker in and thrown upon and into the teeth of the main cylinder; the workers
separate and disentangle the locks of the wool, so that after it has passed them
all it can be taken by means of a vibrating comb from the main cylinder in a
carded state; but the comb or other doffing apparatus will not take from the

page_text: main cylinder all the fibres, as many will be entangled with the teeth and will
be but partly drawn out.
It is apparent that the
to them, for in that case
A large part of the dirt,
The operation of the improvement by adding the cylinders L, L, L, L, L, L
L, L, L, L, consists first in receiving all dirt and loose fibres upon their
surfaces; and if the dirt is hard and smooth, it will immediately fall off,
or from them, and pass down between them to the floor. If there are fibres of
wool or locks of wool which fall upon them, the revolving motion of the cylin-
ders will bring them up to the teeth of the main cylinder, which will catch the
fibres and carry them around to be reworked.
cylinders cannot become clogged by dirt sticking
the teeth of the card cylinder would take it off.
fibre, and loose material, which falls from the main cylinder of the card in
ordinary carding machines, and is called waste, is detached by the doffing
comb and does not pass along with the sliver. With my improvement all
this matter is brought to the teeth of the main card cylinder and the teeth
of the clothing will take up the fibres, and the dirt will fall down between
the cylinders, and the result is a great saving of material in the form of
carded wool instead of waste and refuse matter. I am aware that a grid
or grating of bars. has been placed underneath the main card cylinder, of a
carding engine, but this does not operate to anything like the advantage
that results from a system of rollers arranged as above described, as with
the latter the spaces between them cannot become clogged, nor the loose
fibres fail to be carried up to the main card cylinder. A grate does become
clogged and the loose fibres or waste is liable to become clogged or packed
on or in its spaces. I am also aware that a series of rollers has been arranged
and applied below a picker cylinder of a machine for picking wool, the same
being shown in the Patent granted in the United States of America, on
April 3d, 1849, to Reuben Daniels and Albert G. Dewey.
My application of rollers to a carding machine is a different combination of
mechanism, and performs functions not performed by the rollers and toothed
cylinder of the wool picker, for in the latter the rollers are used in com-
bination with the picker cylinder only, whereas in my machine they are
employed in combination with a main card cylinder and a series of workers
and strippers, and they return the waste fibres of wool so that they may be
re-worked or re-operated on by the main card cylinder and the said workers
and strippers.
In the wool picker the waste wool, after being raised by the rollers, is
immediately thrown out of the machine by the air blast of the picker cylinder;

page_text: consequently I do not claim the application of a grate or grid under the main
card cylinder, nor do I claim applying a series of rollers underneath the
main toothed wheel of a wool picker; but what I do claim as the Invention,
is the above described combination and arrangement of a series of smooth
surface rollers with the main card cylinder and its workers, or its workers and
strippers and so as to operate therewith, substantially in manner and for the
purpose herein described, the Invention having special reference to a carding