Improvements in Apparatus for Feeding Cotton and other Fibres into Openers and like Machines.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Oct., 1899
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INUYIDIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Feeding Cotton and other Fibres
into Openers and like Machines.
:-
I, JAMES HALLIWELL LORD, of 5, Oak Street, Shaw, in the County of Lancaster,
Mill-manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for feeding cotton and
other fibres into openers and like machines and has for its object to provide means
whereby the cotton or other fibres stripped off the ascending lattice by the spiked
roller are freed from dirt or other foreign matter before dropping back into the
hopper of the feeding apparatus.
To this end I employ in front of the ascending lattice at a suitable point below
the said spiked roller, an inclined grid formed underneath with a chamber com-
municating at its lower part with two trunks inclining from the middle of the
said chamber to each side of the hopper.
The lower ends of the said trunk are each formed with an outlet adapted to pass
through the side of the hopper and are outside thereof each connected to a pipe
which may be fitted to the side of the hopper.
The cotton or other fibres stripped off the said ascending lattice by the spiked
roller instead of being directly thrown into the hopper, are thereby thrown onto
the said grid which causes the dirt or other foreign matter to be separated there-
from by falling through the grid into the chamber below and by means of the
said trunks, outlet and pipes out of the hopper at each side thereof whilst the
cotton or other fibres on the grid are allowed to slide off into the hopper.
Dated thi 1041
تعمل
1000
Improvements in Apparatus for Feeding Cotton and other Fibres
into Openers and like Machines.
I, JAMES HALLIWELL LORD, of 5, Oak Street, Shaw, in the County of Lancaster,
Mill-manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manne.
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for feeding cotton and
other fibres into openers and like machines and has for its object to provide means
whereby the cotton or other fibres stripped off the ascending lattice by the spiked
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page_text: roller are freed from dirt or other foreign matter before dropping back into the
hopper of the feeding apparatus.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused to
be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures.
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal cross section of the apparatus for feeding cotton with
my improvement applied and Fig. 2 a perspective view of the latter detached.
a is the hopper of the cotton or the like feeding apparatus, the ascending
lattice, the spiked roller rotating in connection therewith.
In carrying out my invention and referring to the figures generally I employ
in front of the ascending lattice b at a suitable point below the spiked roller c,
an inclined grid d formed underneath with a chamber e communicating at its
lower part with two trunks f, f inclining from the middle of the chamber e to
each side of the hopper a
The lower ends of the said trunks are each formed with an outlet f' adapted to
pass through the side of the hopper and are outside thereof each connected to a
pipe which may be fitted to the sides of the hopper.
The cotton or other fibres stripped off the ascending lattice by the spiked
roller c instead of being directly thrown into the hopper a, are thereby thrown
onto the grid d which causes the dirt or other foreign matter to be separated
therefrom by falling through the grid into the chamber e below and by means
of the said trunks, outlet and pipes out of the hopper, whilst the cotton or other
fibres on the grid d are allowed to slide off into the hopper a.
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:-
1st. In apparatus for feeding cotton and other fibres into openers and like
machines, the combination with the hopper a of a grid d and chamber e below the
latter, the said grid being adapted to receive and free the cotton or other fibres
stripped off the ascending lattice by the spiked roller c from dirt and other foreign
matter and the said chamber to receive the latter, all substantially as and for
the purpose set forth.
2nd. In an apparatus such as specified in the preceding claim, the chamber e
formed with trunks f, f inclining to the hopper sides adapted to conduct the dirt
or other foreign matter from the said chamber out of the hopper a, all sub-
stantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 18th day of July 1900
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester.
Agents to Applicant.