Improvements in Apparatus for Actuating Dabbing Brushes for Combing Machines.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd July, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 27th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 27th Apr., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Actuating Dabbing Brushes for
Combing Machines.
We, OLIVER BROOK LISTER, of Shetcliffe Mill, Dudley Hill, near Bradford, in
the County of York, Spinner, and HENRY BATTY, of the same place Mechanic, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to certain improvements of our apparatus described in
specification No. 16,013. dated 5th December 1884. and has for its object, the com-
bination with the same of certain mechanism, whereby the apparatus is provided with
two brushes made to act on the fibre at different times for the purpose of more
effectually forcing and keeping the fibre below the points of the pins of the comb.
In carrying out this invention, we secure to each pillar in the centre of the small
circular combs, a box bracket, in which is mounted a revolving shaft having conical
journals or bearings, which revolve in adjustable bushes; and to the said shaft we secure
two eccentrics having the full parts of their conical peripheries diametrically opposite
to each other.
The apparatus is provided with two inner sliding plates, each being operated by an
eccentric, and to each of the said plates is attached another sliding plate having a
dabbing brush secured to the foot thereof. By this arrangement the apparatus is
balanced, can be run at a great speed without vibration, and the bearings regulated
by the adjustable bushes.
JOHN WAUGH,
Agent.

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus ior Actuating Dadding Brusnes for
Combing Machines.
We, OLIVER BROOK LISTER, of Sheteliffe Mill, Dudley Hill, near Bradford, in the
County of York. Spinner, an HENRY BATTY, of the same place, Mechanic, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what umuner the same is to bo
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to certain improvements of our apparatus described in
specification No. 16,018, dated 5th of December 1881, and hins for its object the com-
bination with the apparatus therein described of certain mechanism whereby the
apparatus is provided with two brushes made to act on the fibre at different times for
the purpose of more effectually forcing and keeping the fibre below the points of the
pins of the comb.
In carrying out our invention we secure to each pillar in the centre of the small
circular combs, a box bracket in which is mounted a revolving shaft having conical
journals, or bearings, which revolve in adjustable bushes and to the said shaft wo
secure two eccentrics, the peripheries of which are conical, and revolve between pro-
jections forming part of vertical sliding plates, to each of which is attached another
sliding plate with a dabbing brush secured to the foot thereof. By this arrango-
ment, the apparatus is balanced, and can be run at a great speed with littlo vibration:
and by the regulation of the adjustable bushes, any slack that may develope in
the journals can bo taken up, and by a projection from the bottom portion of each
slide in direct connection with the eccentric dipping into oil at each stroke or
revolution of the shaft, the oil is agitated, and all the principal parts offectually
lubricated.
In order that our invention may be clearly understood, wo will describe the same
in detail by referring to the accompanying drawings in which,
Fig. 1. represents a portion of a pillar with our improved apparatus attached
theroto.
Fig. 2. is a front view, tho driving pulley being removed in order to more clearly
illustrate the same, and,
Fig. 3. a plan of Fig. 1.
Our apparatus is fitted to ench contre pillar of the small circular combs, and
operated in the same manner as fully described in the before-mentioned specification;
but instead of the shaft G being fitted with one eccentric, we form or secure thereon
two eccentrics L. and L', the full parts of the peripheries of which are diametrically
opposite to each other, each eccentric revolving between the projections M. of the
respective sliding plates M and M which reciprocate in vertical slide ways, and aro
cach provided with an arm P. and P respectively, to which are bolted the sliding
plates Q. and Q to the feet of which are secured the dabbing brushes R. and R,
which reciprocate and dab or press the fibre between the teeth of the circular
combs.

page_text: The journals G and G of the shaft are made conical, tapering in opposite
directions, and are mounted in adjustable bushes J. regulated by screws K. Pro-
jections S. are formed or mounted upon each of the parts M. depending from the
bottom portion thereof in such manner as to dip at each revolution into a body of
oil contained in a chamber below, causing it to fly about in the box bracket and
lubricate the whole of the principal parts.
By placing the eccentrics L and L' on the shaft in the manner described, two
vertical slides work in opposite directions, and therefore balance each other, by
which means we are enabled to work the apparatus at a greater speed without
vibration, and more effectually dab or press the fibre between the teeth of the circular
combs by the quick and double action of the brushes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
The combination with the bushes J. shaft G. having conical journals G¹ and G³
conical eccentrics L. and L revolving between projections M; the sliding plates Q,
and Q having dabbing brushes R and R¹, the slide plates M² and M² and the adjusting
screws K. all arranged substantially in the manner and for the
described.
purpose
Dated this 26th day of March 1889.
JOHN WAUGH,
Agent.