Improvements in or applicable to Engines for Carding Fibrous Materials which Feed from One Engine to Another.
Year: 1895

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or applicable to Engines for Carding Fibrous
Materials which Feed from One Engine to Another.
I, WILLIAM TATHAM, of Park House, Drake Street, Rochdale, in the County
of Lancaster, Machine Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention,
to be as follows:-
In some cases one or more engines for carding fibrous materials are arranged to
feed the carded material produced by one engine to another engine in succession.
Sometimes the sliver or fleece delivered by say one engine is gathered into a sliver,
and this sliver is cross plaited upon the feeding lattice of the next engine to be fed,
or the carded material produced by the first carding engine is carried and fed to the
second or succeeding engine in other ways.
The carding engine as hitherto arranged when feeding from one engine to
another have been each driven independently one of the other, and thus when the
speed or thickness of the carded material produced is to be increased or decreased,
the gearing driving the feeding and delivery mechanism of the engines have had
to be separately altered for each carding engine, thus causing considerable trouble
before the relative speeds one to the other, have been satisfactorily adjusted.
According to my invention when two or more carding engines have to feed one
to the other, or say one to a second and the second to a third carding engine, I gear
the feed of the first engine, the doffer or doffers of the first engine, the transferring
and feeding mechanism of the second engine and its doffer or doffers (if more than
one) all together, by any suitable shaft or other gearing whether these engines
feeding one to the other are end to end or side by side or in any other required
position.
Thus arranged that mechanism of each engine by which the carded material
is carried along, is simultaneously driven, and its speed is simultaneously increased
or decreased, stopped or started when required.
When an increase or decrease of fibre is to be fed, this is altered by change
wheels driving the lap or feeding mechanism of the first engine.
There are also change wheels provided so as to adjust the desired relative speeds
of the various parts of the mechanism transmitting the fibrous material through
the several carding engines, but when this is once adjusted, a greater or less speed
of transmission of the carded fibres through the engines is obtained by altering one
change wheel only, or an increased or decreased thickness is obtained by altering
the feed to the first carding engine.
Dated this Twenty-third day of May 1895.
PETER J. LIVSEY,
Agent.

page_text: Improvements in or applicable to Engines for Carding Fibrous
Materials which Feed from One Engine to Another.
I, WILLIAM TATHAM of Park House, Drake Street, Rochdale, in the County of
Lancaster, Machine Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :—
In some cases one or more engines for carding fibrous materials are arranged to
feed the carded material produced by one engine to another engine in succession.
Sometimes the sliver or fleece delivered by say one engine is gathered into a sliver,
and this sliver is cross plaited upon the feeding lattice of the next engine to be fed,
or the carded material produced by the first carding engine is carried and fed to
the second or succeeding engine in other ways.
The carding engines as hitherto arranged when feeding from one engine to
another have been each driven independently one of the other, and thus when the
speed or thickness of the carded material produced is to be increased or decreased,
the gearing driving the feeding and delivery mechanism of the engines have had to
be separately altered for each carding engine, thus causing considerable trouble
before the relative speeds, one to the other, have been satisfactorily adjusted.
According to my invention when two or more carding engines have to feed one
to the other, or say one to a second and the second to a third carding engine, I gear
the feed of the first engine, the doffer or doffers of the first engine, the transferring
and feeding mechanism of the second engine and its doffer or doffers (if more than
one) all together, by any suitable shaft or other gearing whether these engines
feeding one to the other are end to end or side by side or in any other required
position.
Thus arranged that mechanism of each engine by which the carded material is
carried along, is simultaneously driven, and its speed is simultaneously increased or
decreased, stopped or started when required.
When an increase or decrease of fibre is to be fed, this is altered by change
wheels driving the lap or feeding mechanism of the first engine.
There are also change wheels provided so as to adjust the desired relative speeds
of the various parts of the mechanism transmitting the fibrous material through the
several carding engines, but when this is once adjusted, a greater or less speed of
transmission of the carded fibres through the engines is obtained by altering one
change wheel only, or an increased or decreased thickness is obtained by altering
the feed to the first carding engine.
Fig. 1, is a side elevation showing as much as will be necessary to illustrate
my invention, of a "breaker" and "finisher" carding engine supposed to be placed
opposite to each other and end to end.
Fig. 2, is a plan view of the same.
Fig. 3, is a side elevation of
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a finisher," and
Fig. 4, represents the "breaker" and "finisher," when placed side by side,
showing how they are or may be geared together according to my invention.
Portions are supposed to be broken out of the middle part of the width way of the
card cylinders in order to get the two carding engines in less space on the drawing.
Fig. 5, is a side elevation illustrating a different mode of gearing the mechanism
to be driven.
a, parts of the side frames of the "breaker" carding engine.
b, part of the lattice feeding material to the "breaker."
c, teed rollers.

page_text: The same letters with the index figure 1 added, represent the same parts of the
"finisher" carding engine.
In the ordinary arrangement there is a bevel wheel on the end of the lower feed
rollers c, and c', and this wheel gears with a small bevel on a shaft c³, in suitable
bearings attached to the side frames a, and a', which shaft &, is geared by bevel
wheels c³, with the shaft of the doffer fand f.
There is a pulley e³, by preference on the end of the shaft of the main card
cylinder e, which by an endless belt es, drives a pulley g, on the end of a short
shaft g', free to rotate in bearings in the end of a lever g', or part secured to the
end of this lever having its fulcrum stud g³, adjustable in a bracket secured to the
side frame a¹.
The inner end of this short shaft g', has a spur wheel upon it, that gears with a
spur wheel, on the end of the shaft of the doffer f, and also with a spur
wheel on a stud h, which spur wheel has a bevel wheel h, secured to it that gears
with one h³, on the end of a shaft ³, in suitable bearings, parallel to the side
frames a', of the engine.
The bearing for the short shaft g', is or may he secured to the end of the lever g³,
so as to be adjusted in its lengthway to suit the size of the change spur wheel
whether itself or that on the boss of the bevel ¹.
The longitudinal shaft h³, has a bevel wheel *, secured upon it that gears with
one on the end of a shaft i, driving the cross distributing mechanism and lattice that
feeds to the "finisher."
Or the bevel *, on the longitudinal shaft may gear with one on a stud in a
bracket so as to be adjustable, and this bevel has a spur on its boss gearing with
one on the end of the shaft i, driving the distributing calenders. This latter
arrangement admits of change wheels for changing the relative speeds between
the longitudinal shaft h³, and the distributing calenders and connected mechanism.
This longitudinal shaft h³, is continued in suitable bearings to the "breaker"
carding engine, and by spur wheels h, drives the calender rollers j, and lattice or
endless belt j, upon which the carded fleece is collected from the "breaker" carding
engine.
This longitudinal shaft ³, also drives by a bevel wheel he, a bevel wheel k, on a
stud, in a suitable bracket-this bevel having a spur wheel secured to its boss
which is made to gear by an intermediate wheel with the spur wheel ƒ³, on the end
of the shaft of the doffer f.
The intermediate spur wheel is free on a stud k³, adjustable in a slot in the
lengthway of a lever, having its fulcrum on a stud k*, adjustable vertically in a
bracket secured to the side frame a.
This arrangement of intermediate wheel on a lever admits of a change of spur
wheels on the boss of the bevel.
The lever k, for the "breaker" and that 9³, before referred to for the
"finisher" is or may be held in a position to keep the intermediate wheel carried
by it either in or out of gear by a catch or pin in gear for ordinary working and
out of gear when the card teeth of the doffer for f1, are being ground.
The mechanism for distributing the sliver from the "breaker"
the lattice b, feeding to the "finisher" may be of any ordinary and well known
to and fro across
arrangement.
In the arrangement illustrated the fleece or fibrous material received from the
"breaker" on the endless belt or lattice, is carried by it to the calender rollers j,
and passes from them as a sliver, upwards to a point some convenient distance
above the distributing calenders, then to a roller on one end of a balanced lever
having its fulcrum on the framing, which roller end of the balanced lever is
connected by a bar or rod with the distributing calenders so that the sliver passing
from the calenders j, to the distributing calenders l, is in every position of the
latter of uniform length. This arrangement for conveying the sliver between the

page_text: calenders of the "breaker" and the distributing calenders of the "finisher"
ordinary and well known, or may be arranged in any convenient manner.
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As part represented in Fig. 1, the axes of the distributing calenders 1, are
carried upon au upright framing A, which has horizontal arms 1, from it, each
carrying two bowls, each bowl, on a stud in the horizontal arms 12.
One of these pairs of horizontal arms 12, comes above and the other below
horizontal cross rails 1, carried by brackets on the side frames a².
The bowls, run upon the rails 14, and thus guide the frame or upright ",
carrying the distributing calenders l.
The framing, for the distributing calenders has bearings for a short horizontal
shaft at a right angle to the cross shaft i, which has a key-way in its lengthway
for a bevel wheel that is slided to and fro on the shaft i, by connection with the
framing, carrying the distributing calenders, and this sliding bevel gears with
one on the short shaft in hearings in the framing ", which short shaft has a suitable
wheel upon it for an endless jointed chain that works on a toothed wheel suitable
for the chain on the axis of one of the two distributing calenders 1, the two being
geared together by spur wheels in the ordinary manner.
The shaft i, by bevel wheels one near each side, drives a bevel wheel on a stud
in the framing which has a toothed drum or pulley attached to its boss for two
endless jointed chains to work upon at some inches apart parallel to each other.
Across these jointed chains a stud is secured, its end projecting from the outside
of one chain and enters a vertical slot in the upright of the frame ", for the
distributing calender l.
As the endless chains rotate constantly in the same direction the stud or bar
across them is carried on the upper and returns along the lower side of the chains,
and thus carries with it the framing for the distributing calenders, to and fro, the
vertical slot in the upright framing for the distributing calenders permitting of the
stud ascending from the lower to the upper and descending from the upper to
the lower side of the endless chains at each end.
Any other or ordinary arrangement of distributing calender mechanism, and
mode of driving it may be used, driven from the longitudinal shaft h³.
The longitudinal shaft, may also be made to drive between the doffer (for f¹)
and feed rollers (c or c¹) by suitably arranging the gearing thus dispensing
with the shafts c². Figs. 3 and 4 illustrate my invention as it is or may be used
when the "breaker" and "finisher" are arranged side by side the "breaker" being
partly shown in Fig. 3, behind the "finisher." In Fig. 3, el, is the main card
cylinder of the " finisher";, its doffer and fx, the doffer shaft; d¹, its taker in ;
f, the doffer of the "breaker seen behind the "finisher; fa, its shaft and d, its
taker in.
As in Figs. 1 and 2, there is a pulley e², on the main cylinder e¹, that drives by
an endless belt e³, a pulley g, on a shaft y', carried in a lever g³, partly shown, and
then by gearing as described in reference to Figs. 1 and 2, drives the longitudinal
shaft ³.
On one end of a cross shaft n, in suitable bearings extending between the two
engines when side by side a bevel wheel n', is secured that gears with the bevel
wheel on the longitudinal shaft ³, having its bearings on the "finisher."
The other end of this cross shaft n, has a spur wheel n³, upon it that gears with
one on the stud k³, in the end of the lever k³, having its fulcrum at k*.
Motion is or may be conveyed by a shaft and gearing similar to n, from the
shaft, to the feeding rollers of the "breaker" or by other gearing.
"
The fibrous material from the "breaker" is or may be collected on an apron and
passed through calenders as a sliver and conveyed to distributing calenders (not
shown) for spreading it upon the feeding lattice of the "finisher in any ordinary
and well known manner, such mechanism being geared in any convenient manner
with the longitudinal shaft h', or any other mechanism with which it or equivalent
mechanism is in gear.
Fig. 5, shows an arrangement of mechanism similar to that illustrated by Fig. 3,

page_text: illustrating how rotary motion may be conveyed by endless jointed chains and spur
wheels instead of a longitudinal shaft A, and bevel wheels.
and g', are studs on shafts in the levers for wheels corresponding to the inter-
mediate wheels indicated in Fig. 3.
p, is a wheel on a stud in a bracket upon the boss of which there is a toothed
wheel for one end of an endless jointed chain p', the other end of which works upon
a suitable wheel on a shaft p³, in suitable bearings extending between the two
engines.
Attached to the shaft p³, is a similar wheel for one end of another jointed chain p³,
which at the other end works upon a suitable wheel on a stud p', on the side of the
"finisher" which latter stud has a spur wheel on its boss that gears with one on a
stud h, in a bracket that gears with the intermediate wheel on the lever g³.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. When carding engines are arranged so that the fibrous material worked in
one engine is to be passed to and worked by another engine or engines, the
combination and gearing together of the feeding mechanism, doffers, and trans-
mitting mechanism between one engine and the other by a shaft or shafts and
toothed wheels or other suitable gearing so that all such mechanism is simul-
taneously driven from some rotary part of one engine, by preference from one of
the main carding cylinders e or e¹, substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated by the drawings.
2. The combination and arrangement of carding engines substantially as and for
the purpose herein before described and illustrated by Figs. 1 and 2 of the
drawings.
3. The combination and arrangement of carding mechanism substantially as and
for the purpose hereinbefore described and illustrated by Figs. 3 and 4 of the
drawings, and also when endless jointed chains are used in either the arrangement
illustrated by Figs. 1 and 2 or Figs. 3 and 4, substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated by reference to Fig. 5 of the drawings.
Dated this Seventeenth day of March 1896.
PETER J. LIVSEY,
Agent.