AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR MOUNTING CARD FILLETS ON CYLINDERS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Walton, of the Haughton Dale Mills,
Denton, in the County of Lancaster, Wire Card Manufacturer, for
the Invention of "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR MOUNTING CARD FILLETS
ON CYLINDERS."
Scaled the 25th September 1874, and dated the 21st April 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Walton at tho
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st April 1874.
I, WILLIAM WALTON, of the Haughton Dale Mills, Denton, in the
5 County of Lancaster, Wire Card Manufacturer, do hereby declare tho
nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR MOUNTING
CARD FILLETS ON CYLINDERS," to be as follows:-
In mounting card fillets on cylinders it is of the utmost importance
for the proper working of the cards that the fillets should be kept at an
uniform tension while being mounted.
The improved apparatus for effecting this object consists of a roller
mounted in a fixed frame, or a pulley mounted in a traversing frame.

page_text: The circumference of this roller or pulley is covered with india-rubber,
or emery, or other substance to prevent the slipping of the card fillet,
and to the axle of the roller or pulley is fixed a friction pulley around
which a break band passes.
In using my improved apparatus the frame is fixed as usual ncar to
the cylinder on which the card fillet is to be mounted. One end of the
card fillet is passed over a polished bar, then over the roller or pulley,
and it is then secured to the cylinder which is turned round slowly by
hand or power. As the cylinder revolves it draws forward the card
fillet, and the card fillet causes the roller or pulley to revolve, the tension
on the fillet being kept uniform by the friction break band above referred
to, and by varying the weight suspended to the said band the degree of
tension can be regulated.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Walton in the Great Scal Patent Office
on the 14th October 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
WALTON, of the Haughton Dale Mills, Denton, in the County of Lan-
caster, Wire Card Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Walton, Her special licence,
that I, the said William Walton, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said William Walton, 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 "AN IMPROVED

page_text: APPARATUS FOR MOUNTING CARD FILLETS ON CYLINDERS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Walton, my executors 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 tho
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Walton, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (that is to say) :-
In mounting card fillets on cylinders it is of the utmost importance
for the proper working of the cards that the fillets should be kept at a
uniform tension while being mounted.
The improved apparatus for effecting this object consists of a roller
revolving in a fixed frame, or a pulley mounted on a traversing frame.
The circumference of this roller or pulley is covered with india-rubber,
or emery, or other substance to prevent the slipping of the card fillet,
and to the axle of the roller or pulley is fixed a friction pulley around
which a break band passes.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily
carried into operation I will proceed to describe the accompanying Sheet
of Drawings.
In Fig. 1 a represents the doffer of a carding engine or any other
cylinder or roller the surface of which has to be covered with card
fillets; and b is part of the frame of the carding engine or other fixture.
The roller to be covered revolves slowly in bearings fixed to the frame b;
c is a cross beam with a standard at each end fixed to the frame b;
and d is a roller, the axle of which revolves in bearings in the said
standards. The circumference of the roller d is covered with india-
rubber, or emery, or other substance to prevent the slipping of the card
fillet, which passes under the guide bar e, over the roller d, then under
the polished bar f, and then it is secured to the cylinder or roller to be
covered. At the end of the axle of the roller d is fixed the friction
pulley d around which the weighted break band d² passes. The weight
suspended to this band can be increased or reduced so as to vary the

page_text: tension that is put on the card fillet. As the cylinder or roller a is
turned slowly round by hand or power the card, fillet is wound spirally
upon it, the attendant traversing the fillet along the guide bar e in the
ordinary manner.
Figs. 3 and 4 represent a modification of my Invention. In this
arrangement the pulley d is employed instead of the roller above
described; this pulley is a little wider than the fillet employed, and
it is supported in the sliding frame c which is traversed along the bed g
fixed to the frame sides 6 by the screw h. To the axle of the pulley &
is fixed the friction pulley & which is provided with a weighted band d. 1
The screw is turned round by hand or power, and by it the fillet is
traversed and laid evenly over the circumference of the cylinder or roller
to be covered.
By means of this improved apparatus the card fillet is mounted at a
uniform tension on the cylinder or roller.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, and described two
convenient modes of performing the same, I wish it to be understood
that I do not intend to limit myself to the details given, as the same
may be modified; but what I claim is, the improved apparatus shewn
and described to be used in mounting card fillets on cylinders or rollers
and particularly the friction pulley and break band for producing a
uniform tension on the card fillet.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Walton, have hereto set
my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of October One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-four.