Improvements in Wire Card Fillets and in Apparatus for Setting the same with Teeth or Dents.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Oct., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 25th July, 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 31st Aug., 1888
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Improvements in Wire Card Fillets and in Apparatus for Setting
the same with Teeth or Dents.
1, ROBERT SELLERS, of the firm of Joseph Sellers and Son, Scholes, Cleckheaton,
in the County of York, Cardmaker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to certain improvements in setting wire-card teeth or dents
in fillet webs in such a manner that, when the fillets are nailed on the rollers or
cylinders in a spiral direction as is the common practice, the cylindrical rows of teeth
or dents will be parallel with the edges of the rollers or cylinders the same as when
the rollers or cylinders are nailed with sheet cards, and not spiral as is now the case
when the teeth are set in the ordinary manner.
It is well known to carders that, by the rows of teeth running in a spiral direction
round the rollers or cylinders, particularly in angles and small strippers, there is a
tendency for the teeth or dents of the sheet cards in which the fillets work to be
drawn from their perpendicular and in some classes of machines, the fibre works in
the direction of the spiral wrapping towards the edge and out from the rollers,
thereby producing a certain amount of waste, and in the case of what are known as
condenser strippers, when ordinary card fillets are used, the tendency is for the fillets
to rise and buckle in places towards one end; these defects are entirely obviated by
my improvement in setting the teeth or dents so that the cylindrical rows are parallel
with the doffer rings, therefore work easier into the doffer, and entirely prevent
shunting" of the rings.
In order to set the teeth or dents so that the rows will be parallel with the
edges of the rollers and teeth of the sheet cards when the fillets are nailed thereon,
I arrange the brackets carrying the roller shafts in an angular position, and with the
roller shaft journals capable of adjustment to suit the angle required; and in addition
to the usual rollers, 1 mount one or more pairs, on all or some of which I secure

page_text: flanges for guiding the fillet webs in the angular direction required to suit the
diameter of the rollers on which the fillets are to be nailed; the teeth or dents being
bent, inserted, and set by the machine in the usual manner.
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the same with Teeth or Dents.
I, ROBERT SELLERS, of the firm of Joseph Sellers and Son, Scholes, Cleckheaton;
in the County of York, Cardmaker, 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 :-
This invention relates to contain improvements in the setting of wire card teeth or
dents in fillet webs, in such a manner that, when the fillets are nailed round the rollers
or cylinders in a spiral direction as is the common practice, the cylindrical rows of
teeth or dents in the fillet will be parallel to the edges of the rollers or cylinders and
in rows, parallel with the axis, the same as when they are nailed or covered with
what are known as sheet cards or rings, and not spiral, as is now the case when the
teeth are set in the ordinary manner.
It is well known to carders that by the rows of teeth or dents in the fillet running
in a spiral direction round the rollers or cylinders, particularly in what are commonly
called angles small strippers and doffers, there is a tendency for the teeth or dents of
the sheet cards in which the fillets work, to be drawn from their perpendicular; and
in some cases, in consequence of the spiral wrapping and spiral direction of the teeth,
the fibre works towards the edge and out from the rollers, thereby producing waste;
and in the case of condenser strippers, the tendency is, for the fillets to rise and buckle
in places towards one end.
My object is to construct card filleting in such manner so as to obviate these
defects, which I accomplish by providing means whereby the feeding rollers in the
heads of ordinary card fillet setting machines may be adjusted to an angle other than

page_text: parallel to the setting bar of the head; by which I am enabled to set the teeth or
dents in the card fillet at such angle with the edge, so that when the fillet is nailed
on the roller or cylinder, the rows of teeth will be parallel to the edges of the said
roller or cylinder in one direction and to the axis of the same in the other, the same
as when nailed or covered with sheet cards.
In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1. represents the front elevation of such
portions of an ordinary card fillet setting machine as are required to show the manner
in which my invention may be applied thereto. Fig. 2. is a side view of the machine
with a part of the frame cut away, Fig. 3. a view of the opposite side, Figs. 4. and 5.
details of the connecting joint between one of the feed rollers and operating shaft,
Fig. 6. a detail front view of a feed roller link, and Fig. 7. a portion of a roller, with
a fillet thereon having two rows of teeth, one representing a row, set in the ordinary
direction at right angles to the edges of the web, the other as set by my improved
apparatus at an oblique angle thereto.
The machine is operated in the usual manner, and is of the ordinary construction,
with the exception of the altered and adjustable position of the grooved feed rollers A. A.
guide bars B. guide collars C. and the connection between the feed rollers and inter-
mittent rotating shaft D. the latter of which is operated in the usual manner by the
rotating tappet E, acting on the ordinary ratchet wheel E¹, through the lever and
pawl E
The two head stocks F. F. are secured at the bottom end as usual to the sliding
bar G operated in the ordinary manner, the upper end of the said head stocks being
mounted on the bar G1.
To the face of each head stock I attach a small adjustable bracket H for carrying
the guide bars B. and collars C. the former of which are mounted at the same angle
of inclination as the grooved feed rollers A. A. which are carried by bearings mounted
in a slot hole M. formed in each head stock F. the slot holes allowing for the inclination
of the rollers which are adjusted by the small set screws L. L. to the angle or inclina-
tion required to suit the width of the fillet and the diameter of the roller or cylinder
on which the card fillet is to be nailed.
To the axle at each end of the bottom grooved roller A. I attach a link N. in such
manner that, the roller can rotate; the upper portion of each link being connected to
the respective studs P. by spiral springs S, by which means the fillet web is sufficiently
compressed between the rollers that it is fed or moved by the rotation of the same.
The connection between the intermittent rotating shaft D. and the top grooved feed
roller A. is accomplished by what is generally known as a universal or gimble"
joint, shown by details Figs. 4. and 5, constructed by the placing together of two
forked ends and coupling them by placing a die V between somewhat less than the
space between the jaws; to one of which it is attached by a pin passing through one
of the forked projections U. and die V. and finally screwing into the other or opposite
jaw U¹, the other forked end being coupled to the said die by screws, one passing
through each side of the jaw projections U2 and entering into countersunk holes
formed in the said die; thus by these means of connecting, the grooved feed rollers A. A.
may be tilted to an angle with the setting bar X, and the necessary intermittent rotary
and positive motion imparted to the same on the movement of the ratchet wheel E¹
which is operated in the usual manner.
The card fillet web Y. as shown by thick dotted lines, is conducted in the direction
indicated by the arrows between the feed rollers A. A. and is guided by the collars C.
on the bottom guide bars B. and collars C on the top bar G'. The dents or teeth are
set in the fillet web in the usual manner parallel with the upper surface of the setting
bar X the same as when the feed rollers A. A. are parallel thereto; but by the rollers
being at an inclination with the said bar, and the fillet web conducted in an angular
direction as shown, the rows of teeth or dents are not at right angles to the edges of
the fillet web, but at an oblique angle corresponding with the inclination of the feed
rollers, so that when the fillet web is nailed on the card rollers or cylinders in a spiral
direction as is the invariable practice and shown by Fig. 7. the cylindrical rows of
teeth or dents T will be parallel to the ends of the said rollers or cylinders and in line

page_text: with the axis of the said roller or cylinder the same as when they are covered with
sheet cards.
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 :-
In a card setting machine, the combination of the driving mechanism with the
connecting universal or gimble joint and the grooved feed rollers A. A. regulated by
set screws L. L. all arranged substantially in the manner shown and described and
for the purpose set forth.