Improvements in Machinery for Combing Fibrous Material.
Year: 1894

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Combing Fibrous Material.
We, JESSE COOKE, of Greengate Works, Keighley, in the County of York,
"Top Maker, and ALFRED STEPHENSON, of Market Street Works, Keighley
aforesaid, Draftsman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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This invention relates to improvements in that type of machinery for combing
fibrous material in which annular revolving combs are employed, and its object is
to reduce the friction on the bearings on which the comb revolves as well as steady
the combs.
For this purpose we mount the rack plate upon which the comb is mounted
upon a number of anti-friction rollers which are more or less immersed in a
receptacle, vessel or recess adapted to contain oil arranged to automatically
lubricate said rollers as they revolve. The bearings of said rollers are arranged
so that they may be vertically adjusted by a screw or other means and the brackets
on which said vessels are mounted may also be capable of adjustment. A door or
its equivalent is provided to enable the said vessels to be emptied and cleaned.
A annular projection may be secured to the underside of the rack plate to hear
upon said rollers and this projection is preferably separated from the rack plate by
a layer or pieces of wood or other suitable bad conductor of heat. To guide or
steady the comb as it revolves guides or grooves may be provided above said
vessel to fit the said annular projection and form a guide therefor.
To support the inner edge of the rack anti-friction rollers may be provided
mounted in a similar way inside the steam chest to bear against the under edge of
the rack.
Dated this 19th day of April 1894.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Combing Fibrous Material.
We, JESSE COOKE, of Greengate Works, Keighley, in the County of York,
Top Maker, and ALFRED STEPHENSON, of Market Street Works, Keighley,
aforesaid, Draftsman, 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 improvements in that type of machinery for combing
fibrous material in which annular revolving combs are employed, and its object is
to reduce the friction on the bearings on which the comb revolves as well as steady
the combs.
For this purpose we mount the rack plate upon which the comb is mounted upon
a number of anti-friction rullers which are more or less immersed in a receptacle,
vessel or recess adapted to contain oil arranged to automatically lubricate said
rollers as they revolve. The bearings of said rollers are arranged so that they

page_text: may be vertically adjusted by a screw or other means and the brackets on which
the said vessels are mounted may also be capable of adjustment. A door or its
equivalent is provided to enable the said vessels to be emptied and cleaned. An
annular projection is secured to the underside of the rack plate to bear upon said
rollers and this projection is preferably separated from the rack plate by a layer or
pieces of wood or other suitable bad conducter of heat. To guide or steady the
comb as it revolves guides or grooves may be provided above said vessel to fit the
said annular projection and form a guide therefor.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying sheet of drawings forming a part of
this Specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts
in each of the figures.
Figure 1, represents a side elevation partly in section of such parts of a Noble's
comb as are necessary to illustrate the application of our invention to the "large
circle" of this type of comb.
Figure 2, represents a plan view of the saine with the rack plate and steam chest
broken away on the right-hand side to show a section of the leg and the parts
beneath in full.
The rack plate A and steam chest B and the legs C are of the usual construction.
Each leg has a bracket piece D bolted to it by the bolts and to these the four
forked brackets E are adjustably secured by the bolts e.
The screws D2 in D are
provided to bear against the bottom of the brackets E to support and adjust them.
The annular guide F is made with feet F2 on the underside resting upon the top of
and bolted to the branches E2, E3 of the forked bracket E. The annular guide F
is formed with four recesses or wells F3 in which the adjustable blocks G are fitted
and said blocks are made with bearings G³, G³ to receive the journals H, H of the
antifriction rollers H⁹. The screws G fitted in the bottom of the wells are
provided to support and adjust the height of the blocks in the well, and the fronts
of the wells are formed of plates or doors F which may be removed to facilitate
cleaning the wells out. An annular projection J fitting the guide F is secured to
the under side of the rack plate and pieces of wood J³, are preferably introduced
between the said plate and projection to check the conduction of heat from the
plate to the projection.
In practice the rollers H are adjusted so as to support the rack plate but at the
same time not raise it too far away from' the steam chest.
Instead of forming the rollers H2 cylindrical they may be more or less conical or
their peripheries may be more or less grooved with a vee shaped groove or
otherwise modified in form and the underside of the projection J shaped to fit.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim is:
1. In a circular combing machine, a revolving rack plate or comb carrier or
support having an annular bearing piece projecting on the underside arranged to
revolve in an annular guide and be supported by antifriction rollers mounted in oil
wells formed in said guide, substantially as herein shown and described.
2. In a Noble's combing machine, the combination with an annular projection on
the underside of the rack plate of an annular guide fitting said projection and
having oil wells formed in it in which anti-triction rollers are mounted which
rollers are arranged to form a bearing for said projection and support the said
rack plate, substantially as herein shown and described.
Dated this 18th day of January 1895.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.