IMPROVEMENTS IN USING THE WASTE THREADS OF CONDENSING CARDING ENGINES AND IN MACHANGAT TO BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE."
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Eli Weare, of Stonehouse, in the County of
Gloucester, Manager of Works, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN USING THE WASTE THREADS OF CONDENSING CARDING ENGINES AND IN
MACHANGAT
TO BE USED FOR THAT
PURPOSE."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Eli Weare at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
13th April 1870.
I, ELI WEARE, of Stonehouse, in the County of Gloucester, Manager
of Works, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for " IM-
PROVEMENTS IN USING THE WASTE THREADS OF CONDENSING CARDING ENGINES AND
IN MACHINERY TO BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE," to be as follows:-
In the working of the condensing carding engine a waste thread is
produced at each side. These threads are ordinarily broken up and
thrown into the first scribbler with each fresh supply of wool to be
scribbled over again. This occasions an over scribbling of the wool
constituting the said threads, and in case of neglect on the part of the

page_text: attendant the waste threads are not uniformly mixed with the fresh
wool to be scribbled, and imperfect threads are consequently produced
by the want of uniformity in the mixture of the fresh wool, and the
said waste threads.
My Invention consists in returning the said waste threads to the
condensing carding engine by means of the mechanism hercin-after
described, the greater part of which said mechanism is attached to one
of the scribblers, by preference, to the last. By the use of this mechanism
the waste threads become uniformly, incorporated with the wool or sliver
as it comes off the scribbler.-The- material of the said waste threads
is thus prevented from being over scribbled, and is uniformly distributed
in the sliver.
The mechanism which I employ consists essentially of the following
arrangement or combination of parts:-Over the ends of the carding
engiuc rollers are fixed, over which rollers the waste thread from one
end of the said engine is conducted to the other end, and the threads
from the two ends of the engine thus brought side by side. The said
waste threads are taken up by or coiled upon a roller or spool driven by
any convenient gearing from the carding engine or otherwise, and the
said roller or spool when filled with the waste (threads is conveyed to
the scribbler (the axis of the said roller or spool being placed in suitable
supports) and made to, bear, or rest on a second roller or drum, which
has a slow uniform rotary motion communicated to it, whereby the
waste threads are uniformly delivered into the sliver as it comes off the
scribbler. The sliver passes to the condensing carding engine in the
usual way.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters. Patent,
filed by the said Eli Weare in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 7th October 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ELI 3
WEARE, of Stonehouse, in the County of Gloucester, Manager of
Works, send greeting.
"
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty- 3

page_text: third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto I, the said Eli Wearc, Iler special licence that
I, the said Eli Weare, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Eli Weare, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN USING THE
WASTE THREADS OF CONDENSING CARDING ENGINES AND IN MACHINERY TO BE
USED FOR THAT PURPOSE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Eli Weare, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals, 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 Scal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Eli Weare, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
In the working of the condensing carding engine a waste thread is
produced at each side. These threads are ordinarily broken up and thrown
into the first scribbler with each fresh supply of wool to be scribbled
over again. This occasions an over scribbling of the wool constituting
the said threads, and in case of neglect on the part of the attendant
the waste threads are not uniformly mixed with the fresh wool to
be scribbled, and imperfect threads are consequently produced by the
want of uniformity in the mixture of the fresh wool and the said waste
threads.
My Invention consists in returning the said waste threads to the con-
densing carding engine by means of the mechanism herein-after described,
the greater part of which said mechanism is attached to one of the
scribblers, by preference to the last. By the use of this mechanism the
waste threads become uniformly incorporated with the wool or sliver as it
comes off the scribbler. The material of the said waste threads is thus
prevented from being over scribbled and is uniformly distributed in the
sliver.

page_text: The mechanism which I employ consists essentially of the following
arrangement or combination of parts:-Over the end of the carding
engine rollers are fixed, over which rollers the waste thread from one
side of the said engine is conducted to the other side, and the threads
from the two sides of the engine thus brought side by side. The said
waste threads are taken up by or coiled upon a roller or spool driven by
any convenient gearing from the carding engine or otherwise, and the
said roller or spool when filled with the waste threads is conveyed to the
scribbler, (the axis of the said roller or spool being placed in suitable
supports) and made to bear or rest on a second roller or drum which
has a slow uniform rotary motion communicated to it, whereby the
waste threads are uniformly delivered into the sliver as it comes off
the scribbler. The sliver passes to the condensing carding engine-in
the usual way.
The accompanying Drawing represents the mechanism which I prefer
to employ in carrying my Invention into effect, the said mechanism
being attached to or combined with the condensing carding engine.
Figure 1 represents in front elevation, and Figure 2 in side clevation,
the condenser of a carding engine, with which is combined mechanism
for conducting the waste threads from the said condenser on to a spool,
from which they are subsequently to be uniformly returned into the sliver
as it comes off the scribbler; Figure 3 represents in front elevation, and
Figure 4 in side elevation, a portion of a scribbler, with which scribbler
mechanism for returning or feeding the waste threads into the sliver of
the said scribbler is combined..
I will first describe with reference to Figures 1 and 2 the conducting
of the waste threads on to the spool, and afterwards, with reference to
Figures 3 and 4, the returning of the said waste threads into the sliver
of the scribbler. a, b, (Figures 1 and 2) are the two waste threads
produced at the sides of the condensing carding engine. The waste
thread a at one side of the carding engine passes direct to the spool c,
(see Figure 2) while the waste thread 6 at the other side of the carding
engine first passes over the conducting pulleys d, d, and then on to tho
spool c as will be understood by an examination of Figure 1. The wasto
thread 6 from one side of the carding engine is thus conducted to the
other side of the said engine, and the threads a, b, from the two sides
of the engine are thus brought together and taken up or coiled upon
the spool c. The conducting pulleys d, d, are supported by the

page_text: brackets g, g, and are driven by the shaft e and the bevil gearing
represented, the shaft e being driven from the shaft of the roller h.
The spool c rests on the roller and takes motion from the said roller.
The manner in which the spool c is supported on the roller and side
arms i will be seen by referring to Figure 2. By means of the mecha-
nism represented in Figures 1 and 2 the waste threads a, b, as they pass
from opposite sides of the condensing carding engine are conducted to
the spool c, the said spool being filled with the said waste threads. When
the spool c is filled with the waste threads the said spool is lifted from
the roller and combined with one of the scribblers of the carding
engine, as represented in Figures 3 and 4, to be returned into the sliver
as it comes off the said scribbler. That is to say, the filled spool c is
lifted from the bearing arms i and is placed against the bearing arms &
of the scribbler and made to rest on the roller f, to which roller a
slow uniform rotary motion is communicated from the scribbler by the
driving pulleys and bands best seen in Figure 4. By the motion of the
roller the waste thread marked in Figures 3 and 4 is uncoiled from
the spool c and delivers itself into or incorporates itself with the sliver
or roving of the doffer m, and is thence conveyed in the usual way to
the carding engine feed. The said waste thread is thus uniformly
delivered into the sliver as it comes off the scribbler.
Although I have represented the best arrangements with which I am
acquainted of collecting the waste threads of the condensing carding
engine and delivering the collected waste threads into the scribbler yet I
do not limit myself thereto, as other equivalent mechanical arrangements
may be employed for those purposes.
Ilaving now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I
do not limit myself to the precise details herein described and illustrated,
as the same may be varied without departing from the nature of my
Invention; but I claim as my Invention,—
Firstly. The improvements herein-before described and illustrated in
the accompanying Drawing, in using the waste threads of condensing
carding engines, that is to say, uniformly incorporating the said waste
threads with the wool or sliver as it comes off the scribbler, and thereby
preventing the over scribbling of the said waste threads by conducting
the said waste threads produced at each side of the condensing carding
engine on to a spool, and returning the waste threads so collected into

page_text: the sliver of one of the scribblers of the said carding engine, substantially
.as described and illustrated.
Secondly. The mechanical arrangements substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing to be
applied to the condensing carding engine for collecting the waste
threads of the said engine and for uniformly returning them into the
sliver of one of the scribblers.
In witness whereof, I, the said Eli Weare, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this First day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and soventy.
Witness,
JOSEPH HENRY WEARE,
Stonehouse,
Gloucestershire.
ELI WEARE. (L.S.)