Improvements in Machines for Opening, Scutching, and Cleaning Cotton.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Mar., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 18th Nov., 1899-Accepted, 6th Jan., 1900
Date of Application, 4th Mar., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 18th Nov., 1899 -Accepted, 6th Jan., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Opening, Scutching, and Cleaning
Cotton.
We, THOMAS BRYERS, of 56, John Booth Street, Mill Manager, and HENRY
ATHERTON PARKYN, of Wood End, Cotton Spinner, both of Lees, near Oldham,
in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to an improvement in scutchers and openers, and con-
sists in forming the beater that is employed for opening and cleaning the cotton
with double action blades in lieu of the plain blades as hitherto used.
We form the blade with the lower portion of the face serrated or corrugated
in order to loosen the dirt, cotton seed, or other substances that may be contained
in the cotton, and the upper portion of the face of the blade projecting so that
as the beater revolves, the cotton after being acted upon by the comb or serrated
portion of the beater, is struck by the aforesaid plain projecting portion of the
blade at the same angle as the serrated portion of the blade.
By these means as the blades revolve the aforesaid serrated or corrugated portion
of the blade disintegrates the cotton and loosens the dirt, cotton seeds or other
substances that may be introduced or mixed with the cotton, and the plain pro-
jecting portion of the blade following immediately thereafter removes and cleanses
the cotton by causing the aforesaid or like impurities to fall through the bars.
Dated this 2nd day of March 1200
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
Agents for the Applicants, 4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.
Improvements in Machines for Opening, Scutching, and Cleaning
Cotton.
We, THOMAS BRYERS, of 56, John Booth Street, Mill Manager, and HENRY
ATHERTON PARKYN, of Wood End, Cotton Spinner, both of Lees, near Oldham,
in the County of Lancaster, 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 an improvement in scutchers and openers, and con-
sists in forming the beater that is employed for opening and cleaning cotton
with double action blades in lieu of the plain blades as hitherto used.

page_text: In the accompanying drawing, Fig. 1 is a front view and Fig. 2 an end view
of a beater shaft fitted with radial arms to which our improved double action
blades are attached. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of said blade drawn to an
enlarged scale. In these views similar letters refer to similar parts.
For the purpose of this invention in order to disintegrate the cotton and loosen
the dirt, cotton seed or other substances therein, we form the lower portion a
of the face, or that portion of the face of the blade that first comes into contact
with the cotton as the blades revolve, serrated or corrugated, and the upper
portion of the face of said blade plain and projecting therefrom, so that the
cotton after being acted upon by the comb or serrated portion of the beater is
struck by the plain projecting portion of the blade at the same angle
as the serrated portion of the blade. The angular or serrated forma-
tion of the lower portion of the blade disintegrates the cotton and in com-
bination with the plain portion of the blade which strikes the cotton immediately
thereafter, the cotton seed and foreign substances that are contained or mixed
with the cotton are more effectually removed therefrom and fall through the bars.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
In machines for opening scutching and cleaning cotton the use of a beater
whose face is formed partly serrated and partly plain whereby the cotton is
first disintegrated by the serrated portion and the impurities afterwards removed
by the plain portion of said blade in the manner substantially as hereinbefore
described.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
Agents for the Applicants, 4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.