Improvements in Carding Engines.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 5th June, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 30th Nov., 1897-Accepted, 1st Jan., 1898
Improvements in Carding Engines.
We, ARMITAGE HAIGH, of the firm of Messrs. John Haigh and Sons Limited,
Priest Royd Iron Works, Huddersfield, in the County of York, Machine Makers,
and ALPHONSE BORIOS, of 17 Rue des Bains, Vevey, Suisse, Mechanical Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of improved appliances whereby an increased number
of workers can be employed within a given radius and the material under opera-
tion cau bo worked and re-worked more or less according to requirement and
nature of the material under operation.
According to this our invention, the workers are arranged in close order, and
applied and combined therewith are diverting plates placed between two workers.
The diverting plates are for the purpose of returning the fibre from the workers
to the Cylinder and such plates are applied at intervals between each pair of
workers, or two pair of workers, according as to whether the fibre requires to be
more or less worked and between each pair of workers there is a stripper.
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BRIERLEY & HOWARD,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax, Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in Carding Engines.
We ARMITAGE HAIGH of the firm of John Haigh and Sons Limited of Priest
Royd Iron Works, Huddersfield in the County of York Machine Maker and
ALPHONSE BORIOs a Citizen of the Swiss Republic residing at Vevey, Switzerland
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:—
Our invention relates to an improved arrangement and construction of parts in a
Carding Engine whereby an increased number of workers can be employed around
the main cylinder within a given radius the object being to enable the material
passing through the machine to be worked and reworked more thoroughly than
heretofore, and by reason of the arrangement of the parts in a smaller space than
heretofore.
Such being the nature and object of our said invention the following is a com-
plete description of same reference being had to the accompanying drawings in
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page_text: Fig. 1 shews in elevation and diagramatically a Carding Engine arranged
according to our invention.
Fig 2. a modification drawn to a smaller scale.
According to our invention as illustrated in Fig 1 workers 1. 1° are arranged in
close order around the main cylinder or swift 3 and between each two workers 1. 1*
are dividing plates 2 which divide the workers into pairs over the face of the
main Cylinder. The plates 2 serve to retain the fibre on the worker 1* and prevent
its being taken forwards by the next worker 1 and between each pair of
workers 1. 1 1. 1 is a strippor 4 which removes the fibre and places it on the
main Cylinder again.
The course of the fibre is indicated by the solid line 5 from which it will be
seen that after passing the usual feed rollers and lickers in the fibre is removed
from the main Cylinder by the first worker 1 of the first pair removed by the
small stripper 4 and laid on to the Cylinder 3 as shewn and then carried by the
Cylinder 3 to the second pair of workers 1. 1" which revolve in the same direction
(as do all the workers) a portion of the fibre however being first carried round by
the worker 1 of the first pair and back to the worker 1 and brought round said
worker 1 on to the main cylinder again and so would be carried on again if it
were not for the stripper 4 which removes a portion of the extra fibre now on
the worker 1 and returns it to the main cylinder which it follows in its course to
the next pair 1. 1" where the operation is repeated.
It will be seen that the diverting plates between the pairs of workers prevent
one pair from removing the fibre from the pair next in order and that as such
plates occupy no appreciable space the separate pairs are obtained without any
spacing apart of the individual pairs which results in a considerable saving
of space.
In Fig. 2 is shewn another arrangement of parts in which the plates 2 are
arranged between each two pair of four workers 1. 1º. 1. 1º a stripper 4 being
arranged on the far side of the workers 1 and 1b to remove the surplus fibre as
previously described and allow the fibre to be reworked over two or more pairs of
rollers The course of the fibre will be seen from the solid line 5 and understood
without further explanation.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed We declare that what
we claim is:-
1. In a Carding Engine the combination with a main Cylinder and worker
arranged around same of diverting plates placed at intervals between the workers
and serving to separate same into groups substantially as described.
2. In a Carding Engine and in combination a main Cylinder, workers arranged
around same diverting plates placed at intervals between the workers and serving
to separate same into groups and a stripper between each pair of workers, arranged
to remove the surplus fibre therefrom substantially as described.
Dated this 29th day of November 1897.
ARMITAGE HAIGH.
ALPHONSE BORIOS.
By their Agents,
Brierley & Howard,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax.