Improvements in the Construction of the Card Covered Rollers Used in Gig Mills.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 5th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 11th May, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of the Card Covered Rollers Used
in Gig Mills.
1 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BYROM of Slackcote Mills Delph near Oldham in the County
of York Woollen Blanufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:-
This invention relates to the construction of card covered rollers used in the machines
known as Moser's Gig Mills (for which Letters Patent No. 11640 dated September
30th 1885 were granted to C. E. Moser) and similar apparatus employed for raising &
pile or soft surface upon the face of woven fabrics.
The object of this invention is to enable the said card covered rollers to be used for
a longer time than is at present possible.
Hitherto these rollers have been made after the manner of ordinary carding machine
rollers with a fillet wound spirally upon the same and extending the whole width of the
machine; and it is found that the card teeth from the centre of the rollers outwards wear
away and become distorted or uneven much faster than those at either end thereof,
thereby causing excessive raising in the centre of the cloth and consequently an
uneven raising of the fabric as a whole. This necessitates the repair or reclothing of
the rollers before a great proportion of the surface of the fillet has been thoroughly
worn out.
To obviate this I employ rollers formed in sections, of a series of drums or cylinders
each covered with a card fillet and fitied close together on their shafts or axles, sliding
in a groove or on a feather or otherwise so as to be readily removed when required, being
tightened together by lock nuts at one or both ends of the said axle or by other suitable
means.
Thus, as the teeth on the central sections drums or cylinders become distorted or
worn the said drums or sections can be removed and replaced by those at either end in
place of which they will then be set, and so on until the whole surface of the rollers
has been thoroughly utilized.

page_text: I prefer so to arrange the various sections drums or cylinders forming the various
rollers of the apparatus that the joints of one roller shall not correspond in position to
those of adjacent rollers.
Dated this 23rd day of Anaust 1888
CHARLES A. DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of the Card Covered Rollers Used
in Gig-mills.
I BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BYROM of Slackcote Mills, Delph near Oldham in the
County of York Woollen Manufacturer 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 the construction of card-covered rollers used in the machines
known as "Moser's gig-mills" (for which Letters Patent No. 11640 dated September
30th 1885 were granted to C. E. Moser) and in similar apparatus employed for raising
a pile or soft surface upon woven fabrics.
The object of this invention is to enable the said card covered rollers to be used for
a longer time than is at present possible.
The nature of my said invention and the manner in which the same is to be per-
formed or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference to the
sheet of drawings hereunto annexed and the following explanation thereof.
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section of about half a gig-mill roller constructed according
to my invention, and Fig. 1 is a similar view of the next roller which works in con-
nection with the same, and Fig. 2 is a transverse section through about the line A-B.
Hitherto these rollers have been made after the manner of ordinary carding machine
rollers with a card fillet wound spirally upon the same and extending the whole width
of the machine and it is found that the card teeth from the centre of the roller outwards
wear away and become distorted or uneven much faster than those at either end thereof,
thereby causing excessive raising in the centre of the cloth, and consequently an uneven
raising of the fabric as a whole.
This necessitates the repair or re-clothing of the rollers before a great proportion of
the surface of the fillet has been thoroughly worn out.

page_text: To obviate this I employ rollers formed in sections of a series of drums or cylinders a
as shown on the drawing each covered with a card fillet and fitted close together on
their shaft or axle b sliding in a groove or on a feather, or otherwise, so as to be readily
removed, when required, being tightened together by lock nuts c at one or both ends of
the said axle band preferably connected together by dowel pins d or by other suitable
means.
Thus as the wire teeth of the central sections drums or cylinders become distorted
or worn the said drums or sections can be removed and replaced by those at either end
in place of which they will then be set, and so on until the whole surface of the rollers
has thus been thoroughly utilized.
I prefer so to arrange the various sections drums or cylinders forming the various
rollers of the machine that the joints of one roller shall not correspond in position to
those of adjacent rollers as will be seen on reference to the drawing Fig. 1 and Fig. 1a.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
The construction of the card covered rollers of gig mills and other similar apparatus
in several sections substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein before set
forth and described, and illustrated by the drawing annexed.
Dated thin 4th das A 1000
CHARLES A. DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicant.