IMPROVE. MENTS IN CONDENSING CARDING ENGINES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Taylor. Heape, junior, of Rochdale, in the.
County of Lancaster, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVE.
MENTS IN CONDENSING CARDING ENGINES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Taylor Heape.
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 12th January 1875.
I, ROBERT TAYLOR HEAPE, junior, of Rochdale, in the County of Lan- .
caster, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CONDENSING CARDING ENGINES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in an arrangement whereby the strands of
material are more or less prevented from being broken by the lashing or
entanglement of loose fibres. For this purpose, instead of allowing the¨
strands to pass as they now do from the rubbing surfaces, I pass them
over guides which separate them from each other.
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page_text: The arrangement I propose is as follows:-The set of strands for the
upper bobbin, instead of passing thereto direct, is conducted upward
over the end of the rubbing surface, and from thence under and over a
guide roller. In like manner the set for the lower bobbin passes down-
ward over the rubbing surface, and then over and under a guide
roller.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Robert Taylor Heape in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 12th July 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
TAYLOR HEAPE, junior, of Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster, Manu-
.facturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in
the thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Robert Taylor Heape,
Her special license that I, the said Robert Taylor Heape, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Robert Taylor Heape, my executors, administrators, 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 CONDENSING CARDING ENGINES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Robert Taylor
Heape, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
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 Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.

page_text: the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained:
in and by the following statement and accompanying Drawing, that is.
to say :-
My Invention consists in an arrangement whereby the strands of
material are more or less prevented from being broken by the lashing or
entanglement of loose fibres.
In the accompanying Drawing Fig. 1 represents the rubbing surfaces
of a condensing carding engine, and other parts connected therewith;
Fig. 2, a front view of the upper part of Fig. 1 with the bobbin and surface
drum omitted; Fig. 3 is an end view of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4, a plan view
of Fig. 3, the middle portion of the width of the machine being broken
off in Figures 2 and 4.
At a, b, are the rubbing surfaces mounted on the axes c, d, and c¹, d¹,
which are driven by the usual means not shewn in the Drawing. Above
the surface a is a roller e, and below the other surface is another
roller f. Upon the axis c is a toothed pinion in gear with a pinion h
on the axis of the roller c, and on the other side of the machine the
axis d is provided with a pinion i taking into another k, on the axis of
the roller f, and the rubbing surfaces being driven as usual, as above
stated, the said rollers e, f, are caused to revolve. The strands of
material pass between the rubbing surfaces alternately for the upper
and lower bobbins l, m, as usual. Referring however in the first
place to the upper set, they do not pass direct as in the ordinary manner
to the bobbin 1, but are conducted upward over the end of the rubbing
surface a (as shewn by the blue line), and from thence over the roller e,
after which they proceed through the guide n to the bobbin 2, upon
which they are wound by the surface drum o in the ordinary manner.
The set of strands for the lower bobbin pass downward over the end of
the rubbing surface b, and from thence over the roller. f, then over the
ordinary guide roller p to the bobbin m. By this arrangement it will be seen
that the two sets of strands separate by one set passing upward and the
other downward as soon as they are about leaving the rubbing surfaces,
and the danger of their being broken by the lashing or entanglement of
loose fibres is decreased.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to
be understood that I claim as secured to me under the above

page_text: recited Letters Patent, and for the purpose above set forth, the use of
apparatus for conducting the two sets of strands of material respectively
upward and downward over the ends of the rubbing surfaces:
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Taylor Heape, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
ROBERT TAYLOR HEAPE, JUN. (L.S.).