Automatic Feeder for Cotton or Woollen Scutchers.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 12th Jan., 1895-4ccepted, 23rd Feb., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Automatic Feeder for Cotton or Woollen Scutchers.
JAMES SMALLPAGE HOYLE Cotton Spinner Baldingstone Bury CHARLES
SOUTHWELL Mill Manager. Woodbine Cottage Summerseat near Bury JOHN
LOBLEY Sheet Metal Worker 58 Stanley' Street Ramsbotton do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
We fix above the machine a supplementary cistern or reserve for cotton or wool
from which the hopper is supplied. The cotton or wool is put in the reserve or
cistern which is connected with the hopper of the scutching machine.
When the
amount of cotton or wool is at the required height in the hopper & is being turned
over by the working of the machine it presses backwards against the bars, levers,
forks, sheet of iron or other material which is fixed to the reserve, or cistern, pipe,
or hopper and stops the supply of cotton or wool in the hopper & keeps the same at
a regular height in the hopper feeds, thereby keeping a uniform weight of cotton
or wool on the lattices of the machine which insures a regular weight of lap.
Dated this 12th day of April 1894.
JAMES S. HOYLE.
CHARLES SOUTHWELL.
JOHN LOBLEY.
We JAMES SMALL PAGE HOYLE, Cotton Spinner, of Baldingstone Bury,
CHARLES SOUTHWELL, Mill Manager, of Woodbine Cottage, Summerscat, near
Bury, and JOHN LOBLEY, Sheet Metal Worker, of 58 Stanley Street Ramsbottom,
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 :-
The object of this invention is to regulate by automatic means the supply of
cotton or wool to hopper feeders for scutchers.
The nature of the invention and the manner in which the same is to be performed
or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference to the
drawing hereunto annexed and the following explanation thereof.
The drawing represents in section a hopper feeder for a scutcher with our
invention shown as applied thereto, a being the hopper 6 the feeding lattice and
the spiked lattice.
Above the feeder we fix a supplementary cistern or reserved for cotton or wool
from which the hopper is fed. On the drawing this is shown in the form of a
trunk, the upper end of which is open to the mixing room above. The cotton or
wool is put into this reserve d, the lower end of which is connected to the
hopper a.
At the lower end of the trunk d is hung a bent sheet of iron e, or bars forks, or
equivalent device connected to a valve or door f, which may be provided also with
a spring or springs if required.

page_text: When the " " feeder is full and at work the action of the lattices band o will
cause the cotton or wool in the hopper to be constantly turned over (as represented
by the arrows) and to press backward against the sheet of iron e (or bars or other
equivalent device), and operate the valve or door f at the lower end of the cistern
or reserve d, partially or entirely closing the same so as to reduce or shut off the
supply of cotton or wool to the hopper; and. as the action of the spiked lattice c in
feeding reduces the quantity of cotton or wool in the hopper the pressure against
the sheet iron or bars e becomes relaxed, and more cotton or wool is released
and falls out of the reserve d into the hopper a, and thus the supply or
"feed
of cotton or wool is automatically regulated and hence a more regular weight of
"lap" is obtained.
"
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
:-
The combination with a hopper feeder for scutchers, of a supplementary cistern
or reserve for the cotton or wool provided with a valve or door for regulating
the supply, such valve or door being operated by the action of the cotton or wool
in the hopper pressing more or less against a bent sheet of iron, or bars, forks, or
equivalent device connected to such valve or door, so that as soon as the pressure
of the cotton or wool inside the hopper is relaxed, the valve or door is opened (and
vice versa) and thus the supply is automatically regulated, substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated by the drawings annexed.
Dated this 11th day of January 1895.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.