Improvements in Flax Spreading Machines, Oard Drawing Heads, or the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 21st May, 1896-Accepted, 1st Aug., 1896
CONTLEIE DIEVIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by ANDREW COULTER, of Mitau, Courlande,
Russia.]
Improvements in Flax Spreading Machines, Oard Drawing Heads,
or the like.
I, WILLIAM HENRY TAYLOR of Higher Openshaw, Manchester in the County
of Lancaster, Textile Expert 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 improvements in spreadboards and card-drawing heads
or such like machines as are used in the preparation of the flax fibre for spinning
and the object is to simplify the mechanism used in these machines for delivering
the slivers into the usual sliver cans.
Referring in general terms to these two classes of machines, I may say that it
has hitherto been customary to deliver or draw away the slivers from what is
known as the "doubling plate" by means of a pair of calender or delivery
rollers arranged at right angles to the doubling plate and at one end thereof
or by means of a pair of rollers mounted at the outer edge of the doubling
plate and parallel thereto. Or yet again there is an arrangement whereby each
individual sliver is drawn away from the doubling plate by a pair of rollers
mounted or arranged at the outer edge of the doubling plate and parallel thereto,
the bottom roller of each pair being mounted on or formed integral with a common
shaft.
To a certain extent all these methods obstruct, more or less, that side of the
machine at which the slivers issue and obstruct the operative's view of the sliver
cans. It is my desire to avoid this whilst simplifying the delivery arrangements.
My invention consists essentially in lengthening the end of the front or boss
roller and mounting thereon the delivery roller, and in arranging in close
proximity to the latter the pressing roller so as to complete the means for conducting
the slivers into the caus.
To render the application of my invention clear to those engaged in the art of
flax spinning I have appended hereunto a sheet of explanatory drawings in which
Fig. 1 is a plan of so much of a spreadboard as will enable the invention to be
understood;
Fig. 2 is an end elevation partly in section.
Fig. 3 a similar view shewing a different method of conducting the slivers and
Fig. 4 also a somewhat similar view showing another method of conducting the
slivers and applying the pressing or weighting rollers.
Referring to these A is the front or boss roller and B the doubling plate which
is provided with the usual slots b. through which the slivers c are led after leaving
the "bite" of the front roller and pressing rollers. I lengthen the shaft a of the
front roller A and mount thereon a delivery.roller D. This roller may be keyed or
otherwise fixed on the shaft a or it may be formed integral therewith. The
roller E which forms the pressing or weighting roller may be mounted in any
convenient manner in stands, brackets or "yews" and may be pressed towards the
delivery roller D by means of levers or weights, springs or the like or it may be
made of a sufficient weight of itself to exert the necessary pressure. In that end
of the doubling plate nearest to the delivery rollers and in line therewith I form a

page_text: slit F preferably running in a direction opposite to that of the ordinary slits or
slots 6 and through this slit the slivers are led rom either one side or the
other of the doubling plate to the delivery rollers. Where it is desired the
weighting rollers may be arranged as in Fig. 4. That is to say two rollers E
may be used and the slivers led round the intermediate one as shown.
By the arrangement described the cam is brought well under the eye of the
spreader or carder as will be obvious to practical men and the front construction
of the machine is greatly simplified. Although the improvements have been
described in connection with flax spreading machines their application to card
drawing heads and similar machines will be readily understood.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent I declare that what I
-claim is.
1. Lengthening the end of the front or boss roller of flax spreading machines,
card drawing heads or the like and mounting thereon, or forming integral
therewith, the delivery roller and arranging the other delivery mechanism in
connection therewith, substantially in the manner described and for the purposes
'set forth.
2. The improvements in flax spreading machines, card drawing heads or the like
-constructed and arranged substantially as described and shown in Figs. 1 to 4 of
the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 15th day of May 1896.
WILLIAM H. TAYLOR,
Applicant.