Improvements in Scribblers or Carding Engines for Carding Fibres.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 16th May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 15th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 21st Mar., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Scribblers or Carding Engines for Carding
Fibres.
We, ERNEST CROWTHER and WILLIAM HENRY CROWTHER, both of Priestley
Mills, Pudsey, in the County of York, Carding Engine Cleaners, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in scribblers or carding engines or
machines for carding wool, cotton, and other fibres, the object being to card the
fibres under operation thoroughly, and with a saving of time and labour, the machine
also being less expensive, and complicated in construction.
According to this invention, we employ a worker roller and a cleaner, these being
arranged in pairs at spaced intervals or distances apart around the operating part of
the diameter of the swift.
Each worker touches the swift, and also touches the cleaner, but the cleaner is
clear of the swift so that the cleaner operates in the double capacity of cleaner and
stripper of the worker.
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Dated this 10th day of May 1895
BRIERLEY & HOWARD,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax, Agents for the Applicants.
improvements in serioniers or Caruing Lug
Fibres.
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We, ERNEST CROWTHER and WILLIAM HENRY CROWTHER, both of Priestley
Mills, Pudsey, in the County of York, Carding Engine Cleaners, 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 scribblers or carding engines or
machines for carding wool, cotton, and other fibres, the object being to card the
fibres under operation thoroughly and with a saving of time and labour, the machine
also being less expensive and complicated in construction.
The invention consists in the arrangement and combination of worker rollers,
and cleaners, arranged in pairs at intervals around the main cylinder or swift.
Such being the nature and object of our said invention, the following is a
complete description of same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in
which:-
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a carding engine or scribbler made in accordance with
this invention.
Fig. 2 is a detail shewing the course followed by the fibre on one of the worker
rollers and cleaners.
According to this invention, we employ a worker roller 1 and a cleaner roller 2,
these being arranged in pairs at spaced intervals or distances apart around the
operating part of the circumference of the swift 3.

page_text: Each worker 1 touches the swift 3, and also touches the cleaner 2, but the
cleaner 2 is clear of the swift 3, so that the cleaner 2 operates in the double capacity
of a cleaner, and also a stripper of the worker 1.
Fig. 2 shews the course followed by the fibre when on the worker 1 and cleaner 2,
the swift 3 removing a portion of the fibre from the worker 1 as it continues to
revolve. At 4. 4 are the fancy rollers, one cleaning two swifts or cylinders.
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 :-
In combination with the swift or cylinder of a scribbler or carding engine, a series
of working rollers and cleaners arranged in pairs at intervals apart around such
swifts or cylinders, as and for the purpose herein described, and substantially as
illustrated by the annexed drawings.
Dhi tok 1.
1000
ERNEST CROWTHER,
WILLIAM HENRY CROWTHER,
By their Agents, Brierley & Howard,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax.