IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CARDING FIBRES
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Brooke, of Armitage Bridge, Huddersfield, in
the County of York, Woollen Manufacturer, and Benjamin Booth, of the
same Place, Scribbling Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY FOR CARDING FIBRES."
Sealed the 17th May 1878, and dated the 21st November 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Brooke at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st November 1877.
WILLIAM BROOKE, of Armitage Bridge, Huddersfield, in the County of York,
Woollen Manufacturer, and BENJAMIN BOOTH, of the same Place, Scribbling
Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CARDING FIBRES."
This Invention consists of an improved combination and arrangement of the
teeth or cards employed on the fancy rollers, angle strippers, and smaller strippers
of such machinery.
In lieu of covering the rollers with cards of uniform make as heretofore, I employ
a combination of cards of varying strength a thickness of wire, and arrange the
varying teeth or cards in series parallel, spirally, or at an angle to the axis of the
roller.
Cards so made and arranged we find give very satisfactory results as to working
of fibre under operation, and as to removal of dirt and impurities.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Brooke in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 21st May
1878.
WILLIAM BROOKE, of Armitage Bridge, Huddersfield, in the County of York,
Woollen Manufacturer, and BENJAMIN BOOTH, of the same Place, Scribbling
Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CARDING FIBRES."
This Invention consists of an improved combination and arrangement of the teeth
or cards employed in the fancy rollers, angle strippers, and smaller strippers of such
machinery.
In lieu of covering the rollers with cards of uniform make as heretofore, we employ
a combination of cards of varying strength or thickness of wire, and arrange the
varying teeth or cards in series parallel, spirally, or at an angle to the axis of the
roller.
Cards so made and arranged we find give very satisfactory results as to working
of fibre under operation, and as to removal of dust and impurities.
Such being the nature and object of this our said Invention, we have annexed a
Sheet of Drawings, which, aided by the following description of the Invention, will
be fully understood.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is an end clevation of a roller or cylinder elevated with cards according to
this Invention.
Fig. 2 is a front view.
Fig. 3 shews strips set or arranged spirally or angle-wise.
At A is the roller; B are the cords of ordinary strength of wire; at C are cards,
the teeth of which are made of stronger wire so as to offer more resistance than the
smaller and more pliant teeth B.
By the combination of varying teeth, as described, more satisfactory results are
obtained.
It will be understood that the Invention may be varied or modified by the use
of wire more or less strong than that illustrated by the Drawings, as I do not limit
or confine the Invention to any particular strength or "count" of wire, nor to the
particular roller or cylinder of the machine to which the same is to be or may be
applied; what I claim is, the use and employment of wire cards of varying strength
or "counts" of wire, as and for the purpose above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin Booth, on behalf of myself and the
said William Brooke, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twentieth
day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-eight.
BENJAMIN BOOTH. (L.S.)
Witness,
J. E. WALSH,
Mechanical Draughtsman to Walter Brierley,
Patent Agent,
Halifax and Blackburn.