An Improvement in or Appertaining to Machines for Brushing Articles of Hosiery or Fabrics and the like
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Mar., 1887
Complete Left, 19th Dec., 1887
Complete Accepted, 3rd Feb., 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in or Appertaining to Machines for Brushing
Articles of Hosiery or Fabrics and the like.
We, SAMUEL JOHN PEGG of No. 287 Humberstone Road, Ironfounder, and JoHN
THOMAS EDMONDS of No. 44 Friday Street, Mechanic, both in Leicester in the
county of Leicester do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to an Improvement in, or appertaining to machines for brush-
ing articles of hosiery-that is, to raise the nap on the underside of Shirts, Pants,
Hose, & Half-hose, or fabrics not made up. The machine consists of suitable
standards, having both receiving and discharging rollers on the front and rear of the
platform of the machine, the receiving Table sloping upwards-at its upper end,
fixed in suitable bearings, and sunk down flush with the surface of the Table are steel
core, wood or India rubber coated rollers having smooth surfaces, and revolving
inwards to guide the articles, or fabric on to smooth faced India rubber feed rollers.
The upper face of the lower feed roller being pitched that it is level, or thereabouts
with the Top, or end receiving roller. In rear of the feed rollers are the cards or
brushes, and releasing rollers revolving outwards, which are fixed the same as the
receiving rollers in the front receiving Table-the said rollers being parallel with the
card or teazle rollers. The Table at the back slopes downwards-and a recepticle
is placed under it that the articles fall in after being brushed. The articles, or fabric
is placed on the receiving Table and taken up by the platform rollers and by them,
carried on to the feed rollers, which are made of India rubber with an Iron or Steel
shaft, instead of the Iron fluted rollers now employed they are smooth on their faces-
by having smooth surfaces and working in conjunction with the other rollers, the
goods are carried smooth and straight to come in contact with the cards, or teazle
rollers, or brushes, and on the taking off, or discharging rollers and Table-by this
our Invention of using smooth surface India rubber feed rollers in the manner
described, all danger of the articles being cut, or the fabric Torn, as is frequently now
the case, is obviated. The receiving and releasing rollers, and feed rollers constructed
and arranged as before stated can be put in ordinary machines now in use, if desired.
Dated this 17th day of March 1887.
WILLIAM BESTWICK MAXFIELD,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: An improvement in or Appertaining
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Articles of Hosiery or Fabrics and the like.
DECORTES
We, SAMUEL JOHN PEGO of No. 287 Humberstone Road, Ironfounder, and JOHN
THOMAS EDMONDS, of No. 44 Friday Street, Mechanic both in Leicester, in the
County of Leicester 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 an improvement in, or appertaining to machines for
brushing articles of hosiery or fabrics and the like, by adopting; in the place of
the fluted iron feed rollers now in use, smooth faced India-rubber feed rollers, the
core or shaft being of iron or steel with the following advantages. They take the
articles of hosiery into the brushing or teazle rollers more even, and in such a manner
that the articles are more perfectly brushed on both sides than is now the case, and
preventing them from being torn, cut, or pulled through the teazle rollers, which is
a frequent occurance whon using the ordinary iron feed rollers. We also employ
additional, or supplementary rollers, made of wood or other suitable light material,
for conveying the articles to our improved india-rubber feed rollers, and after the
articles have left the teazle rollers, we use guides fixed horizontally to the wooden
teazle rollers, to prevent the goods being dragged or carried round the rollers, and
that the articles are carried through the receiving, or pulling off rollers, which are
also made of india-rubber and placed in the rear of the machine, and may be so
adjusted that when the article or fabric is passing from the teazle rollers, they are
moved each at the same time, up and down, that each side, or face of the article or
fabric alternately catches each teazle roller, and is equally brushed on both sides. The
machine is constructed partly like ordinary brushing machines employed for brushing
articles of bosiery, or hosiery fabrics, excepting that our improvements herein specified
are attached thereto, and the old ones removed, the standards are ordinary castings
bolted together. The bracket A, being screwed on to the top of the standards at a¹
to carry the various parts of the machine, as hereinafter described. The delivery
table as being on the front of the machine, and upon which the articles, or fabric is
placed. At the upper end and running parallel with it, flush with the upper face of
the angular table, is fixed the small roller C, and coming above it, is a larger roller D.
made of light material such as wood, or may be below, and placed loose in the
bearings so that it can be lifted out at any time, or if the operators fingers are in
danger this roller will give way, and so avoid any accident. The small roller deriving
its motion from the bottom feed roller by the cog wheel c². Coming next at their
desired angle are the smooth faced India rubber feed rollers E and F, the top one
taking its motion from the lower one, and tensioned in the screw box G. by the thumb
screw the screw box being firmly bolted to the lower part of the bracket A. the lower
feed roller E carrying upon its ends the toothed wheel H. which gears with the pinion h¹
fixed in rear of the toothed wheel I. on the spindle the tooth wheel I. gearing

page_text: with the smaller one J. fixed on the shaft of the lower teazle or brushing roller K.
the shaft of the teazle roller K. carrying on its outer end the pulley wheel L. shewn
in dotted lines, which is driven by a straight belt running down on to a driving
wheel on the lower part of the machine. The top teazle, or brushing roller M, is
similarly provided on its end with a pulley wheel m' which is driven by the cross belt m²
working on to a wheel on the shaft in the lower part of the machine at the opposite end
to the other, this part of the machine is not shewn being of the ordinary construction
in the drawings which accompany this Specification representing a side sectional view
and indicates the several improvements herein referred to, and marked Fig. 1. The
thick lines N upon the top of the T shaped projections in the circumference of the
teazle, or brushing rollers K and M. are strips of metal, or may be of india rubber if
desired, and rivetted on to the faces of the said projections, the recesses O. being filled
with teazles, steel cards, or brushes, the guides P. and Q are solid sheet iron, or steel
and are adjusted to the frame R. so that their turned ends come up to the periphery
of the teazle, or brushing rollers, which prevents the articles or fabric from being
dragged round, or taken over the brushing rollers, the top teazle or brushing roller
is regulated in its bearing by the holder S. carrying the screw T. which is provided,
on its upper end, with the worm, or spur wheel and connected to the other U.
secured on the end of the shaft. V. which is moved by the hand wheel W. the receiving
or pulling off rollers X. and X¹ are made of india-rubber and held in the grooves of
the frame R. no table is shewn at the back of the machine but it may be fixed in the
same position as the table at the opposite end of the machine the point of the arrows
indicate in which direction the various rollers move, and also the fabric. The bolt Y.
runs through to each side of the machine, the improved rollers may be adapted in
ordinary brushing machines in place of those now in use.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed-we declare that what we claim is:
1st. The arrangement of and use of india rubber coated rollers to machines for
brushing articles of hosiery, or fabrics, in the manner as hereinbefore described.
2nd. The improvement in, or appertaining to brushing machines by the employ-
ment of india rubber feed rollers, additional or supplimentary delivery and
receiving or pulling off rollers, and teazle roller guides, in machines used for brush-
ing articles of hosiery, or fabrics, and the like-in the manner substantially as herein-
before described and set forth.
Dated this 16th dose of Dal
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