Improved Apparatus for the Preparation of Textile and Filamentous Materials, intended to Facilitate their Cleaning and the Removal of Thistles or Burrs therefrom.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Nov., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 8th Aug., 1890-Accepted, 18th Oct., 1890
Improved Apparatus for the Preparation of Textile and Filamentous
Materials, intended to Facilitate their Cleaning and the Removal
of Thistles or Burrs therefrom.
I SAMUEL PEGLER of 187 and 189 Rue de l'Alma, Roubaix, France, Directeur de
Peignage, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The apparatus for the preparation of textile and filamentous materials the subject of
this invention is composed of a series of rollers furnished lengthwise with blades or
plates and turning at different speeds.
It has for effect to draw and stretch, without pressure, the filaments of wool or of
any other textile material with the object of preparing them for cleaning or the
removal of burs, either upon the carding machine itself, or upon a burring machine
before passing them to the carding engine.
The rollers of my apparatus are furnished with metallic blades arranged following
their generating lines.
These rollers work in pairs at a speed increasing from pair to pair beginning at the
first pair.
The textile material brought by an endless feeding cloth or apron, or in any other
suitable manner, to and submitted to the action of this apparatus, is drawn from pair
to pair and the foreign matters, retained by the blades are largely disengaged from
the filaments by which they were enveloped.
The filaments, thus drawn without pressure, are almost entirely disengaged from
the burs or other foreign bodies, which permits the removal of these latter with
facility by known processes. These filaments are neither broken nor cut by the
action of the rollers which are not in contact.
The superposed rollers are set upon axles supported in suitable bearings and move-
ment, at the desired speed, is communicated to them by toothed gearing or in any
other suitable way.
The diameter of the rollers is optional and the blades may be of any suitable metal,
in any number and fixed by any suitable means; the essential is that the blades
gear without touching each other so as not to produce any pressure upon the textile
material.
The series or set of rollers, composed of any number of pairs may be arranged
horizontally or vertically at pleasure.
My apparatus, thus constituted, may be placed at the entrance to a bur breaking
machine or of any kind of carding engine. I may between two sets or series of
my rollers and following a second set of them arrange breaking or crushing rollers.
In this case the blades of the last series would be set closer.
Dated this Ninth day of November 1889.
For the Applicant,
W. E. GEDGE,
Agent.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for the Preparation of Textile and Filamentous
Materials, intended to Facilitate their Cleaning and the Removal
of Thistles or Burrs therefrom.
I, SAMUEL PEGLER, of Middiegate Birstall in the County of York (formerly of
Roubaix, France) Mill Manager, 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 apparatus is composed of a series of rollers furnished longitudinally with
metallic blades.
These rollers work by pairs and revolvo in the direction indicated in the annexed
drawing, the speed increasing from pair to pair commencing from the first.
The textile material brought forward by an endless-feed or by any other method
being submitted to the action of this apparatus is drawn out and opened by the rollers,
and the thistles and other foreign mattor are loosened, in a great measure, from the
filaments in which they were enveloped.
The fibres being thus drawn without pressure are almost entirely liberated from
burrs and other foreign matter with the result that we are enabled to extract the
said burrs and foreign matter by methods already known.
The superposed rollers a and a¹ are fitted on shafts running in properly disposed
bearings and the motion at the desired speed is communicated by toothed-wheels or
any other convenient means.
The rollers may be of any diameter, the blades of any metal and in any required
number, they may be fixed in the rollers by any convenient means; all that is
necessary is that they be geared so as not to press the textile material.
The series or set of rollers, composed of any number of pairs, may be fixed
horizontally as in our drawing or vertically, according to option.
Our apparatus thus composed may be combined with a card or a burr-crushing
machine.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
A machino constructed as herein before described by the combination, setting
and mode of action of the rollers a a¹ furnished longitudinally with metallic
blades and acting in couples at varying speeds with the object of drawing without
pressure the textile material submitted to their action and of loosening therefrom
the burrs and foreign substances thus facilitating the extraction of the said burrs
and foreign substances, the said machine being at our pleasure combined with
burr-crushing cylinders or placed at the entrance of a card, all substantially as
herein before described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 7th day of August 1890.
SAMUEL PEGLER.