GB191310604A - Improvements in and relating to Carding Kapok and the like. - Google Patents

Abstract

10,604. Saint RenÚ, J. M. de. May 6, 1912, [Convention date]. Carding-engines; feeding carding - en - gines. - Apparatus for the production of webs or slivers of kapock comprises a pair of heated cylinders b, c, Fig. 1, which take the material from the table a and delivers to the taker-in d. The main cylinder f cooperates with soft brushes e, i and a worker g, clothed and rotated as shown. The fleece is taken from the dotfer h by a comb l, and is drawn out on an endless band k provided with vertical teeth arranged diagonally and co-operating with a vertically adjustable spirally clothed cylinder j. The band k has one or more grooves in which the sliver collects and from which it passes to the cans v. The raw kapock may be passed from a hopper 1, Fig. 4, through a number of hollow cylinders 2 in which are rotated spirally clothed rollers 14, co-operating with brushes on the interior of the cylinders 2. The filaments collect in the spiral grooves on the rollers and are passed by the roller 5 to the heated carding-cylinder 7, which revolves in a casing 8 provided with brushes. The fleece is passed to an endless band 10 by a cylinder 9, which can be adjusted in the direction of the arrow 16, and the speed of which can be varied to control the thickness of the web produced. The web is passed through rollers 11, 12 and wound upon the bobbin 13. Specification 27,303/10 is referred to. The Specification as open to inspection under Section 91 (3) (a) comprises also an arrangement of clothed belts or bands arranged obliquely over the endless band k to draw the fleece into the grooves and facilitate the formation of slivers. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.