US1099321A - Licker-in cloth. - Google Patents

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LOUIS STOGKER, OF GRAHAMTON, KENTUCKY.

LIGKER-IN CLOTH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed .Tune 21, 1913.

Patented June 9, 191.4.

Serial No. 775,160.

To all flu/ioni, it may concern Be it known that I, LOUIS S'rociinn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grahamton, in the county of Meade and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Licker-In Cloth, of which the following is a specification, :reference being had to the accompanying drawmg.

My improvement relates to lickerin cloth applied to the cylinders of machines used in the various well-l nown `textile operations.

The object of the invention is to provide a lickerin cloth which may be` easily made and easily and accurately applied to the cyl inders, have a positive arrangement of teeth, and be strong and durable.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l. is a plan of a portion of a cylinder having my improved lickerin cloth applied thereto; Fig. 2 is a section on the line, Q--2, of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a piece of the lickerin cloth. The drawings are all en larged.

Referring first to Fig. l of the drawings, the cloth consists of a ribbon-like sheet metal strip having parallel edges and adapted to be wound around a cylinder, either in a plane which is perpendicular to the cylinder axis or spirally. If the latter form, t-he ribbon-like strip may be of indefinite length, and if the former, a plurality of strips each just long enough toil-each around the cylinder can be usedl In either ease, the turns or coils of the cloth are preferably brought together edge-to-edge, as shown in Figs. l and 2. Along each side edge of each such strip or strips are teeth integral with the strip. Said strip constitutes a broad, flat, and firm base for the teeth located thereon and said teeth are arranged in rows, and the points of the teeth in each row are so positioned laterally as to produce even spacing between the rows of points on the cylinder, as hereinafter described.

A is the strip. The` teeth, Gr, G, are formed by cutting triangular pieces out of each edge of a sheet, and then bendingupward the triangular pieces which remained between the spaces from which the triangular pieces were taken out. Instead of bend ing the pieces which are to form theteeth directly upward so as to leave the teeth at opposite sides of thc strips, A, as far from each other at their points as they are at the base, said pieces are bent inward and toward each other at their bases and then extended upward in planes which are perpendicular to the strip and midway between its edges and its middle. The line, D1-I), in Figs. l and 2 indicates such middle.

Vhen the cloth is thus formed and pieces are placed side by side, as in Figs. 1 and 2, the distance between the adjacent rows of teeth along adj oining edges of the strips will be the same as the distance between the two rows of teeth on the same strip. For example, the distance from the left hand row of teeth on the left hand strip in Fig. 1 to the next row on the same strip is the same as the distance from the latter row to the first or left hand row on the strip lying at the right of the first strip. This uniformity of spacing is desirable for the sake of attaining uniformity in work and also to adapt the cylinder to receive between its rows of teeth other teeth supported by some other portion or member of the machine for do'l'ling or other purposes.

My improved cloth is adapted to be formed rapidly and economically with automatic machines having cutting and forming members for cutting the sheets, and bending the resulting free pieces into position to become teeth, Gr.

The strip constituting the cloth may be easily applied to the cylinder in accurate and firm manner. The body of the strip constitutes a base for supporting the teeth, G. And such base is relatively wide and therefore makes a strong support for the teeth and `minimizes the effect of inaccuracies in the face of the cylinder or in the strip. Thus the rows of teeth become evenly spaced on the cylinder.

The strip, A, may be secured to the cylinder in any suitable manner, as by means of glue or by nails, J, extending through the strips into the cylinder, I.

I claim as my invention,

A sheet metal lickerin cloth comprisinga flat, parallel-edged, ribbon base and teeth integral with and located along each edge of said base and bent inward and then upward into two planes which are perpendicular to day'of June, in the year one thousand nine the base and parallel to its edges and out hundred and thirteen.

said base approximately midway between its edges and its middle, substantially as de- LOUIS .STOGKER' scribed. Witnesses:

In testimony whereof I have signed my B. R. VALKER, name, in presence of two Witnesses, this 12 T. MAREUM.

vCopies, of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.`

Washington, D. C.

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