US180063A - Improvement in wool and cotton lapping machines - Google Patents

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H N- RANGE.

WOOL AND COTTON LAPPING MACHINES. No.180,063. Patented J'u1y18. 1876.

Y z" V a WI TJVESSES I V IN- VEJVTOR @WZ@ Q 4 nnnoonn N. RANGE, OF BATTLE GREEK, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR 013 one HALF HIS RIGHT TO JESSE W. OOBDER AND AARON n. Koonna, OF

SAME PLACE.

MPRovEMENT IN wool. AND COTTON LAPPING mAci-nm-zs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. lS0,063, dated July 18, 1876 application filed April 7, i876.

ings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

The object of my invention is to take the truck. Upon this roller the product is formed into a lap ready for the finisher-card.

I I represent two rollers, having their bearings in an oscillating frame, J, pivoted to the main frame, said rollers resting alternately on the apron D, and they are rocked backward and forward bymeans of arms ff, at-

tachod to the truck B, and striking the lower end of the oscillating frame J.

On one of the journals ofthe drum 0 is secured a cog-wheel, K, into which meshes a pinion, 0, upon a stud, i, in the side of the wool or cotton in the form of a roving, as truck B. On this stud is further secured a it falls from the doffer-card of the breaker, and forming it directly into a very'perfect lap, suitable for use in the finisher-card, with- A out first passing it through the intermediate process of a drawing, and the machinery necessary to that process; and to this end the nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a lappingmachine, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertainsto make and use the same,-I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of my machine. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same.

A represents the framework of my machine, constructed in any suitable manner to receive the working parts thereof. B is a movable truck, provided with suitable rollers or wheels to, for the purpose of running backward and forward on a track, b, formed on or attached to the bottom bed-pieces of the frame A. G is a drum, mounted in the outer end of the truck B, around which passes an endless slat-apron, D, said apron also passing 'around a roller, E, at the other end of the truck.

Upon the apron D rests a roller, G, above the drum 0, the journals of said roller being pressed upon by means of weights H, that slide on upright rods d 01, securedon the of the truck B, with its apron D, causes the roving to be folded over and lapped upon its clf, the rollers I I serving to securely press the same firmly into place, while the steady movement of-the lap-roller and apron 1) slowly and evenly forms the complete lap on the weighted roller Gr, the thickness thereof be ing governed by the rapidity of the motion given the apron D, through the ratchet and pawl regulating the same by the adjustment of the upper end of the lever L.

The rollers I are held down on the apron D by means of springs 1) operating on the lower end' of the frame J, the holes for the pivots of said frame being elongated for that purpose.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l.- The combination of the apron D, laproller G, and the rollers I 1, arranged in an oscillating frame, J, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

rollers l l, and laproller G, all substantially 2. The combination of aprons R and D, In testimony that I have hereunto set my hand this 10th day Of as and for the purposes herein set forth. February, A. D. 1876.

3.. The combination of the oscillating frame J, provided with rollers I I, apron D, the lap-roller G, and the reciprocating truck B, I

all substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

HERGULE N. RANGE. \Vi'tnesses:

MARTIN METGALF, TOLMAN W. HALL.

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