US224044A - Wool-oiling machine - Google Patents

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F. G; SARGENTQ Wool-Oiling Machine. No. 224,044. Patented Feb. 3, 1880.

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Wool-Oiling Machine.

No.-224, O44. Patented Feb. 3, I880 N.PTERs. PHOW-LITNOGRAPHER WASHINGTON. D. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFI E.

FREDERICK ,Gr. SARGENT, OF GRANITEVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

\NOOL-OILING MACHINE:

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,044, dated February 3, 1880.

Application filed April 25:}, 1879.

wool preparatory to carding or other working.

y The object of my invention is to provide a machine which shall be simple, durable, and

. effective, and which shall avoid the numerous defects which prior machines exhibit.

The nature of the invention will fully appear from the subjoined description, when considered with reference to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts, Figure 1 is a top-plan view of my machine. Fig. 2 is an end view. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line A B of Fig. 1.

A is the tank in which the oil is placed and in which the cylinder B B revolves. O is the brush, which, touching the bars or cylinder, takes some of the oil brought up by it, and when released from contact with it throws the oil in a spray upon the wool passing beneath, This throwing down of the oil is caused by the resilience of the filaments of the brush, and may be increased by giving a reciprocal movement to the brush. This may be accomplished by means of the arms H H, moved by the shaft D through the eccentric E to rock the shaft F, to which the brush is attached, or by moving the shaft F in a rockin g manner by any convenient mechanism.

D. is the shaft on which the cylinder revolves, which is driven in any suitable manner by the other wool-working machinery. E is the eccentric which actuates the rock-shaft F, to which the brushis attached. This shaft can be held in any position desired by the setscrews 8, if it be disconnected from the moving machinery.

G Gr are the bed or foot'pieces, to which the tank is attached by screws 9, which pass through holes in the foot-pieces G and into the body of the tank A. These holes in piece G may be elongated, if desired, to facilitate wishes to makethe brush touch the edge ofit.

HH are the arms connected to the rock-shaft, to which the brush-is attached. These arms are made adjustable, so that the brush may be placed in any position desired. These arms are connected with the eccentric upon the shaft D and the rock-shaft F, so that when the shaft revolves the brush attached to the rockshaft will be vibrated.

The cylinder may be made of wire-gauze or of bars formed of wire, as before mentioned, placed horizontally at an equal distance from and parallel to the shaft forming its axis. By this construction the oil or grease is taken up to the brush between the meshes or between the wires in a greater and more uniform quantity than by a plain or smooth surface or roller, because it will be held in the meshes of the gauze or between the wires, from whence it will be delivered upon the face of the brush more evenly than it would be from a smooth surface.

When a plain surface revolving through the oil is used to convey it to the brush, and the brush is broughtin contact with it, the end or face of said brush will be sprung back by such contact, and the pressure being uniform, or nearly so, and continuous the oil will be swept the adjustment of the tank when the operator forward in a wave-like form, and the brush will, when removed from such contact, be found to have an excess of oil upon the side of the advance filaments or bristles, with very lit tle among or between them.- If, therefore, any

attempt be made to throw off the oil on the brush upon the wool, it will be thrown down in a few large drops or masses, because only the accumulation which was on the advance side of the brush will be disengaged, the capillary attraction of the brush holding fast the small amount which was taken between the bristles or filaments on the ends of the brush; or if any of the small portions of oil be thrown from between the filaments by the jar given the brush, or by the resilience of its parts, it will in no way remedy the unevenness caused by the larger masses from the front of the brush.

WVhen my improved form of gauze or wirebar cylinder is used the oil is brought up between the meshes or wires in drops or quan tities adhering to or between the wires, and the brush, being brought in contact with them, has its filaments or bristles separated asits end passes from one to another of the wires, and a larger quantity of oil is taken between the filaments of the brush while so opened and separated, and no large quantity is swept ahead of the brush, because the oil is protected from such action by lying or passing between the wires, and consequently, when the brush is removed from contact with the cylinder or bars, the resilience of its material or the action of the machine vibrating it throws down upon the wool a large number of small drops from the ends of the filaments or bristles and no large quantities from its forward side.

The cylinder, when constructed of wire bars, may have the Wire backed or re-enforced with flat bars of metal, to give them additional strength and stiffness, if desired, without departing from the spirit of my invention.

When the cylinderis formed of wire bars the brush can be made stationary and placed near enough to the axis of the cylinder to have the ends of the filaments of said brush come in contact with the bars and be sprung backward thereby; then the resilience of the bristles or filaments of the brush, as they pass off the bars, will throw down the oil without the use of mechanism to rock or vibrate the brush.

The brush is made stationary by uncoupling the arm H, which connects it with the eccentrio, and putting a set-screw in the box in which it bears, or in any other convenient manner. The brush is made totouch the bars by 'adjusting the arms which support the shaft F; but when the cylinder is formed of wire-gauze the shaft F must be rocked downward, carrying the brush with it after it has touched the cylinder, thereby throwing down the oil taken by the brush from the cylinder.

The brush can be made of bristles, or, as I prefer to make it, of wire or films of metal, as when so constructed it is more durable and does not so readily lose its resilience by absorbing the oil.

What I claim as new and of my invention 1s- 1. The combination of the tank A, the wire cylinder B. formed of wire bars, and the brush 0, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the tank A, wire-bar cylinder B, and brush 0, made of wire or filaments of metal, which, by a resilient motion, throws the oil taken from the cylinder directly upon the wool, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the tank A, wire cylinder B, brush 0, rock-shaft 'F, arms H H, eccentric E, and shaft D, as and for the purpose substantially as described.

FREDERICK GRANDERSON SARGENT.

Witnesses G. F. HORNE, A. O. SARGENT.

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