US273878A

US273878A - Cylinder

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Publication number: US273878A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-03-13
Anticipated expiration: 1900-03-13

Description

INVENTOR (No Model.)

H. L. MOULTON GARDING OYLINDER.

N0. 273,878. Patented Mar. 13, 1883.

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TATES PATENT OFFICEQ HAMILTON L. MOULTON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE JAMES SMITH YVOOLEN MACHINERY COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

CARDlNG-CY'LINDER.

SPECIFIZATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 273,878, dated March 13, 1883.

\' Application filed November 9, 1882. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern: to fit snugly to the interior of the said cylin- Be it known that I, HAMILTON L. MOULTON, der and to the shaft, the edges of the disks bea citizen of theUnited States, and a resident ing preferably soldered to the interior of the of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented cylinder at m. The disks, having peripheries anlmprovementin Garding-Oylinders,ofwhich concentric with the shaft, tend to maintain the 40 the following is a specification. cylinder in true condition and prevent all tend My invention consists of a card cylinder or ency to sag; but in order that the disks may roller constructed in the peculiar manner fully perform these duties properly it is essential described hereinafter, with the View of mainthat they should be retained in their proper pcto taining it in a cylindrically true and steady sitions on the shaft, and for this purpose I in- 5 condition. terpose between each head and the nearest disk In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a tube, h, of thin metal, and a similar tube bea longitudinal section of my improved card tween each pair of disks. Openings are made cylinder or roller; Fig. 2, a transverse section through the disks for the purpose of reducing of the same; Fig. 3, a. perspective View of the the weight of the same, and each disk, as well 0 roller, showing some of the parts detached; as each head, is notched to receive the longi- Fig. 4, a transverse section of the roller with tudinal joint a on the cylinder. the card-clothing thereon, and Fig. 5 a View A hnbJ, may he made on each head, as well illustrating a modification of one feature of my as on both sides of each disk, for receiving the 2o invention. tubes h, as shown in Fig. 5.

A is the shaft or spindle of the cylinder or I claim as my invention roller; B, the usual cylinder, of tinned plate, A card cylinder or roller in which a shaft, the longitudinal joint to of this cylinder pro- A, and its two heads,D D, are combined with jecting inwardly, so that the exterior may be the cylinder B, disks G, titted to the cylinder 25 free from all protuberances. and tothe shaft, and tubes h for retaining the D and Dare the two heads of the roller, one said disks in place on the shaft, all suhstanhead being fitted into and secured to one end tially as set forth. of the cylinder and the other head to the other In testimony whereof I have signed my name end of the cylinder. to this specification in the presence of two sub- 0 The above-described parts, together with the scribing witnesses.

card-clothing wound spirally round the cylin- Y der and connected thereto, are common to oth- HAMILTON MOULTOB er card-rollers. Witnesses:

Within the cylinder are a series of disks, G-- HARRY DRURY,

5 four in the present instance-which are made HENRY HOWsON, Jr.