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US3308511A
US3308511A US352174A US35217464A US3308511A US 3308511 A US3308511 A US 3308511A US 352174 A US352174 A US 352174A US 35217464 A US35217464 A US 35217464A US 3308511 A US3308511 A US 3308511A
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  • the fibers In order to produce carded webs of good quality, the fibers must be opened so as to straighten or parallelize them as they are fed to the main carding cylinder.
  • the opening of the fibers Should be a gentle action to avoid damaging the fibers. Also, the more gradual the opening process the more open and straight the fibers become. In the case of carding cotton or wool, the more effective the opening of the fibers before they are detached from the licker-in by the carding cylinder, the more efficient is the cleaningl of the fibers.
  • carding machines either have been equipped with a single licker-in or with three or more licker-ins for opening and feeding fibers to the main cylinder.
  • a single licker-in In order to have the fibers sufiiciently open and parallel when a single licker-in is used it must rotate at a slow speed so the very rough action of the teeth of the licker-in will not weaken and shorten the fibers.
  • the licker-in arrangement of this invention not only improves the quality of the carded material, but it increases substantially the volume of stock which may be carded in a given amount of time.
  • two licker-ins no more and no less, have never been used for opening and feeding fibers to the main cylinder of a carding machine. Since only two licker-ins are employed, the licker-in arrangement of this invention is a valuable adjunct to the building of high speed compact carding machines of substantially lesser length and height than conventional carding machines.
  • Fibers may be transferred at each said point so that, although an abnormally large volume of fibers is fed to the licker-in, only about half of the volume lof fibers is transferred at each said point and since the fibers are drafted at least four times, they are disentangled and opened to a high degree by the time they are deposited on the main cylinder and, therefore, the production capacity of the carding machine is increased considerably without necessarily increasing the surface speed of the main cylinder.
  • Another object of this invention is to provide an improved simplified drive for the carding machine wherein sprocket wheels and endless chains or pulleys and endless belts are largely employed for transmitting rot-ation between corresponding cylinders and rolls so as to obviate the use lof intermediate gears, a large number of which have been used heretofore on conventional carding machines.
  • Another object is t0 provide a novel modular frame construction enabling assembling, storing, repairing and/ or shipping the licker-in section, the main and dotfer cylinder section and the calender or web-detaching section of the machine independently of each other, but which sections may be readily interconnected.
  • the modular frame construction also facilitates easy installation of .a second main and doffer cylinder section between a first main and doffer cylinder section and the web detaching section in the event a dual carding machine is desired.
  • FIGURE 1 is a left-hand side elevation of a preferred embodiment of the improved carding machine of the present invention.
  • FIGURE 2 is a fragmentary vertical sectional View taken substantially along line 2 2 in FIGURE l;
  • FIGURE 3 is -a somewhat schematic longitudinal vertical sectional view through the carding machine showing the nath of travel of fibers through the machine;
  • FIGURE 4 is an elevation of the right-hand side of the carding machine
  • FIGURE 5 is a left-hand side elevation similar to FIG- URE l, but omitting the driving connections between various rotating elements of the machine;
  • FIGURE 6 is a plan view 4of the carding machine lookingl at the top of FIGURE l;
  • FIGURE 7 is an elevation looking at the right-hand end of FIGUR-E 1 and the left-hand end of FIGURE 4 showing the rear or feed end of the carding machine;
  • FIGURE 8 is an elevation looking at the left-hand end of the carding machine in FIGURE 1 and the righthand end thereof in FIGURE 4 and showing the front or egress end of the carding machine.
  • the improved carding machine includes first and second lickerins or licker-in cylinders 10, 11, a main cylinder or swift 12, a doffer cylinder 13 and a pair of calender rolls 14, 15, all of which are arranged in series from the rear to the front of the machine (FIGURES 1 and 3 8).
  • Cylinders 10-13 ⁇ may be of conventional hollow construction and are fixed on respective shafts 20-23.
  • Calender rolls 14, 15 are fixed on respective shafts 24, 25.
  • Divider roll 34 may be arranged to serve as a ti-ghtener roll and is positioned in the arc beneath and closely adjacent first and second licker-ins 10, 11.
  • Divider roll 33 is positioned in the arc above and between licker-ins 10, 11.
  • a third divider roll 35 is positioned beneath and in cooperating relationship with second licker-in 11 and main cylinder 12 so that some of the fibers are transferred from the second licker-in 11 to main cylinder 12 by divider roll 35 while others of the fibers are transferred directly from second licker-in 11 to main cylinder 12.
  • Main cylinder 12 is equipped with ⁇ workers and strippers including a first stripper roll 36, a rst worker roll 37, a second stripper roll 38, and a second Worker roll 39V arranged in that order above the main cylinder 12.
  • Rolls 30-39 may be of hollow construction or, in the case of the feed rolls 30, 31 and feed clearer roll 32, for example, they may be of solid construction, as desired. Rolls 30-39 are fixed on respective shafts 40-49.
  • Novel means are provided, as will be later described, for rotating the cylinders and rolls of the carding machine so bottom feed roll 30', first licker-in lil, main cylinder 12, first divider roll 33 and bottom calender roll 14 rotate in a counterclockwise direction in FIGURES l, 3 and i.e., so the upper portions of the cylinders and rolls 10, 12, 14, 30 and 33 move in a forward direction.
  • Cylinders 11, 13 and rolls 31, 32 and 34-39' are driven to rotate in a clockwise direction in FIGURES l, 3 and 5.
  • Each cylinder -13 and roll Sti-39 is covered with a suitable metallic clothing 55.
  • the points of the teeth on the clothing 55 of cylinders 10-12 and rolls 32-36 and 38 point toward the direction of rotation of thecorresponding cylinders and rolls.
  • the points of the teeth of the clothing S5 on doffer cylinder 13 and rolls 30, 31, 37, 39 face or point toward the direction opposite from that in which they are rotating.
  • each of the shafts 20-23 and 40-49 project outwardly substantially the same distance from opposite ends of each cylinder and each roll 10-13 and 30-39.
  • This enables the positioning of driving eiements; i.e., Vsprocket wheels and pulleys, adjacent either side of the carding machine on the shafts of the corresponding cylinders and rolls regardless of which end of a particular cylinder or roll may be fading toward a corresponding side of the machine.
  • rolls or cylinders of the same diameters may be interchanged, in most instances, and the position of rolls or cylinders may be reversed end-for-end in order that the teeth of the card clothing face the correct direction when the cylinders and rolls are installed. This permits winding the card clothing 55 on each roll or cylinder in either direction Without regard for the direction the metallic clothing was wound previously on any particular roll.
  • Cylinder shafts 20-23 and bottom feed roll shaft 4d are journaled in respective pairs of bearing blocks 69464 carried by left-hand and right-hand main side frame members, broadly designated at 65, 65'.
  • the lower portions of frame members 65, 65 are in the form of legs spanned by three transverse frame members 66, 67, 68a (FIG- URES 1 and 4-8).
  • the front upper portions of side frame members 65, 65 are spanned lby a transverse frame member 69 suitably secured thereto.
  • Each side frame member 65, 65 is of modular construction to facilitate assembling the licker-in section, the main cylinder section and the front web-detaching section of the carding machine independently of each other, not only for storage, shipping and replacement purposes, but so that a second main cylinder and a second doffer cylinder may be attached to the front ends of the side frame members 65, 65' with the web-detaching section then being positioned forwardly of the second doffer cylinder, in the event an operator wishes to convert the carding machine shown in the accompanying drawings into a dual carding machine.
  • the side frame mem-bers 65, 65 include respective rear 0r licker-in frame sections 71), 70, intermediate or main cylinder frame sections 71, '71 and front er web-detaching frame sections 72, 72.
  • the licker-in frame sections 70, 76 support cylinders 10, 11 and rolls 30-35, main cylinder frame sections 71, 71' support cylinders 12, 13 and rolls 3639, and webdetaching frame sections 72, 72 support calender rolls 14, 15 and a trumpet and doffer comb assembly to be later described.
  • the upper surface of the rear portions of intermediate frame sections 71, 71 are positioned on a higher level than the front portions thereof, and the upper surfaces of rear frame sections 70, 70', front frame sections 72, 72 and the front portions of intermediate sections 71, 71 may be positioned on substantially the same level.
  • Shafts 41-49 of rolls 31-39y are journaled in respective pairs of bearing blocks 73-81 (FIGURES 5 and 6).
  • the beaning blocks 73, 74 at each side of the machine are adjustably secured to a common standard 84 and each bearing block 75 is adjustably secured to a standard 85.
  • - Standards 84 are suitably secured to th rresponding anchor bars 63, 68 of side frame members 65, 615.
  • Bearing blocks 76, 77 also are adjustably secured di# rectly to anchor bars 68, 68' (FIGURES 4 and 5).
  • intermediate frame sections 71, '71' straddling the lower portion of main cylinder 12 have respective arches 86, 86 suitably secured thereto 'and ein' tending upwardly therefrom (FIGURES 1, 4, 5,- 6 and 8) Whose upper surfaces are generated about the axis of shaft 22 and main cylinder 12 and correspond suba' stantially to the periphery of the closing 55 on maint cylinder 12.
  • the bearing blocks 78-81 are adjustably secured to the corresponding arches 86, 86'.
  • the carded fibers may be removed from the doffer cylinder 13 by any suitable web-detaching means such as dofiing rollers or a doffer comb, as is conventional.
  • the carding machine is equipped with a doffer comb 90 (FIGURES 1, 3, 5 and 6) carried by arms 91 fixed to a rocker shaft 92, one end of which is journaled in a bearing block 93 adjustably secured to' section 72 of side frame member 65.
  • the other end of rocker shaft 92 is journaled in a gear box 95 suitably secured to section 72 of side frame member 65' and having ⁇ suitable mechanism therein, not shown, for reciprocating rocker shaft 92 and thereby to reciprocate dotfer comb 90 in a well-known manner.
  • the gear box 95 has an input shaft 96 extending outwardly therefrom.
  • main cylinder shaft 22 (FIGURES 4, 6, 7 and 8) has a pulley 111 fixed thereon engaged by an endless belt 112.
  • Belt 112 may be driven by any suitable means such as an electric motor 113 having a pulley 114 thereon which also is engaged by belt 112.
  • the other end of main cylinder shaft 22 has stepped pulley 115, 116, 117 fixed thereon which may be formed integral with each other and any one of which may be engaged by an endless belt 120 (FIGURES 1, 6 and 8).
  • Endless belt 120 also engages a wide pulley 121 keyed or fixed on a sleeve 131 journaled on a stub shaft 122 mounted for substantially vertical adjustment on a bracket 123 (FIG- URE 2).
  • Bracket 123 is fixed to section 71 of side frame member 65 and its outwardly projecting lower portion has a vertically extending slot 124 therethrough penetrated by a reduced threaded portion 125 of stub shaft 122.
  • a nut 126 secures stub shaft 122 in the desired adjusted position so that a change gear 127, mounted on a medial portion of sleeve 131, may be maintained in engagement with a relatively large gear 130 fixed on doffer cylinder shaft 23.
  • Pulley 121 is sufficiently wide so that belt 120 may be positioned on any one of stepped pulleys 115, 116, 117, as desired (FIGURES 1, 6 and 8).
  • a medial portion of the upper run of belt 120 is engaged by an adjustable idler tension pulley 133 journaled on a stub shaft 134.
  • Shaft 134 may be adjustably secured to a bracket 135 in the same manner in which stub shaft 122 is secured to bracket 123.
  • Bracket 135 is suitably secured to section 71 of side frame member 65.
  • Doffer cylinder gear 130 also engages a gear 137 fixed to or formed integral with a sprocket wheel 140.
  • Gear 137 and sprocket wheel 140 are mounted on a stub shaft 141 adjustably secured to a bracket 142 fixed to an interconnecting sections 71, 72 of side frame member 65 (FIGURES 5 and 8).
  • bracket 142 is shown in FIGURE 5 as being of somewhat different shape than bracket 123, shaft 141 may be adjustably secured to bracket 142 in the same manner in which shaft 122 is adjustably secured to bracket 123.
  • Sprocket wheel 140 (FIGURE 1) is engaged by an endless sprocket chain 144 which also engages a relatively small sprocket wheel 145 fixed on one end of calender roll shaft 24.
  • belt 126 transmits rotation from main cylinder shaft 22 to doffer cylinder 13 and calender rolls 14, through intervening connections heretofore described.
  • gear 127 By exchanging gear 127 for a gear of another size, it is apparent that the speed of doffer cylinder 13 and calender rolls 14, 15 may be changed to change the production of the carding machine.
  • Arm 150 may be adjusta- 6 bly secured to section 72 of side frame member 65, as at 151 (FIGURES 1 and 5).
  • the speed of doffer cylinder 13 and calender rolls 14, 15 also may be varied by changing the position of endless belt with respect to pulleys 115, 116, 117.
  • Licker-ins 10, 11 and associated rolls 30;-35 also are driven from main cylinder shaft 22. Accordingly, a gear 152 fixed on main cylinder shaft 22 (FIGURES 1 and 8) meshes with a gear 153 having a sprocket wheel 154 in fixed axial relation thereto. Gear 153 and sprocket wheel 154 are mounted on a stub shaft 155 adjustably mounted in a bracket 156 (FIGURE 5) in substantially the same manner in which stub shaft 122 is adjustably mounted on -bracket 123 (FIGURE 2). Bracket 156 is suitably secured to intermediate frame section 71 (FIG- URE 5).
  • Sprocket wheel 154 has an endless sprocket chain 15.7 (FIGURE 1) mounted thereon which also engages a sprocket Wheel 160 fixed on second licker-in shaft 21.
  • Sprocket chain 157 is also engaged by an idler sprocket wheel 161 journaled on an adjustable arm 162 (FIG- URE 5) adjustably mounted, as at 163, on anchor bar 68 of rear frame section 70.
  • the other end of second licker-in shaft 21 (FIGURE 4) has a gear 165 fixed thereon which engages a gear 166 in fixed axial relation to a sprocket wheel I167.
  • Gear 166 and sprocket wheel 167 are mounted on a stub shaft 170 adjustably secured to a bracket 171 in substantially the same manner as that in which stub shaft 122 is adjustably secured to bracket 123.
  • Bracket 171 is suitably secured to anchor bar 68 of rear frame section 70.
  • An endless sprocket chain 173 engages sprocket wheel 167 and a sprocket Wheel 174.
  • Sprocket wheel 174 is -fixed on the corresponding end of first licker-in shaft 20.
  • the end of shaft 20, adjacent frame section 70 (FIG- URES 1, 6 and 7), has a sprocket wheel 175 fixed thereon (FIGURE 6) which is engaged by an endless sprocket chain 176 mounted also on a sprocket wheel 177 (FIG- URES 1 and 7).
  • Sprocket wheel 177 and a sprocket Wheel 178 are mounted on a stub shaft 180 adjustably secured to a bracket 181 (FIGURES 1 and 5) in substantially the same manner in which stub shaft 122 is secured to bracket 123 (FIGURE 2).
  • Bracket 181 is suitably secured to section 70 of side frame member 65 (FIGURE 5).
  • An endless sprocket chain 183 engages sprocket wheel 178 and a sprocket wheel 184 (FIGURES 1 and 7).
  • Sprocket Wheel 184 is fixed on lone end of bottom feed 'roll shaft 40.
  • Intermeshing gears 185, 186 are fixed on corresponding end portions of shafts 40, 42 adjacent the right-hand side frame member 65. It will be observed in FIGURE 7 than the ends of shafts 40, 41 adjacent side frame member 65 have intermeshing gears 190, 191 fixed thereon.
  • shaft 41 is shorter than the shafts 20, 40, 42, 43, 44 shown in this view to provide clearance for the intermeshing gears 185, 186, 185', 186.
  • opposed end portions of shaft 41 project outwardly from corresponding ends of top feed roll 31 substantially equal distances so the clothing 55 may be wound thereon with the teeth thereof facing in either direction and either end of top feed roll 31 may face toward one of the sides of the machine, and the points of the teeth of the card clothing still may be positioned to face away from the direction of rotation of top feed roll 31.
  • the end of shaft 40 adjacent side frame member 65 has a sprocket wheel 195 (FIGURES 1 and 6) fixed thereon which is engaged by a sprocket chain 196 for driving the feeder embodied in apron 26 of FIGURE 5 in a manner well known in the art.
  • a sprocket wheel 195 (FIGURES 1 and 6) fixed thereon which is engaged by a sprocket chain 196 for driving the feeder embodied in apron 26 of FIGURE 5 in a manner well known in the art.
  • FIG- URE 6 it will be observed that the end portion of first licker-in shaft 20 adjacent left-hand side frame member 65 has two sprocket wheels 200, 201 fixed thereon adjacent sprocket wheel 175 which are engaged by respective endless sprocket chains 202, 203. Sprocket chains 202, 203 also engage respective sprocket wheels 204, 205 (FIGURES 1 and 6).
  • Sprocket wheel 205 is spaced forwardly from sprocket wheel 201 and is positioned in xed axial relation to a smaller sprocket wheel 206 engaged by an endless sprocket chain 207.
  • Sprocket chain 207 is also mounted on a relatively large sprocket wheel 210 fixed on one end of first divider roll shaft 43 (FIGURE Sprocket wheels 205, 206 may be mounted on a stub shaft a adjustably secured t-o a bracket b (FIGURE in substantially the same manner in which stub shaft 122 is secured to bracket 123 (FIGURE 2).
  • Bracket b is suitably secured to anchor bar 68 on side frame member 65.
  • An idler sprocket wheel 211 (FIGURE l) may be adjustably mounted in the same manner as sprocket wheel 161 so as to engage and maintain tension in sprocket chain 207.
  • Sprocket wheel 204 is spaced below first licker-in shaft 20 (FIGURE 1) and is positioned in fixed axial relation to a relatively small sprocket wheel 212.
  • Sprocket wheels 204, 212 are mounted on a stub shaft 213 adjustably secured to a bracket 214 (FIGURE 5) in substantially the same manner as that in which stub shaft 122 (FIG- URE 2) is secured to bracket 123.
  • Bracket 214 is fixed to anchor bar 68.
  • Sprocket wheel 212 is engaged by an endless sprocket chain c which extends forwardly and engages a pair of idler sprocket wheels d, e. Wheels d, e are adjustably mounted soas to maintain the lower run of sprocket chain c in engagement with the upper portion of a large sprocket wheel 215 fixed on divider roll shaft 44 (FIG- URE l).
  • Sprocket Wheel d may be adjustably mounted on a bracket 216 (FIGURE 5) in the same manner as that in which ⁇ sprocket wheels 204, 212 are mounted on bracket 214. Bracket 216 is fixed to anchor bar 68.
  • Shaft 44 (FIGURE l) has a sprocket wheel 220 fixed thereon and engaged by an endless sprocket chain 221 which extends forwardly and also engages a sprocket wheel 222 fixed on third divider roll shaft 45.
  • An idler sprocket wheel f may be provided for maintaining tension in sprocket chain 221.
  • Sprocket wheels e, f are mounted on respective stub shafts g, h adjustably secured to a common substantially vertically slotted bracket 224 (FIG- URES 1 and 5) suitably secured to section 70 of side frame member 65.
  • Stub shafts g, h may be adjustably mounted on bracket 224 in substantially -the same manner as the shown in FIGURE 2. It is thus seen that front licker-in shaft 20 transmits clockwise rotation (FIGURE 3) to second and third divider rolls 34', 35 and transmits counterclockwise rotation to first divider roll 33 through vthe intervening connections previously described.
  • Chain 226 extends upwardly and rearwardly at an angle and engages a sprocket wheel i mounted on a shaft k carried by arch 86.
  • a sprocket wheel Z also is mounted on shaft k in fixed axial relation to sprocket wheel i.
  • Sprocket wheel l and a sprocket wheel 227 are engaged by an endless sprocket chain 230 fixed on first worker roll shaft 47.
  • Worker roll shafts 47, 49 have respective sprocket wheels 231, 232 fixed thereon which are engaged by an endless sprocket chain 233.
  • Sprocket chains 226, 230, 233 may be engaged by respective idler sprocket wheels m, n, o for maintaining them under proper tension.
  • Sprocket wheels m, n, o may be adjustably mounted on the arch 86 in the same manner in which idler sprocket wheel 161 is mounted on anchor bar 68 of side frame member 65. Therefore, a further description thereof is deemed unnecessary.
  • stripper rolls 36, 38 and doffer comb 90 may be driven by connections with main cylinder shaft 22 positioned adjacent side frame member 65. Accordingly, stripper roll shafts 46, 48 have respective pulleys 236, 23S fixed thereon which are engaged by an endless belt 240, one reach of which engages and partially encircles a relatively large pulley 241 fixed on the corresponding end of main cylinder shaft 22 (FIGURE 4).
  • Belt 240 extends downwardly below pulley 241 and is mounted on and idler pulley 242 positioned in fixed axial relation to another idler pulley 243.
  • Pulleys 242, 243 are mounted on a shaft 244 carried by a bearing block 246 vertically adjustably mounted on a guide block 247 carried by the leg of frame section 71 of side frame member 65'. Pulley 243 is engaged by an endless belt 250 which extends upwardly and forwardly in FIGURE 4 and is mounted on a pulley 254 fixed on input shaft 96 of gear box 95 to impart reciprocatory motion to doer comb 90.
  • main cylinder 12 when used for a compact carding machine, may be about 30 to 40 inches covered with Ztl-gauge (US. Standard) metallic clothing, and it may be rotated at 225 to 275 r.p.m. (revolutions per minute). Speeds in excess of 275 r.p.m. are considered impractical from the standpoint of ⁇ safety and economy in construction and maintenance of the carding machine.
  • the main cylinder 12 of theV prototype machine was about 30 inches in diameter and was driven to rotate at about 234 r.p.m. with a consequent surface speed of about 22,054 i.p.m. (inches per minute).
  • the speed of the main cylinder 12 was not in excess of that of the cylinders of conventional carding machines, the use of two licker-ins and associated divider rolls according 9 to this invention has increased greatly the production capacity of the carding machine of the present invention as compared to known conventional carding machines.
  • first divider roll 33 to attenuate and transfer fibers from The cylinder and roll diameters, the revolutions per second licker-in 11 to main cylinder 12 at a point preminute and surface speeds in inches per minute of the ceding the point at which main cylinder 12 receives and cylinders and rolls, and the gauge of metallic clothing used attenuates the fibers from licker-in 11.
  • the fibers for each cylinder and roll of a prototype machine appear are worked in their passage between feed rolls 30, 31 and in the following table by way of example only: licker-in 10. l
  • fibers received from feed apron 26 are fed to first licker-in 10 by feed rolls 30, 31 as clearer roll 32 assists in laying the fibers on licker-in 10 and carries excess fibers back to feed rolls 30, 31.
  • the proximity of the clothing 5S on first divider roll 33 to the clothing 55 on first licker-in 10 may be such that about half or a substantial portion of the fibers are stripped from first licker-in 10 by first divider roll 33 as its clothing moves in the opposite direction from the clothing on second licker-in 11.
  • - Divider roll 33 rotates at approximately one-third the surface speed of second lickerin 11 so there is a gradual transfer of fibers from roll 33 to licker-in 11.
  • the sandwiched fibers move downwardly beneath and in engagement with second licker-in 11.
  • the second divider roll 34 operates to work and transfer about onehalf or a substantial portion of the fibers from second licker-in 11 back to first licker-in 10 for further working in substantially the same manner as first divider roll 33 transfers fibers to licker-in 11. Although fibers are transferred back to licker-in 10, the volume of stock fed by feed rolls 30, 31 need not be reduced.
  • second divider roll 34 may be turned endfor-end and spaced out of fiber transferring relationship to licker-in 10, by adjusting bearings 76 (FIGURES 4 Since the fibers are straightened, disentangled, opened and drafted at least four times in their course from .feed rolls 3f), 31 to main cylinder 12, and only two licker-ins are employed, a very large volume of fi-bers may be fed to feed rolls 30, 31 and transferred to main cylinder 12 at high speeds in well opened condition so that only the single main cylinder 12 and the two sets of stripper and worker rolls 36-39 are necessary in order to form a well carded web of high quality Ias it is doffed :from doffer cylinder 13 by doffer comb 90, and to form a sliver of highly parallelized and straightened fibers with a minimum of curled fibers or wads therein as the web is condensed through trumpet 97 and passes between calender rolls 14, 15.
  • the carding machine of the present invention is capable, therefore, of producing a web or sliver of carded stock at high speeds which is of better quality than has been attainable by any prior art carding machines of which I am aware.
  • various synthetic textile fibers such as 6-denier to l8-denier nylon, Acrilan and Orlon and other fibers such as waste wool, spinners laps (cleaned wool) and rayon have been carded and formed into slivers of various weights which were of very high quality and at speeds up to 400 pounds of stock per hour.
  • Another advantage in the use of two licker-ins 10, 11, no more and no less, and associated divider rolls is that the carding machine produces considerably less y and waste than the known prior art types of carding machines due to the much greater opening and combing of the stock prior to its contacting the main cylinder 12 at high speed.
  • a carding machine having .a frame, first and second serially arranged licker-in cylinders, means for -feeding fibers to said first licker-in cylinder whereby fibers are transferred from the first to the second licker-in cylinder, a third, main, cylinder arranged to receive fibers from said second licker-in cylinder, rand means for driving said main cylinder; improved means for transmitting rotation from said main cylinder to said licker-in cylinders comprising a first pair of wheels in fixed axial relation to the respective second and third cylinders, one of said first wheels being a first gear and the other of said first wheels being a first sprocket wheel,
  • said means for feeding fibers to said first licker-in cylinder comprises a pair of lower and upper feed rolls closely adjacent the periphery of and rearwardly of said rst licker-in cylinder and between which fibers pass to said first licker-in cylinder, and a clearer roll above said upper feed roll and cooperating with said upper feed roll and said first licker-in cylinder to carry excess fibers back to the feed rolls;
  • means transmitting rotation from the first licker-in cylinder to said rolls comprising a pair of fifth and sixth sprocket wheels fixed in axial relation to each end of said first licker-in cylinder and said bottom feed roll, respectively,
  • said sixth and seventh sprocket wheels each being of .substantially greater diameter than said fifth and eighth sprocket wheels
  • Apparatus according to claim 1 including a pair of licker-in shafts on which the respective licker-in cylinders are fixedly mounted, and wherein said frame comprises a pair of laterally spaced elongate side frame members for said licker-in cylinders, means adjustably supporting said licker-in cylinders on said side frame members comprising an elongate bearing anchor bar secured for longitudinal adjustment to the upper portion of each side frame member and underlying corresponding ends of said lickenin shafts, and a pair of bearing blocks secured upon each anchor bar and in which Vcorresponding ends of said licker-in shafts are journaled whereby said lickerin cylinders may be adjusted unitarily with adjustment of said anchor bars longitudinally of said side frame members and toward and away from said main cylinder.

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