US423A - Improvement in hemp and flax dressing-machines - Google Patents

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    • D01BMECHANICAL TREATMENT OF NATURAL FIBROUS OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL TO OBTAIN FIBRES OF FILAMENTS, e.g. FOR SPINNING
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  • Nrrn Sra'rns 'Armar rinse Nrrn Sra'rns 'Armar rinse.
  • the machine for breaking and dressing flax and hemp is as follows, viz: It consists of a frame, A, supporting the gearing B necessary to communicate motion from the propelling-power to two or more pairs of cylinder-rollers, G,which are fixed upon the said. frame in two horizontal rows, each roller in the upper row having a spring, D, above its pivot or gudgeon, so constructed that it may be relaxed or contracted at pleasure by means of a spring-bar and regnlating-serews, hereinafter described; also, a corresponding roller in the lower row imme diately under it.
  • rollers are geared together in pairs, one of each pair receiving its motion from a shaft connected with the moving power in any of the various modes of gearing-machinery.
  • Thin plates of metal E are firmly fastened edgewise in each roller, longitudinally and parallel to each other, at a convenient distance apart. The edges of these plates project beyond the surface of the roller in which they are fixed, and the flax or hemp, with or without rotting, is conducted in front by a feeding-cloth, F, until it is received between the first pair of rollers,G,and
  • rollers are so geared as, when revolving, to bring the metallic plates in the upper roller alternately between those in the lower rollers, by which the flax or hemp stalks are successively and repeatedly broken as they pass them.
  • the plates in the rollers in the front part of the frame may be fixed farther apart than those on the after part of the frame; also, the roller on one part of the frame may have I a different motion from the others; but it is ing, roller above.
  • the object of this arrangement is to loosen and discharge more effectually the shives from the flax or hemp stalks.
  • K represents a spring-bar, made of wood or steel, secured on the top of the frame by bolts or screws passing through near its ends. Through this bar and through slots in the ends of the steel springs, under it and over the boxes of the roller-gudgeons,,pass a number of vertical screws entering the side of the frame'for increasing or diminishing the power of the steel springs by depressing the springbar upon or raising it above them.
  • the machine may be attached to horse or any other power, and the flax or hemp entirely cleaned with little skill on the part of the operator.
  • flax or hemp is liable to less waste than perhaps in any other, and by repeating the operation of the same material between the: rollers the filaments are softened suitably for any fabric to which these articles are adapted.
  • rollers the antagonists of which are furnished 3 with metallic plates, and are so geared as to Vitnesses: run with a different rate of speed, so that the ELTJAII ⁇ VILSON, nmteriztl between them maybe operated upon JOHN T. ROWLAND.

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' w. & R. BRITTAIN.
Hemp Brake.-
N0/423. Patented Oct. 12, 18 37.
Nrrn Sra'rns 'Armar rinse.
WILLIAM BRITTAIN AND ROBERT BRITTAIN, OE HUNTERDON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY.
EMPROVEMENT IN HEMP AND FLAX DRESSING-MACHINES.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. @323, dated October 12, 1837:
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that we, WILLIAM BRITTAIN and Ronnn'r BRITTAIN, of the county of Hunterdon, State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Machine for Breaking and Dressing Flax and Hemp,
of which the following is a full and exact description as invented and improved by us, reference being had to the annexed drawings of the same, making part of this specification.
The machine for breaking and dressing flax and hemp, as improved by our invention, is as follows, viz: It consists of a frame, A, supporting the gearing B necessary to communicate motion from the propelling-power to two or more pairs of cylinder-rollers, G,which are fixed upon the said. frame in two horizontal rows, each roller in the upper row having a spring, D, above its pivot or gudgeon, so constructed that it may be relaxed or contracted at pleasure by means of a spring-bar and regnlating-serews, hereinafter described; also, a corresponding roller in the lower row imme diately under it. These rollers are geared together in pairs, one of each pair receiving its motion from a shaft connected with the moving power in any of the various modes of gearing-machinery. Thin plates of metal E are firmly fastened edgewise in each roller, longitudinally and parallel to each other, at a convenient distance apart. The edges of these plates project beyond the surface of the roller in which they are fixed, and the flax or hemp, with or without rotting, is conducted in front by a feeding-cloth, F, until it is received between the first pair of rollers,G,and
thence by the motion of the machine it passes entirely between the two rows of rollers, and is received upon another cloth, H, which carries it forward broken and dressed. Most of the rollers are so geared as, when revolving, to bring the metallic plates in the upper roller alternately between those in the lower rollers, by which the flax or hemp stalks are successively and repeatedly broken as they pass them. The plates in the rollers in the front part of the frame may be fixed farther apart than those on the after part of the frame; also, the roller on one part of the frame may have I a different motion from the others; but it is ing, roller above. The object of this arrangement is to loosen and discharge more effectually the shives from the flax or hemp stalks.
v The number, size, and motion of the rollers,
and number and size of the plates in each,may be varied almost without limits.
K represents a spring-bar, made of wood or steel, secured on the top of the frame by bolts or screws passing through near its ends. Through this bar and through slots in the ends of the steel springs, under it and over the boxes of the roller-gudgeons,,pass a number of vertical screws entering the side of the frame'for increasing or diminishing the power of the steel springs by depressing the springbar upon or raising it above them. When it is found necessary to increase the pressure of any one of the top rollers upon its corresponding roller below, the vertical screws passing through the spring-bar and through the slots inthe ends of the spring upon the movable box of its gudgeons, must be turned to the rightso as to bring down the spring-bar at that point, thus contracting said spring; and when the pressure is to be decreased thescrcw must be turned to the left. There is a corre sponding spring-bar, K, and screws 011 the opposite side of the frame, made to act in a similar manher upon the springs of the gudgeons in the other ends of the rollers.
The uses and advantages of this machine are in the expedition and economy with which flax and hemp may be broken and dressed.
The machine may be attached to horse or any other power, and the flax or hemp entirely cleaned with little skill on the part of the operator. By this process flax or hemp is liable to less waste than perhaps in any other, and by repeating the operation of the same material between the: rollers the filaments are softened suitably for any fabric to which these articles are adapted.
We do not claim the general arrangement in it, and revolves slower than its correspond of the rollers, nor the insertion of metallic! 2. The use and application of the springplates along them, these having beenbel'ore bars K K, for the uses and purposes hereln used; but set forth, and in the manner before described.
\Vhztt we do claim as our invention in the nbovedesoribed machine is-- XVILLIAM BRITTAIN.
1. The employment of one or more smooth ROBERT BRITTAIN. rollers the antagonists of which are furnished 3 with metallic plates, and are so geared as to Vitnesses: run with a different rate of speed, so that the ELTJAII \VILSON, nmteriztl between them maybe operated upon JOHN T. ROWLAND.
by a rubbing motion, as herein set forth. i
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