US536620A

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Publication number: US536620A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1895-04-02
Anticipated expiration: 1912-04-02

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W. H. GOLDSMITH. MACHINE FOR PREPARING LOOSE COTTON IN FORM OF SLIVER;

No. 536,620 5 Patented A. 2,1895.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

WILLIAM H. GOLDSMITH, OF PAWTUOKET, RHODE ISLAND.

MACHINE FOR PREPARING LOOSE COTTON IN FORM OF SLIVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 536,620, dated April2, 1 895.

Application filed July 23, 18 94. Serial No. 518,347. (No modal.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. GOLDSMITH, of Pawtucket, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Machines for Preparing Loose Cotton in the Form of a Sliver, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to bringloose cotton directly to the form of a sliver. To this end I combine a feeder for the loose cotton with a fiber straightening mechanism in which the cotton delivered from the feeder has its fiber straightened and is put into approximately a lap form, and with a railway head which receives the cotton delivered from the fiber straigthening mechanism and reduces it to sliver formall of these parts being so geared together that no feed of the cotton will take place when the railway head is out of action.

The accompanying drawing represents in sectional side elevation machinery organized and arranged in accordance with my invention.

A is the cotton feeder. The particular feeder which I have shown is that which is the subject of United States Letters Patent No. 482,194., dated September 6, 1892, comprising a regulating doifer a, a spiked lifting apron b, a beater clearer c, a wire cage (1, and stripper roll's e. The cotton lifted by the apron is removed by the beater clearer and thence passes to and is collected on the cage, from -belt is moved back and forth upon the two cones. The front pair, g, of drawing rolls of the stand g (next to the evener plate) is geared to and driven from the driven cone 11 as indicated by dotted lines; and the feed apron and stripper rolls of the feeder are by sprocket chain and wheels geared to and driven from variations in speed of the rolls g due to the action of the evener mechanism.

The cotton delivered from the feeder upon the traveling apron f passes therefrom over the evener plate-between it and the upper roll of pair g, and thence through the stand of drawing rolls 9 by the action of which the loose cotton has its fibers straightened, and is formed into a homogeneous and even lap. This lap passes over a table is, through a trumpet l, and thence to a stand on of drawing rolls which are part of a regular railway head 0. From these rolls the cotton passes over a plate 'n. through a condensing trumpet T and between calendar rolls R which deliver the cotton in the form of a sliver into the can S.

The lower or driving cone h of the evener of the fiber straightening mechanism is driven from the driving shaft of the railway head by side shaft Z and spur and bevel gearing 5, 2, as shown. The drawing rolls of the stand g (other than the first pair g of such rolls) are driven from the railway head by sprocket wheel and chain 3, or otherwise. I

Under this arrangement it will be noted that when the drawing rolls are stopped no feed can take place because the stoppage of thedrawing rolls is dependent upon that of the railway head, and when the latter stops, the feed stops also.

Having described my invention and the manner in which the same is or may be carried into effect, whatI claim herein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the feeding mechanism;

,- the rolls g'-the feed thus conforming to the the fiber straightening mechanism; the evener mechanism governing both the feeding and the fiber straightening mechanisms; the railway head,,condenser and calendar rolls; and gearing whereby all of said mechanisms are driven from the railway head, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth. In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM H. GOLDSMITH. Witnesses:

A. T. ATHERTON, R. B. HORTON.