US552440A

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Publication number: US552440A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1895-12-31
Anticipated expiration: 1912-12-31

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H". HOYLE & B. SCARBOROUGH. MACHINE FOR QOMBING AND DRESSING-SILK OR OTHER-FIBERS.

Patented Dec. 31, 1895.

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H. HOYLE & E. SCARBOROUGH. MACHINE FOR GOMBING AND DRESSING SILK 0R OTHBR'PIBERS.

Patented Dec. 3-1, 1895.

NDREW B GRAHAM PHOTOMTHOYWASHINGTUN DC (No Model.) 5 Sheets-Sheet 3. H. HOYLE & E. SCARBOROUGH. MACHINE FOR GOMBING AND DRESSING SILK OR OTHER FIBERS.

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H. HOYLE & E. SCARBOROUGH. MACHINE FOR GOMBING AND DRESSING'SILK 0R OTHERFIBBRS.

- No. 552,440. Patented Dec. 31, 1895,

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H. HOYLE 80E. SCARBOROUGH. MACHINE FOR OOMBING AND DRESSING SILK. OE-OTHER FIBERS.

No. 552,440. I S Patented Dec. 31, 1895.

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ANDREW B GRMIAM. PNOTDUTHQ WASHINGTON. D C

NTTED STATES OFFICE.

PATENT MACHINE FOR COMBING AND DRESSING SILK OR OTHER FIBERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 552,440, dated December 31, 1895.

A li ation fil d October 18, 1895. Serial No. 566,097. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HERBERT HOYLE and EDWIN SCARBOROUGH, subjects of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Halifax, in the county of York, England, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Machines for Oombing and Dressing Silk and other Fibers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in machinery for combing and dressing silk, grass, and other fibers, the object being to construct apparatus which will thoroughly comb, clean, and dress silk and other like fibers without the careful attention and manual labor heretofore necessary.

The invention consists of appliances for holding the ordinary dressing boards in which the fiber to be operated upon is placed, and for traversing such boards along a frame in such a manner that the fiber is brought into contact with traveling lashing-combs which effectually lash, comb and clean the fiber, after which the dressing-boards are released from the holding device and the fiber can be removed and other charged boards inserted.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 and 1 show a plan of the improved machine, the machine being shown broken into two parts in order to allow the drawings to be made on a larger scale, Fig. 1 being the left-hand portion and Fig. 1 the right-hand portion. Fig. 2 is a left-hand end elevation of the machine. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the machine on line a b, Fig. 1. Fig. at is a side elevation of the right-hand end of the machine, showing the relative positions of the traveling lashing-combs and the dressing-boards and casings. Fig. 5 is a right-hand end elevation of part of the apparatus, showing the appliances designed for raising or lowering the casings for the dressing-boards. Fig. 6 is a front elevation, 011 an enlarged scale, of one of the casings for carrying a dressingboard, the operating-screw at one end being shown in section. Fig. 7 is an end elevation of Fig. 6, partly in section. Fig. 8 is a plan of Fig. 6, partly in section and with the saddles around the screws removed.

The appliances for holding the dressingboards consist of a casing 1, Figs. 6, 7 and 8, within which is a nipping-bar 2 havi mg a facing of some gripping material 2, the bar being connected by links 3 3 with a pusher-bar 4, so that when one end of the latter is operated or moved sidewise the nipping-bar 2 is forced outward and against the dressing-boards 2 Fig. 4c, the face 2 of the bar 2 giving the bar a good grip on the boards, (which hold the silk or fiber to be dressed, and when the other end of the pusher-bar 4 is acted upon the nipping-bar 2 is drawn inward and the dressingboards are released. Each casing contains two of these nipping-bars, one projecting from each face of the casing, as shown in Fig. 7.

The casing containing the nipping-bars 2 has at each of its ends a projecting tooth 5, which is received within a worm or screw 6 at each side of the machine. Surrounding each screw or worm 6 is a saddle 7, Figs. 1, 1, 3, 4, and 6, for supporting the casing 1 while being traversed along the machine by means of the worms or screws 6, referred to. The saddle 7 acts as a support for the casings 1 as the tooth 5 passes through a slot in one side of same, and it also acts as a guard for the screw or worm 6.

The silk or fiber is placed in dressing-boards 2 as is customary, and each board is placed between a pair of the casings 1, of which there are a series, so as to provide for a number of dressing-boards being passed through the machine at one time. In this way there is first a dressingboard, then a casing, then a dressing-board, and so on, as shown in Fig. 4.

As each casing 1 is put into position by causing the tooth 5 to engage with the worms or screws 6, said casing 1 is carried forward, (a dressing-board being between each two casings,) and as one end of the pusher-bar 4 comes in contact with and moves along an incline 8 formed on one of the saddles 7 at the entering end of the machine (see Fig. 1) the pusher-bar 4 is forced inward, and the links 3 are caused to force the nipping-bar 2 outward and against the dressing board, which is thereby tightly closed and held, the whole series of casings 1 1 and dressingboards 2 being placed in position as the Worms or screws 6 rotate, so that the casings and dressing-boards are carried along the saddles 7 continuously, the silk or fiber being combed and cleaned by a series of endless comb-lags or card-flats 9 working over pulleys 10 10. In contact with the comb-lags or card-flats 9 is a cleaning-roller 11, which removes any spare fiber left in the comb-lags 9, brushes or fancy rollers 12 12 being employed on either side of the roller 11 for taking the spare fiber from the cleaningrollers. The rollers 11 and 12 are provided with suitable teeth for this purpose.

The fancy rollers 12 are carried in brackets 13, as shown, which are supported or pivoted so that they maybe turned around for the purpose of reaching the rollers for cleaning same. In Fig. at is shown a similar roller (here marked 12) turned around for this purpose. The casings and dressing-boards may be supposed to be traveling at the rate of about one foot per minute; but the card-flats or comb-lags passing over the pulleys 10 and traveling in the same direction as the flats, as shown by the arrows, Figs. 1 and 4:, are traveling about the rate of eleven feet per min ute. IIence, although traveling in the same direction, on account of the superior speed of the flats, the fiber carried by the dressingboards will be laid over in one direction and combed or carded by said flats. In continuing their travel through the machine, the dressing-boards carrying the fibers now come under the action of a second set of flats carried by the pulleys 10 10, which are traveling in the opposite direction, as indicated by the arrows, Fig. 41, and at a speed of about nine feet per minute. As soon as these flats operate on the fiber, the latter is turned over so that its opposite side is acted upon by the teeth of the flats, and in this position it continues until it reaches the end of the machine, when it passes under a card-clothed roller 11, which combs it still in the same direction, then under a roller 15 having rubber flaps 16, which folds the fiber over again in the reverse direction, and, finally, it passes under a card-clothed roller 17, which combs it in the direction in which it was last lying. The object of the reversal of the combing as it passes through the machine is to enable the tufts of fiber to be thoroughly combed throughout the thickness of same.

The endless chain of flats or lags are adjustable by means of the brackets 18 18, which may be moved laterally in slots, (of which those, 19, at one end of the machine are shown in Fig. 4-,) the object being to enable the slack to be taken up from the chains.

At the end of the machine, where the easings have now arrived, there is an incline 19 formed on the saddle 7; but on the opposite side to the incline S, and against this second incline, the other ends of the pusher-bars 4 come, whereby the links 3 are operated in the opposite directions to their first movement, the nipping-bars 2 are drawn inward and the dressing-boards released. The fiber may now be removed from the boards and turned, the combed portion being confined within the dressing-board and the uncombed portions left exposed and ready for similar treatment, which may be performed from the starting end of the machine, as hereinbefore described, the casings and dressing-boards being carried to that end of the machine for the purpose; but the machine is preferably arranged in. duplicate, (or two story,) so as to send the fiber through again from one end of the machine to the other end without having to move it, after which it may be reversed, as described, and the uncombed ends passed through the machine. To send the casings through from the right-hand end back to the entering end said casings are lowered from the upper line of flats or combs 9 by means of a table or bedplate 16, Fig. 5, which has a rising-and-fallin g motion imparted to it in guides 16 by means of the rod17 and cranked shaft 18. A cam or eccentric may take the place of the crank, it being only necessary that the table or plate 16 should alternately rise and fall from the level of the upper saddle 7 to the level of the lower one, the casings 1 1 and boards being taken off the upper screws 6 by the attendant and placed in position on the lower screws 6, the table being merely employed to relieve the attendant of the weight of the easings and boards and to bring them into line with the lower screws 6. The teeth 5 of the casings may have small antifriction-runners placed in their ends to lessen the friction as they pass along the screws 6. The casings and boards now pass in the reverse direction through the machine; but as the parts composing the combing devices on the under side are identical with those previously described it will not be necessary to enter into further description of same, except to say that the speed of the combs at what is now the entering end of the machine is the same as the speed of the combs at the original entering end-via, eleven feet per minute-while the speed of the combs at what is now the exit end of the machine is the same as that of the first exit endviz. nine feet per minute the speed of the casings and boards remaining the same. The combs also travel in opposite directions, as in the first case.

The machine is provided with a main driving-shaft 20, a pulley 21 on which drives, through a belt 22, a pulley 23. A gear-wheel 2% on the shaft of this pulley drives a gear 25 on another shaft. A spur-wheel 26 on the shaft of the gear-wheel 2i drives in turn a gear-wheel 27 on the shaft of one of the pulleys 10, and this gear drives also a gear 28 on the shaft of one of the pulleys 10. The gear 25 drives, through a spur-wheel 29, a gear 30 on the shaft of one of the lower pulleys 10, and the gear 30 drives a gear 31 on the shaft of one of the lower pulleys 10. In this way the four sets of combs or flats are driven. A pulley 31 on the shaft of one of the pulleys 1O drives, through a belt 32, a

pulley 33 on the cleaning-roller 11, and this roller drives, through gears 31 35 35, the fancy rollers 12 12. A similar pulley 31 on the shaft of one of the pulleys 1O drives, through a belt 32, apulley 33 on the cleaning roller 11, and this roller drives, through gears 34 35 35, the fancy rollers 12 12. The rollers 14 15 17 may be driven from a gear-wheel 36, operated as hereinafter described, which drives a gear 37 on a shaft 38, the gear 37 driving a gear 39, which drives a gear 40 on the shaft of the roller 17. The shaft 38 may have at one end a pulley 41, which drives, through a belt 42, a pulley 43 on the shaft of the roller 15, and a gear 44 on the other end of the shaft of said roller 15 drives a gear 45 on the shaft of the roller 14. The worms or screws 6 are driven from a spur-wheel 46, which drives a gear 46, carrying a crank-pin 46 to which are attached two rods 47 47 extending respectively to either end of the machine, the rod 47 a being attached to a crankpin 48, which operates the gear 36, while the rod 47 is attached to a crank-pin 49 on a gearwheel 50, which drives in turn the gears 51 52 53, the latter being on a shaft 54, which carries bevel wheels 55 55, driving bevelwheels 56 56 on the lower screws 6 6, the upper screws being driven by gear-wheels 57 57 58 58, secured to said upper and lower screws respectively.

hat we claim is- 1. In a machine for combing and dressing fibers and in combination, dressing boards for holding the fibers, casings between which the dressing boards are placed, means carried by the casings for gripping the dressing boards, means for traversing the casings, and means for combing the fibers during the traverse of the casings, substantially as described.

2. In a machine for combing and dressing fibers and in combination, dressing boards for holding the fibers, casings between which the dressing boards are placed, nipping bars carried by the casings, means for projecting the nipping bars forward to hold the dressing boards between the casings, means for causing the nipping bars to be withdrawn, an endless chain of combs to which the fibers are subjected, and means for operating the combs substantially as described.

3. In a machine for combing and dressing fibers and in combination, dressing boards for holding the fiber, casings between which the dressing boards are placed nipping bars and pusher bars carried by the casings, links connecting the nipping bars and pusher bars, means for traversing said casings, means for combing the fibers during the traverse of the casings, and means for operating the pusher bars to cause the dressing boards to be held or released, substantially as described.

4. In a machine for combing and dressing fibers and in combination, dressing boards for holding the fibers, casings between which the dressing boards are placed, means carried by the casings for gripping the dressing boards, screws carried by the machine, teeth carried by the casings engaging with said screws, means for supporting the casings, means for rotating the screws, means for combing the fibers during the traverse of the casings, and means for operating the nipping bars so as to hold and release the dressing boards substantially as described.

5. In a machine for combing and dressing fibers and in combination, dressing boards for holding the fibers, casings between which the dressing boards are held, means carried by the casings for gripping the dressing boards, screws carried by the machine, means for operating the screws, teeth carried by the casings engaging with said screws for supporting the casings and protecting the screws, means carried by the machine for releasing the dressing boards, an endless chain of combs to which the fibers are subjected, means for operating the combs and means for cleaning the combs substantially as described.

6. In a machine for combing and dressing fibers and in combination, dressing boards for holding the fibers, casings between which the dressing boards are held, a pair of screws carried by the machine, means carried by the casings for engaging with the screws, means for operating the latter, means for combing the fiber during the traverse of the casings, a table at the end of the machine on which the casings are delivered, means for raising and lowering said table, a second pair of screws beneath the first pair, means for operating same in the reverse direction such screws being adapted to carry the casings back through the machine and means for combing the fibers in the opposite direction as they are carried through the machine by the second set of screws; substantially as described.

7. In a machine for combing and dressing fibers and in combination, dressing boards for holding the fibers, casings between which the dressing boards are held, a pair of screws carried by the machine, means carried by the casings for engaging with the screws, means for operating the latter and means for combing the fibers during the traverse of the casings first in one direction and then in the other substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HERBERT HOYLE. EDWIN SCARBOROUGH. Vitnesses:

J. BRIERLY HOWARD, GERVASE APPLEYARD.