US610138A - Armitage haigh - Google Patents

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No. 6:0438. Patented Aug. 3o, |898. A. HAIGH o. A. somos.

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(Application filed Dec. 9, 1897.)

(No Model.)

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a llNirn ARMITAGE HAIGII, OF I-IUDDERSFIELD, ENGLAND, AND ALPHONSE BORIOS, OF VEVEY, SWITZERLAND.

CARDINGENGINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 610,138, dated August 30, 1898. Application filed December 9, 1897. Serial No. 661,289. (No model.)

To all whom tm/ty concern,.-

Be it known that we, ARMITAGE HAIGH, a subject of I-Ier Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, residing at I-Iudderseld, in the county of York, England, and ALPHONSE BO- RIOs, a citizen of the Swiss Republic, residing at Vevey, Switzerland, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Carding-Engines, of which the following is a speciiication.

Our invention relates to an improved arrangement and construction of parts in a carding-engine whereby an increased number of workers can be employed around the main cylinder within a given radius,the object being to enable the material passing through the machine to be worked and reworked more thoroughly than heretofore and by reason of the arrangement of the parts in a smaller space than heretofore.

Our invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which shows in elevation and diagrammatically a carding-engine arranged according to our invention.

According to our invention workers 1 1a are arranged in close order around the main cylinder or swift 3, and between each two woikers 1 l are diverting-plates 2, which divide the workers into pairs over the face of the main cylinder. The plates 2 serve to retain the iiber on the worker lfl and `prevent its being taken forward by the next worker 1, and between each pair of workers 1 1a 1 1a is a stripper/1, which removes the fiber Vand places it o-n the main cylinder again. The

course of the liber is indicated by the line 5,

from which it will be seen that after passing the usual feed-rollers and lickers-in the ber is removed from the main cylinder by the rst worker l of the first pair, removed by the small stripper 4, and laid onto the cylin der 3, as shown, and then carried by the cylinder 3 to the second pair of workers 1 1, which revolve in the same direction, (as do all the workers) a portion of the fiber, however, being first carried around by the worker 1 of the first pair and back to the worker 1 and brought around said worker 1 onto the main cylinder again, and so would be carried on again if it were not for the stripper 4, which removes a portion of the extra fiber now on the worker 1 and returns it to the main cylinder, which it follows in its course to the next pair 1 1, Where the operation,is repeated. It will be seen that the diverting-plates between the pairs of Workers prevent one pair from removing the liber fromthe pair next in order and that as such plates occupy no appreciable space the separate pairs are obtained without any spacing apart of the individual pairs, which results in a considerable saving of space.

What we Aclaim is- In a carding-engine, the combination of a main cylinder, workers arranged around said cylinder in proximity thereto and at equal distances therefrom, diverting-plates placed at intervals between the Workers and serving to separate them into groups of two, and a stripper between the workers of each pair, said strippers operating to strip the cotton from the first worker of each pair, substantially as described.

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

ARMITAGE HAIGII. ALPHONSE BORIOS.

Vitnesses to the signature of Armitage I-Iaigh:

FRED B. RAMsDEN, DAVID HAIGH.

Vitnesses to the signature of Alphonse Borios:

E. SCHNEIDER, t V. KOENITZ.

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