US61519A - Wadding waste machine - Google Patents

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Patented Jan. 29, 1867.

G. COX. WADDING WASTE MAGHINE.

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GEORGE COX, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA, :ASSGNOR T0 F.1'WILLCOX AND G.- L. JENKINS.

Letten Patent N0. 61,519, ma .Tamm 29, 1867.

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Be it known that I, GEORGEv COX, of Reading, Berks county, Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Wedding-Waste Machine; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the operation and construction of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming part hereof, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, in which drawings Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section.

Figure 2, a plan of the machine. l y

In wadding-nills, where what is known as cotton-waste is employed in the making of wedding, there is a waste, even from the waste thus employed, and it is to utilize this waste of waste that my machine is adapted.

l To enable others skilled in the art te make and use myinventien, Iwill proceed to describe its construction and mode of operation. v

In the drawings, A is n cast-iron frame, made dust-tight by a lining of wood. The frame is about iive feet long, four feet h igh, and thirty inches wide, the width being governed by the width of wadding intended to be produced. B is avpicker cylinder, which consists of an iron shaft covered with wooden strips through which are inserted steel teeth a set about half an inch apart, and projecting outwards about an inch beyond the surface of the strips. C is an endless apron .running upon the two rollers D and E. The waste b eing placed on the apron C isfcd into the pickerthrough thcrollers F and G.- Power is applied to the cylinder B by, meausof a driving-pulley represented by the crank l, fig. 2.` 'On one end of the cylinder shaft 'the belt R connects a pulley l011 the opposite end of the cylinder shaft with another pulley I of about eight inches diameter on the end of shaft J, which carries at its opposite end a cegwheel, K, of about three inchesA diameter, which gears in-to a larger cog-wheel L of about fourteen inches diameter on` the shaft M, which carries at its opposite end the bevel cog-wheel N, of about lfour inches diameter, which gears into the cog-wheel O, of about fo'ur inches diameter, on

the shaft P, whichcarries at its opposite end the bevel cog-wheel Q, of about two and a half inches diameter,

which gears into the bevelrcogwheel R, of about six inches diameter, on the lower feed-roller G. Motion is imparted to the apron C by means of belt S. The rollers F G run in open boxes, as shown in iig. 1, being held down by means of weighted levers T. U is a bonnet or hinged lid, by means of which the cylinder is completely shut in at top. W is an inclined passage, open at bottom, down which slides the waste drawn in Yby the picker cylinder B. X is a case 'or drawer placed below the feed rollers F G, into which drawer the sand and dirt drop. My machine, when in operation, is placed in the card-room, elevated aboutn foot above the door, so that the same endless apron that takes the web from thc carding machines shall run under the inclined passage'W, and take also the waste from this machine. Itwill be observed that the belt VH is crossed. N ow, when the teeth of the picker cylinder become bent from use, this belt may be applied straight, so that, without .any change in the gearing, the direction of motion of the picker cylinder is'rev-erscd. The pulley I and the bevel'cog-wheels K and Qare removable at pleasure, and .when it is desired to accelerate or retard the motion of the feed,l a smaller or larger pulley, as the case may be, is substituted' for the'pulley I, and a larger or smaller bevel-wheel is substituted either-*for the'cog-wheel Q or for the cog-wheel K.`

I have thus specified the particular gearing employed, 'because it. is the best adapted to give that regular v slow motion which is required for the feed, and at thc same time permit to-be made the chaugesrmentioned by which that motion may be accelerated or retarded, and the direction of motion of tliepicker cylinder reversed at pleasure.

Having thus described my invention, I claim,.and desire to secure by Letters Patent- I 1. The combination of the picker cylinder B,'enclosed passage W, feed rollers F G, endless apron C, and

drawer X, or their equivalents respectively, in the manner and for the purpose substantially as shown and described. v I

2. The parts last mentioned in combination with the gearing for giving motion to the feed, substantially as shown and described.

` GEORGE 00X.

Witnesses:

' J. E. SHAW,

Gnoaen E. BUGKLEY.

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