US716147A - Milling-machine for cloth. - Google Patents

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Patented Dec. I6, 1902.

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J. C. TINKEB &. J. H. AHRAN. MILLING MACHINE FUR CLOTH. (Application filed Ma y e, 1902 (No Model.)

J. C. TINKER & J. ABRAN. MILLING MACHINE FOR CLOTH.

(Application filed May 6, 1902.) (No Model.)

Patented Dec. I6, I902. 1

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JAMES CLAYTON TINKER AND JOHN HART ARRAN, OF LEEDS, ENGLAND.

MILLING-MACHINE FOR CLOTH.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 716,147, dated. December 16, 1902. Application filed May 6, 1902. $erial No. 106,148. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J AMES CLAYTON TINKER and JOHN HART ARRAN, subjects of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Leeds, in the county of York, England, have invented new and useful Machinery for Milling, Securing, and Grabbing Textile Fabrics, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved natural milling-machine with which is combined apparatus for scouring and crabbing for the purpose (in one machine) of milling, scouring, and crabbing vicunas, worsted coatings, serges, tweeds, rugs, shawls, blankets, or other fabrics manufactured from botany, saxony, crossbred, high or low class woolen or other yarns. Hitherto these processes have been carried out in separate machines,entailing great labor and loss of time.

Our invention is illustrated in the accom panying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is an end elevation, and Fig. 2 a

' side elevation, of the machine.

In constructing our improved machine we provide a large bowl a, catch-box b, and pair of wooden or iron rollers c c, which may be either bare or padded; A pair of adjustable milling-boards d and e of any approved construction are provided, these being either plain, corrugated, convex, or concave and being employed either stationary or in any required position, or with a rocking motion produced bymeans of suitable cranks oreccentrics. (Notshown.) On these boards'the natural mill is obtainedthat is to ,say, the goods are milled without the aid of any weight, pressure, or force of any kind other than that obtained from the rollers c c.

ards f f, which are fixed on sole-plates-g, placed along each side of, the bowl (1. At the top of each standard f is a suitable wheel h or other device for applying pressure to the rollers c 0 when required.

The machine may be driven direct in the usual way by "means of fast and loose pulleys on the bottom roller-shaft 70. Preferably,

however, it is driven from a counter-shaft Z by means of fast pulley i, loose pulley j, and gear-wheelsmandn thereon and corresponding gear-wheels o and p on the shaft is, the

wheels m and n being fitted on a loose sleeve g, which slides on feather-keys r r, fitted in the end of the counter-shaft Z. By this arrangement two speeds are obtaineda quick speed for the milling operation and a slow speed for the crabbing operationas may be desired. Levers s and rack-and-pinion gear ti, operated from the wheel u, are provided for raising and lowering the crabbing-roller '0. A steam-pipe w is also provided at the rear of the machine for open steam-blowing during the crabbing process when required. Suitable brake-rollers are fitted at the rear of the machine; also, a drawing-roller w in front for goods not requiring to be milled. The brake -roller arrangement consists, preferably, of a fixed rollery and loose roller .2, carried by arms 1 on an intermediate shaft 2 and operated by means of a handle at one end, so as to be interchangeable in position for the purpose of varying the braking power.

The operation of the machine is as follows: The goods are placed on the machine in the ordinary manner, passing between the main rollers c c, then over the adjustable millingboard cl, under the supplementary millingboard 6, over the brake-roller, and back to the rollers c c, or for ordinary scouring the goods may be passed through the main rollers c 0, over the draw-roller m, through the bowl a, over the brake-roller, and back to the rollers c c. When these processes are completed, a crabbing-roller 'v is placed in position on the lever s, and pressure is applied to the top roller 0 by means of the wheels h. It the goods require also to be steam-blown, the steamis applied by means of the perforated pipe w. After the completion of these proc- The rollers c c are carried by a pair of stand esses the crabbing-roller o is lowered to the top of the bowl a by means ofthe wheel u, rack-and-pinion gear 15 t, and lever s and is placed in the extended arms 3 ready to be taken away to the tentering machine, the goods having been milled, scoured, crabbed, and steam-blown in one machine.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a machine for milling, securing and crabbing textile material, the combination, with a bowl, and a catch-box in the upper part of the bowl; of main rollers arranged one above the other over the catch-box, means for snproller and draw-roller, substantially as set porting and driving the said rollers, millingforth.

boards arranged in the said bowl, a crabbing- In testimony whereof we have signed our roller supported on one side of the said main names to this specification in the presence of 5 rollers, means for raising and lowering the two subscribing witnesses.

said Grabbing-roller, a draw-roller supported JAMES CLAYTON TINKER. above the said crabbing-roller and on the JOHN HART ARRAN.

same side of the said main rollers, and brake Witnesses:

mechanism arranged on the opposite side of ALLAN BENNETT,

1013116 said main rollers from the said crabbing- HARRY DAVIES.

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