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R. & T. B. WILDE.

Devices for Conveying, Doubling, and Folding t'h Lap of a Gaming-Machine;

Patented April 6, 1880.

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Devices for Conveying, Doubling, and Folding the Lap of a Carding-Maohine. No. 226,379. Patented-April'6, 1880.

NFETERS. PHOTO LITHUGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. 01C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

ROBERT WILDE AND THOMAS B. WILDE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PA. M

DEVICE FOR CONVEYING, DOUBLING, AND FOLDING THE LAP OF A CARDlNG-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 226,379, dated April 6, 1880.

Application filed February 4, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ROBERT WLLDE and THOMAS E. VVILDE, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Devices for Conveying, Doubling, and Folding the Lap of a Oarding-Machine, of which the following is a specification.

The object of our invention is to construct a compact and economical device for doubling and folding the lap of a breaker-card, and for conveying the said lap from the first breakercard to the second breaker, or from the second breaker to the condenser, in such a manner as to present the fibers endwise; and this object we attain by combining the two break ers, or the breaker and condenser, with an arrangement of endless belts or carriers arranged at certain angles in respect to each other, and with a device known as a camelback feeder, all as hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1, Sheet 1, is a perspective view of our improved lap-conveyer; and Fig. 2, Sheet 2, a plan view of the same.

A represents part of the cylinder of a carding-machine, either the first or second breaker; a, the doffer of the same; B, part of the cylinder of another carding-machine, either second breaker or condenser; and I), the lickerin of said machine.

The lap is taken from the doffer a by a small roll, (I, which is covered with card-clothing, and which lays the lap upon an endless slatted apron, D, the latter carrying the lap beneath two pressure-rollers, e 6, and delivering it onto a second endless apron, E, arranged at a lower level than the apron D, and at an angle of forty-five degrees, or thereabout, in respect thereto.

The apron E conveys the lap to a third apron, F, arranged at a lower level than said apron E, and at an angle of forty-five degrees in respect thereto, and at a right angle to the apron D. This apron F carries the lap to the endless apron of the device known as a camel-back feed, said device consisting of a roller, G, the journals of which are adapted to fixed bearings, and a swinging frame, J, carrying rollers K, L, and M for the belt, and furnished with a guided carriage, N, carrying two delivery-rollers, P P, which traverse back and forth across an endless apron, R, the movement of which is at right angles to that of the carriage N, whereby the lap laid in folds on the apron by the traversing rollers Pis fed to the licker-in b.

In passing from the apron D onto the apron E the longitudinal movement of the lap is transformed into a combined longitudinal and lateral movement, the effect of which is to cause the fibers to crowd together and overlap each other, without, however, bending or turning the fibers from their course in line longitudinally with the apron D, so that when the lap is delivered to the apron F itis about double the thickness and half the width of the lap on the apron D, the fibers running crosswise of the lap instead of endwise. This method of doubling the lap, in connection with the folding of the same on the feed-apron R, insures the presentation of the fibers endwise to the licker-in l), and in a compact uniform layer from end to end of the same.

Suitable frames support the rollers carrying the various endless aprons, also the roller G and carriage N and cog-wheels, pulleys, and belts are employed, as shown in the drawings, for causing the various parts to move in unison with each other. These features, however, form no particular part of ourinvention, and may be modified as circumstances may suggest.

We claim as our invention- The combination of two carding-machines and a camel back feeder with the three aprons or carriers D, E, and F, arranged at angles in respect to each other, as shown and described, and with mechanism for operating said aprons, whereby the lap is taken from the doffer, doubled, and delivered to the camelback in a course at right angles to that in which it was taken from the doffer, all substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ROBERT WILDE. THOMAS B. WILDE.

WVitnesses:

ALEXANDER PATTERSON, HARRY SMITH.

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