US61219A - Improvement in self-feed foe caeding engines - Google Patents

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Letters Patent No. 61,219, dated January 15, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN SELF-FEED FOB. GARDING ENGINES.

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T0 ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, R. W. LEWIS, of Beacon Falls, in the. county of New Haven, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Self-Feed for Wool-Cards; and I do herebyv declare the following,

when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be i a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specication, and represent, in-

Figure-1, a side view of two main cylinders, with my improvement connected.

Figure 2, a top view of the same; and in Figure 3, a longitudinal section.

In cards, as heretofore constructed, the outside strand of roving, a's it comes from the do'er, is so imperfeet as to require to be recarded, and is termed waste roving A;` thus, from a main cylinde1with forty-two doier rings, one-twenty-rstpart of the work performed by the machine is lost. To overcome this is the object; of my invention, which co'nsists in an arrangement for returning the two outside or waste rovings from the outside edge of the main cylinder to the second breaker, and using` the' same as .though it were of the original A stock. l

To enable others skilled in the art to construct and use my improvement, I will proceed to describe the samefas illustrated in the accompanying drawings. l

A and A are two main cylinders; B, the doifer rings, constructed'and arranged upon their respective. frames C in the usual manner. In use the doer rings are forty-two in numher; butin the illustration of my invention I have shown a less number, each ring forming a strand of roving-the two outer ones of which are waste. To avoid this waste, I take the two outer rovings from the ina-inf cylinder A'hy means of doffer rings d on a cylinder D; thence, by a Creeper, E, or its equivalent, carried by cylinders vI" F, the waste roving is taken from the doer ring al and carried to the maincylinder A of the second breaker, and is there wrought into perfect roving as'the original stock;'and thus in a' main .cylinder a savingof ive per cent. is made. The creeper E, Ihere represent as formed from a strip of common card clothing, or maybe an equivalent device, which will transfer the waste roving from the doffer ring d. The ,said Creeper E and doier ring d are caused to revolve in the direction denoted by the arrows by connection with the powei` which drives the main cylinder. It will be readily seen that the dolier ring d may be used to advantage t0 remove the WaStC rOviHg When it ifi not immediately transferred to the second breaker; and it is also evident that this arrangement is equally applicable to the second as to the irst cylinder.

I am aware of the machine of McGuirk and Gole, -for* carrying the waste roving to the second breaker; but it will be observed that in their invention the waste roving is not taken directly from the main cylinder, as

in my invention.

Having therefore thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isv 1. The doifcr ring 0l, arranged in combination with the main cylinder A, so as to take therefrom the outside or waste roving.

2. The combination of the'creeper E with the doier rings d and the main cylinder of second breaker, substantially in the manner described, so as to receive the waste roving directly from the main cylinder and transfer it to the second breaker, substantially as set forth.

l R. W. LEWIS. Witnesses JOHN WoLrn, J. E. JOHNSON.

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