US553628A - Wool-oiling machine - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE ARTHUR SPENCER, OF GREENBUSH, ASSIGN OR OF ONE-HALF TO F. O. HUYCK & SONS, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

WOOL-OILING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 553,628, dated January 28, 1896.

Application filed 511116 11, 1895. Serial No. 552,412. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE ARTHUR SPEN- GER, of Greenbush, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in VVool-Oiling Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in attachments to machines for picking wool and other similar material in the process of preparing the stock for the subsequent operation of manufacturing goods therefrom; and it consists of the mechanism, substantially as herein shown and described, for attaching to a picking-machine adapted to the purpose above set forth.

In some climates, but especially in America, all woolen stock requires to be oiled and dampened before it is in proper condition to make into yarn preparatory to its being converted into merchantable goods, either Woven or. knit; and it is well known that the proportions of the oil and dampening material require to be varied to suit the prevailing conditions of the atmosphere. Under the present practice it is usual to employ a chemical agent to effect a commingling of the oil and water, but this practice is open to the objection that the wool is liable to be damaged by the chemical agent.

The object of my invention is to provide facilities for applying the proper proportions of oil and water to the wool to be treated without recourse to any chemical agent, and I attain this object by the means herein described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which are herein referred to and form part of this specification, and in which Figure l is an end elevation of portions of a well-known form of wool-picking machine with my invention attached thereto; Fig. 2, a horizontal section of the same at the line X X of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a vertical section of Fig. 1 at the line Y Y, and Fig. 4 a detached detail showing mechanism for operating the pendulous discharge-pipes and other parts of my invention.

As represented in the drawings, A designates the framework of an old and wellknown form of picker-machine, of which, being no part of my invention, only a small portion is shown; B, the feeding-table of said machine made and arranged in the usual manner; O, a frame erected on the feeding-table B and provided with ahorizontal shelf D, which carries a tank E, provided with two compartments, one of which is provided for containing water or other dampening material and the other for containing oil or other fluid greasy material.

From the bottom of each compartment of the tank E there are separate discharge-pipes F and G, one of which is appropriated to the water-compartment and the other to the oilcompartment. Jointed tothe pipe F is a pendulous pipe H, and jointed to the pipe G is a pendulous pipe I, the two pendulous pipes being connected together by a yoke J so that the two pipes will move in unison. The two pend ulous pipes are each provided with a separate stop-cock K, to govern the outflow of the particularfluid contained in the compartment to which either of the pendulous pipes is ap propriated.

L is a revoluble cylindrical brush whose axis is arranged horizontally above the feeding-table B, and which is preferably rotated from gearing driven by the shaft of the pickercylinder. The bristles of said brush should have sufficient resilience to enable them to spring back when retarded by a blade M, which is arranged to engage with the outer ends of the bristles intermittently dnrin g the rotations of the brush L, so as to effect the discharge of the oil and water from the bris-- tles, said oil and water being delivered onto the bristles by the vibratory motions of the pendulous pipes H and I. On one end of the shaft of the brush L there is a bevel-pinion 1, which engages in a bevel-Wheel 2, that is secured to a shaft journaled in a bracket 3, secured to the frame 0. The bevel-wheel 2 is provided with a wrist-pin 4, which engages with a vibratile arm 5, that is fulcrumed, as at 6, to the bracket 7, and the upper end of the arm '5 is connected by a link 8 to the yoke J, and thereby the required vibrations are imparted to the pendulous pipes H and I to effect the required distribution of the oil and water onto the bristles of the brush L, such distribution being extended substantially the entire length of the brush L.

N is a crank-wheel secured to the outer end of the shaft that carries the brush L. Said crank-wheel is provided with a wrist-pin 9, to which a connecting-rod 10 is jointed. The lower end of the connectingd'od 10 connects with a pair of plungers of the pumps O,which are so arranged that one of said pumps will draw its supply of oil or water from a supplytank P and the other pump will draw its supply of water or oil from the other supplytank Q, said pumps being arranged to deliver their discharge, either water or oil, into the appropriate compartment of the tank E that is to say, the oil being discharged into one of said compartments and the water into the other. The tank E is provided with overflow- pipes 11 and 12, which are arranged to conduct any surplusage of liquid from the compartments back to the supply-tank from which the same has been drawn, and thereby all danger of overflowing the compartments of the tank E will be avoided.

My invention operates in the following manner: Each of the compartments of the tank E being filled with the liquid to which it may be appropriated and the wool to be operated upon being distributed on the feeding-table B in front of the brush L, in position to receive the spray from said brush, the stop-cocks K are opened sufficiently to discharge the required amount of liquid from each compartment of the tank E. The pickermachine is then set in motion, and thereby the required rotatory motion is imparted to the brush L. Simultaneously therewith a vibratory motion is given to the pendulous pipes H and I to effect a distribution of the oil and water lengthwise of the brush L. During the rotations of the brush L a continuous distribution of oil and water will occur along the entire surface of said brush, and the succeeding rows of bristles in the brush by engaging with the blade M will be bent backward, and on their release from engagement with said blade said bristles will spring to their normal positions and thereby produce a spray-form discharge of the commingled oil and water from said bristles. Said discharge will be delivered upon the wool lying on the feedingtable B in the line of said discharge, and thereby the wool will be simultaneously dampened and oiled. hen the last-named operations are effected the wool is fed into the picker-machine,which feeding can be effected either automatically or manually, as may be preferred.

I do not limit myself to the tank-feeding pumps yoked together to operate in unison, for I am aware that two pumps arranged to operate independently can be employed to effeet a like purpose; nor do I limit myself to pendulous pipes connected together to vibrate in the same direction at the same instant, for it is obvious that the same result may be obtained by using two pendulous pipes that are arranged to vibrate independently of each other; but the arrangement herein shown and describedis the one that I prefer for the reason of its simplicity.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

l. The combination, with a picker or other analogous machine, of a revoluble brush provided with resilient bristles, meanssubstantially as specified-for revolving said brush, a blade arranged to deflect said bristles, pendulous-pipes-one for oil and another for water-placed directly over and arranged to swing in the direction of the length of said brush, and means-substantially as describedfor eifecting the swinging of said pipes; the deflection of said bristles and a return to their normal positions effecting a spraying of the liquids over the wool on the feeding-table of the machine, substantially as herein specified.

2. The combination of separate supplytanks-one for oil and another for water, a distributing-tank or tanks comprising separate compartments for oil and water, apump or pumps arranged to draw the liquids from the appropriate supply-tank and deliver the same into the proper distributing tank or compartment, pendulous pipes each communicating with its appropriate distributing-tank or compartment, meanssubstantially as specifiedfor swinging said pendulous pipes, and overflow pipes connecting said compartments with the proper supply-tanks, as and for the purpose specified.

3. The combination, with a distributingt-ank provided with separate compartments for containing diiferent liquids, of pendulouspipes, and means substantially as described-for vibrating said pipes; each of said pendulous-pipes leading from a different compartment and each having a cock for regulating the outflow of liquid from said pipe, and for the purpose specified.

GEORGE ARTHUR SPENCER.

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J. \V. FISHER, \VM. H. Low.

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