Improvements in the construction of machines used in the manufacture of surgical lint and other linted or piled fabrics / [Charles Edward Bennett].

  • Bennett, Charles Edward.
Date:
1888
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Improvements in the construction of machines used in the manufacture of surgical lint and other linted or piled fabrics / [Charles Edward Bennett]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Date of Application, 23rd July, 1887 Complete Left, 21st Apr., 1888 Complete Accepted, 25th May, 1888 PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. Improvements in the Construction of Machines Used in the Manu¬ facture of Surgical Lint and other Linted or Piled Fabrics. We Charles Edward Bennett of Union and Bengal Street Mills, Ancoats Cotton Doubler, and William Tyrall Browne of 76 Prussia Street Machinist, both of Manchester in the County of Lancaster do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :— 5 The object of this invention is to more perfectly manufacture or lint the surface of fabrics such as surgical lint and other woven material requiring as essential qualities softness, absorbency and a linted surface, and the invention consists principally of a mechanical arrangement- or combination of parts for increasing or decreasing the distance traversed horizontally to-and-fro of the knife cushion, and 10 knife carriage of machines used in such manufacture, so as to adjust or accommodate such traverse to suit the nature of the woven fabric under operation and the quality of linted surface desired to be produced. To the end of the knife carriage we screw or otherwise attach a stud which moves to and fro horizontally with the same. 15 At or near the end of this stud we mount a brass step or bearing (preferably in two parts) fitting in a vertical slot in a reciprocating lever. This lever is hung from a pin or stud fixed to a nut which is capable of sliding up or down in a vertical slot in a bracket or pedestal attached to the frame. The said nut (and consequently the pin or stud attached thereto which forms the 20 fulcrum of the reciprocating lever) can be moved up or down in this slot by means of a screw passing through the nut ; which screw can be turned by a hand wheel or winch. In the slot of the reciprocating lever (below the stud attached to the knile carriage) is another step or bearing through which passes an excentnc or crank pin nxeu on [ Price 8d.]