US123136A - Improvement in wadding, batting - Google Patents

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UNITE OFFICE.

MILTON D. WHIPPLE, OF BRIGHTON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO LUTHER CRANE, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN WADDING, BATTING, ttc., AND IN MACHINES FOR MAKING THE SAME.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 123,136, dated January 30, 1872.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, MIL'roN D. WHIPPLE, of Brighton, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usef'ul Improvement in the Manufacture of Wadding, Batting, and Carpet-Lining; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making a part of this specification.

My improvement relates mainly to the tem or mode of condensing or compressing a web or sheet of batting which has passed through the common card and been formed into a lap, or after the cotton or other fibrous substance has been fed to a machine on an apron and taken the form of a lap during its passage through feeding-rollers.

The main point of novelty is the inode of inter-lacing or combining the fibers of the lap, this being effected in such a manner as to produce a strong and condensed web or sheet without the use of paper, paste, or sewing.'

The fabric is suitable for various purposes, and consists entirely of the same materials that the batting operated upon is composed of, a part of the fibers being thrust through the fabric from one or both sides thereof, thus binding or interlacing the materials.

Figure I is a side eleva-tion of the machine. Fig. II is an end view, showing the needles and vibrating frames. Fig. III is a plan of the Lipper part of the machine.

The main drivin g-wheel is represented at A, and carries a pulley on the eccentric shaft C. A shaft, D, extends across the machine, and a pulley afxed to it drives the pulley F and the shaft G. This shaft and its affixed pulleys drive the scrollpulley I and the front rollerpulley J. The cotton or bat is fed to the niachine upon the endless apron B, and passes between the horizontal rollers E E', by which it is carried forward between two series of vertical pins or needles, Q Q'. These needles are slightly roughened or barbed. They are tapered, and are of sufficient length to pass through the bat. They are set in the top bars M M' of the two vertical frames S S', which are moved up and down by the pitmen L L', which are carried by the eccentrics K K' at tached to the bottom shaft C. The pitinen are jointed at R R', so that the frames S S may traverse vertically. The needles may be set diagonally, as shown at Q, Fig. III, the upper series of rows being so placed as to enter the spaces in the lower series. To assist in clearing the needles, and to prevent the bat from rising or falling too far when the needles are withdrawn, there are two perforated plates, O and O', placed parallel with the needle-holders M M'. These plates are fixed as to their vertical position, but are movable back and forth horizontally by the attached arm l?, the end of which is bent at right angles, and is moved by the scroll-cam N. As the needles pass rapidly through the bat or sheet a part of the fibers is carried upward and a part downward, and the result of this interlacing is the production of a condensed and hrm fabric, which now passes forward to the delivery-rollers H H', from which it issues ready for packing and use.

The iinished article resembles a felted fabric, as it is held together by the crossing and intcrtwining of the fibrous substance of which it is composed.

In some cases a single series of needles, M, may be used, all of the fibers that form the iuterlacing being thrust through the bat from the same side.

To produce a fabric that is condensed at one part and light at another part, the needles or pins may be placed in detached groups. When these are moved to the right or left by the scroll-cam N across the web, curved or diagonal lines are produced.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The series of needles or pins, slightly roughened or barbed, set in a suitable frame or holder, and made to traverse back and forth through a bat or web of cot-ton or other fibrous substance, for the purpose of interlacing and condensing the fibers, substantially as herein described.

2. I also claim, as a new article of manufacture, a bat, web, or sheet made as hereinbefore described.

MILTON D. WHIPPLE. [L 5.]

In presence of-L- JOHN M. BATCHELDER, FRED. WM. THAYER.

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