Part 2

Self-feeding Openers when built as separate machines can be placed on any floor above or below the Breaker Lappers, or on the same floor, the connections being made by Automatic Cleaning Trunks, Conducting Trunks, and galvanized iron pipe, as the conditions may require.

On pages 56 and 57 we show Single Beater Breaker Lappers with Gauge Boxes and Condensers connected to Self-feeding Openers by short sections of Conducting Trunk. The Breakers are on the floor above the Openers. One drawing shows the Self-feeding Opener with 18-in. Beater, and the other with 30-in. Cylinder.

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NOTE--Ten per cent. has been deducted in the above table for stops, etc. 1,450 revolutions per minute of beater.

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INTERMEDIATE AND FINISHER LAPPER.

PRODUCTION IN POUNDS PER TEN HOURS

NOTE--Ten per cent. has been deducted in the above table for stops, etc. 1,450 revolutions per minute of beater.

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PRODUCTION CALCULATIONS.

NOTE--With our latest gearing arrangement, the number of teeth in Knock-off Worm Gear corresponds to the number of yards in the lap.

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INTERMEDIATE AND FINISHER LAPPERS.

DRAFT TABLE.

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REVOLVING FLAT CARDS.

Our Cards are extensively used, and have won for themselves a high reputation for the quality and quantity of work they will do, the small percentage of waste made, and their durability and simplicity.

CHARACTERISTICS.

1--Rigid Bend, mathematically correct at all stages of wear of the wire.

2--Perfect concentricity of Flats to Cylinder. Cylinder Pedestals are adjustable.

3--Arrangements for adjusting Flats whereby accuracy to the thousandth part of an inch is obtained.

4--Better quality of yarn made from the same cotton, or equally good yarn made from cheaper cotton.

5--Card Clothing throughout is of best Hardened and Tempered Steel Wire, Plough Ground or Needle Pointed.

6--Patent Doffer Slow Motion, to facilitate piecing up of broken sliver.

7--Patent method of securing Clothing to the Flats; neatest, cleanest and most effective.

8--Patent Top Flat Grinding Arrangement for grinding from the working seating of the Flats.

9--Patent Flat Stripping Motion, which insures perfect stripping without damage to the Clothing on the Flats.

10--Back Bends or Circles for supporting Flats and preventing sagging and stretching of chains.

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LICKER-IN SHIELDS--To prevent the accumulation of fly around the bearings and pedestals and the climbing of oil over the ends of the Licker-in onto the clothing, we supply stationary shields at each end.

UNDERSCREENS AND FEED PLATES--Our Underscreens are specially heavy and well constructed, and our Feed Plates are very carefully finished and fitted. We supply special Underscreens and Feed Plates for long staple cotton.

ADJUSTABLE CYLINDER PEDESTALS--The bearings for the Cylinders are made of phosphor bronze and the pedestals are adjustable either vertically or horizontally. This is a very important point, because the concentricity of the Cylinder with the Bends can be maintained as the bearings wear. The construction of our Card side is such that a very rigid support is given to the pedestals.

FLAT RELEASE--This is a very simple and convenient attachment to the Flat Driving Arrangement, which makes one of the worm gears loose on its shaft and enables the Flats to be easily turned by hand with a suitable wrench.

CONICAL BUSHINGS--The Cylinders are fastened onto the shafts by means of split conical bushings which are forced into place and prevent any possibility of the Cylinders working loose.

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This Motion enables the Card to do better work and increases the life of the Flat clothing.

Perfect Flat Stripping can only be obtained with a Motion which keeps the Comb at an even and fixed distance from the wire clothing at all points over the entire width of the Flat. The Williams Patent Stripping Motion, for which we hold sole rights for America, meets this essential requirement and therefore does what no other Motion has succeeded in doing. In the old system, the Comb is kept at a fixed distance from the framing of the machine, which is correct as long as there is no variation in the position of the Flats as they pass under the Comb. In practice, it is impossible to {69} prevent a certain amount of tilting or raising of the Flats, due to the wearing of the chains and sprockets and also to dirt getting under the Flats. With the Williams system the stripping is perfectly done no matter what the tilting may be, and even if the Flats are forced away from their true position through any cause, the Comb follows the Flat and maintains its distance. There is no comb which will not catch and damage the wire if the setting becomes too close on account of the clearance not being kept uniform.

In the Williams Stripping Motion the Comb stock is mounted at each end in bearings which slide in guides away from or toward the Flats. The accurate setting of the Comb is maintained by means of shoes which press against the working seatings of the Flats and govern the position of the sliding Comb stock bearings. The shoes have adjusting screws to regulate the setting of the Comb, and the shape of the shoes is such as to allow for the heel of the flat. The sliding bearings of the Comb stock are pressed inward by springs which keep the shoes against the working seatings of the Flat. The Comb blade is given a receding motion which effectually strips all impurities from the wire. This action, together with the fact that it is impossible for the wire on the Flats to be forced into the Comb through the accumulation of dirt or fly on the blocks or Flat seatings, makes this Stripping Motion the most perfect on the market.

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