1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class VI.: J. Mason
10. MASON, J., Globe Works, Rochdale — Joint Inventor and Maker.
Single carding engine, lap machine, and self-acting feeder; the same, with condenser attached, intended to produce a number of endless cardings or slubbings, and dispense with the use of the billy machine, and the hands required to work it.
Patent condensor, or endless carding engine for wool, and self-acting feeder for any second or finisher carding engine.
Action of the Machine.— The wool is removed from the doffer of the first carding engine by a comb as usual, and is drawn by a pair of rollers fixed at the side of the frame through a revolving tube, which imparts an amount of false twist to the sliver. It is returned between a lower pair of rollers to the lap machine in front of the engine, which is arranged to form a lap 16 inches diameter, and 4 inches wide. When the required length of sliver is wound on, notice is given by a bell; and if not attended to, another movement doffs the lap, so as to ensure each one being of the same uniform length.
These narrower laps are placed side by side upon rods, so as to form four rows, a, b, c, d, fig. 1, each row being the whole width of the engine, which are turned off into the engine by the unlapping rollers c, f, g, h. Each sliver passes through a guide or reed as it enters the feeding rollers to keep it in its proper place. The quantity of sliver thus put up at the feeder end of the machine will last a whole day.
The wool having passed through the engine, and been carded in the usual manner, is removed from the main cylinder by the condensor doffers, i, k, which are provided with ring of cards, and alternate blank spaces, so that the wool which is left upon the cylinder by the top doffer is removed by the lower one.
The stripper rollers, l, m, take the bands of wool from the doffers, after which they pass between the doubled endless twisting straps, n, o, in order to receive a degree of false twist, sufficient to enable them to carry forward to be spun. They then pass between the delivery rollers, p, q, to the bobbins, r, s, on which they are lapped by friction of contact with the drum t, u.
When the bobbins are fitted they are removed direct to the mule to be spun, where they are unlapped in a similar manner by drums.
The advantage of this system consists in a great economy of labour; three operations being entirely dispensed, with, viz., feeding, slubbing, and piecing. With the addition of the self-feeder condensor, yarns are found to he more regular and level than those produced by the ordinary method; a greater quantity of work is turned off; the threads are more nappy or oozy, which increases the felting quality in milling; causes a firmer texture in the cloth, and a corresponding fulness of bottom and richness of appearance when finished, not attained by the methods formerly in use.
Hand-mule, for spinning the bobbins from the condensor engine.
Slubbing-frame, with Mason and Collier's patent collars or bearings for the spindles: separating plates for the slubbings, and the break motion for readily stopping the machine.
Patent slubbing and roving frames.
This improvement gives a firmer support to the spindles, obtaining greater speed with greater steadiness.
It is accomplished by making the collar in the lifting rail longer (shown detached in fig. 3), and continuing it through the wheel b, up the inside of the bobbin-barrel to the top of it, where the bearing for the spindle is formed as shown at a, figs. 2 and 3.
The collars are chambered inside, so that the spindle fits only their ends, and they are firmly screwed to the lifting-rail d, the wheels and bobbins running loosely around them, as represented.
The separating plates e, prevent the broken threads becoming entangled with the other spindles.
Roving frame, with patent collar, separating plates, and additional improvements.
Patent power-loom, for weaving fancy goods by an improved method of working the healds, to form the figure in the cloth.
46. MASON, J., Rochdale.
Mule loom grinding frame. Vice.
The patent driving bands made by J. H. Whitehead, Saddleworth.
(See No. 10, ante.)