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stripper. Fig. 3 is a plan view of 

 the machinery which operates the 

 stripper. Figures 4 and 5 are small 

 parts of the machine, which will be 

 explained hereafter. Similar letters 

 refer to like parts. As there are a 

 great number of peculiar movements 

 in this machine, it will require a 

 long description to give a definite 

 idea of its peculiarities, and at the 

 same time it will demand the closest 

 attention on the part of our read- 



Fig. 2. 



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ers. 



A self-stripping carding machine has been a desideratum ; those 

 in common use are stripped by hand. The carding machine re- 

 presented does not dilfer materially from other carding machines 

 except in the mode of attaching the top cards. A A is the 

 framing ; B is the main cylinder ; D are the arches which support 

 the cards. 



This invention relates to certain mechanical means, by which 

 the top flat cards of a single carding machine, or of any number 

 of carding machines, may be stripped, one after the other, in 

 regular succession, while the machine or machines are in opera- 

 tion, without detaching them from the said machine or machines, 

 and without requiring any manual aid ; the operation of stripping 

 proceeding during the whole time the carding machines are in 

 operation. 



E E are the top cards which are of precisely the same con- 

 struction as those in common use, but are attached in a different 

 manner, being hinged or jointed by pivots, c c, at each end of 

 their front side to the standards, a a, which carry them ; resting, 

 when in position for operating, upon screws, b 6, screwed in the 

 arches, but being capable of swinging upwards and forwards, or 

 turning over, so as to lay on the next card in front of it, and 

 present its teeth upwards, (fig. 1,) where one of the top cards is 

 in the act of turning over, and fig. 2, where one is represented 

 turned over, the position of the tops or backs of l)\s ■ ilier top 

 cards being represented on the latter figure by the line, d d. 



