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Goddard's Burring Machine Works, C. L. Goddard
| Name | Goddard's Burring Machine Works, C. L. Goddard |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Bowling Green Street 3 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Maschinenfabrik |
| Anmerkungen | Adresse: 3 Bowling Green und 301 East Twenty second Street. 1868: Calvin L. Goddard als Textilmaschinen-Erfinder |
| Quellenangaben | [Wiley: American iron trade manual (1874) 95] [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 2 (1868) 557] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 22.01.1820 |
Geburt von Calvin L. Goddard in Covington, New York |
| 1841 |
Studienbeginn von Calvin L. Goddard am Yale College |
| 1845 |
Calvin L. Goddard schließt sein Studium am Yale College mit Auszeichnung ab. |
| 1854 |
Goddard macht sich selbständig. |
| 1862 |
Auszeichnung durch eine Goldmedaille auf der Interantionalen Ausstellung in London |
| 1867 |
Auszeichnung durch eine Goldmedaille auf der Weltausstellung in Paris |
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Kommentar |
| Entgratmaschinen |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
Vorgabe: Burr machines |
| ZEIT | 1868 |
| THEMA | Firmenbeschreibung |
| TEXT | Distinguished for his invention and construction of machines calculated to improve the manufacture of Woollen Goods, was born in Covingtoh, New York, January 22, 1820. His youth was passed principally in agricultural pursuits, with some slight experience in trading by purchasing wheat, wool, etc., for the Rochester market. When he had attained the age of nineteen years, he felt strongly the great need of a more thorough education, and, at a great sacrifice of personal ease and convenience, set about obtaining it. He first went to Geneva, and attended a preparatory school for nearly two years. In 1841, he entered Yale College, from which he graduated with honors in 1845. His economy of living during his collegiate career, necessitated by his straitened circumstances, would, if fully related, reveal a perseverance in the pursuit of knowledge that gives evidence of his possessing a truly heroic character. For three years, in fact, he lived on Graham crackers and water, at an expense not exceeding fifteen dollars per year. In the spring of 1844, he walked from New York to Mount Vernon, Virginia, and back, accomplishing the distance between Washington and Philadelphia - one-hundred and forty miles - in three days. After he had graduated he went to the city of New York, where he taught the Classics for one year, and then engaged as clerk, in which occupation he continued until 1854, when he embarked in business on his own account. About this time his attention appears to have been directed to the great importance of thoroughly cleansing wool in the earliest stages of its manufacture, in order to secure perfection in the finished product. The South American wools and a considerable portion of the Cape, Australian and California wools contain, among other extraneous matters, Mestizo burs, which are about the size of a pea, and which become so imbedded in the locks of wool on the sheep, and the wiry hooks cling to the fibres with such tenacity, that if not removed or only become unravelled and broken, they still continue their hold upon the fibres of wool through the carding and spinning, causing constant breaking of the yarn, and continue through all the after processes, and are visible and felt in the finished goods. Realizing that the animal fibre of wool requires machinery specially adapted to that fibre, he arranged a Burring Picker, which, long subsequent experience has established, performs its work thoroughly, cleansing the wool from dust and other extraneous matters, and removing Mestizo burs whole. Fine Mestizo wool, which, though always considered the best fulling and felting wool that is produced, could not formerly be used advantageously, is now, by his machine, made capable of extensive use. No other machine for picking is required, and card and bur waste, and shoddy are well and thoroughly cleaned and saved. Mr. Goddard is also the patentee and sole manufacturer in this country of Steel Ring and Solid Packing Burring Machines and Feed Rolls, as an attachment for the Carding Machine. On first breakers, Steel Ring Burring Machines are now in use in all the principal woollen establishments throughout the country. They are admitted to be indispensable to the successful and economical manufacture of wool, in removing extraneous matters, protecting the cards, and for the evenness and regularity of their delivery of the wool to the cards, and producing even rovings. The Bur Cylinders are made of fine steel, imported for the purpose, and are made into rings with teeth cut in their periphery and packed together in an included cylinder with Wrought iron packing rings between, constituting a thoroughly substantial cylinder. The teeth of the cylinders are of the best steel temper, and the wear of the teeth is around the points, making them ever sharp to penetrate the wool, and their sharpness co-extensive with their durability. Solid packing rings have been introduced into the manufacture of the Bur Cylinders, which are whole like the steel rings, and which make the Cylinder permanent and solid until worn out. This is is one of the most important improvements that has been made since the introduction of Steel Rings for Burring Machines. Mr. Goddard's latest improvement consists in so constructing the inner Cylinder, in which the rings are packed, that it cannot spring or be sprung. It cannot spring because there are gains cut throughout the cylinder, diagonally, three fourths of an inch apart, and there is no leverage left for the tension of the fibres. It cannot be sprung, because it has a large shaft, and because the great number of ribs standing radially and diagonally around the circumference of the cylinder, within the gains, with ends overlapped by the heads of the cylinder, will not admit of its being bent in any direction. Its surface is then ground perfectly true before being packed. Being firm and steady and true, and the rings packed upon it being of uniform width, the cylinder, when packed, will present teeth of uniform length, and of fifty per cent, more durability than any other machine. Besides, the completed cylinder becoming air-tight by the rings and packing and the oil and emery used in polishing, no moisture or dryness, or heat or cold affects it. It presents also this important combination, never before attained, viz.: the lightness or cheapness of the former cylinder, with the firm and steady and true condition of a turned cast-iron cylinder. Mr. Goddard manufactures Double as well as Single Burring Machines for first breakers of Wool Carding Machines, and fine Steel Eing Machines, for second breakers and finishers of Wool Cards. At the late American Institute Fair, the highest award in this branch of manufactures was given to his Single and Double Burring Machines, as well as to his Mestizo Burring Picker. Similar testimonials had been previously awarded him both at home and abroad, including a gold medal from the International Exhibition in London in 1862, and from the great Exposition in Paris in 1867. Among the minor, but nevertheless important inventions which Mr. Goddard has contributed for the benefit of woollen manufacturers, are Steel Ring Feed Rolls with adjustable stands and spring boxes. His improved Feed Rolls have an advantage in being strong, durable, straight and even, and in being so constructed that they not only hold the wool evenly and firmly between them, but the hold on the wool is not entirely loosed until the points of the top roll are abreast of the Bur Cylinder. This is accomplished by the peculiar form and set of the teeth. The Patent Stand is so constructed that the lower Feed Roll may be set at any required distance from the Bur or Card Cylinder, and the upper Feed Roll be moved toward or away from the cylinder, the two Feed Rolls still maintaining the same relation to each other, and the same distance apart as before. The change is made by loosening a single screw, and moving the upper part of the stand backward or for-ward, and again tightening the screw. The upper Feed Roll revolves on a circle, having the centre of the lower Feed Roll for its centre. It is the most pimple and convenient contrivance in use for the purpose. There is also a spring attached to the upper box of the stand, to allow the upper Feed Roll to raise when any hard substance, that would otherwise bend or break down the teeth, is presented to the Feeds, and allow it to pass without harming those teeth. Mr. Goddard has extensive Works at the corner of Sedond Avenue and Twenty-second streets, in the city of New York, where his machines are manufactured, in connection with other woollen machinery, such as Shake Willows, for opening, dusting, and loosening wool, with exhaust blower attached, waste Dusters without a blower, and Kayser's patent Double and Single Cylinder Gigs and Loom Temple. Probably no man in the United States has labored more zealously and effectively to place American Woollen Goods on an equality in perfection of manufacture with those of Europe, than Calvin L. Goddard, of New York. |
| QUELLE | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 2 (1868) 557] |
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