CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN CARDING ENGINES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Shaw, of Marple, in the County of Chester,
Mechanic, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN CARDING
ENGINES."
Sealed the 27th May 1862, and dated the 17th December 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Shaw at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 17th
December 1861.
I, ROBERT SHAW, of Marple, in the County of Chester, Mechanic, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
CARDING ENGINES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in the employment of an endless band or web of
open wirework or woven fabric continuously traversing beneath the carding
cylinders, and used as a "creeper" for the purpose of conveying any loose
cotton or other fibrous material falling from the cylinders whilst being carded
back again to the "licker-in." The endless web or "creeper" passes argund
rollers at each end of the carding engine, and extends the entire length
thereof, and the fly and loose filaments are taken from its surface by an extra
card roller, and delivered thereby to the "licker-in," the dirt and extraneous
matter falling through the meshes of the wire web.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Shaw in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
10th June 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
SHAW, of Marple, in the County of Chester, Mechanic, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Robert Shaw, Her special license that I, the said Robert
Shaw, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Robert Shaw, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN CARDING ENGINES," upon the condition, amongst others, that
I, the said Robert Shaw, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Shaw, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say):-
:-
"
"
My Invention consists in the employment of an endless band or web of
open wirework, "lattice," or woven fabric continuously traversing beneath the
carding cylinders, and used as a "creeper" for the purpose of conveying any
loose cotton or other fibrous material falling from the cylinders whilst being
carded back again to the "licker-in." The endless web or creeper passes
around rollers at each end of the carding engine, and extends the entire length
thereof, and the fly and loose filaments are taken from its surface by an extra
card roller, and delivered thereby to the "licker-in," the dirt and extraneous
matter falling through the meshes of the wire web.
In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained in
detail, I have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings made upon a scale of

page_text: about one and a quarter inches to the foot, and having letters of reference
marked thereupon.
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section of a carding engine, to which my improve-
ments are shewn applied. a, a, being the framing of the machine; b, b, b, the
card cylinders; and c, c, the endless band or "creeper" of wirework, woven
fabric, or other reticulated material passing over the pulleys d,,d, and receiving
motion from the pulley e. The loose filaments of cotton or "fly" dropping
from the cylinders fall upon the "creeper," and are carried back to the first
cylinder, being transferred from the creeper to the cylinder by the rotating
brush (or an extra card roller), which is caused to revolve by a band from
the "licker-in "g, the brush being cleansed from the "fly" by the comb h,
the dirt and other impurities being permitted to fall through the interstices in
the "creeper," the cotton alone being preserved and recarded.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be distinctly
understood that I claim the novel application and use of an endless band or
creeper " of "meshwork" or lattice continuously travelling beneath the card
cylinders in carding engines, and the apparatus connected therewith for the
purpose of retaining and collecting the "fly," and returning it to the cylinders
to be carded, as herein-before described, set forth, and fully illustrated in the
accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Shaw, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
ROBERT SHAW. (L.S.)