CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LINT
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Shaw Brown, of Runcorn, in the County of
Chester, Manufacturer of Lint and Elastic Fabrics, for the Invention of
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LINT."
Sealed the 23rd June 1865, and dated the 10th January 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Shaw Brown at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
10th January 1865.
I, SAMUEL SHAW BROWN, of Runcorn, in the County of Chester, Manu-
facturer of Lint and Elastic Fabrics, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LINT," to be as
follows:-
The nature of this Invention is not the actual producing of lint from cloth,
but an improvement in producing the same, as follows:-
Instead of using a single knife cutter or scraper, as is at present in use,
which is bolted or fastened on the bar, shaft, or part to which the single knife
cutter or scraper is secured, I purpose using a combination of knives, cutters,

page_text: or scrapers, to be secured in a similar manner as the knife, cutter, or scraper
is at present secured, and which at the same time will come in contact with
the cloth, and so raise a pile and produce lint in a similar manner as the
single knife, cutter, or scraper, and will produce the lint in a shorter time
and in greater quantities than what is produced at present.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Shaw Brown in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 8th July 1865.
.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
SHAW BROWN, of Runcorn, in the County of Chester, Manufacturer of Lint
and Elastic Fabrics, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Samuel Shaw Brown, Her special licence that I, the said Samuel
Shaw Brown, my executors, administrators, and, assigns, or such, others as
I, the said Samuel Shaw Brown, 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 THE MANUFACTURE OF LINT," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Samuel Shaw Brown, my executors or admi-
nistrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the sanie 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 Samuel Shaw Brown, do hereby declare
the nature of my 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 has for its object the production in a more rapid and
economical manner than heretofore of that description of raised pile fabric

page_text: known by the name of lint, and chiefly used for surgical and therapeutical
purposes.
Fig. 1 is an end elevation, shewing the manner in which the knives, cutters,
or scrapers are secured when the knives, cutters, or scrapers are themselves
stationary and the fabric moveable, so as to make the knives, cutters, or
scrapers come in contact with the cloth or other fabric used in the manu-
facture of lint at the same time. Fig. 2 is an end elevation, shewing the
manner in which the knives, cutters, or scrapers are secured in rotating
machines. The width of the knives, cutters, or scrapers is no object, as
various lengths are used.
In Fig. 1, a, a, is the frame of the machine; b, b, the knives, cutters, or
scrapers; c, the bed on which the fabric is placed whilst under operation,
which is caused to move to and fro by means of the arm d. In Fig. 2 the
knives, cutters, or scrapers are secured on the arms e, which are keyed or
otherwise secured on the shaft f, with which they rotate.
In linting machines, as at present in use, the pile is raised by the action of
a single knife, cutter, or scraper, which is bolted or otherwise fastened on the
bar shaft or part to which the knife, cutter, or scraper is secured.
Instead of using a single knife, cutter, or scraper, I purpose using a com-
bination or series of knives, cutters, or scrapers (as shewn in accompanying
Drawing, Figs. 1 and 2), which are to be bolted or fastened in a similar
manner as the knife, cutter, or scraper is at present secured, or in any other
suitable manner. The knives, cutters, or scrapers are intended to come in
contact with and act on the cloth or other fabric used in the manufacture of
lint in the same manner as the single knife, cutter, or scraper at present
employed. Whatever motion is used to work or given to the knives, cutters,
or scrapers, whether the same be vertical, rotary, or any other suitable
notion, which may be used to raise a pile on the cloth or other fabric used
in the manufacture of lint, does not affect the nature of this Invention.
I claim using, where the single knife, cutter, or scraper is at present
employed, or in any other suitable manner, a combination or series of knives,
cutters, or scrapers which shall come into contact with and act upon the cloth
or other fabric used in the manufacture of lint at the same time and in the
same manner as the single knife, cutter, or scraper at present employed. The
number of knives, cutters, or scrapers to be so employed must necessarily be
regulated by the description or texture of the cloth or other fabric used in
the manufacture of lint, provided that more than one knife, cutter, or scraper
comes in contact with and acts upon the cloth or other fabric used in the

page_text: manufacture of lint at the same time, by which means a greater amount of
cloth or other fabric is manufactured into lint in a shorter space of time and
in much greater quantities than the single knife, cutter, or scraper at present
employed is capable of producing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Shaw Brown, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
Signed, sealed, and delivered
by the said Samuel Shaw
Brown, in the presence of
JOHN BOUGHEY,
SAMUEL SHAW BROWN. (L.S.)
of 6, Sandiway Place,
Altrincham.