IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN DYEING, BLEACHING, SCOURING, AND WATER- PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Oldroyd, and Mark Oldroyd, the younger,
of the Firm of Mark Oldroyd and Sons, of Dewsbury, in the
County of York, Woollen Manufacturers, and Joshua Woodcock,
Dyer, and James Coulter, Engineer and Machinist, both of Dews-
bury, aforesaid, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN DYEING, BLEACHING, SCOURING, AND WATER-
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Oldroyd, Mark
Oldroyd, Joshua Woodcock, and James Coulter at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 18th
December 1873.
We, JOHN OLDROYD, and MARK OLDROYD, the younger, of the Firm -
of Mark Oldroyd and Sons, of Dewsbury, in the County of York, Woollen
Manufacturers, and JOSHUA WOODCOCK, Dyer, and JAMES COULTER,
Engineer and Machinist, both of Dewsbury, aforesaid, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention. for ** IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR

page_text: APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN DYEING, BLEACHING, SCOURING, AND WATERPROOFING
WOOLLEN OR OTHER WOVEN OR FELTED FABRICS,to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to an improved application and arrangement of
rollers employed for drawing and for nipping and squeezing the fabric
when under any of the operations above referred to, which rollers have
heretofore been arranged in pairs, and pressure applied to each pair by
means of springs, screws, or weights.
Now our improvements consist in arranging a number or series of
such rollers (either in a horizontal, vertical; oblique, or curvilinear
position) in framework placed over or within the vats or vessels con-
taining the dye or other liquor; the peripheries of the several rollers are
in contact or nearly so, and pressure by spring, screw, or other means is
applied.
One or more of the rollers may be driven by gearing, and the
remaining rollers may receive or have rotation imparted to them by the
frictional contact of the piece or fabric passing over and between them.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Oldroyd, Mark Oldroyd, Joshua Woodcock,
and James Coulter in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 2nd May
1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
OLDROYD, and MARK OLDROYD, the younger, of the Firm of Mark
Oldroyd and Sons, of Dewsbury, in the County of York, Woollen
Manufacturers, and JOSHUA WOODCOCK, Dyer, and JAMES COULTER,
Engineer and Machinist, both of Dewsbury, aforesaid, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent bearing date the Eighteenth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in
the thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto us, the said John Oldroyd, and Mark
Oldroyd, the younger, Joshua Woodcock, and James Coulter, Her
special licence that we, the said John Oldroyd, Mark Oldroyd,
the younger, Joshua Woodcock, and James Coulter, our executors,

page_text: driven by a side shaft and bevil gearing, but in practice we have not
found gearing necessary.
Having thus fully described the nature and object of this our said
Invention and shewn by Drawings how the same is to be or may be
performed or carried into practical operation we would have it under-
stood that we do not confine ourselves to the precise details of con-
struction or arrangement as herein shewn and described, but what we
claim as our Invention and what we consider to be new is, the appli-
cation and employment of a series of rollers, arranged in the manner
and for the purpose herein described and illustrated in the Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joshua Woodcock, for, and on
behalf of myself, and the said John Oldroyd, Mark Oldroyd, the
younger, and James Coulter, have hereunto set my hand and
scal, this Third day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.