AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANNER OF MAKING ROLLERS USED IN THE SPINNING OF WOOL, COTTON, SILK, FLAX, Tow, OR ANY OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1816

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOUN
WELCH, of the Borough of Preston, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton Mull
Roller Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty George the Third did, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Third day of August,
in the fifty-sixth year of His reign, give and grant to me, the said John
Welch, His especial licence, that I, the said John Welch, during the term of
fourteen years, in manner therein mentioned, should and lawfully might use
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANNER OF MAKING
ROLLERS USED IN THE SPINNING OF WOOL, COTTON, SILK, FLAX, Tow, OR ANY OTHER
FIBROUS SUBSTANCES;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso, obliging me, the said John Welch, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in
His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar months after the
date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being
thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Welch, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in manner
following, that is to say:-

page_text: My Invention consists in the manner of coupling the rollers. For this
purpose there are made claws or prongs, in the form appearing from Figure 1
of the Sketch or Drawing hereunto annexed. These claws or prongs are
fixed or attached to one end of the roller, commonly called the she part, and
being surrounded by a cylinder or barrel in the end of the roller, the apertures
or cavities are formed which receive the claws or prongs of the he part, repre-
sented by Figure 2. In Figure 4 is seen an end view of Figure 1, shewing
the cavities shaded dark, into which the claws or prongs shaded light of the
he part of the coupling are inserted. Figure 1 and Figure 2 are the roller
ends, with their couplings attached to each. The she part, Figure 1, shews
the claws or prongs screwed into the bottom of the cylinder or barrel, with
which they are surrounded, but they may be made or formed a fixed part of
the roller, and be then surrounded with the cylinder or barrel, which forms the
cavities. Figure 2 is the he part, shewing the claws or prongs made with
the roller and its neck, but they may be made separately to screw into the
end of the roller, similar to Figure 1. Figure 5 shews the rollers coupled
together; the one part shewing the section of the claws or prongs screwed into
the bottom of the cylinder, forming the she part of the roller, the other
shewing the claws or prongs of the he part received or inserted in the she
part. The rollers are then coupled. Figure 3 shews an end view of the
claws or prongs; Figure 6 shews a longitudinal section of the cylinder or
barrel end of the roller; Figure 7 is an end view of the cylinder or barrel.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Welch, have set my hand and
seal to these Presents, at Preston aforesaid, this Twenty-eighth day of
September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and