IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF MACHINERY OR APPARATUS POR DAMPING AND BEETLING WOVEN FABRICS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Walter Glover, of Salford, near Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Dyer and Finisher, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF MACHINERY OR APPARATUS
POR DAMPING AND BEETLING WOVEN FABRICS."
Sealed the 19th September 1856, and dated the 22nd March 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Walter Glover at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 22nd
March 1856.
I, WALTER GLOVER, of Salford, near Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Dyer & Finisher, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR DAMPING AND BEETLING WOVEN FABRICS," to be as follows:-
To the ordinary calender machine I add a metal shell or roller, engraved to
any suitable device or design; between this shell and the calender roller the.
material to be operated upon passes and receives the requisite pattern or
design, known as watering or waving. Over the roller on which the material
is wound I place a number of beaters, working vertically in slides; the num-
ber to correspond with the width of the material. At the front and back of
the calender machine, and opposite the said vertical beaters, I fix spiral or screw-
shaped rollers with projections opposite each beater, so that as the said spiral
rollers revolve, each projection coming in contact with one of the beaters raises

page_text: it up, and then releasing itself by the revolving motion allows the beater to fall
on the material which is being wound on the roller. The spiral form of the
lifters causes the beaters to be continuously raised one after the other in
succession, so that they are constantly falling on the material, and thus beetles
it, keeping it out to its full width during the operation of calendering. By
this plan the damping, calendering, and beetling processes are all performed at
the same time, and by one machine or apparatus.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Walter Glover, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
22nd September 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WALTER
GLOVER, of Salford, near Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Dyer and
Finisher, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Royal
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Walter Glover, Her special licence that I, the said Walter Glover,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Walter Glover, my 'executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE CONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF MACHINERY AND APPARATUS FOR DAMPING
AND BEETLING WOVEN FABRICS," úpon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Walter Glover, by an instrument in writing under my hand. and
seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said In-
vention; and in what inanner 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 Royal Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Walter Glover, 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 (that is to say):

page_text: To the ordinary calender or embossing machine I add a metal shell or roller
with a roughed, fluted, or spiral surface; between this shell and the calender
roller the inaterial to be operated upon passes and receives the requisite im-
pression, known as "watering" or "waveing." Over the roller, on which the
material is wound, I place a number of beaters, working either inclined or
vertically in slides; the number to correspond with the width of the material.
At the front and back of the calender machine, and opposite the said beaters,
I fix cams; wipers, or spiral or screw-shaped rollers, with projections opposite
cach beater, so that as the said rollers revolve each projection coming in
contact with one of the beaters, when intended to do so, raises it up, and then
releasing itself by the revolving motion allows the beater to fall on the material
which is being wound on the roller. The spiral form of the lifters causes the
beaters to be continuously raised, unless prevented by being placed out of the
action of the said lifters one after the other in succession, so that they are con-
stantly falling on the material and thus beetle it, keeping it out to its full width
during the operation of calendering. By this plan the calendering or embossing
and beetling processes are performed at the same time, and by one machine or
apparatus.
Those improvements will be clearly understood by reference to the accom-
panying Sheet of Drawings, with the figures and letters of reference thereon,
in which Fig. 1 is a front elevation of an ordinary calender machine having my
improvements attached; and Fig. 2 an end elevation of the same. a represents
the main framing of the machine; b, the driving shaft; c, the calender roller;
d, the winding-on roller; c, the batch delivery roller; and f, the batch taking-
off roller. Over the calender roller I place a shell or roller g with a roughed,
fluted, or spiral surface, between which and the calender roller the cloth
or material to be acted upon passes, thereby receiving the impression of the
said roller g. Over the roller d, on which the material is wound, I place in the
guides a number of beaters i, liaving projections k, which are acted upon
when required by a series of wipers or lifters 7, so placed one before the other
as to give continuous motion to the beaters one after the other in succession,
so that they are constantly falling on the material, and thus beetle it; any of
the beaters can be supported out of the action of the wipers when required, and
they can all be raised above the winding-on roller by means of the rack l' and
pinion m, thereby allowing the material to be taken off. Motion is given to
the wipers or lifters by means of the belts n and o passing from a pulley p on
the driving shaft to the pulleys q and r on the wiper shafts s and t. A taking-
up motion is given to the rollers d by means of the eccentric u acting upon a
ratchet wheel v connected to the shaft of the roller d. The wiper shaft may

page_text: be driven by gearing if desired, or any suitable taking-up motion may be
applied.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of my said Invention,
and the manner of carrying the same into practical effect, I desire it to be
distinctly understood that I do not confine myself to the exact details herein
set forth, as. such may be varied or modified without departing from the
principle thereof; but I claim as of my Invention, and which to the best of my.
knowledge and bélief has not been hitherto used within this realm,-
Firstly, the application to a calendering or embossing machine of a shell
or roller with a roughed, fluted, or spiral surface, between which and the calen-
der roller the material to be acted upon is made to pass.
Secondly, the application to a calendering or embossing machine of any
suitable number of beaters or beetles, with or without the roughed, fluted, or
spiral shell or roller, for the purpose of combining the calendering, watering,
or waveing and beetling processes in one machine.
And, thirdly, the general arrangement of the machinery or apparatus as
herein described, and illustrated in the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Walter Glover, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of September, in the year of our
Lord, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Signed, sealed, and delivered, by the within-
named Walter Glover, in the presence of
JOHN BLOODWORTH,
WALTER GLOVER. (L.S.)
Patent Agent,
Manchester.