IMPROVEMENTS IN CARDS USED IN CARDING ENGINES AND OTHER SIMILAR MACHINERY
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Daniel Foxwell, of the City of Manchester, in
the County of Lancaster, Card Manufacturor, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CARDS USED IN CARDING ENGINES AND OTHER SIMILAR
MACHINERY."
Scaled the 10th October 1872, and dated the 12th April 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Daniel Foxwell at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
12th April 1872.
I, DANIEL FOXWELL, of the City of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Card Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CARDS USED IN CARDING ENGINES AND OTHER
SIMILAR MACHINERY," to be as follows :—
Instead of making the teeth of the cards of wire as at present and
passing the points through hacks formed of leather or other material, I
make the teeth from metal by stamping, pressing, or other suitable
operations, so that the teeth and backs shall be formed from one slicet
or strip of metal. To effect this I place tho shect or strip of metal

page_text: under suitable dies or punches formed to the shape of the teeth required,
which dies or punches being pressed on the metal by any suitable
mechanism turn up or press down a piece of the metal to the required
shape and angle of tooth necessary to form a card.
This Invention is particularly applicable from its great strength to the
breaking up of cotton, wollen, and other fibrous substances, as well as
the tearing up of rags and other coarse materials and for the burring of
wool.
SPECIFICATION in pursuanco of the conditions of tho Lettors Patont,
filed by the said Daniel Foxwell in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 12th October 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DANIEL
FOXWELL, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Card
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Daniel Foxwell, Her special license
that I, the said Daniel Foxwell, my exccutors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Daniel Foxwell, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS
IN CARDS USED IN CARDING ENGINES AND OTHER SIMILAR MACHINERY," upon the
condition, amongst others, that I, the said Daniel Foxwell, by an in-
strument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the 3
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 Daniel Foxwell, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be a

page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the figures on the accom-
panying Sheet of Drawings, and to the lotters of reference marked
thereon (that is to say) :-
Instead of making the teeth of the cards of wire as at present and
passing the points through backs formed of leather or other material, I
make the teeth from metal by stamping, pressing, or other suitable
operations, so that the teeth and backs shall be formed from one sheet
or strip of metal. To effect this I place the sheet or strip of metal,
which is of any required thickness and dimensions, under suitable dies
or punches formed to the shape of the teeth required, which dies or
punches being pressed on the metal by any suitable mechanism turn up
ar press down a piece of the metal to the required shape and angle of
tooth necessary to form a card.
This Invention is particularly applicable from its great strength to the
carding or breaking up of cotton, woollen, and other fibrous substances
as well as the tearing up of rags and other coarse materials and for the
burring of wool.
On the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, Figs. 1 and 2 are side and
end views, and Fig. 3 a plan of a piece of one of my improved cards for
carding engines and other similar machines; Fig. 4, a plan of the bottom
ands of one set of punches; Fig. 5, a plan of the top of the plate contain-
ing one set of dies; Fig. 6, a plan of the under side of the same; Fig. 7,
an end view of one of the punches, and cross section of one of the dies
at the line A, B, Fig. 5; and Fig. 8, a side view of one set of punches
and longitudinal section of one set of dies at the line C, D, Fig. 5.
In Figs. 1, 2, and 3, a represents the piece of sheet metal from which
the card is to he made; b, the teeth; and c, the perforations resulting
from punching or pressing the teeth out of the plate a. Each punch ₫
and die has two cutting edges, and between their other edges there
is a space for enabling the metal to be turned down instead of being
cut clean out, each die at the pointed edge being widened from the top
to the bottom, as seen in Figs. 6 and 7, to allow the operation of turning
down to be performed without injury to the point, the plate being
marked a and the turned down teeth 6, and in the die plate there are
slots for the teeth to pass through as the plate a is fed onwards to the
position required when another set of teeth is to be made,

page_text: Having now described the nature and particulars of my said Inven-
tion, I desire it to be understood that I claim, the improvements in cards
used in carding ongines and other similar machines as herein described
and illustrated on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Daniel Foxwell, have hereunto set 5
my hand and seal, this Eighth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named
Daniel
in the presence of
Foxwell,
G. SEPTIMUS HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.
DANIEL FOXWELL. (L.s.)