IMPROVE- MAGUFUDDY AN ÅDDARAMING DAD OUTNG WORK FABRICS" MACHINERY OR ADDADAMING ÞAÐ Bongurva WOVEN FABRICS "
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Williams Makin, of the City of Manchester,
in the County of Lancaster, Silk Finisher, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MAGUFUDDY AN ÅDDARAMING DAD OUTNG WORK FABRICS"
MACHINERY OR ADDADAMING ÞAÐ Bongurva WOVEN FABRICS
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Williams Makin
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
27th December 1853.
1, THOMAS WILLIAMS MAKIN, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR FINISHING
WOVEN FABRICS" to be as follows:-
My Invention consists of an improved arrangement or construction of
machinery for finishing manufactured fabrics, by which I economise the labour
required, by making the machine almost self-acting. The accompanying out-
line Drawing shews the general construction thereof, except a weighted
carriage, which I cause to run on the lever, as shewn at the top of the
Drawing, by which I obtain any required amount of pressure on the centre
bowl or cylinder; and I have also omitted to shew a regulating screw under
the cylinders, to correspond with the one above them, as shewn on the said
Drawing.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Williams Makin in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 27th June 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
WILLIAMS MAKIN, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Silk
Finisher, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Royal
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the seventeenth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Thomas Williams Makin, Her special licence that I, the said
Thomas Williams Makin, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Thomas Williams Makin, 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 Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR FINISHING WOVEN
FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that 1, the said Thomas
Williams Makin, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Royal Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that 1, the said Thomas Williams Makin, 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):
This Invention relates to an improved arrangement or construction of
machinery for finishing manufactured fabrics, by which I economise the labour
required, as I make the machine almost self-acting, and by means of a weighted
carriage and regulating screws I obtain any required amount of pressure on
the centre bowl or cylinder. The nature of this improved machine, and the
general arrangement and construction of the several parts thereof, will be
clearly understood by reference to the accompanying two Sheets of Drawings,
in which the same letters of reference are used to represent the same parts in
each of the Figures on each Sheet. In Sheet No. 1, is shewn a front eleva-
tion of the said machine; and in Sheet No. 2, is shewn an end elevation of the

page_text: same. a, represents the framing part; b, the bowls; c, the spur gear; d, slots
in the framing, to allow the centre e, of one of the spur wheels, to adapt itself
to various diameters of bowls; f, connecting rods which act upon the centre e;
9, the regulating screw; h, the levers by which I obtain any required amount
of pressure on the centre bowl; i, the weight, which can be shifted at pleasure
by means of the endless chain k, the worm wheel 1, the worm m, and the
handle n.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of the said Invention,
I desire it to be distinctly understood that I do not confine myself to the exact
details thereof, as such may be varied or modified without departing from the
principle of the same; but I claim substantially the arrangement and con-
struction of the machine, as herein described, and illustrated in the accom-
panying two Sheets of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Williams Makin, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of June, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-four.
THOMAS WILLIAMS MAKIN.
(L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the within-named
Thomas Williams Makin in the presence of
E. J. HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.