CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN DRRRADING COMMAN AND OTHER AIDANG SUDSKA N
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Edward Ermen, of Pendlebury, near the
City of Manchester, Cotton Spinner, and Godfrey Anthony Ermen,
of Eccles, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton Spinner and Thread
Manufacturer, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
DRRRADING COMMAN AND OTHER AIDANG SUDSKA NANG
Sealed the 24th March 1874, and dated the 18th October 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Edward Ermen
and Godfrey Anthony Ermen at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents, with their Petition, on the 18th October 1873.
We, HENRY EDWARD ERMEN, of Pendlebury, near the City of
Manchester, Cotton Spinner, and GODFREY ANTHONY ERMEN, of Eccles,
in the County of Lancaster, Cotton Spinner and Thread Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IM-
PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR
AND
PREPARING COTTON
OTHER FIBROUS
SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
Our Invention is applicable to drawing frames, slubbing, intermediate,
and roving frames and other machines used for preparing cotton and
other fibrous substances in which drawing rollers are employed.
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page_text: Our Invention relates to the apparatus for stripping the top and
bottom drawing rollers in which an endless band of flannel is used to
collect the fibres from the top and bottom rollers, as described in the
Specification of Letters Patent granted to the within named Godfrey
Anthony Ermen, on the 11th April 1866, No. 1031, and it consists in
the addition of certain parts to prevent the lateral motion of the said
endless band of flannel.
In performing our Invention we attach a narrow strap of leather or
other suitable material to the endless band of flannel, which strap fits in
grooves in the rollers over which the flannel passes; by this means the
lateral motion of the flannel is avoided, thereby preventing the edges of
the flannel rubbing against the bearings and becoming saturated with
oil, as they are now liable to do, and greatly increasing their durability.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Edward Ermen and Godfrey Anthony
Ermen in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th April 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, HENRY
EDWARD ERMEN, of Pendlebury, near the City of Manchester, Cotton
Spinner, and GODFREY ANTHONY ERMEN, of Eccles, in the County of
Lancaster, Cotton Spinner and Thread Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-fourth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said Henry Edward Ermen and Godfrey Anthony
Ermen, Her special licence that we, the said Henry Edward Ermen and
Godfrey Anthony Ermen, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as we, the said Henry Edward Ermen and Godfrey Anthony
Ermen, our 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
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING COTTON AND OTHER

page_text: FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the
said Henry Edward Ermen and Godfrey Anthony Ermen, our executors,
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or
one of our or their hands and scals, 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 immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Henry Edward Ermen and Godfrey
Anthony Ermen, do hereby declare the nature of our 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) :—
.
Our Invention is applicable to drawing frames, slubbing, intermediate,
and roving frames and other machines used for preparing cotton and
other fibrous substances in which drawing rollers are employed.
Our Invention relates to the apparatus for stripping the top and
bottom drawing rollers in which an endless band of flannel is used to
collect the fibres from the top and bottom rollers, as described in the
Specification of Letters Patent granted to the within named Godfrey
Anthony Ermen, on the 11th day of April 1866, Number 1031, and it
consists in the addition of certain parts to prevent the lateral motion
of the said endless band of flannel.
In performing our Invention we attach one or more narrow straps of
leather or other suitable material to the endless band of flannel, which
straps fit in grooves in the rollers over which the flannel passes; by this
means the lateral motion of the flannel is avoided thereby preventing the
edges of the flannel rubbing against the bearings and becoming saturated
with oil, as they are now liable to do, and greatly increasing their
durability.
.
And in order that our Invention may be fully understood and readily
carried into operation, we will proceed to describe the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings which represents our improved machinery applied to
a drawing frame of the ordinary construction, our Invention may
however be applied to slubbing, intermediate, and roving frames and
other machines used for preparing cotton and other fibrous substances in
which drawing rollers are employed.

page_text: Having thus stated the nature of our Invention, and described two
convenient modes of performing the same, we wish it to be understood
that we do not intend to limit ourselves to the details given, as the
number and size of the straps and grooves in which they fit may be
varied, and the apparatus may be modified to strip the bottom rollers as
well as the top rollers, as shewn and described, and also to strip the
rollers of spinning frames. We claim preventing the lateral motion of
the endless stripping bands or belts by means of the straps o fitting in
grooves in the rollers around which they pass, as shewn and described, or
any modification of the same.
In witness whereof, we, the said Henry Edward Ermen and Godfrey
Anthony Ermen, have hereto set our hands and seals, this
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