IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CARDS FOR CARDING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES."
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Daniel Bateman and Samuel Bateman, both of Low
Moor, near Bradford, in the County of York, Card Makers, for the In:
vention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CARDS
FOR CARDING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Daniel Bateman and
Samuel Bateman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 3rd January 1860.
We, DANIEL BATEMAN and SAMUEL BATEMAN, both of Low Moor, near
Bradford, in the County of York, Card Makers, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE
OF CARDS FOR CARDING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-'
The object of this Invention is to materially reduce the price of cards'
manufactured for carding fibrous substances, thereby effecting a proportionate
saving in that particular branch of manufacture. By the present mode of card
making, the machine only inserts one staple or tooth of wire into the cloth or
other material at each revolution, whereas, we propose inserting an entire
row of staples at each revolution of the machine, thus effecting the desired:
object.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Daniel Bateman and Samuel Bateman in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 3rd July 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, DANIEL
BATEMAN and SAMUEL BATEMAN, of Low Moor, near Bradford, in the County
of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Daniel Bateman and Samuel Bateman, Her special licence, that wo
the said Daniel Bateman and Samuel Bateman, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Daniel Bateman and Samuel
Bateman, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CARDS FOR CARDING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS
SUBSTANCES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Daniel
Bateman and Samuel Bateman, our executors or administrators, by
an instru-
ment in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 Soal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Daniel Bateman and Samuel Bateman,
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:-
The object of this Invention is to materially reduce the price of cards
manufactured for carding fibrous substances, thereby effecting a proportionate
saving in that particular branch of manufacture. By the present mode of card
making the machine inserts only one staple or tooth of wire into the cloth or
other material at each revolution; whereas, we propose inserting an entire
row of staples at each revolution of the machine, thus effecting the desired
object.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
At Fig. 1 will be seen that tubes a, a, are employed, the ends of which
are formed in a manner known by those experienced in the art, as "finger
ends;" Figs. 3 and 4, the wire coming from a number of coils or reels equal
to the number of teeth or staples to be set, but instead of being led to the
machine in a horizontal direction, as is usual with machines of the ordinary
construction, the drawing in part acts (or is caused to perform its part) in a.
vertical direction, the same description of mechanism being employed, but in
an opposite position. The wire being held securely at the desired length by
the means of a flat spring is cut off by knives or cutters b, b, and is then drawn
or forced into the ends of the tubes a, a, by the action of a cam or tappet on.
the main driving shaft which actuates the forward motion of the sliding plate c, c,.
and rod c.
This part of the Invention being applicable to either fillet or sheet ma-
chines. The holes in the fillet or sheet cloth having been pricked by the
prickers on the end of lever, Figs. 7 and 8, attached to a vertical adjustable
lever, Fig. 9, by a pin d. The ends of the bent wire or staples are set into
the cloth, while they are still held in the tubes a, a, by the spring crowns e, e.
Figs. 5 and 6 being first turned from their vertical position into the horizontal
by the action of pins f. f, taking into grooves ✗ cut in the tubes a, a,
Figs. 1, 2, and 3, which cause the tubes to revolve exactly one quarter turn,
and bring the ends of the staples opposite the holes already pierced, when by
the time they are inserted, the spring crowns e, e, are pushed down by the
inclines upon them, leaving room for the tongues g, g, to come forward by
another cam or tappet, and thus push the staples up to their destination by
the means of the slide plate h and rod i. The pins in the lower part of the
spring crowns e, e, move in a slot cut in the table; and when in the slot prevent
the crowns going forward with the tubes, while at the same time they are
being forced down by the ends of the tongues g, g, the ordinary springs being
used to bring the various parts back into their former position. It will be
seen that the cutters b, b, are also pushed forward by a tappet acting against
a rod j attached to the sliding plate, Fig. 1. At Figs. 4 and 5 will be seen

page_text: that an inclined groove is cut in the under part of each tube a, for the
reception of the spring crowns e, while on their passage to the cloth with the
staples.
The other part of our Invention applies to the sheet-setting machine; the
frame and gearing being of the ordinary kind, the only improvement being the
mode of setting an entire row of teeth across the width of the sheet. At
Fig. 10 will be seen the prickers supplied with any desired number of prongs,
which are attached to a swing lever m, moving on a pin n, and sliding
backward and forward on a slide o by the action of a tappet and spring at:
the back end of the lever m; the object of this is to draw it back, and turn
it out of the way after piercing, to allow the sliding finger ends p to insert the
staples. The wire is drawn in by the method already known from the required
number of coils, and cut off in the usual way, when the crown q, which in
this instance is a vertical lever, is pushed up in front of the finger ends p, and
there held while the finger ends come on to it, thereby bending all the wires at
the same time, the crown q then being in the space q', Figs. 11 and 12; but as
soon as the ends of the staples are inserted in the cloth, the lever crown q is
caused to fall, and the long tongue r. comes forward driving the staples to their
destination. The bending of the teeth in this machine is effected by means
of two metallic plates s' and t, Fig. 13, having slots or openings cut at their
edge for the reception of the teeth when passed through the cloth, when by
the motion of the levers u and tappet, the plates are caused to move one
against the other, which has the effect of bending each tooth to the required
pitch according to the distance they are placed in the plates. It will be seen
that the openings in one plate are not at right angles with the surface, but
at a slight level, otherwise the teeth would be cut off.
Having now described the nature and objects of our said Invention of
"Improvements in Machinery for the Manufacture of Cards for Carding
Wool and other Fibrous Substances," together with the manner in which the
same is to be performed, we would remark, in conclusion, that we do not
confine or restrict ourselves to the precise details herein described and shewn
in the accompanying Sheet of illustrative Drawings, as many slight modifi-
cations and alterations may be made therein without in any way departing
from the principle of our Invention, nor have we shewn in the said Drawing
other parts of the said machines than those which constitute our improvements,
as by so doing it would confuse and tend to mislead persons unacquainted with
machinery for card-making, but to those experienced in the art our improve-
ments will be readily and clearly understood, as all the parts exhibited are to

page_text: be worked by other parts already in use, neither do we confine ourselves to the
number of teeth to be set at one time, as although only a few are shewn and
described, an entire row or width of teeth may be set at one time by the same
means; but what we claim as our Invention, intended to be secured to us by
the herein in part recited Letters Patent, is, the setting of any desired number
of teeth in a row in the manner herein described, and shewn in the accom-
panying Sheet of Drawings, for the purpose herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Bateman, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Witness,
WILLIAM WRIGHT,
Wibsey, n' Bradford,
Yorks.
SAMUEL BATEMAN. (L.B.)