IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED FOR PRESSING WOOLLEN AND OTHER WOVEN OR FELTED FABRICS
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Burras and William Renton both of Leeds
in the County of York for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED FOR PRESSING WOOLLEN AND OTHER WOVEN OR
FELTED FABRICS"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Burras and William
Renton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th August
1882.
JAMES BURRAS and WILLIAM RENTON both of Leeds in the County of York:
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED FOR PRESSING WOLLEN,
AND OTHER WOVEN OR FELTED FABRICS
Our improvements consist in machinery for producing a brilliancy or lustre
and superiority of "feel" as well as giving a "press face" to woollen or other
woven or felted fabrics.
Within suitable framework we mount a roller, and in suitable bearings on a
table or carriage are provided corresponding rollers below and round the periphery
thereof, such table or carriage being so arranged that by the application of
hydraulic apparatus it can be raised or lowered at pleasure whereby the rollers
thereon can be raised and brought in contact with the upper roller for the purpose
of imparting the required pressure, or withdrawn therefrom
A rotary motion is imparted to the rollers from some convenient motive
power.
The material to be operated upon is passed between the upper and lower rollers
under pressure from the hydraulic apparatus producing thereby the "
press face"
as required, also a brilliancy or lustre and superiority of "feel"
The rollers may be cold or heated by ordinary ineans, depending of course on
the quality of the material to be operated upon.
When preferred the positions of the upper and those of the lower rollers may
be reversed

page_text: material is carried upwards over the rollers t t and u and downwards to the
cuttling frame by which the material is cuttled in the ordinary way. Between the
rollers t and t' I apply a perforated box v supported on the brackets w carrying
the rollers t and t¹. The perforated box vis in communication with a fan or other
blower and whilst the material is passing between the rollers t and it is cooled
by jets of air issuing from perforations in the box v. The rollers c and ƒ ƒ ƒ may
be cold or heated by gas or other means, the temperature being varied to suit the
nature of the material to be operated upon.
Having now described the nature of Our said Invention and shewn by the
aid of drawings how the same may be carried into practice we would have it
understood that we do not limit ourselves to the precise details and configuration
of the parts described and shewn as the same may be varied or modified without
in any way departing from the nature of our said Invention, what we do
claim is:
Firstly. The arrangement and application of rollers fƒfƒ round the periphery
of the roller c in combination with the means employed for imparting the
required pressure to the same substantially as and for the purposes herein
set forth.
Secondly The arrangement and combination of the various parts forming
the machine for pressing woollen or other woven or felted fabrics and mere
modifications of the same substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.
In Witness whereof we the said James Burras and William Renton have
bereunto set our hands and seals this twenty second day of January in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty three.