IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN CUTTING OR PULVERIZING FLOCKS OR MUNGO FOR FLOCKING PURPOSES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Laycock, of Leeds, in the County of York,
for the Invention of " IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS
EMPLOYED IN CUTTING OR PULVERIZING FLOCKS OR MUNGO FOR FLOCKING
PURPOSES."
Sealed the 13th August 1875, and dated the 3rd March 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Laycock at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
3rd March 1875.
I, PETER LAYCOOK, of Leeds, in the County of York, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN CUTTING OR PULVERIZING FLOCKS OR MUNGO FOR
FLOCKING PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to reduce mungo or flocks to a suitable
degree of fineness or length for flocking purposes, and is as hereafter
decoribed

page_text: I provide a cylinder or drum which I mount in bearings on suitable
framework. Within this cylinder or drum and in bearings I mount &
spiral knife or other suitable cutters which I cause to rotate at a very
great speed, whilst at the same time the external drum or cylinder is
caused to rotate at a very slow speed.
The mungo or flocks are put into the cylinder or drum carried round
with it, and thrown on to the revolving spiral knife or other suitable
cutters, and thereby are cut or reduced to a suitable degree of fineness.
For the purpose of more readily carrying round the flocks or mungo
in the cylinder or drum I provide shelves or projections in the interior
thereof, whereby the flocks or mungo are raised when the cylinder or
drum rotates, and carried round to a suitable angle, from which they
drop on to the revolving spiral knife or other suitable cutters, whereby
the material is reduced to the required degree of fineness or length ready
for flocking purposes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Peter Laycock in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 3rd September 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
LAYCOCK, of Leeds, in the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Peter Laycock, Her special
licence that I, the said Peter Laycock, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Peter Laycock, 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

page_text: Figure 1 represents a longitudinal section through A, B, Fig. 2;
Figure 2, a side elevation; and Figure 3, a plan looking at the top.
I provide a cylinder or drum a, which I mount in bearings 6 on the
suitable framework c, to which the bearings bare bolted, as shewn at d.
Within the cylinder or drum a I provide a spiral knife e, which is caused
to rotate, and is carried on a shaft mounted in suitable bearings g on
the framework c. Other equivalent revolving cutters may be employed.
I cause this rotary cutter e to revolve at a very great speed within the
cylinder or drum a, whilst at the same time the external cylinder or
drum a is made to rotate at a very slow speed, the required motion being
transmitted from suitable motive power to the rotary cutter through
driving pulley h, and from thence to the external cylinder or drum a
through pulleys i, j, k, and I, spur pinions m, and wheels n.
The mungo or flocks are put into the cylinder or drum a through
opening o (which is provided with a cover p) carried round with the
cylinder or drum a, and thrown on to the revolving spiral knife or other
equivalent cutter e, and thereby are cut or reduced to a suitable degree
of fineness or length.
Within the external cylinder or drum a I provide the adjustable gauge
plate q, which regulates the size of the mungo or flocks in accordance
with its nearness to the rotary cutter e.
For the purpose of more readily carrying round the flocks in the
cylinder or drum a I provide the projections or shelves r, and fix them
in the interior of the cylinder or drum a, whereby the flocks or mungo
are raised when the cylinder or drum a rotates, and carried round to a
suitable angle, from which they drop on to the revolving spiral knife or
other suitable cutter e, and the material is reduced to the required degree
of fineness or length ready for flocking purposes.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and shewn by
Drawings how the same may be carried into practice, I would have it
understood that I do not limit myself to the exact limits, details, or
configuration of the various parts herein expressed and shewn, as the
same may of course be varied or modified without in any way departing

page_text: from the nature and principle of my Invention; but what I do claim
and desire to be secured to me by Letters Patent is, the arrangement,
construction, and combination of spiral cutter e or other equivalent
rotary cutter, with the external cylinder or drum a and parts connected
therewith, forming the machine for pulverizing flocks or mungo, sub-
stantially as heroin set forth
and desire to be secured to me by Letters Patent is, the arrangement,
construction, and combination of spiral cutter e or other equivalent
rotary cutter, with the external cylinder or drum a and parts connected
therewith, forming the machine for pulverizing flocks or mungo, sub-
stantially as herein set forth
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Laycock, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of August, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.