A CERTAIN METHOD OF TREATING SILK WASTE ARISING FROM WINDING, WARPING, AND WEAV- ING SILK, AND RENDERING IT CAPABLE OF BEING SPUN OR OTHERWISE EMPLOYED
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Buckley Royle, of Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Manufacturer, and William Mac Ewan Chell, of the
same City, Salesman, for the Invention of "A CERTAIN METHOD OF
TREATING SILK WASTE ARISING FROM WINDING, WARPING, AND WEAV-
ING SILK, AND RENDERING IT CAPABLE OF BEING SPUN OR OTHERWISE
EMPLOYED."
Sealed the 18th April 1854, and dated the 15th October 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Buckley Royle and
William Mac Ewan Chell at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 15th October 1853.
We, BUCKLEY ROYLE, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Manufacturer, and WILLIAM MAC EWAN CHELL, of the same City,
Salesman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A.
CERTAIN METHOD OF TREATING SILK WASTE ARISING FROM WINDING,
WARPING, AND WEAVING SILK, AND RENDERING IT CAPABLE OF BEING SPUN
OR OTHERWISE EMPLOYED," to be as follows:
Hitherto silk. waste arising from the machinery employed in the
above-named operations, namely, winding, warping, and weaving silk,

page_text: has not been made or rendered in any way available or capable of being
spun, owing to its entangled and knotty condition and the extreme
length and tenacity or strength of its fibres, and a serious loss has been
consequently thereby occasioned. Our Invention relates to a method
of treating this silk waste whereby the fibre of the said waste is reduced
to such a state as to render it as ductile as cotton or wool, and as
capable of being opened by "carding" or "teasing," and of being subse-
quently prepared and spun upon the ordinary preparing or spinning
machinery, ás employed in the process of preparing and spinning cotton
and wool. Our Invention consists in reducing the fibre of such silk
waste by cutting it up into sufficiently short lengths to suit the purpose
required, whether such cutting be performed. by hand or by means of
suitable machinery. The fibre of the silk is thus reduced to
any required
length, as may be found desirable, according to the quality of the thread
to be spun, and it becomes thereby reduced to a state similar to that of
raw of unmanufactured cotton, or wool, and after such cutting process
it is capable of being opened, teazed, carded drawn,,and-spun in a
similar manner. and by means of similar machinery as employed in such
processes for the preparation or spinning of cotton or wool. The said
process. of cutting inay either be performed by hand or by means of any
suitable machinery adapted thereto. A machine somewhat similar to
an ordinary chaff cutting machine would best answer the purpose,, con-
sisting of a box or trough to contain the silk waste in the rough state
as collected, a pair of fluted rollers for pressing the waste forwards, and
a series of revolving knives or cutters for cutting-up: or-reducing-the
same to the required length of fibre, which can of course.be varied
according to the quality off the thread to be spun. We would here
observe, that, by selecting and assorting the colors of the said silk waste
previously to its being-cut (which process. would-be both easy and.in
expensive); no subsequent operation of dyeing for staining the spun silk
threads will be required.
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Having-thus-described the nature and object of our said Invention
of a certain method of treating silk waste arising from winding, warping,
and weaving silk, and rendering it. capable of being, spun or otherwise
employed, we would, remark, in conclusion, that we claim as our

page_text: Invention reducing the fibre of the said silk waste by cutting it up:
into sufficiently short lengths to suit the purpose required, whether the
said process of cutting be performed by hand or by means of suitable
machinery, in order to bring the said fibre into such a state as to admit
of its being prepared and spun, or otherwise employed in a similar
manner and by similar machinery to that ordinarily employed in the
process of preparing and spinning or otherwise treating cotton and.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions' of the Letters Patent,'
filed by the said Buckley Royle and William: Mac Ewan Chell.
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 15th April 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
BUCKLEY ROYLE, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manufac
turer, and WILLIAM MAC EWAN CHELL, of the same City, Salesman,"
send greeting.
WHEREAS, Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the seven-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give.and grant unto us, the said Buckley Royle and William Mac Ewan'
Chell, Her especial licence that we, the said Buckley Royle 'and Wil-
liam Mac Ewan Chell, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as we, the said Buckley Royle and William Mac Ewan'
Chell, 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, and Invention for
"A CERTAIN METHOD OF TREATING SILK WASTE ARISING FROM WINDING,
WARPING, AND WEAVING SILK, AND RENDERING IT CAPABLE OF BEING SPUN OR
OTHERWISE EMPLOYED," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the
said Buckley Royle and William Mac Ewan Chell, by an instrument
in writing under our hand and seal, should particularly describe and

page_text: 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
Séal, Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent...
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NOW KNOW YE, that I; the said William Mac Ewan Chell, do
hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner.
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement, that is to say:
Our Invention relates to a method of treating this silk waste whereby
the fibre of the said waste is reduced to such a state as to rendering it
ductile and capable of being opened by "carding" or "teasing," like
cotton or wool, and of being subsequently prepared and spun upon the
ordinary preparing or spinning machinery, as, employed in the processes
of preparing and spinning cotton and wool. Hitherto silk waste arising
from the machinery employed in the above-named operations, namely,
winding, warping, and weaving silk, has not been made or rendered in
any way available or capable of being spun, owing to its entangled and
knotty condition, and the extreme length and tenacity or strength of
its fibres, and a serious loss has been consequently thereby occasioned.
Our Invention consists in reducing the fibre of such silk waste by
cutting it up into lengths sufficiently short to suit the purpose required
whether such cutting be performed by hand or by means of suitable
machinery. The fibre of the silk is thus reduced to any required
length, as may be found desirable, according to the quality of the thread
to be spun, and it becomes thereby reduced to a state similar to that
of raw or unmanufactured cotton or wool, and after such cutting process
it is capable, of being opened, teazed, carded, drawn, and spun in a
similar manner and by means of similar machinery as employed in
such processes for the preparation and spinning of cotton and wool,
thereby rendering it a valuable product for the manufacture of silk or
mixed fabrics. The said process of cutting may either be performed by
hand or by means of any suitable machinery adapted thereto. A
machine somewhat similar to an ordinary "chaff cutting" machine
would answer the purpose, consisting of a box or trough to contain the
silk waste in the rougli state as collected; a pair of fluted rollers for

page_text: pressing or drawing the waste forwards so as to bring it under the
action of a series of revolving knives or cutters for cutting up or
reducing the same to the required length of fibre, which can of course
be varied according to the quality of the thread to be spun, or any other
suitable arrangement of cutting machinery may be as readily adapted to
this purpose. We would here observe, that by selecting and assorting
the colors of the said silk waste previously to its being cut (which
process would be both easy and inexpensive), no subsequent operation
of dyeing or staining the spun silk threads will be required.
Having thus described the nature and object of our said Invention
of a certain method of treating "silk waste" arising from winding,
warping, and weaving silk, and rendering it capable of being spun or
otherwise used or employed, we would remark, in conclusion, and
wish it to be distinctly understood, that we claim as our Invention the
reducing or preparing of the fibre of the said silk waste by cutting it up
into sufficiently short lengths to suit the purpose required, whether the
said process of cutting be performed by hand or by means of suitable
machinery, in order to bring the said fibre into such a state as to admit
of its being prepared and spun or otherwise employed in a similar
manner and by similar machinery to that ordinarily employed in the
processes of preparing and spinning or otherwise treating cotton and
wool.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Mac Ewan Chell, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, the Thirteenth day of April, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
four.
WILLM MAC EWAN CHELL. (L.S.)
WILLM MAC EWAN CHELL. (L.S.)