IMPROVEMENTS IN CARDS USED IN CARDING ENGINES AND OTHER SIMINAR PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Turner and Samuel Shore, of Tunnicliffe
Mill, near Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster, and William Halliwell,
of Rochdale, aforesaid, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CARDS
USED IN CARDING ENGINES AND OTHER
SIMINAR
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Turner, Samuel.
Shore, and William Halliwell at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 23rd September 1865.
We, WILLIAM TURNER and SAMUEL SHORE, of Tunnicliffe Mill, near.
Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster, and WILLIAM HALLIWELL, of Rochdale,.
aforesaid, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN CARDS USED IN CARDING ENGINES AND OTHER SIMILAR MACHINERY," to be
as follows:-
This Invention relates to the teeth of the cards and consists in making the
teeth of different lengths instead of one uniform length as hitherto adopted,
at present the wire is bent so as to enable the two prongs to project the same
distance from the leather or band, but we bend the wires so as to. make one
leg or prong longer than the other, and when the wires are passed through
the leather or band the teeth or pins are of different lengths; and thus we
form cards which, being of uneven surfaces, card, comb, and open fibrous

page_text: materials much more efficiently than the ordinary cards. This system of
having one prong longer than the other is applicable to stapler cards as well
as tooth cards and, in any case, it dispenses with the grinding of the teeth and
prevents to a great extent the formation and collection of waste.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Turner, Daniel Shore, and William Halliwell, in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd March 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
TURNER, and SAMUEL SHORE, of Tunnicliffe Mill, near Rochdale, in the County
of Lancaster, and WILLIAM HALLIWELL, of Rochdale, aforesaid, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said William Turner, Samuel Shore, and William Halliwell, Her special
license that we, the said William Turner, Samuel Shore, and William
Halliwell, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we,
the said William Turner, Samuel Shore, and William Halliwell, 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 CARDS USED IN CARDING ENGINES
AND OTHER SIMILAR MACHINERY," upon the condition (amongst others) that we,
the said William Turner, Samuel Shore, and William Halliwell, our executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of our,
or 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 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 William Turner, Samuel Shore, and
William Halliwell, 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 thereof, reference being
bad to the Figures on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings (that is to
say)

page_text: This Invention relates to the teeth of the cards of carding engines or other
similar machines used for carding or straightening the fibres or filaments of
cotton and other fibrous materials, and consists in making the teeth of each
card of different lengths, instead of one uniform length, as hitherto adopted.
At present the wire of which the teeth are formed is bent so as to enable the
two prongs forming the teeth to project the same distance from the leather or
band, but we bend the wires so as to make one prong longer than the other,
and when the said prongs are passed through the leather or band they form
teeth of different lengths, and thus we form cards which card and open the
fibres or filaments of the fibrous materials much more efficiently than the
ordinary cards, and prevents to a great extent the formation and collection of
waste, and dispenses with the necessity of grinding the teeth, and this system
of having one prong longer than the other is also applicable to cards having
straight teeth as well as to cards having bent teeth.
Figs. 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6 are side and end views of pieces of some
of our improved wire cards for carding engines, Figs. 1 and 2 having. single
rows of long and short teeth, Figs. 3 and 4 double rows of long and short
teeth, and Figs. 5 and 6 treble rows of long and short teeth. Figs. 7, 8,
and 9 are views of the teeth drawn enlarged, Fig. 7 representing the teeth of
Figs. 1 and 2, Fig. 8 the teeth of Figs. 3 and 4, and Fig. 9 the teeth of
Figs. 5 and 6. In all cases the teeth are formed of wire bent into two
prongs, one shorter than the other, the distance between the prongs being.
regulated according to the kind of card required.
The teeth of the card shewn in Figs. 1 and 2 are formed transversely, as
represented in Fig. 7, in which it will be seen that the prongs of each wire
are at such a distance apart as to form single rows of long and short teeth.
In Figs. 3 and 4 there are two rows of long teeth, then two rows of short
teeth, then other two rows of long teeth, and then other two rows of short
teeth, and so on, according to the width of the card, and in Fig. 8 it will be
seen that the first row of long teeth corresponds with the first row of short
teeth, and the second row of long teeth with the second row of short teeth.
In Figs. 5 and 6 there are three rows of long teeth, and then three rows of
short teeth, and then three rows of long teeth, and then three rows of short
teeth, and so on across the width of the card.
In Fig. 9 it will be seen that the first row of long teeth corresponds with
the first row of short teeth, and the second row of long teeth with the second
row of short teeth, and the third row of long teeth with the third row of short
teeth, and so on, and if more than three rows of long and short teeth alter-
nately are required the distance between the prongs are widened in proportion.

page_text: We may here remark that we do not confine ourselves to this system of
placing the teeth, as they may be placed in the leather or band wherever
they are found most useful. In cards having straight teeth we form one
tooth longer than the other, and place them in the band in any position
required.
Having now described the nature and particulars of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we desire it to be.under-
stood that we claim in cards used in carding engines and other similar
machinery, the improved system of employing teeth of different lengths in
cach card for the purpose of more efficiently carding fibrous materials and
preventing waste, as all such improvements are herein described and illustrated
in the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Shore, for and on behalf of
myself and the said William Turner and William Halliwell; have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of March, in the
year of our Lord One, thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by:
the within-named Samuel Shore,
in the presence of
E. J. HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.
SAMUEL SHORE. (L.S.)