IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR CUTTING WOOLLEN FABRICS
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Snell, of Leeds, in the County of York,
Cloth Finisher, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR CUTTING WOOLLEN FABRICS."
Sealed the 15th March 1859, and dated the 6th December 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Snell at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
6th December 1858.
I, GEORGE SNELL, of Leeds, in the County of York, Cloth Finisher, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR CUTTING WOOLLEN FABRICS," to be as follows:-
I arrange the frame of the cutting machine, generally known as the
perpetual," so as to allow of an additional cutting cylinder, by which I am
enabled to make two cuts at one and the same time, instead of one cut as
heretofore.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Snell in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
6th June 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
SNELL, of Leeds, in the County of York, Cloth Finisher, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord'
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said George Snell, Her special licence that I, the said George Snell, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George
Snell, 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 IN MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR CUTTING WOOLLEN FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said George Snell, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, 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 I, the said George Snell, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say):-
In the machine generally known as the perpetual cutting machine used for
cutting or shearing the surface of woollen cloths, I construct and arrange the
framework thereof so as to allow of an additional cutting cylinder, by which I
am enabled to make two cuts or shearing operations at one and the same
time, instead of having only one cutter as heretofore.
The arrangement and construction of my improved cutting or shearing
machine will be clearly understood by reference to the accompanying Sheet of
Drawings with the letters of reference thereon, in which Fig. 1 is a front
elevation thereof; Fig. 2, an end elevation; and Fig. 3, a plan of the same.
a represents the framework; b, the driving shaft, furnished with the fast and

page_text: loose pulleys c, and also the pulley d, which gives motion by means of the
strap e to the pulleys and g, on the shafts h and i, to which the cutting
cylinders and are fixed, a tightening pulley m being employed to maintain
the strap at its proper tension. On the driving shaft I fix a small cone pulley n,
driving by a strap the cone pulley o, which gives motion to a pinion p, geared
into a toothed wheel q, for giving motion to the drawing rollers 7 and s. The
cloth cover is shewn at t, and the plush roller at u. The cloth passes from the
heap v to my additional bed and cutting cylinder y and k, and from thence under
the guide roller w to the ordinary bed and cylinder a and 7, and onward to the
drawing rollers and s, and taking-up heap z.
Having thus fully described the nature of my said Invention and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be distinctly
understood that I do not claim the cutting cylinder alone, nor any parts of
the perpetual machine separately; but I claim as my Invention, and which to.
the best of my knowledge and belief has not been hitherto used within the
realm, the construction and arrangement of the machine for cutting or
shearing cloth, with two cutting cylinders and the necessary gearing for
working the same, as herein described and illustrated in the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Snell, have hereunto set my
band and seal, this Second day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
GEORGE SNELL. (L.s.)
Witness,
THO. ARNOTT.