AN IMPROVED MACHINE OR APPARATUS FOR DRYING TEXTILE FABRICS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Stott, of the Firm of John Stott and
Brothers, of Wardle, near Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster,
Woollen Manufacturers, and John Barker, of the Firm of Jonathan
Barker and Sons, of Todmorden, in the County of York, Engineers,
for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MACHINE OR APPARATUS FOR DRYING
TEXTILE FABRICS."
Scaled the 9th February 1875, and dated the 10th August 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Stott and
John Barker at he Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 10th August 1874.
We, JOHN STOTT, of the Firm of John Stott and Brothers, of Wardle,
near Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster, Woollen Manufacturers,
and JOHN BARKER, of the Firm of Jonathan Barker and Sons, of
Todmorden, in the County of York, Engineers, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED MACHINE OR APPARATUS FOR
DRYING TEXTILE FABRICS," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to provide means or apparatus whereby
pieces or lengths of textile fabric may be dried with greator regularity

page_text: both in length and width than has hitherto been attained, and also to
simplify the construction of such apparatus. For this purpose we
employ two frames furnished with "tenter hooks"
upon which the
pieces or fabrics are to be hooked by their lists or edges. These frames
are mounted on screw shafts, and so arranged that by turning the
screwed shafts the frames can be moved nearer to or further from cach
other, which latter movement would tond to strotch the fabric in the
direction of its width. The said frames are covered with a non-conductor
of heat, and thus form two sides of a chamber, the other four sides of
which chamber are formed by the fabric to be dried, an aperture being
provided for the introduction of hot air by means of a fan or other
suitable means.
For the purpose of mounting or hooking the fabric upon the hooks
we use a cylindrical brush capable of revolving and also of moving
laterally upon a rail and of being pressed against the hooks by a spring,
the lateral movement being effected either by hand or by an endloss belt
or cord,
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Stott and John Barker in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 10th February 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, JOHN 2
STOTT, of the Firm of John Stott and Brothers, of Wardle, near
Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster, Woollen Manufacturers, and
JOHN BARKER, of the Firm of Jonathan Barker and Sons, of Todmorden,
in the County of York, Engineers, send grecting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Hor 2
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in tho
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said John Stott and John
Barker, Her special licence, that we, the said John Stott and John 3
Barker, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as we, the said John Stott and John Barker, our executors, admini-
strators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time, and at all times thereafter during the term therein

page_text: 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 "AN IMPROVED MACHINE OR
APPARATUS FOR DRYING TEXTILE FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said John Stott and John Barker, our executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or
one of 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 John Stott and John Barker,
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 and accompanying Sheets
of Drawings (that is to say) :—
The object of this Invention is to provide means or apparatus whereby
pieces or lengths of textile fabric may be dried with greater regularity
both in length and width than has hitherto been attained, and also to
simplify the construction of such apparatus. For this purpose we
employ two frames furnished with " tenter, hooks " upon which the
pieces or fabrics are to be hooked by their lists or edges. These frames
are mounted on screw shafts, and so arranged that by turning the
screwed shafts the frames can be moved nearer to or further from each
other, which latter movement would tend to stretch the fabric in the
direction of its width. The said frames are covered with a non-conductor
of heat, and thus form two sides of a chamber, the other four sides of
which are formed by the fabric to be dried, an aperture being provided
for the introduction of hot air by means of a fan or other suitable
means.
For the purpose of mounting or hooking the fabric upon the hooks
we use a cylindrical brush capable of revolving and also of moving
laterally upon a rail and of being pressed against the hooks by a spring,
the lateral movement being effected either by hand or by an endless belt
or cord.

page_text: tenter hook, as shewn in detail much smaller than is commonly used,
whereby the list or edges are not so liable to damage as with the
ordinary ones.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention, and shewn by
Drawings how the same is to be performed or carried into practical
operation, we would have it understood that we do not confine ourselves
to the precise details of construction and arrangements of the parts
herein shewn and described, as the same may be altered without depart-
ing from the leading features thereof, but what we claim and believe to
be new is, the construction and use of machinery or apparatus for
drying textile fabrics, substantially as herein shewn and described.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Stott and John Barker,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Sixth day of
February, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-five.
Witness,
JOHN JACKSON.
JOHN STOTT.
(L.S.)
JOHN BARKER. (L.s.)