CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS ON MACHINES FOR SCRIBBLING AND CARDING SHEEP'S WOOL, OR ANY FIBROUS ARTICLES REQUIRING SUCH PROCESS
Year: 1825

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EZEKIEL
EDMONDS, of Bradford, in the County of Wilts, Clothier, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Third day of December, One thousand eight hundred and
twenty-five, in the sixth year of His reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Ezekiel Edmonds, His especial
licence, that I, the said Ezekiel Edmonds, my exors, admors, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Ezekiel Edmonds, my exors, adñññors, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all.
times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations
abroad, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS ON MACHINES FOR SCRIBBLING
AND CARDING SHEEP'S WOOL, OR ANY FIBROUS ARTICLES REQUIRING SUCH PROCESS;"
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said
Ezekiel Edmonds, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters

page_text: Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, will more fully
and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Ezekiel Edmonds, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention to
consist in diminishing the relative speed of the workers on the slow toomer,
and in the introduction of two or more new rollers for the purpose of pre-
venting waste, and in a new arrangement of the workers and strippers on the
main cylinder. And in further compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Ezekiel Edmonds, do hereby describe the manner in which my said Invention
is to be performed, by the following description thereof, reference being had to
the Drawing annexed, and the figures and letters marked thereon, that is
to say,-
Figure 1 represents my said improvements applied to an ordinary carding
or scribbling machine. The object of preventing the waste is attained by
three of my said improvements :-First, by reducing the speed of the workers
working on the back or slow toomer, which is done by introducing two inter-
mediate chain or other wheels connected with the other workers, shewn by
the letters A, A, which slow motion gives a better opportunity than at
present they have for the said workers to receive the wool or other material,
by which it is more completely opened and broke beforo passing to the second
toomer, and consequently not so liable to drop under the machine. Two or
more workers may be used on the toomer, and may be worked on the
same principle as those on the large cylinder marked D and E. The annexed
Drawing shews the workers working on the toomer in this way. Secondly, a
roller is introduced directly under the fly marked B, which receives the wool
thrown out by the rapid motion of the said fly, and again delivers it to the
main cylinder. And, thirdly, one or more rollers are placed under the con-
junction of the large cylinder and doffer, as shewn at C, to save any wool or
other material that may drop from the delivery from the one to the other,
and which rollers again deliver it to the large cylinder. This constitutes the
improvements for the saving and preventing of waste.
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The superior mode of scribbling, carding, mixing, and equalizing the quality,
is attained by so placing the workers on the main or large cylinder, that
one stripper shall take or detach the wool from two workers, as represented by
the workers marked D and E. By these means the wool that is delivered to
the worker marked D is taken off, after passing about one sixth of its revo-
lution, by the stripper marked F; whereas the wool or other material that is
delivered to the worker marked E remains on it while the worker passes
nearly five sixths of its revolution, and is then delivered again to the cylinder

page_text: with the fresh supply of wool from the worker D, thereby entirely changing
the position of the wool, and bringing proportions of it together that were
previously in opposite parts of the machine. This change and mixture is effected
by each pair of workers, and may be extended to any number that may be
considered desirable to place on the machine; and you are by this mode
enabled to place a greater number of workers on the same sized cylinder than
on the plan now in use for arranging the strippers and workers, in consequence
of requiring only one stripper for two workers; and from such increased
number of workers the wool or other material is thereby much more
divided and thinner on the different cards, and consequently much better and
more effectually operated on than by the old system. The line L represents
the chain which gives motion to the workers generally.
Fig. 2 is merely a Drawing of an ordinary scribbling or carding machine,
without my said improvements, in order the more easily to shew wherein the
difference consists.
Now whereas I claim as my Invention the following improvements only,
that is to say,
First, the reducing of the speed of the workers working on the back or
slow toomer, one mode of effecting which is shewn by the additional motion
or intermediate wheels marked A, A, for diminishing the speed of the workers
G, G.
Secondly, the additional roller marked B.
Thirdly, the additional roller marked C; and,
Fourthly, the new arrangement of the workers marked D and E, and
of the strippers marked F, each for the purpose herein-before explained.
And such improvements being, to the best of my knowledge, entirely new,
and never before used within that part of His said Majesty's United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland called England, His said Dominion of Wales,
or the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, nor in the British Colonies. I do
hereby declare this to be my Specification of the same; and that I do verily
believe this my said Specification doth comply in all respects, fully and
without reserve or disguise, with the proviso in the said herein-before in part
recited Letters Patent contained. Wherefore I hereby claim to maintain
exclusive right and privilege to my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Ezekiel Edmonds, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.
EZEKIEL (L.8.) EDMONDS.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirtieth day of May, in the
year of our Lord 1826, the aforesaid Ezekiel Edmonds came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form abovo
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Second day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand