IMPROVEMENTS IN CARDING ENGINES FOR CARDING WOOL, COTTON, SILK, OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Scholes, of High Town; near Leeds, in the
County of York, Card Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN CARDING ENGINES FOR CARDING WOOL, COTTON, SILK, OR OTHER FIBROUS
SUBSTANCES."
Sealed the 31st October 1861, and dated the 2nd May 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Scholes at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
2nd May 1861.
I, WILLIAM SCHOLES, of High Town, near Leeds, in the County of York,
Card Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN CARDING ENGINES FOR CARDING WOOL, COTTON, SILK, OR OTHER
FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to that part of carding engines known as the
"licker-in," the periphery or surface of which heretofore has been constructed
either of wood or iron, and clothed or covered with wire cards; or it has been
made of iron or other metal, and set or provided with metal points.
My improvements consist in making or constructing the periphery or surface
of portable wood lags, which I set with metal pins or points of suitable size,
form, and arrangement according to the kind or quality of the fibrous sub-
stances to be carded.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Scholes in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
2nd November 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
SCHOLES, of High Town, near Leeds, in the County of York, Card Maker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said William Scholes, Her special license that I, the said William
Scholes, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said William Scholes, 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 Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CARDING ENGINES FOR CARDING WOOL, COTTON, SILK,
OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," upon the condition, amongst others, that I;
the said William Scholes, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Scholes, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say):-
.
This Invention relates to that part of carding engines known as the
"licker-in," the periphery or surface of which heretofore has been constructed.
either of wood or iron, and clothed or covered with wire cards; or it has been
made of iron or other metal, and set or provided with metal pins.
My improvements consist in making or constructing the periphery.or
surface of the licker-in, or in clothing or covering the same with portable
wood lags, which I set with steel or other metal pins or points of suitable size,
form, and arrangement according to the kind or quality of the fibrous sub-
stances to be carded.

page_text: In carrying this Invention into practice the licker-in is firstly formed into a
roller as usual, of either wood or metal, or a combination of both. The wood
lags are formed to bed or fit on the surface thereof, and are set or provided
with steel or other metal teeth or pointed pins of suitable size and form, which
are driven through the lags at suitable distances apart, and in proper order
and arrangement according to the kind or quality of fibres to be operated
upon. The lags are then fastened on the roller by screws or other suitable.
means.
The advantages of this kind of covering or construction of licker-in over
those hitherto in use are, that the teeth or pins may be made of steel wire
which admit of the points being ground or formed into "needle points" or
fine points, which operate better on the wool or other fibre, and are more
durable than card teeth or pointed pins in ordinary use.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is performed or carried into practice, I would have it under-
stood that I do not confine myself to the precise details of construction as
herein set forth; but what I claim as of my Invention, and which I believe
has not hitherto been used within the realm is, the constructing that part of
carding engines technically known as the licker-in, or in clothing or covering
the surface thereof with wood lags set with pins or points, substantially as
herein explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Scholes, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of October, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-one.
Signed, sealed, and delivered, by the
within-named William Scholes in
the presence of
Wx. TASKER,
Patent Agent,
Halifax.
W. SCHOLES. (L.S.)