CERTAIN IMPROVE- MENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS USED IN MAKING LAPS OF COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Stafford, of Salford, in the County of
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of Lancaster, Mill Manager, for the Invention of “CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS USED IN MAKING LAPS OF COTTON AND
OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Stafford at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 10th June 1873.
I, THOMAS STAFFORD, of Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Mill
Manager, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS USED IN MAKING LAPS OF COTTON,
AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
In making laps of cotton and other fibrous substances it is customary
to lap the fleece of fibres on a metal roller, and in some cases a tin tube
is placed on the roller, which tin tube is made with a seam or joint;

page_text: now this seam or joint is very objectionable as it is liable to work open
and catch the fibres, thereby causing waste.
Now my Invention consists in the application of a seamless and
jointless tube for lapping the fleece of fibres upon; these tubes are drawn
in the same manner as the ordinary drawn tubes used in steam boilers,
and for other purposes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Thomas Stafford in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 5th December 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
STAFFORD, of Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Mill Manager, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
sixth year of Hor reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Stafford, Her special licence
that I, the said Thomas Stafford, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas Stafford, 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY OR Apparatus used in Making Laps of Cotton, and other
FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Thomas Stafford, 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Stafford, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be

page_text: When the metal tube is allowed to run loose on the lap roller it may
be desirable to apply a little China chalk or other powder to reduce the
friction between the inside of the tube and the lap roller.
Having thus stated the nature and particulars of my Invention I
declare that I claim the application of drawn metal tubes for the purpose
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Stafford, have hereto
set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of December, One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.