IMPROVEMENTS IN RUBBERS FOR CONDENSERS AND PIECING MACHINES USED IN THE PREPARATION OF WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Howard Blamires, of Huddersfield, in
the County of York, Spinner and Manufacturer, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN RUBBERS FOR CONDENSERS AND PIECING MACHINES
USED IN THE PREPARATION OF WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES."
Sealed the 4th March 1870, and dated the 6th September 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Howard
Blamires at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 6th September 1869.
I, THOMAS HOWARD BLAMIRES, of Huddersfield, in the County of
York, Spinner and Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN RUBBERS FOR CONDENSERS AND PIECING
MACHINES USED IN THE PREPARATION OF WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to that class of rubbers wherein two endless
rubbing belts are employed to work together, and my improvements
consist in the application of a roller intermediately within one of such
belts (by preference the top one) so placed as to deflect the said belt.

page_text: and
press
it against the other belt, producing a concave surface thereof,
by which means I obtain a greatly extended rubbing surface, thereby
facilitating the process of rubbing and producing a better thread than
has hitherto been obtained.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Howard Blamires in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 5th March 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
HOWARD BLAMIRES, of Huddersfield, in the County of York, Spinner
and Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Thomas Howard Blamires, Her special
licence that I, the said Thomas Howard Blamires, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas
Howard Blamires, 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 RUBBERS FOR CONDENSERS AND PIECING
MACHINES USED IN THE PREPARATION OF WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Howard
Blamires, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particu-
larly 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 Howard Blamires, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in

page_text: and by the following statement, and accompanying Sheet of Drawings
(that is to say):
:-
This Invention relates to that class of rubbers wherein two endless
rubbing belts are employed to work together, and my improvements
consist in the application of a roller intermediately within one of such
belts (by preference the top one) so placed as to deflect the said belt
and press it against the other belt, producing a concave surface thercof,
by which means I obtain a greatly extended rubbing surface, thereby
facilitating the process of rubbing and producing a better thread than
has hitherto been obtained.
This Invention will be readily understood by reference to the accom-
panying Sheet of Drawings, wherein Fig. 1 is an end view of a pair of
rubbing belts and rollers with my improvements or deflecting roller
applied thereto; Fig. 2 is a part of the longitudinal section of same,
and Fig. 3 is a plate and bearing for supporting and adjusting the
deflecting roller.
A is the top belt carried on rollers B and C, and D is the bottom
belt carried on rollers E, F, and operated in the usual manner; G is the
deflecting roller, which is mounted at one end in the bearing H attached
to a plate I fitting upon and carried by the shafts of the rollers B, C,
and another similar plate and bearing on the said shafts at the other
end of the rubbers, so that it reciprocates endwise with them and
rotates by contact with the belt. The bearings H of the roller G can
be raised or lowered so as to deflect the belts more or less as may be
required by means of the thumbscrew J one at each end, and set fast
by the set screws K, as will be easily seen. It will now be observed
that by this means, a greatly extended rubbing surface will be obtained,
or that the surfaces of the two belts are held in contact together nearly
the whole extent from the two extreme points of the nip of the carrying
rollers B, C, and E, F; whereby the process of rubbing or condensing
the thread is effected with more uniformity and facility, producing a
better thread than heretofore could be obtained. It will also be
evident that this additional or deflecting roller may be applied in betwixt
the bottom belt if desirable; but I prefer that it should be applied as
shewn.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and shewn
how the same is or may be performed or carried into practical operation,
I would have it understood that I claim, the application of a roller

page_text: intermediately between either belt to deflect the same, and so mounted
and arranged as to be carried endwise along with the said belt and the
rollers which carry it, and to rotate by contact therewith, such roller
being also capable of adjustment or regulation so as to produce more
or less concavity, deflection, or curvature of the surfaces of the two
belts at the place or position where they are in contact with each other
in manner substantially as herein described and shewn by the accom-
panying Drawings
intermediately between either belt to deflect the same, and so mounted
and arranged as to be carried endwise along with the said belt and the
rollers which carry it, and to rotate by contact therewith, such roller
being also capable of adjustment or regulation so as to produce more
or less concavity, deflection, or curvature of the surfaces of the two
belts at the place or position where they are in contact with each other
in manner substantially as herein described and shewn by the accom-
panying Drawings
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Howard Blamires, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Third day of March, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Howard Blamires, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Third day of March, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
THOMAS HOWARD BLAMIRES. (1.8.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by
the
within-named Thomas
Howard Blamires, in the
presence of
NATHANIEL HOLDSWORTH, junior.