IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE BE EMPLOYED IN THE FEEDING OF SCRIBBLING AND CARDING ENGINES
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Wailes, of Stroud, in the County of Gloucester;
Engineer, and Benjamin Cooper, of Frome, in the County of Somerset,
Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE
Sealed the 5th June 1866, and dated the 8th December 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Wailes and
Benjamin Cooper at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 8th December 1865.
We, GEORGE WAILES, of Stroud, in the County of Gloucester, Engineer,
and BENJAMIN COOPER, of Frome, in the County of Somerset, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE FEEDING OF SCRIBBLING AND CARDING ENGINES,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to certain improvements in or additions to the
apparatus for feeding scribbling and carding engines, for which Letters Patent
were granted to us, bearing date the 2nd of December 1864, No. 8007, and
consists in the application and use of a plain or fluted roller covered or not
with cloth, in combination with a trough or guiding surface, such roller and
trough or guiding surface being situate immediately beneath the box or
hopper containing the spiked roller and stationary spikes, or the two or more
spiked rollers referred to in the Specification of the said Patent.

page_text: The material after having been opened out by the action of the spiked
roller or rollers falls into or on to the trough or guiding surface, and is drawn
between the plain or fluted roller and the edge of the said trough or guiding
surface, whereby it is "granulated" or rolled and brought into a condition
more suitable for its being caught by the spiked apron or cards which supply
the material to the scribbling or carding engine. The position of the spiked
rollers for opening the material, and the form and length of the spikes may be
varied to suit the peculiar nature of the material under treatment, and the
plain or fluted roller is made adjustable nearer to or farther from the trough
or guiding surface so as to give the material the required "granulation" or
rolling.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Wailes and Benjamin Cooper in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 6th June 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
WAILES, of Stroud, in the County of Gloucester, Engineer, and BENJAMIN
COOPER, of Frome, in the County of Somerset, Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the 29th year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
George Wailes and Benjamin Cooper, Her special license that we, the said
George Wailes and Benjamin Cooper, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said George Wailes and Benjamin
Cooper, our executors, administrators, or 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 APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE FEEDING OF SCRIBBLING AND CARDING
ENGINES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Georgo
Wailes and Benjamin Cooper, our executors and administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one
of us, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the

page_text: 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 George Wailes and Benjamin Cooper
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, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
Our said Invention relates to certain improvements in or additions to the
apparatus for feeding scribbling and carding engines for which Letters Patent
were granted to us, bearing date the 2nd of December 1864, No. 3007, and
consists in the application and use of a plain or fluted roller, covered or not
with cloth, in combination with a trough or guiding surface, such roller and
trough or guiding surface being situate immediately beneath the box or hopper
containing the spiked roller and stationary spikes, or the two or more spiked
rollers referred to in the Specification of the said Patent.
The material after having been opened out by the action of the spiked
roller or rollers falls into or on to the trough or guiding surface, and is drawn
between the plain or fluted roller and the edge of the said trough or guiding
surface, whereby it is "granulated" or rolled and brought into a condition more
suitable for being caught by the spiked apron or cards which supply the
material to the scribbling or carding engine. The position of the spiked
rollers for opening the material and the form and length of the spikes may be
varied to suit the peculiar nature of the material under treatment, and the
plain or fluted roller is made adjustable nearer to or further from the trough
or guiding surface, so as to give the material the required "granulation" or
rolling. This process of rolling or "granulating" the wool is intended to be
applied more particularly to scribbled wool.
And in order that our said Invention may be fully understood we shall now
proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that purpose shall
refer to the several Figures on the annexed Sheet of Drawings, the same
letters of reference indicating corresponding parts in both the Figures.
Fig. 1 of the annexed Sheet of Drawings represents a transverse vertical
section of the feeding hopper and spiked roller described in the Specification
herein-before referred to with the "granulating "roller and trough or guiding
surface which form the subject of the present Invention connected therewith,
and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same.
A is the feeding hopper, and B, B, are feeding rollers, which may be
covered with card cloth, as shewn, for the purpose of holding the fibrous material
whilst being acted upon by the spiked roller C. These rollers B, B, by being

page_text: driven at different speeds may be made to assist in opening the wool or other
fibrous material. Immediately beneath the rollers above referred to there is
fitted the curved dish or trough D of wood, metal, or other suitable material,
and near the edge of this trough and at a slight distance abovė. if rotates the
.additional roller E. of wood, iron, or other suitable material, which may be
either..plain or fluted on the surface, and may if desired be covered with card
or with cloth. This roller is caused to revolve in the direction of the arrow
by any convenient arrangement of gearing, or by a driving strap or band and
pulley (not shewn in our Drawings) and its bearings are made adjustable in
any well-known.manner, so as to enable the distance.. between the surface of
the roller and that of the trough D to: be varied according to the requisite
amount of rubbing to the material operated upon..
Having: now described and particularly ascertained the nature of our said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried
into effect, we would.observe, in conclusion, that what we consider to be novel
and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to us by the herein-
before in part recited Letters Patent is, the combination with self-acting
feeding apparatus for feeding, scribbling and carding engines of a roller and
curved guide plate, dish, or trough, arranged and operated substantially in
the manner and for the purpose herein-before. described..
In witness whereof, I, the said George Wailes, on behalf of myself
and the said Benjamin Cooper, have hereunto set my hand and seal;
the Fourth day of June One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
GEORGE WAILES. (L.B.)