IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR WASHING WOOL AND HAIR
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel C. Lister, of Manningham, in the County
of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR
WASHING WOOL AND HAIR."
Sealed the 25th January 1854, and dated the 1st August 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel C. Lister at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 1st August 1858.
I, SAMUEL, CUNLIFFE LISTER, of Manningham, in the County of
York, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY FOR WASHING WOOL AND HAIR" to be as follows:-
My improvements in washing machinery consist in covering washing
rollers with gutta-percha or unvulcanised caoutchouc or similar ma-
terial, either in combination with other substances or otherwise; also
in causing wool or hair to pass through a washing bowl by means of a
trough or spout placed inside of a long washing bowl. The wool or
hair is fed to the spout by an ordinary feed cloth, and then is carried
forward by revolving vanes. which cause the water and wool or bair to

page_text: be constantly moving along the trough or spout; and at the opposite
end to that into which it is fed is placed an endless apron or cloth,
which receives and carries the wool or hair forward to the expressing
rollers; and by this means the wool or hair is constantly fed in at one
end, and delivered at the other, through the expressing rollers.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Samuel C. Lister in the Great Seal Patent Office,
on the 1st February 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
SAMUEL CUNLIFFE LISTER, of Manningham, in the County of York,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and fifty-three, in the
seventeenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Cunliffe Lister, Her
special licence that I, the said Samuel Cunliffe Lister, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as J, the said Samuel
Cunliffe Lister, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter luring 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 MACHINERY FOR WASHING WOOL AND
HAIR," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Samuel
Cunliffe Lister, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, 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 Samuel Cunliffe Lister, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same

page_text: is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof (that is to say):
My improvements in washing machinery consists in covering washing
rollers with gutta-percha or unvulcanized caoutchouc or similar material;
either in combination with other substances or otherwise, also in.
causing wool or hair to pass through a washing bowl by means of a
trough or spout placed inside of a long washing bowl. The wool or
hair is fed to the spout by an ordinary feed cloth, and then is carried
forward by revolving vanes, which cause the water and wool or hair to
be constantly moving along the trough or spout; and at the opposite
end to that into which it is fed is placed an endless, apron or cloth,
which receives and carries the wool or hair forward to the expressing
rollers; and by this means the wool or hair is constantly fed in at one
end, and delivered at the other, through the expressing rollers.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, I will proceed to
describe the manner of performing the same. The plan which I find to
answer bost for covering washing rollers with unvulcanized caoutchouc
or gutta-percha or similar material, either in combination with other
substances or otherwise, is to make it into rings or washers, and then
to put them upon an iron roller of suitable diameter, and press them
together betwixt iron flanches so as to make them as solid as possible,
or the roller may be covered in one piece; but I do not confine myself
thereto, as variations may be made in carrying out the above-describert
part of my Invention.
I will now describe the plan which I adopt for immersing the wool,
and conducting it through the suds to the expressing rollers, which will
be readily understood by reference to the Drawings.
a, and a, are a pair of feed cloths; the wool is laid upon a¹, and
compressed and carried forward by a, the upper and lower feeding
apron travelling at the same speed, say about two surface feet per
minute, and is delivered by the rollers B, and B, to a revolving fau
going at about twice the speed of the feed rollers. This fan works in
a trough or spout E, placed within the washing bowl H, and is full of
holes at the bottom, so as to allow the water free entrance, care being
taken not to make the holes too large; in that case the wool would go

page_text: through into the water beneath. D, is another fan, which carries the
wool forward on to the feed apron F, which then delivers it to the
expressing rollers G, G. The dotted line represents the level of the
sud. And I would remark that I do not confine myself to the precise
details, so long as the peculiar character of my Invention be retained.
I do not claim any of the parts separately, nor do I confine myself to
the details, but what I claim is the combination of apparatus for
washing wool and hair.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Cunliffe Lister, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of
January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-four
Witness,
WILLIAM WELLS,
Commissioner. for administering Oaths.
in Chancery in Eiigland.
S. C. LISTER. (L.S.)