IMPROVEMENTS IN WEIGHTING AND CLEARING ROLLERS USED IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING AND SPINNING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MASERIALS
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Munslow and Henry Wallwork, of Miles
Platting, near Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Iron Founders, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WEIGHTING AND CLEARING ROLLERS
USED IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING AND SPINNING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS
MASERIALS."
Sealed the 24th August 1860, and dated the 27th February 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Munslow and
Henry Wallwork at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 27th February 1860.
We, WILLIAM MUNSLOW and HENRY WALLWORK; of Miles Platting, near
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Iron Founders, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WEIGHTING AND CLEARING
ROLLERS USED IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING AND SPINNING COTTON AND OTHER
FIBROUS MATERIALS," to be as follows:-
In weighting rollers we place saddle pieces over them in the direction of
their length, such pieces having projecting parts which rest upon the axles
of the rollers. and weights are added by any ordinary means. The rollers we
make singly, and apply a saddle piece to a pair or more, a central or other
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page_text: intermediate projecting part being used for a corresponding bearing; but the
rollers may be made in pairs or other combinations, and weighted in a similar
manner, or separate saddle pieces may be used for single rollers.
The apparatus for clearing consists of a bar of suitable material or covered
with flannel or other such substance, and pressing upon the roller edgeways
after the manner of a scraper by its weight, or capable of being adjusted or
removed by screws or similar means, and we combine our two improve-
ments by using an edge of the saddle piece above mentioned for supporting
the clearer.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Munslow and Henry Wallwork in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 25th August 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
MUNSLOW and HENRY WALLWORK, of Miles Platting, near Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Iron Founders, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto us, the said William Munslow and Henry Wallwork, Her special
licence that we, the said William Munslow and Henry Wallwork, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
William Munslow and Henry Wallwork, our 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 WEIGHTING AND CLEARING ROLLERS USED IN MACHINERY FOR
PREPARING AND SPINNING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said William Munslow and Henry
.Wallwork, or one of us, by an instrument 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 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Munslow, 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 and accompanying Drawings, that is to say:-
In the accompanying Drawings, Fig. I represents part of the rollers of a
drawing frame in front elevation with our improvements adapted; Fig. 2 is a
cross section taken about the line A, B, and shewing the method of weighting;
Fig. 3 is another cross section taken about the line C, D, and shewing the
clearer. The top rollers are at a, and the lower at b; above the former is
placed a box-formed saddle piece c, which is provided at the centre with pro-
jecting parts d, resting upon the axes of the rollers a, a, and it has also
other projecting parts e, f, which rest upon the outside axes of the said rollers.
The ends of these saddle pieces are situate within the cap bars g, in which
therefore they are capable of moving upward and downward. At h is a cross-
bar provided with projecting nibs, which fit into recesses i formed in the saddle
piece c, and in these nibs are holes through which oil may be poured into the
recesses i, from whence it passes through apertures to the axes of the rollers.
Oil for the outside axes is supplied through holes 1. To the cross-bar his
adapted the rod in, to which the ordinary weight is applied, and by which,
therefore, the saddle picce c is drawn downward so as to cause the upper
roller to press upon the lower roller b. We have spoken of the saddle c as if
it were in one piece; we construct it, however, in two parts, as shown in the
detached plan view, Fig. 1, the line of division being shewn at n, by which
arrangement the rollers may be allowed to rise and fall separately. At o is a
plate placed within the saddle piece c, and from which two parts p, q, extend
downward; the lower ends of these parts are enlarged at p, and are covered
with flannel or other such material acting by the weight of the whole clearing
apparatus upon the rollers a; as the said rollers therefore revolve, they are
cleared by a scraping action of any extraneous matters which would otherwise
collect upon their surfaces. A handle q is attached to the plate o, by which
the clearer may at any time be removed and cleaned.
Fig. 4 is a section of the whole of the rollers of a drawing frame, shewing
another method of adapting the clearers. The box-form saddle pieces are as
before at c, but in this instance the clearers p* are on one plate for the four
rollers.
Fig. 5 is a front. elevation, and Fig. 6 a section, of another arrangement
and as applied to the rollers of a throstle frame. In this instance the rollers
are in pairs upon the same axis, and the saddle piece c rests upon it at s, t;

page_text: the weight is suspended from a hook u, which passes over the centre of the
saddle piece. The clearer is shewn at p*.
Fig. 7 shews the rollers of a mule. The saddle piece c rests upon the
roller as before, and within a recess at the middle thereof is à bar w; this
bar extends over the axes of the two other rollers x, y, and is drawn downwards
by means of a weight attached to the rod z; the clearer is adapted as
before.
We have in the foregoing description given several methods of carrying out
our Invention, but we desire it to be understood that we do not confine ourselves
thereto. In all cases, if desired, each roller may be upon a separate axis, or
they may be combined together in any required number, and the weights may
be suspended as may be most convenient, or as may be desired; that which we
claim as secured to us under the above in part recited Letters Patent
being,-
Firstly, the use of the saddle pieces placed in the direction of the axes of
the rollers, and resting thereon.
Secondly, the use of the clearers adapted and acting substantially as
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Munslow, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
WILLIAM MUNSLOW. (L.S.)