IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR ADDARATHS FOR WASHING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS.” ADRARATHE FOR WASHING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS.
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Petrie, junior, of Rochdale, in the County of
Lancaster, Ironmonger, and James Teal, of Sowerby, in the County of
York, Mechanic, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR
ADDARATHS FOR WASHING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS.”
ADRARATHE FOR WASHING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS.
Sealed the 28th April 1863, and dated the 5th November 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Petrie, junior, and
James Teal, at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 5th November 1862.
We, JOHN PETRIE, junior, of Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster, Iron-
monger, , and JAMES TEAL, of Sowerby, in the County of York, Mechanic, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR WASHING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS,"
to be as follows:-
"
Our Invention relates to that machine for washing for which Letters Patent
were granted to John Petrie, junior, and Samuel Taylor, bearing date
11th January 1853, No. 75, and consists in an improved method for causing the
prongs or rakes of the lifting cylinder to be advanced and withdrawn. For
this purpose we mount the said prongs or rakes upon bars which are capable

page_text: of revolving around a fixed cranked shaft or other eccentric shaft, and upon
the axis of this (if a cranked shaft be employed) is mounted the outer cylinder
or casing through which the prongs or rakes project and this casing or
of revolving around a fixed cranked shaft or other eccentric shaft, and upon
the axis of this (if a cranked shaft be employed) is mounted the outer cylinder
or casing through which the prongs or rakes project, and this casing or
cylinder being caused to revolve, the desired operation is effected.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Petrie, junior, and James Teal in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 5th May 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
PETRIE, junior, of Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster, Ironmonger, and
JAMES TEAL, of Sowerby, in the County of York, Mechanic, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said John Petrie, junior, and James Teal, Her special
license, that we, the said John Petrie, junior, and James Teal, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said John Petrie, junior,
and James Teal, 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 MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR WASHING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS,'
upon the condition, amongst others, that we, the said John Petrie, junior,
and James Teal, (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 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
"
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Petrie, junior, 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):-
Our Invention relates to that machine for washing for which Letters Patent

page_text: were granted to John Petrie, junior, and Samuel Taylor, bearing date Eleventh
January, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, No. 75, and consists in an
improved method of causing the prongs or rakes of the lifting cylinder to be
advanced and withdrawn.
In the accompanying Drawing Fig. 1 represents our improved lifting
cylinder, in cross section; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section upon a smaller scale,
the prongs and the levers which carry them being omitted; and Fig. 3 is a
partial longitudinal section drawn on the same scale as Fig. 1, shewing two of
the rows of prongs and the levers which carry them.
The cylinder is shewn at a, and the ends thereof at b. These ends are
mounted so as to turn upon a shaft c, which does not revolve, its end c* being
fixed in the framework of the machine to which the lifting apparatus is applied,
the other end c** projects into a boss d formed upon one of the cylinder
ends, and thus the said cylinder is carried so as to be free to revolve through
the medium of a pully e, a bearing on the framework of the washing machine
being adapted at f. The shaft c is provided with a crank at g, upon which is
mounted a grooved disc h, carrying by means of joint pins a series of arms i,
connected at their other ends to the bars k, which carry the lifting prongs l.
These prongs are curved as shewn in the Drawing, and extend through
apertures formed in the periphery of the cylinder a. The bars are carried
by levers m, one at each end of every bar, and these levers are jointed at n to
the ends 6 of the cylinder a, their outward ends being cranked to allow them to
extend over the centres of motion of the adjoining levers. One of the arms i,
viz., that shewn at i*, projects into the boss of the disc h so as to communicate
motion thereto.
The operation is as follows: Upon rotatory motion being communicated
through the pully e, the cylinder a will be caused to revolve, and will, through
the medium of the arm i*, cause the disc h to move therewith, but as the
centre of motion of the cylinder is excentric to that of the disc h, the
prongs
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will successively be withdrawn and protruded according to the various positions
shewn in the Drawing, and will thus effect the lifting and delivery of the
material as described in the Specification of John Petrie and Samuel Taylor
aforesaid.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of our said Invention, and
the manner of carrying the same into effect, we desire it to be understood that
we do not limit ourselves to the precise construction of parts above shewn and
described, as various modifications may be made which will suggest themselves
to competent persons; we claim as secured to us, under the above in part

page_text: recited Letters Patent and for the purpose above set forth, the use of the
fixed cranked shaft and cylinder mounted thereon, or any mere modification
whereby a similar excentric motion may be obtained.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Petrie, junior, and James Teal
have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of May, in the 5
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
JOHN PETRIE, JR. (L.S.)