IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SUPPLYING AND SPREADING WOOL AND OTHER FILAMENTOUS MATERIALS ON BELTS, TABLES, AND OTHER SURFACES, TO BE AFTERWARDS CARDED AND OTHERWISE ACTED ON
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street, in
the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY FOR SUPPLYING AND SPREADING WOOL AND OTHER FILAMENTOUS
MATERIALS ON BELTS, TABLES, AND OTHER SURFACES, TO BE AFTERWARDS
CARDED AND OTHERWISE ACTED ON."-A communication from abroad by
Jean Joseph Jules Pierrard, of Reims, France.
Sealed the 31st July 1863, and dated the 5th February 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald
Brooman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 5th February 1863.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SUPPLYING AND SPREADING WOOL AND OTHER
FILAMENTOUS MATERIALS ON BELTS, TABLES, AND OTHER SURFACES, TO BE AFTERWARDS
CARDED AND OTHERWISE ACTED ON," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the construction of machinery for supplying and
spreading wool and other filamentous materials on an endless belt or table to
be acted on by cards, beaters, and other apparatuses, an operation which has
hitherto been performed by hand.
The wool or other material is fed into a hopper widened at bottom, from
which it is drawn in a regular manner by grooved rollers or cylinders, from
which it is again taken off by another roller or cylinder furnished with pins.

page_text: There is a grating beneath this last-named roller or cylinder, through which
dust and any of the material which becomes detached fall. An endless apron
then leads the material to the carding engine or other machine. For the
treatment of long fibres and other materials, the filaments of which it is neces-
sary to preserve for combing, I do not use the last-named roller or cylinder, and
I substitute for the endless apron an apron furnished with thick card points,
which receive the wool or other material from the grooved rollers or cylinders
without injuring the filaments; or I substitute for the apron a circular comb,
or heckles, or drawing cylinders with an oscillating movement. Motion is
imparted to the grooved rollers or cylinders by a belt coming from the carding
engine or other machine, and this motion is transmitted by wheels to the other
roller or cylinder. Above the hopper is suspended a follower, being a slab or
board communicating through a cord passing over pulleys with a bell or other
signal; this follower is only needed when a fixed quantity of material or a
sheet of a given weight is to be spread on or supplied to a card; it rests on
the material in the hopper and descends with the material in proportion as the
latter is carried away by the grooved rollers, and as soon as the requisite
quantity of material has been carried away it disengages a spring, which causes
the signal to act and warn the attendant. In some cases the material is drawn
from the hopper by two endless belts arranged in the interior thereof, instead
of by the grooved rollers or cylinders, as herein-before described.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 5th August 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letter's
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said Richard
Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, 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

page_text: 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 SUPPLYING AND SPREADING WOOL AND OTHER
FILAMENTOUS MATERIALS ON BELTS, TABLES, AND OTHER SURFACES, TO BE AFTERWARDS.
CARDED AND OTHERWISE ACTED ON," (Communicated to me from abroad by Jean
Joseph Jules Pierrard, of Reims, France,) upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors or admi-
nistrators, by an instrument in writing under my; or their, or one of their hands
and seals, 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.
'
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say :-
This Invention consists in the construction of machinery for supplying and
spreading wool and other filamentous materials.o on an endless belt or table to
be acted on by cards, beaters, and other apparatuses, an operation which has
hitherto been performed by hand.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a side elevation, and Figure 2 a
front.elevation of this improved machinery.
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The wool or other material is fed into a hopper.A widened at bottom, from
which it is drawn in a regular manner by grooved rollers or cylinders B; B¹,
from which it is again taken off by another roller or cylinder C, furnished with
pins; D is a grating, beneath the roller or cylinder C, through which dust and
any of the material which becomes detached fall. An endless apron or belt E
then leads the material to the carding engine or other machine. The appa-
ratus is supported on a cast-iron or wooden frame F. For the treatment of
long fibres and other materials, the filaments of which it is necessary to
preserve from combing, I do not use the roller or cylinder C, and I substitute
for the endless apron an apron furnished with thick card points which receive
the wool or other material, from the grooved rollers or cylinders without
injuring the filaments; or I substitute for the apron a circular comb, or heckles,
or drawing cylinders with an oscillating movement. Motion is imparted to
the grooved rollers or cylinders B, B', by a belt G, coming from the carding
engine or other machine, and this motion is transmitted by wheels H, H¹, H³, H³,
to the other roller or cylinder C. Above the hopper A is suspended a

page_text: follower I, being a slab or board communicating through a cord J, passing
over pulleys L, L', with a bell or other signal; this follower is only needed
when a fixed quantity of material or a sheet of a given weight is to be spread
on or supplied to a card; it rests on the material in the hopper A, and descends
with the material in proportion as the latter. is carried away by the grooved
rollers, and as soon as the requisite quantity of material has been carried away
it disengages a spring, which causes the signal to act and warn .the attendant.
In some cases the material is drawn from the hopper A by two endless belts
B', B³, arranged in the interior thereof, as shewn in Figure 8, instead of by
the grooved rollers or cylinders B, B', as herein-before described.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,-
First, the employment of grooved rollers or cylinders or of endless belts for
drawing wool or other filamentous material from a hopper or other receptacle
and delivering the same to a roller or cylinder furnished with pins, or to an
endless apron furnished with thick card points, or to a circular comb, heckles,
or drawing cylinders, substantially in manner and for the purpose herein-before
described.
Second, the employment of a follower connected with a bell or other signal,
and acting substantially in manner and for the purpose herein-before described.
Third, the general arrangement of parts substantially as herein-before
described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings, that is to say, the
hopper A, the grooved rollers or cylinders 'B, B, (or the endless belts B', B³,)
the roller or cylinder C furnished with pins, the grating D, the endless apron
(or in place of the roller C and apron E an apron furnished with thick card
points, or a circular comb, or heckles, or drawing cylinders), and with or without
the addition of the follower I, all acting in manner herein-before described.
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In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fifth day of August, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three.