IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED WHEN BOILING CLOTH."
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Edward Taylor, of Oatlands Mill, Leeds,
Cloth Finisher, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED
WHEN BOILING CLOTH."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Edward Taylor
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 2nd October 1860.
I, GEORGE EDWARD TAYLOR, of Oatlands Mill, Leeds, Cloth Finisher, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
USED WHEN BOILING CLOTH," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus used when
boiling cloth. For these purposes the rollers are made tubular, of cast iron,
the ends being formed without gudgeons or axes, but in such manner that
they may enter and be held by sockets turning on axes or gudgeons. By
these means the rollers may be made comparatively light and strong, and may
be readily introduced into and removed from the sockets, and may also be
readily turned therewith. The cast-iron rollers may be perforated or un-
perforated, and in order to prevent the rollers rusting they are heated and then
immersed in or coated over with oil or fatty matter.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Edward Taylor in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 2nd April 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
EDWARD TAYLOR, of Oatlands Mill, Leeds, Cloth Finisher, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
George Edward Taylor, Her special licence that I, the said George Edward
Taylor, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said George Edward Taylor, 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
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 USED WHEN BOILING CLOTH," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said George Edward Taylor, my executors
or administrators, 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 per-
formed, 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 George Edward Taylor, 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, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus used when
boiling cloth. For these purposes the rollers are made tubular, of cast iron,
the ends being formed without gudgeons or axes, but in such manner that they
may enter and be held by sockets turning on axes or gudgeons. By these
means the rollers may be made comparatively light and strong, and may be
readily introduced into and removed from the sockets, and may also be readily
turned therewith. The cast-iron rollers may be perforated or unperforated,
and in order to prevent the rollers rusting they are heated and then immersed
in or coated over with oil or fatty matter..

page_text: Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, I will proceed more fully
to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS..
Figure 1 shews a side view of a roller which is formed without gudgeons or
axes; Figures 2 and 3 are end views thereof. The roller is of cast iron, and
may, if preferred, be made with numerous perforations, as is the case with
some of the rollers heretofore used. The ends of the roller, as shewn, are
made eight-sided, or they may be of other suitable shape, in order to fit into
and yet be readily removed from hollow sockets of similar interior forms.
The two sockets used for a roller are formed with or have affixed thereto an
axle or gudgeon, so as to render the two sockets and a roller when placed
therein capable of being turned in bearings in like manner to the rollers here-
tofore used, but, as above described, in place of a roller (when made according
to my Invention), having the axes or gudgeons forming part therewith, as
heretofore, the gudgeons or axes are made with sockets, which are separate
from the rollers, by which means the same sockets and axles or gudgeons may
be used with several rollers, and the rollers made lighter and be more readily
and conveniently handled and used.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Edward Taylor, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Second day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
G. E. TAYLOR. (L.S.)