IMPROVE. MENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF WOOLLEN HATS, BONNETS, AND BODIES FOR .
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVE.
MENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF WOOLLEN HATS, BONNETS, AND BODIES FOR
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LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVE.
MENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF WOOLLEN HATS, BONNETS, AND BODIES FOR
HATS AND DONNETS." -A communication from Messieurs de Clermont and
Company.
Sealed the 14th July 1857, and dated the 26th January 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald
Brooman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 26th January 1857.
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 THE PREPARATION OF WOOLLEN HATS, BONNETS, AND BODIES
FOR HATS AND BONNETS," (communicated to me by Messieurs de Clermont and
Company, foreigners residing abroad,) to be as follows:-
This Invention refers to that part of the preparation which immediately
precedes fulling, and which has hitherto been performed by hand or by
inflation, and consists in combining with the carding engine a double cone,
upon which the web as it comes from the card is received and wound.
The Invention also consists in arrangements of machinery for imparting at
the same time rotary and oscillating motions to the double cone, whereby the

page_text: web will be wound upon and all over it. After being so wound it is divided
at the centre or base common to both cones, and the material for two hats,
bonnets, or bodies obtained.
The double cone is supported upon four cones, arranged in such manner as
to form a bed for the double cone to rest upon. Rotary motion imparted to
these cones communicates like motion to the double cone, and the four cones
being connected in a kind of frame become moved by the action of a lever
connected to the working parts of the machinery from side to side, and thus
the oscillating motion is imparted at the same time as the rotary to the double
cone.
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 25th July 1857.
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 Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth 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, adminis-
trators, 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 THE PREPARATION OF WOOLLEN HATS, BONNETS,
AND BODIES FOR HATS AND BONNETS," (a communication from Messieurs de
Clermont & Company,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Richard Archibald Brooman, 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 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 Richard Archibald Brooman, do hereby
leclare 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 refers to that part of the preparation which immediately
precedes fulling, and which has hitherto been performed by hand or by
inflation, and consists in combining with the carding engine a double conc,
upon which the web as it comes from the card is received and wound.
The Invention also consists in arrangements of machinery for imparting at
the same time rotary and oscillating motions to the double cone, whereby the
web will be wound upon and all over it. After being so wound it is divided
at the centre or base common to both cones, and the material for two hats,
bonnets, or bodies obtained.
The double cone is supported upon four cones, arranged in such manner as
to form a bed for the double cone to rest upon. Rotary motion imparted to
these cones communicates like motion to the double cone, and the four cones
being connected in a kind of frame become moved from side to side, and thus
the oscillating motion is imparted at the same time as the rotary to the double
cone.
Figure 1 of the Drawings hereunto annexed represents a side elevation of
the machine complete; Figures 2, 3, and 4 are, respectively, an elevation, a
plan, and a partial plan of the double cone arrangement; Figure 5 indicates
the various positions which the double cone X assumes as it moves on the cones
r, r, s, s. The material spread out on the travelling apron a above the table b
is subjected to a first carding as usual as it passes over the cylinder c, and a
second as it passes over the cylinder d, after which it proceeds to and is wound
upon the oscillating double cone X, which receives its motion from the
following apparatus:-To the axle of the cylinder d¹ is connected by means of
a strap or band the pulley a, which imparts motion by a suitable strap to the
pulley a. The latter communicates motion to the shaft h, on which is fixed
the bevil wheel i, and which carries at its extremity a second bevil wheel k.
This wheel is in gear with the wheel 1, which moves the shaft m, upon which
is mounted the pinion n in gear with the wheel m¹. At the circumference of
this wheel m¹ is fixed the rod o connected to the bar o¹, to which is connected
the piece V, carrying the two arms, on which are mounted the cones r, r, s, s.
The shaft h when made to rotate communicates motion to the bevil wheels k
and 7, the pinion n, the wheel m', the rod o, and the bar o'. This bar o' being
fixed to V2, communicates to it, and to the cones r, r, s, s, which it carries, an

page_text: oscillating movement every time that end of the rod o, which is fixed to the
wheel m¹, comes to the extremities of the diameter A, B, and the double cone
X, which is carried by the cones r, r, s, s, thus receives a corresponding motion.
The motion of the double cone X about its own axis is produced simply by its
contact with the revolving cones, which are moved as follows: -The wheel i
(Figure 3), which receives a rotary motion from the shaft h, transmits it to the
bevil wheel A, fixed on the extremity of the inclined shaft B, which carries at
its extremity the wheel C, which gears with the similar wheel D; this wheel D
gears with the toothed wheel E, situated at the lower extremity of the shaft H,
which carries at its other end a pinion gearing with a toothed disc placed at the
lower end of one of the cones r, r, which is in gear with similar discs on the
cones s, s. The cones r, r, s, s, are also furnished with cords, which pass round
grooves at their upper ends and connect them in pairs, and by which the one
may drive the other. The cones r, r, and s, s, are thus made to turn in like
directions, and thus impart a rotary motion to the double cone X, and this
motion, combined with the oscillating motion before described, produces the
action necessary for the disposal of the web.
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 in the preparation of woollen hats, bonnets, and bodies
for hats and bonnets, of a revolving and oscillating double cone in connection
with the carding engine, upon which double cone the wool as it comes from
the carding cylinders is received and wound, as herein-before described.
Secondly, imparting the oscillating and revolving motions to such double
conc by means of the apparatus herein-before described, and represented in the
Drawings hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, havo
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of July, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.