IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES CALLED TEAZLES FOR RAISING THE NAP OR PILE OF TEXTILE FABRICS
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Benjamin Joseph Barnard Mills, of the Firm of
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Harris and Mills, of 23, Southampton Buildings, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINES CALLED TEAZLES FOR RAISING THE NAP OR PILE OF TEXTILE
FABRICS." A communication from abroad by Pierre Fanchamps-
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Benjamin Joseph Barnard
Mills at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 30th December 1873.
I, BENJAMIN Joseph BARNARD MILLS, of the Firm of Harris and
Mills, of 23, Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES CALLED TEAZLES FOR RAISING THE NAP OR PILE
OF TEXTILE FABRICS," a communication to me from abroad by Pierre
Fanchamps-Nicolaï, of Hodimont, in the Kingdom of Belgium, to be as
follows:-

page_text: pile of textile fabrics with four teazle drums or cylinders, each of which
is in its motion independent of the others, whilst the progress of the
piece of cloth or stuff through the machine is in no way dependent on
the motion of the teazle drums or cylinders.
The teazle drums arc arranged in pairs in horizontal and vertical lines,
and receive motion from a single driving shaft by means of straps or
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bands, and are provided with gearing so that any of the series may
stopped and reversed without in any way affecting the motion of the
others.
According to the arrangements of teazles heretofore in use it was
necessary to stop the machine to change the teazles or to clean them,
but in the continuous teazle herein described three teazle drums or
cylinders can always be maintained in work during the cleaning or
changing of the teazles of the fourth drum or cylinder, and so on in
turn the teazles of cach drum or cylinder can be cleaned or changed:
whilst the others are in work.
For the purpose of cleaning the teazles they are turned back-
wards against a brush specially provided for that purpose; or if it is
desired to change the teazles of a drum it is readily stopped for that
purpose.
Millan immunzomants horain described may also be applied either partially
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Benjamin Joseph Barnard Mills in the Great Scal
Patent Office on the 30th Juno 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
JOSEPH BARNARD MILLS, of the Firm of Harris and Mills, of 23,
Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent,
send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 3
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,

page_text: give and grant unto me, the said Benjamin Joseph Barnard Mills, Her
special license that I, the said Benjamin Joseph Barnard Mills, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Benjamin Joseph Barnard Mills, 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, excrcise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES called TeazLES FOR RAISING THE
NAP OR PILE OF TEXTILE FABRICS," a communication to me from abroad by
Pierro Fanchamps-Nicolaï, of Hodimont, in the Kingdom of Belgium,
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Benjamin Josepli
Barnard Mills, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Benjamin Joseph Barnard Mills, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thercof, that is to say :-
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The Invention consists in providing machinery for raising the nap or
pile of textile fabrics with four teazle drums or cylinders, each of which
is in its motion independent of the others, whilst the progress of the
picce of cloth or stuff through the machine is in no way dependent on
the motion of the teazle drums or cylinders.
The teazle drums are arranged in pairs in horizontal and vertical lines,
and receive motion from a single driving shaft by means of straps or
bands, and are provided with gearing, so that any of the series may be
stopped and reversed without in any way affecting the motion of the
others.
According to the arrangements of teazles heretofore in use it was
necessary to stop the machine to change the teazles or to clean them,
but in the continuous teazle herein described three teazle drums or
cylinders can always be maintained in work during the cleaning or
changing of the teazles of the fourth drum or cylinder, and so on in turn;

page_text: the teazles of each drum or cylinder can be cleaned or changed whilst
the others are in work.
For the purpose of cleaning the teazles they arc turned backwards
against a brush specially provided for that purpose; or if it is desired to
change the teazles of a drum it is readily stopped for that purpose.
The improvements herein described may also be applied either partially
or entirely to other descriptions of teazles.
And in order that the said Invention may be more clearly understood
and readily carried into effect, I will proceed, aided by the accom-
panying Drawing, more fully to describe the same.
The accompanying Drawing represents an end view of a machine
constructed according to the present Invention.
A is the framing of the machine; B, B¹, B", B", are the four teazle
drums or cylinders; C, C, represent pulleys fixed on the axes of the
drums or cylinders, two of which are on one side and two on the other 1
side of the machine for facility, simplicity, and convenience of arrange-
ment; D indicates the driving pulley; E, the driving shaft; F, small
rollers serving to remove the cloth from the teazlc drums when either of
them is stopped; G, racks and gearing to carry the rollers F to and from
the teazle drums; H, rotary brush serving to clean the teazle drums or 1
cylinders; I, I, rollers conducting the cloth or stuff to be worked;
J, pinion keyed on the driving shaft E; K, intermediate wheel to which
motion is given by the pinion J; L, L, toothed wheels keyed upon the
axes of rollers I, and receiving motion from the wheel K; M, M, toothed
wheels also keyed upon other rollers I, and receiving their motion
from L, L; N indicates a pulley which may be cast with the wheel C
or placed close to it, and gives motion by a strap to a pulley O fixed
upon the axis of one of the conducting rollers for the cloth.
It will be seen by these arrangements that either of the four teazle
drums can be stopped at will, whether for cleaning the teazles or for
replacing them, or for any other cause, whilst the other drums or
cylinders are left in work, so that the machine is in all acceptation of
the term continuous, for it would be the same if instead of stopping one
teazle drum or cylinder two or three were required to be stopped.
When stopping a teazle drum or cylinder the cloth is removed there-
from by the aid of a roller F.

page_text: When it is desired to clean the teazles the drum or cylinder is turned
in the reverse direction, so as to clean them thoroughly by aid of
the brush H, which is capablo of being placed in any of the bearings Z.
In short, the principle of the Invention consists in this fundamental
idea that in any description of teazling machine having several teazling
drums one or more of such drums or cylinders can be stopped without
interrupting the work of the others.