CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS DRAGET COMMON AND OWED FIDANTE MAMEDIATO
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Ingham, of Rochdale, in the County
of Lancaster, Carder, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
DRAGET
COMMON AND OWED FIDANTE MAMEDIATO"
Sealed the 19th February 1853, and dated the 27th December 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Ingham
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Peti-
tion, on the 27th December 1852.
I, GEORGE INGHAM, of Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster,
Carder, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CER-
TAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR DRAWING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS
MATERIALS" to be as follows:-
My improvements are applicable to machines known as drawing
frames; and consist in placing a traversing bar behind the back roller.
On this bar guide pins are fixed, between which the slivers or draw-
ings of cotton or other fibrous substance pass, before they enter the
drawing rollers. The length of the traversing motion given to the bar
and guide pins is about 2 inches, but it may be increased or dimi-
nished according to circumstances, the object being to change the
position of the sliver, in order to preserve the covering of the top
rollers, which is otherwise liable to become indented.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said George Ingham in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 24th June 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
GEORGE INGHAM, of Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster, Carder,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of December,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two,
in the sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said George Ingham, Her
special license that I, the said George Ingham, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George Ingham,
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 of years 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 "CERTAIN- IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR DRAWING
COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said George Ingham, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, 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 George Ingham, do hereby de
clare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in.
and by the following statement (that is to say):
My Invention consists in imparting a traversing motion to the
slivers of drawing frames, for the purpose of preventing the grooving
of the top drawing rollers; and in order that my Invention may be
fully understood and readily carried into effect, I will proceed to.
describe the means pursued by me, reference being had to the
annexed Drawing and to the letters and figures marked thereon.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Fig. 1, is a sectional elevation of part of a drawing frame, shewing
the applcation of my improvements; and Fig. 2 is a back elevation
of the same. a, a, are a set of drawing rollers supported by stands
from the roller beam 6, in the usual manner; c, is a back plate, over
which the slivers pass before they enter between the drawing rollers;
d, is the traversing bar supported by the plate c, and furnished with
guides d', between which the slivers pass. To the under side of the
bar d, is fixed a grooved plate e, by which the traversing motion is
communicated to the bar in the following manner: On the back draw-
ing roller is fixed a worm f, gearing into the wheel g, revolving on
a stud fixed to the roller beam b; an antifriction roller h, is mounted
on a stud fixed in the face of the wheel g, and this roller enters into
the groove plate e; consequently the wheel g, in revolving, causes
the bar d, to traverse, and as each sliver is guided by the pins d',
it is evident that the slivers will traverse to and fro in passing to
the drawing rollers, thereby preventing the grooving of the top
drawing rollers occasioned by the slivers always passing in the same
place, and producing a more uniform elongation or drawing of the
fibrous material under operation. I wish to remark here, that
various other modes of imparting the traversing motion to the
slivers may be devised. I therefore do not limit myself to the
combination of parts herein set forth, as that may be varied with-
out departing from the nature of my Invention; but what I claim
is, imparting a traversing motion to the slivers of drawing frames
for the purposes herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Ingham, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of March, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
GEORGE INGHAM. (L.S.)