AN IMPROVED ROLLER FOR CLOTHS AND OTHER FABRICS
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Saunders, of Newgate Street, in the City of
London, Clothier, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED ROLLER FOR CLOTHS
AND OTHER FABRICS."
Sealed the 12th January 1856, and dated the 2nd August 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Saunders at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 2nd
August 1855.
I, JAMES SAUNDERS, of Newgate Street, in the City of London, Clothier, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED ROLLER
FOR CLOTHS AND OTHER FABRICS" to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in constructing a roller which shall be readily
adjustable to any width of cloth which may be required to be rolled upon
it. For this purpose I make the roller in two or more parts, and cause one
part to fit upon or over the other, so as to allow the roller to be lengthened or
shortened, within the limit of the various breadths in which cloths and other
fabrics are usually manufactured. For some goods I employ a tightening
screw or other suitable adjusting arrangement, in order to fix the roller at the
required length.

page_text: pursuance or the conditions of the Letters atent, med
by the said James Saunders in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
2nd February 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
SAUNDERS, of Newgate Street, in the City of London, Clothier, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
James Saunders, Her special licence that I, the said James Saunders, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James
Saunders, 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 "AN IMPROVED ROLLER FOR CLOTHS
AND OTHER FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
James Saunders, 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Saunders, do hereby declare
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 thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say-
My Invention consists in constructing a roller, which shall be readily
adjustable to any width of cloth which may be required to be rolled upon it.
For this purpose I make the roller in two or more parts, and cause one part
to fit upon or over the other, so as to allow the roller to be lengthened or
shortened within the limit of the various breadths in which cloths and other
fabrics are usually manufactured. For some goods I employ a tightening
screw or other suitable adjusting arrangement, in order to fix the roller at
the required length.

page_text: Figure 1 of the Drawings annexed is a section of my roller, or as it is
called by tailors and drapers "dummy," in its most simple form. It consists
of two hollow parts A and B, composed of wood, gutta percha, mill or card-
board, or other like suitable material, made to fit over and slide upon one
another, as shewn at a, a, b, b. Pieces of list c, c, are bound round the ends
of the roller to give a finish to it. The roller in all the Figures herein-after
described is represented closed, or at its shortest length; the dotted lines
shew the greatest length to which it can be extended. By making perforations
in the part B, and in the rabbet of the part A, and inserting a pin or screw
through them, the roller can be fixed at any desired length. The transverse
section of the roller in this simple form may be of one or other of the figures
represented at Figures 2, 3, 4, or of any other desired figure.
Figure 5 is a section of the roller, fitted with a screw for setting it at any
length within the limit to which it can extend. The cross section of the
roller fitted with this means of adjustment is circular, as in Figure 2, to allow
of the part B turning round over the part A.
Figure 6 is an external elevation, and Figure 7 a section, of the roller,
shewing the manner in which I fit it with a screw, when its transverse section
is elliptical as in Figures 3 and 4, or of some other shape which will not allow
of one part being turned round upon the other. The roller is composed of
three parts A, B, and C. The part B is only capable of sliding to and fro
upon the part A, while the part C carrying the screw regulates the distance
to which the parts can be separated.
Figure 8 is an external elevation, and Figure 9 a section, of the roller,
fitted with a rod instead of a screw for adjusting its length. Here the
transverse section may be of any desired figure as the parts are only drawn
out from and not turned round upon each other. The part B has fixed to it
a rod, with transverse perforations made at intervals; the parts are drawn
entirely asunder, and a pin is placed in one of the perforations. The parts
are brought together again, and the rod being prevented from being protruded
further into the part A by the pin, keeps the parts extended to the distance
required.
For other than for cloth dummies, the ends of the roller should not be
bound with list, but with some binding or edging to simulate the edge of the
material to be wound upon the roller.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I declare that I clain the improved

page_text: roller for cloths or other fabrics made to elongate for the purpose of suiting
various widths of cloth or other fabric, in the manner herein-before described,
and represented in the Drawings annexed. :
In witness whereof, I, the said James Saunders, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this First day of February, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-six.
JAMES SAUNDERS. (L.S.)