IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN THE PREPARATION OF WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES, TECHNICALLY KNOWN
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Carter and Benjamin Carter, and John
Lisle, of Huddersfield, in the County of York, Machine Makers, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN
THE PREPARATION OF WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES, TECHNICALLY KNOWN
Sealed the 26th May 1868, and dated the 28th November 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Carter, Benjamin
Carter, and John Lisle, at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 28th November 1867.
We, THOMAS CARTER, and BENJAMIN CARTER, and JOHN LISLE, of Hudders-
field, in the County of York, Machine Makers, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED
IN THE PREPARATION OF WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES, TECHNICALLY KNOWN
AS 'CONDENSERS,'" to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to means of working the rubbing rollers employed
in these machines, and the improvements consist in the application and use
of a cam or skew wheel for producing the usual traverse motion or giving
reciprocatory motion to the said rubbing rollers. This cam is mounted on a

page_text: horizontal rotary shaft placed in bearings opposite to one end of each pair of
rubbers about centrally with the two surfaces which are in contact, and a
swivelling hook is attached to each rubber which clip on the said cam or skew
wheel, one on each side, so that one cam gives motion to both top and bottom
rubber each moving in opposite directions.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Carter, Benjamin Carter, and John Lisle, in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 28th May 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
CARTER, and BENJAMIN CARTER, and JOHN LISLE, of Huddersfield, in the County
of York, Machine Makers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eight day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto us, the said Thomas Carter, and Benjamin Carter, and John Lisle,
Her special licence that we, the said Thomas Carter, and Benjamin Carter,
and John Lisle, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as we, the said Thomas Carter, and Benjamin Carter, and John Lisle, our
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 MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN THE PREPARATION OF WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES,
TECHNICALLY KNOWN AS CONDENSERS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said Thomas Carter, and Benjamin Carter, and John Lisle, our exe-
cutors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their,
or one of our or 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Thomas Carter, and Benjamin Carter,
and John Lisle, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described

page_text: the application and use of cams or skew wheels for working or producing the
usual traverse motion of the rubbers of condensers.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Lisle, for and on behalf of
myself and the said Thomas Carter and Benjamin Carter, have
.hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of May One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named John Lisle in the
presence of.
WM. TASKER,
Patent Agent,
Halifax & Bradford.
JOHN LISLE. (L.8.)