CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR BRUSHING, RAISING, AND DRESSING THE SURFACES OF CUT PILE AND LOOPED FABRICS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Mayo Worrall, of Ordsall, in the County of
Lancaster, Dyer and Finisher, and Thomas Lawrence, of the same Place,
Mechanic, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
OR APPARATUS FOR BRUSHING, RAISING, AND DRESSING THE SURFACES OF CUT
PILE AND LOOPED FABRICS."
Sealed the 3rd December 1861, and dated the 8th June 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Mayo Worrall and
Thomas Lawrence at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 8th June 1861.
We, JOHN MAYO WORRALL, of Ordsall, in the County of Lancaster, Dyer
and Finisher, and THOMAS LAWRENCE, of the same Place, Mechanic, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR BRUSHING, RAISING, AND DRESSING THE SURFACES
OF CUT PILE AND LOOPED FABRICS," to be as follows:-
Our Invention is designed for the purpose of providing a bed or bearing for
the fabric under the operation of the brushes employed in brushing, raising,
and dressing certain cut pile and looped fabrics in contradistinction to sub-
mitting them to such action whilst in a suspended position as hitherto accom-
plished.
The improvement consists in a novel arrangement of mechanism wherein

page_text: the fabric passes over the periphery of a cylindrical drum or bed, the brushes
used for raising and dressing being helically formed and arranged around such
drum at certain suitable intervals to operate upon the fabric as required, the
drum forming a bed for the fabric at each point where the brushes are in
contact therewith, by which means the processes are more perfectly performed,
Or, if preferred, each brush may be provided with a separate drum, cylinder, or
roller for attaining a similar object or purpose by means of such novel and
peculiar combination and arrangement of mechanism.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Mayo Worrall and Thomas Lawrence in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 6th December 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
MAYO WORRALL, of Ordsall, in the County of Lancaster, Dyer and Finisher,
and THOMAS LAWRENCE, of the same Place, Mechanic, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by. Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said John Mayo Worrall and Thomas Lawrence, Her special license that
we, the said John Mayo Worrall and Thomas Lawrence, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said John Mayo
Worrall and Thomas Lawrence, 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 "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR BRUSHING, RAISING, AND DRESSING
THE SURFACES OF CUT PILE AND LOOPED FABRICS," upon the condition, amongst
others, that we, the said John Mayo Worrall and Thomas Lawrence, by an
instrument in writing under our 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 John Mayo Worrall and Thomas
Lawrence, do hereby declare the nature of our said. Invention, and in what

page_text: manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement and accompanying Drawings (that is
to say)
:-
Our Invention is designed for the purpose of providing a suitable bed or
bearing for the fabric under the operation of the brushes employed in brushing,
raising, and dressing certain cut pile. and looped fabrics.
The improvement consists in a novel arrangement of mechanism wherein
the fabric passes over the periphery of a cylindrical drum or bed, the brushes
used for raising and dressing being helically formed and arranged around such
drum at certain suitable intervals to operate upon the fabric as required, the
drum forming a bed for the fabric at each point where the brushes are in
contact therewith, by which means the processes are more perfectly performed.
Or, if preferred, each brush may be provided with a separate drum, cylinder, or
roller for attaining a similar object or purpose by means of such novel and
peculiar combination and arrangement of mechanism.
In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained in
detail, we have hereunto annexed two Sheets of Drawings made upon a scale
of about three inches to a foot, and having letters of reference marked
thereupon.
Sheet 1, Fig. 1, is a side elevation illustrative of the machine, wherein one
large cylinder is used as a bed or bearing for the fabric under the operation of
the brushes; and Sheet 2, Fig. 1, is a side elevation of the machine, wherein
each brush is provided with a separate bed, roller, or cylinder, the machines
being similar in construction with such exception.
In Sheets 1 and 2, Figs. 1, a, a, is the framing of the machine supporting
the central and main driving pulley and shaft b, b, on the opposite end of
which a large pulley is secured (as seen in Sheet 2), driving the brushes c by
means of the endless strap d passing around the brush pulleys e; fis the bed
cylinder for which, in Sheet 2, the smaller cylinders f, f, are substituted. The
brushes are provided with screws, cross shafts, and handles, to regulate the
distance of the periphery of the brush from the fabric. The cut pile or looped
fabric indicated by the red line is drawn through the machine in the direction
of the arrows by the card roller g, and is acted upon throughout its course by
the brushes, which are helically formed, as shewn in the detached view in
Sheet 2.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, we would remark, in
conclusion, that we claim the arrangement of machinery or apparatus wherein
a suitable bed, bearing, or support is provided for the fabric under operation,

page_text: either in the form of one large drum or several smaller cylinders used or
employed in combination with the helical brushes for the purpose of brushing,
raising, and dressing cut pile and looped fabrics, as herein-before described,
set forth, and fully illustrated in the Drawings attached.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Mayo Worrall and Thomas Law-
rence, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fifth day of
December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-one.
JNO. M. WORRALL.
(L.S.).
THOMAS LAWRENCE. (L.S.)
JNO. M. WORRALL.
(L.S.).
THOMAS LAWRENCE. (L.S.)