CERTAIN IMPROVE- MERED IN MACHINERI NEXT RATUS FOR CARDING COTTON AND OTHER FIRRANO 64 SUBSTANCES
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Faulkner, of Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MERED IN MACHINERI
NEXT
RATUS FOR CARDING COTTON AND OTHER FIRRANO
64
SUBSTANCES
Sealed the 8th September 1857, and dated the 9th March 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Faulkner at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th March 1857.
I, SAMUEL FAULKNER, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton
Spinner, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for "CERTAIN.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS POR CARDING COTTON AND OTHER
FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to further improvements in the carding engine
described in the Specification of certain Letters Patent previously granted to,
me, and bearing date 25th July 1843. These present improvements are
designed for the purpose of "finishing" the carding by the operation of a single.
machine. The improvement consists in the addition of an extra carding,
cylinder, which I term a "finishing cylinder," and which receives the carding
from the main cylinder by means of an additional smaller intermediate
cylinder. The finishing cylinder is placed in the position usually occupied by,
the "doffer" cylinder, and the "doffer" roller, which strips the finished carding
from the "finishing" cylinder, is situated nearer to the front of the machine.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Faulkner in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
9th September 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
FAULKNER, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Samuel Faulkner, Her especial license that I, the said Samuel
Faulkner, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Samuel Faulkner, 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 limited Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR CARDING COTTON AND OTHER
FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," upon the condition, amongst others, that I, the said
Samuel Faulkner, 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.
that I, the said Samuel Faulkner, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and accompanying Drawings, that is to say:-
My Invention relates to further improvements in the carding engine
described in the Specification of certain Letters Patent previously granted to
me, and bearing date July Twenty-fifth, One thousand eight hundred and
forty-three. These improvements are designed for the purpose of more
effectually "finishing "the carding by the operation of a single machine.
The improvements consists in the addition of an extra carding cylinder, which
I term a " finishing cylinder," and which receives the carding from the main
cylinder by means of an additional smaller intermediate or "fancy" cylinder.
This "fancy" or receiving cylinder is placed in the position usually occupied
by the "doffer cylinder," and the doffer roller, which strips the finished carding
from the finishing cylinders, is situate nearer to the front of the machine.

page_text: In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained in
detail, I have hereunto annexed a Sheet of Drawings, made upon a scale of
about one inch and a half to a foot.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of that portion of the carding engine to which my
improvements relate, shewing the position of the additional finishing cylinder
and the intermediate "fancy" cylinder. In Fig. 1, a is the main carding
cylinder; b, the intermediate "fancy" cylinder, which conveys the carding
from the main cylinder to the additional finishing cylinder c. The cotton
thus transmitted from the main cylinder to the finishing cylinder, where it
receives additional carding by means of a series of rollers d, d, or, if preferred,
by the top cards usually employed in ordinary carding engines. e is the
doffing cylinder, which receives the carding from the finishing cylinder and is
thence delivered to the cans. At or near the junction of the cylinders I place
straight edges f, f, which facilitates the transfer of the cotton from the
delivering to the receiving cylinders; by this means I am enabled to card with
less cotton in the cards. The straight edges f. f, are so arranged as to fit
closely to the receiving cylinder and be a small distance from the delivering
cylinder. The main cylinder a is driven and imparts motion to the "fancy"
cylinder b, and finishing cylinder c, by means of strap and pulleys. The
finishing cylinder is finished with brushes for clearing the rollers, which said
brushes are driven in the same manner as the brushes employed upon the main
cylinder, exactly as described in the Specification of the Letters Patent before
mentioned. By the action of this machine a finished carding may be
obtained without the employment of a second or finishing carding engine.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, together with the
manner of performing the same, I wish it to be distinctly understood that
I claim as my improvements in carding engines the novel application, employ-
ment, and use of the additional finishing cylinder, and also the additional
fancy cylinder for transferring the carding from the main cylinder to the
finishing cylinder, together with the general arrangement and construction of
the several parts herein-before named, as herein-before described, set forth, and
fully exemplified in the Drawings attached,
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Faulkner, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
SAMUEL FAULKNER. (L.S.)