A NEW OR IMPROVED MODE OF SPINNING CARDED, WOOL ON SMALL COPS BEADY FOR WEAVING
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Brookes, of 62, Chancery Lane, London,
in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer and Patent Agent, for
the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED MODE OF SPINNING CARDED,
WOOL ON SMALL COPS BEADY FOR WEAVING." -A communication from
abroad by Emile Voigt, of Wasquehal, near Lille, in the Empire
of France, Spinner.
Sealed the 18th January 1870, and dated the 21st July 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Brookes at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 21st July 1869.
I, WILLIAM BROOKES, of 62, Chancery Lane, London, in the County
of Middlesex, Civil Engineer and Patent Agent, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED MODE OF SPINNING
CARDED WOOL ON SMALL COPS READY FOR WEAVING," (communicated to me
from abroad by Emile Voigt, of Wasquehal, near Lille, in the Empire
of France, Spinner,) to be as follows:-
This Invention as communicated to me consists in a new or improved.
mode of spinning carded wool free from oil on small cops ready for

page_text: weaving, instead of spinning the carded wool while oiled on large
cops, and scouring the said wool after the process of spinning as
heretofore.
According to this Invention the fibre having been imbued with oil in
the usual way is subjected to the first carding operation. It is then
scoured, and when free from oil it is operated by other carding machines
in the usual manner. It is then spun on small cops and is ready for
weaving. The carded fibre, freed from oil, spun upon small cops is ready
for weaving when taken from the spinning machine.
The above-described mode of treating the wool has many advantages,
producing great ecomony in the reeling process and in weaving, whether
by hand or power looms.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Brookes in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 20th January 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BROOKES, of 62, Chancery Lane, London, in the County of Middlesex,
Civil Engineer and Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-third
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said William Brookes, Her special licence that I,
the said William Brookes, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said William Brookes, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 "A NEW OR IMPROVED MODE OF SPINNING
CARDED WOOL ON SMALL COPS READY FOR WEAVING," a communication to me
from abroad by Emile Voigt, of Wasquehal, near Lille, in the Empire of
France, Spinner, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Willian Brookes, my executors or administrators, by an instrument 'in

page_text: writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 William Brookes, do hereby declare
the nature of the 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, that is to say :-
According to this Invention the fibre having been imbued with oil in
the usual way is subjected to the first carding operation. It is then
scoured, and when free from oil it is operated by other carding machines
in the usual manner. It is then spun on small cops and is ready for
weaving. The carded fibre, freed from oil, spun upon small cops is ready
for weaving when taken from the spinning machine.
The above-described mode of treating the wool has many advantages,
producing great economy in the reeling process and in weaving, whether
by hand or power looms.
Having thus described the Invention as communicated to me, and
means adopted for carrying same into effect, I would have it under-
stood that what I claim is,-
First. Spinning carded wool of any color when freed from oil on
small cops ready for weaving.
Second. Scouring the oiled fibre after it has been operated upon by
the first carding engine, and when the said fibre is thus freed from oil
proceeding with the subsequent and usual carding operations so as to
allow of the said carded fibre free from oil being spun upon small cops
ready for weaving.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Brookes, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of January, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
WILLIAM BROOKES. (L.S.)