CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING COTTON AND OTHER. FIBROUS MATERIALS FOR SPINNING.
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Mayall, junior, of Liverpool, in the County
of Lancaster, Broker, and John Hollingworth, of Micklehurst, in the
County of Chester, Manager, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING COTTON AND OTHER. FIBROUS
MATERIALS FOR SPINNING.".
Sealed the 21st January 1863, and dated the 30th October 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Mayall, and John
Hollingworth at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 30th October 1862.
We, GEORGE MAYALL, junior, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
Broker, and JOHN HOLLINGWORTH, of Micklehurst, in the County of Chester,.
Manager, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING COTTON AND OTHER
FIBROUS MATERIALS FOR SPINNING," to be as follows:-
Our Invention relates to improvements in apparatus for steaming and
damping cotton or other 'fibrous material whilst being prepared to be spun,,
such process forming a portion of the said preparation. The apparatus is to
be applied to such machines as are employed to open the cotton, and consists
in a perforated chamber supplied with steam, and situated or placed beneath
the endless travelling cloth or "delivery lattice" which is employed to convey
the fibrous material from the machine. The steam ascends from the perforated
chamber through the interstices of the "lattice," and permeates the fibrous

page_text: material as required, the diffusion of the steam being prevented by means of
a cover above the cotton, terminating in a channel or flue to convey the steam
away. The amount of saturation is governed by the quantity of steam
admitted to the chamber, such supply being regulated by a tap.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Mayall, and John Hollingworth in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 30th April 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
MAYALL, junior, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Broker, and JOHN
HOLLINGWORTH, of Micklehurst, in the County of Chester, Manager, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said George Mayall, junior, and John Hollingworth, Her special license
that we, the said George Mayall, junior, and John Hollingworth, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said George Mayall,.
junior, and John Hollingworth, 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 PREPARING COTTON AND OTHER
FIBROUS MATERIALS FOR SPINNING," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said George Mayall, junior, and John Hollingworth, our. executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or one of our or their,
or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature, of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, 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 George Mayall, junior, 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 and accompanying Drawings (that is to say):-

page_text: Our Invention relates to improvements in apparatus for steaming and
damping cotton or other fibrous materials whilst being prepared to be spun,
such process forming a portion of the said preparation. The apparatus is to
be applied to such machines as are employed to open the cotton, and consists
in a perforated chamber supplied with steam and situated or placed beneath
the endless travelling cloth or "delivery lattice" which is employed to convey
the fibrous material from the machine. The steam ascends from the perforated
chamber through the interstices of the "lattice" and permeates the fibrous
material as required, the diffusion of the steam being prevented by means of
a cover above the cotton, terminating in a channel or flue to convey the steam
away. The amount of saturation is governed by the quantity of steam
admitted to the chamber, such supply being regulated by a tap.
In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained in
detail we have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings, made upon a scale
of about one inch and a quarter to the foot, similar letters of reference being
marked upon corresponding parts of the apparatus.
Fig. 1 is a sectional view exbibiting that portion of a cotton opening
machine to which the Invention is applied; Fig. 2 is a side view of the
same.
In Fig. 1, a, a, is the framing of the machine, and b, b, is the "endless
lattice" or "creeper," by which the fibrous material is conveyed from the
machine; in the space between the lattice the perforated tube or chamber c is
situated, and is: supplied with steam by the pipe d, the amount of which may
be governed by the tape, the chamber is also furnished with a lip or channel f,
to receive and convey away the water arising from the condensed steam.
The lattice is surmounted by the cover g, which terminates in a tube passing
to the outside of the building, by which the steam passes off as indicated by
the arrows, and is thus prevented from escaping into the room, a trough or
channel h, being also provided at its lowest extremities to receive the water
of condensation. The brush i is employed beneath the "lattice" to cleanse
it from any fibres that may adhere thereto whilst in a damp state. It will be
obvious that when steam is admitted to the chamber c, it will ascend through
the perforations, permeating and damping the cotton upon the lattice as
required.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, we wish it to be distinctly
understood that we claim the application of the above arrangement of apparatus
or similar contrivance to the delivery end of cotton openers, lap machines, and
other similar machinery where the damping of the fibrous material is required

page_text: as herein-before described set forth, and fully illustrated in the Drawings
attached.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Mayall, junior, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
GEO. MAYALL, JR. (L.S.)