IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR OPENING, CLEANING, CARDING, OR OTHERWISE PRE- DARING COMMON OR OLD FIRDAUS MAMERZATO MO no Sorry
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Wood, Cotton Spinner, and George
Wade, Mechanic, both of Sowerby Bridge, in the County of
York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR OPENING, CLEANING, CARDING, OR OTHERWISE PRE-
DARING COMMON OR OLD FIRDAUS MAMERZATO MO no Sorry"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Wood and
George Wade at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 18th July 1858.
We, THOMAS WOOD and GEORGE WADE, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPA-
RATUS FOR OPENING, CLEANING, CARDING, OR OTHERWISE PREPARING COTTON
OR OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS TO BE SPUN," to be as follows:-
In the carding engine as at present constructed a large quantity of
cotton escapes and flys away, or is lost with the motes, refuse, or dirt,
which alone should escape in this operation of cleaning or carding,
which we find we can prevent (to a great extent) by stopping or modi-
fying the strong current of air which is caused by the revolution of the

page_text: cylinder. We propose to accomplish this object by cutting off the
communication of air by fixing a damper between the licker-in roller
and the cylinder, and also an opening under the licker-in roller, to
allow the dirt or refuse to fall through. This damper may be fixed to
the case of the cylinder, or it may be made to slide in and out in the
form of a shelf. We find it is only necessary to stop the strong current
of air to prevent the cotton, wool, &c. from being blown away.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Wood and George Wade in the Great
Seal Patent Oflice, on the 31st December 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
THOMAS WOOD, Cotton Spinner, and GEORGE WADE, Mechanic, both of
Sowerby Bridge, in the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
seventeenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and succes-
sors, give and grant unto us, the said Thomas Wood and George Wade,
Her especial license that we, the said Thomas Wood and George
Wade, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as wc,
the said Thomas Wood and George Wale, our executors, administra-
tors, or 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 of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR OPENING, CLEANING, CARDING, OR OTHERWISE PREPARING
COTTON OR OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS TO BE SPUN," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Thomas Wood and George Wade,
by an instrument in writing under our hands and scals, or under the
hand and seal of one of us, 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

page_text: Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Royal Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Thomas Wood and George
Wade, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement (that is to say):
Our Invention relates to improvements in the carding engine, which,
as at present constructed and used in the preparatory process of carding
cotton, wool, or other fibrous materials, throws off a large quantity of
what is technically called "fly," and which escapes with the motes,
refuse, or dirt, whereby a considerable loss of the material is sustained,
but which we prevent to a considerable extent by partially stopping or
modifying the strong current of air which is caused or produced by
the revolving motion of the cylinder, which object we accomplish by
fixing a damper to the casing of the cylinder at its junction with
another casing to the licker-in, thus stopping up the space between
the cylinder and its casing, and cutting off the current of air produced
by the rapid motion of the cylinder. This damper may be made of
any suitable metal or material, and made to slide in and out, so as to
he capable of adjustment to the cylinder, and nearly in contact with
it. The details of these our said improvements will be clearly under-
stood by reference to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, which
represents a longitudinal vertical section of the feeding end of a
carding engine, with our improvements attached. A, represents the
frame; B, the cylinder; C, the rollers; D, the licker-in; E, the feed
rollers; F, the rollers carrying an endless web for supplying the
fced; G, the roller holding the material to be prepared or carded; IT,
the casing or cover to the cylinder; I, the cover of the licker-in;
J, an opening in the licker-in cover, in which is fixed a knife having
a straight edge for the purpose of stripping off the motes, refuse, or
dirt as the material passes over it, which motes, refuse, or dirt fall
through the said opening of the cover to the floor; K, is the damper
for stopping or cutting off the current of air which heretofore passed
forward, carrying the light and loose materials with it, thereby causing
loss or waste.

page_text: Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of our s
Invention, and the manner of carrying the same into practical effect,
we desire it to be distinctly understood that we do not confine our-
selves to the exact details thereof, as such may be varied or modified
without departing from the principle of the same. But we claim as of
our Invention, and which, to the best of our knowledge and belief, has
not been hitherto used within this realm, the stopping or cutting off
the current of air caused by the motion of the cylinder of the carding
engine, as herein described, and illustrated in the accompanying Sheet
of Drawings.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Wood and George
Wade, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fifth
day of December, One thousand eight and fifty-three.
THOMAS WOOD.
(L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered
by both the said parties
in the presence of
GEORGE WADE. (L.S.)
W
TASKER,
Patent Agent,
Halifax.