IMPROVEMENTS IN DRESSING AND FINISHING WOOLLEN AND OTHER CLOTHS
Year: 1845

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH'
CLISILD DANIELL, of Tiverton Mills, near Bath, in the County of Somerset,
Clothier, send greeting..
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WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Tenth day of October, in the ninth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto.
me, the said Joseph Clisild Daniell, my exors, admors, and assigns, Her.
especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
Joseph Clisild Daniell, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Joseph Clisild Daniell, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN DRESSING AND FINISHING WOOLLEN
AND OTHER CLOTHS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that
I, the said Joseph Clisild Daniell, shall cause a particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had,
will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joseph Clisild Daniell, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described
and ascertained in and' by the following statement thereof, reference being
had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say:-
My Invention relates to the laying, cleansing, and polishing the pile in that
branch of dressing woollen and other cloths, which is called mozing, and
consists of preparing and smoothing the face of the cloth, both before and
after the boiling process, which is now generally used, and the Invention
consists,―
First, in so applying wire cards that the dents or teeth of each staple (of
which a card is constructed) shall succeed each other in action; that is to say,
that the two teeth of a staple shall, when working, stand behind each other,
or otherwise so making the bends of the teeth of wire cards that they may
work sideways against the cloth in place of presenting their points to the work
as heretofore.
And,
Secondly, my Invention consists of using pointed wire cards with straight
teeth to perform such parts of the process of dressing cloth.
In carrying on these parts of the process of dressing, I have found that it is
of great importance not to raise any fresh pile on the cloth during such parts of
the process of dressing, and it is with a view to accomplish this end that my
improvements in applying and using wire cards is directed. In constructing
wire cards for the purpose of the first part of my Invention, I prefer to use
needle pointed wire for the teeth, and I make the staples with crowns about
twice as wide as those ordinarily used for scribbling and carding, but of the
same strength of wire, and the object of thus lengthening the crown is to
obtain greater stability to the tooth in working. These staples are to be set
into leather or other suitable flexible back, as is well understood. The teeth
are to be bent in the same manner as if for scribbling, but I prefer that they
should not be bent quite so much; and then by means of a soft piece of wood
the teeth are to be all bent at the root, and this is accomplished by drawing
the surface of wood over the teeth with pressure, in such manner that the part
of each between the elbow and the point may stand vertical. The cards thus
prepared are to be fixed on the gig.cylinder, so as to bring the teeth of the
cards sideways into action,—that is, the teeth of each staple will succeed each
other into action; or, in place of using cards with bent pointed wire, I can use
cards with straight wire teeth pointed, in which case I prefer to use them in
the same way as that above described,—that is, by causing the two teeth of the

page_text: same staple to succeed each other into action, and therefore they should by
preference be made with wide crowns. I do not, however, confine myself
thereto.
The Drawing shows an arrangement of machinery such as I prefer for
carrying out my Invention, but other machinery may be used so long as the
mode of applying the teeth of the wire cards for performing the parts of the
process above mentioned be retained.
Figure 1 is a plan of the machine. Figures 2 and 3 are an end view and
section thereof, and Figure 4 shows a plan and edge view of one of the boards
with cards set thereon so as to come into action sideways. The nature of the
framing of the machine is clearly shown in the Drawing. A is the gig
cylinder, having fixed thereon several boards J, with wire card thereon
at K, K; these boards are about one and a quarter inch thick and
three and a half inches wide, and nearly the sanie length as the barrel
of the gig mill, and each board is so divided that when the pieces of wire
card are nailed thereon there are spaces between the pieces of wire card
about half an inch less than the length of the pieces of wire card, and where
the pieces of wire card are fixed on the boards the surface is raised and
rounded in the centre to the extent of about a quarter of an inch in its length.
The boards thus having pieces of wire card fixed thereon are to be fastened to
the cylinder by screws in the ordinary way, in such manner that the pieces of
card on one board shall come opposite the spaces in the next board. In using
this gig mill for the purposes above mentioned it will not be necessary that the
cloth should press thereon so strongly as when raising a pile. B, B, are two
rollers which receive the cloth and have the cloth wound from one to the other
by means of the axis F, which has a pinion at one end which takes into and
drives either of the cog wheels on the axes of the rollers B, one end of the axis
F being supported in a bearing in the lever L which moves on an axis at M;
and by means of the rod N the pinion may be made to engage with either of
the cog wheels on the axes B, there being a projection or pin on the rod N
which takes into either of three holes in the end framing, by which the pinion
can be kept in gear with either of the cog wheels, or in a central position
away from either of the cog wheels. The axes B have friction wheels affixed
thereon, which are acted on breaks or weighted levers G to regulate the
unwinding of the cloth from their respective rollers B. The axis F receives
motion from the axis of the barrel A of the gig mill by means of a drum on
that axis giving motion to an endless strap, which acts on a drum fixed on the
axis F. The axis of the barrel A receives motion from a steam engine or
other power by a strap acting on the fixed pulley or drum on the axis. C is a

page_text: cylinder or roller heated by steam which is brought to the hollow axis, as is
well understood, by a steam pipe I. The cloth passes over the cylinder C and
under the roller O and over the roller D, the roller D moving in a trough of
water. The dotted line H indicates the course of the cloth. I would remark,
that either the first or the second part of my Invention may be carried out by
applying cards, as herein described, on the cylinder A of this machine, or other
arrangements of machines may be employed.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I would have it understood that I do not
confine myself to the details herein described, so long as the peculiar character
of either part of my Invention be retained; but what I claim is,.
First, the so applying wire cards having bent teeth, that the teeth may come
into action sideways. And,
Secondly, I claim the applying wire cards with pointed straight teeth to
the purpose of performing the parts of the process of dressing cloth, as
herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Clisild Daniell, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Third day of April, One thousand eight
hundred and forty-six.