IMPROVEMENTS IN MILLING OR FULLING MACHINES FOR WOOLLEN AND OTHER WOVEN OR FELTED FABRICS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Austin and John Austin, both of Leeds,
in the County of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MILLING OR FULLING MACHINES FOR WOOLLEN AND OTHER WOVEN OR FELTED
FABRICS."
Sealed the 31st August 1875, and dated the 12th March 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Austin and John
Austin at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 12th March 1875.
We, PETER AUSTIN and Joun Austin, both of Leeds, in the County
of York, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MILLING OR FULLING MACHINES FOR WOOLLEN AND OTHER
WOVEN OR FELTED FABRICS," to be as follows :-
Our Invention relates to certain improvements in milling or fulling
machines whereby they are rendered capable of doing a greater amount
of work and in a moro satisfactory manner than in machines of ordinary
construction, all as hereafter described.

page_text: Within framework and in suitable bearings we mount a flanged roller;
above this roller and at a convenient distance apart from each other we
provide two pressing rollers in adjustable bearings, the required pressure
being imparted thereto by means of springs or their equivalents.
Within the framework are provided a "confining spout and throat "
of ordinary construction, and placed in a convenient position with regard
to the pressing rollers.
By having the two pressing rollers acting upon the material previous
to its entering the "confining spout" the operation of milling or fulling
is very much accelerated; thereby not only is a great saving of time
effected, but also the work is completed in a more satisfactory manner.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Peter Austin and John Austin in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 11th September 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, PETER
AUSTIN and JOHN AUSTIN, both of Leeds, in the County of York, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said Peter Austin and John Austin,
Her special licence that we, the said Peter Austin and John Austin,
our exccutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the
said Peter Austin and John Austin, our exccutors, 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 Ircland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MILLING OR FULLING
MACHINES FOR WOOLLEN AND OTHER WOVEN OR FELTED FABRICS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said Peter Austin and John
Austin, our exccutors or administrators, by au instrument in writing
under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly

page_text: describo 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 we, the said Peter Austin and John Austin, 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, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon, that is to
say :-
Our Invention relates to certain improvements in milling or fulling
machines, whereby they are rendered capable of doing a greater amount
of work and in a more satisfactory manner than in machines of ordinary
construction, all as hereafter described.
And in order that our Invention may be completely understood,
reference is given to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings and to the
letters of reference marked thereon.
Figure 1 of the said Drawings represents a front elevation; Figure 2,
a longitudinal section through line A, B, Figure 1; and Figure 3, a
side elevation of machinery constructed according to our Invention.
Within the framework a and in suitable bearings 6 we mount a
flanged roller c of ordinary construction; above this roller and at a
convenient distance apart from each other we provide two pressing
rollers d, which are carried in adjustable bearings c, the required pressure
being imparted thereto by means of the springs for their equivalents.
By preference the flanged roller c and the upper rollers d are geared
together by means of the spur wheels g, and motion is transmitted from
the driving pulley / to the spur wheels g by means of the spur pinion i
from suitable motive power.
Within the framework a arc provided a confining spout ; and
throat K of ordinary construction placed in a convenient position with
regard to the pressing rollers d, as shewn.
Other parts of this machine not explained or shown are of ordinary
construction.
The direction of the material during the operation is shewn by dotted

page_text: By having the two pressing rollers acting upon the material previous
to its entering the "confining spout" the operation of milling or fulling
is very much accelerated, thereby not only is a greater saving of time
effected, but also the work is completed in a more satisfactory manner
than heretofore.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and shewn by
Drawings how the same may be carried into practice, we would have it
understood that we do not limit ourselves to the exact limits, details, or
configuration of the parts we have explained and shewn, as the same may
be varied or modified without in any way departing from the nature of
our Invention; but what we do claim and desire to be secured to us by
Letters Patent are,-
Firstly. The arrangement of adjustable rollers & in combination with
the flanged roller c, substantially as and for purposes herein set forth.
Secondly. The arrangement of rollers c and d in combination with the
various parts forming the machine for milling or fulling woollen and
other woven or felted fabrics, substantially as herein set forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said Peter Austin and John Austin,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Tenth day of
September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-five.
PETER AUSTIN. (L.S.)
JOHN AUSTIN.
(L.S.)