A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR BEATING CARPETS AND OTHER FABRICS
Year: 1872

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Frederick Schlesinger
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 6th July 1872.-A communication from abroad by Augustus
Arnold Schlesinger, residing at San Francisco, California.
I, CHARLES FREDERICK SCIILESINGER, of Holloway, in the County
of Middlesex, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR BEATING CARPETS AND
OTHER FABRICS," (a communication to me from abroad by Augustus
Arnold Schlesinger, resident at San Francisco, California), to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to a new or improved apparatus for beating
carpets and other fabrics, whereby they are effectually freed from dust
in a short period of time without injury to the fabric, the dust being
collected or conveyed away instead of being a nuisance by its immediate
issue and contact with the external air.
The apparatus consists of a large chamber or receptacle of wood,
metal, or other suitable materials, which contains the principal parts of
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page_text: the work.
This chamber may be set on travelling wheels for the
purpose of conveying the apparatus from place to place. Within the
chamber a roller is set in bearings transversely or across its sides, the
roller has a series of grooves cut or turned out at a depth of say six
inches, a width of five inches, and a distance apart of a foot, more or
less.
Another similar roller is set in bearings outside the front of the
chamber at about a similar level, which would be at the lower part of
the same.
The grooves in the rollers each receive a winding coil of a
strap of leather or other suitable fabric, in such manner that when the
grooves have received the coil of the strap or band the surface of the
roller shall be flush or nearly so, the other roller being free to receive
the return coil from the roller charged with the coil.
The straps are fixed in the grooves by staples or other fastenings, and
the end of each strap is provided with a clip or finger capable of holding
the edge or border of a carpet or other fabric. The clips may be made
with hinges, and may be roughened inside to nip the fabric, being
tightened by thumbscrews.
By these means it is evident that a carpet may be drawn to and over
each roller as required, but in order to guide the fabric from the outside
to the inside roller a third roller is arranged on the top of the apparatus,
so that the straps and fabric are actuated in the form of a triangle.
The rollers are actuated by a handle turned by hand or power, and are
connected by shafts, pulleys, and driving bands, so as to move with
corresponding speed.
Within the apparatus, and beyond the grooved roller, a shaft is set
parallel thereto, on which a number of looped ropes or cords are
fastened, having rings or other additional beaters attached. This shaft
receives motion from one of the upper or other pullies and bands, and
causes the beaters to strike on the carpet or fabric while being wound
and unwound, and an adjustable lever being applied to the grooved
rollers and struck by a projection from the outside clip during its
passage changes or reverses the revolution of the rollers, when the
carpet is drawn from one to the other, so that it continually travels
backwards and forwards over the top roller, until thoroughly beaten.
Over the top roller a revolving fan or blower is placed covered with a

page_text: metal casing. This blower receives its motion in the same way as the
others, and blows the dust up a chimney or shaft out of the apparatus,
or into any suitable reservoir or case. Below the fan and in the
chamber a revolving brush serves to finish the surface of the carpet or
fabric as it travels to and from the beaters.