IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FAD FINIONING LINDY COTTON AND OTHER WARRICS"
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Colin Mather and William Wilkinson Platt,
of Salford Iron Works, Salford, in the County of Lancaster,
Millwrights and Engineers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY FAD FINIONING LINDY COTTON AND OTHER WARRICS"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Colin Mather and
William Wilkinson Platt at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 11th November 1852.
We, COLIN MATHER and WILLIAM WILKINSON PLATT, of Salford
Iron Works, Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Millwrights and
Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR FINISHING LINEN, COTTON, AND OTHER
FABRICS" to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object a combination of machinery for
producing the finish hitherto produced by chest mangles and
beetling machines, and consists of three rollers, between which a
roll of fabric is placed. The upper roller is pressed by weights, or
by hydraulic or other power, towards the other two rollers, and such
two rollers have motion communicated to them, first in one direc-

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said Colin Mather and William Wilkinson
Platt in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th May 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
COLIN MATHER and WILLIAM WILKINSON PLATT, of Salford Iron
Works, Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Millwrights and
Engineers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in
the sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto us, the said Colin Mather and
William Wilkinson Platt, Her special license that we, the said Colin
Mather and William Wilkinson Platt, our executors, administrators;
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Colin Mather and William
Wilkinson Platt, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR FINISHING
LINEN, COTTON, AND OTHER FABRICS," 'upon the condition (amongst others).
that we, the said Colin Mather and William Wilkinson Platt, or
one of us, by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals,
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 Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Colin Mather. and William:

page_text: Wilkinson Platt, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, are particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof
(that is to say):
This Invention has for its object a combination of machinery for
producing the finish hitherto produced by chest mangles and
beetling machines, and consists of three rollers, between which a roll
of fabric is placed. The upper roller is pressed by weights, or by
hydraulic or other power, towards the other two rollers, and such
two rollers have motion communicated to them, first in one direc
tion, and then in the other, by which the direction of the pressure
on the roll of fabric will be constantly changing. And in order
our Invention may be more fully understood, we will proceed to
describe the means pursued by us.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1, is a side elevation; Figure 2, an end elevation, and Figure
3, a plan of a machine combined or arranged according to our
Invention, and in each of these figures the same letters are used to
indicate similar parts; a, is the framing of the machine, the nature
of which is clearly shown in the Drawing; b, b, b, are three rollers
of iron or other suitable material; c, is a roller, on which the fabric
is wound. We prefer to obtain the required pressure by weighted
levers, but hydraulic or other power may be resorted to, as will
readily be understood by a mechanic. d, e, are two levers at each
side of the machine; and fif, are connecting rods which connect
these levers; 9,9, are weights, acting on the levers e, e. The effect
of these weighted levers is brought on to the axes of the upper
roller b, as shown. h, h, are screws passing through the levers d,
and it is by these screws that the upper roller b, is raised or lowered
according to the size of the roll of fabric which is to be introduced
into the machine, and it is through these screws that the pressure
of the weighted levers is brought to bear on the ends of the axis
of the upper roller b. The red circles show the pitch lines of the
spur wheels which give motion to the machine, which we prefer to

page_text: be done by connecting the spur wheel in the centre with any
ordinary reversing motion, so that, all the three rollers b, may be
turned first in one direction; and then in the other, by which a
finish will be produced similar to that obtained by the chest mangle
or beetling machine.
Having thus described, the nature of our Invention, and the
manner of performing the same, we would have it understood that
we make no claim to any of the parts separately; but what we claim
is, the mode, herein described, of combining and working the machine
above explained..
In witness whereof, the said Colin Mather and William Wilkin-
son Platt have hereunto set their hands and seals, this
Ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-three.
Witness,.
JAMES BROWN,
COLIN MATHER.
(L.S..)
WILLIAM WILKINSON PLATT. (L.S.)
- 12 Arlington St.,
Salford.