IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY APPLICABLE TO THE DRESSING OF WOOLLEN AND OTHER CLOTHS REQUIRING SUCH PROCESS
Year: 1836

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, OLIVER
BIRD, of Woodchester, in the County of Gloucester, Clothier, and WILLIAM
LEWIS, of Briniscombe, in the Parish of Stroud, in the said County, Clothier,
send greeting.
WHEREAS is most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Thirteenth day of July,
in the seventh year of His reign, give and grant unto us, the said Oliver Bird
and William Lewis, our heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, His
especial license, sole privilege, full power, and authority, that we, the said
Oliver Bird and William Lewis, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
should and lawfully might, during the term of years therein expressed, make,
use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, our Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY APPLICABLE TO
THE DRESSING OF WOOLLEN AND OTHER CLOTHS REQUIRING SUCH PROCESS;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, that if we, the said Oliver
Bird and William Lewis, should not particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, and cause the same to
be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said. Letters Patent, that
then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever
thereby granted, should, utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in and
by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large
appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
Oliver Bird and William Lewis, do hereby declare that the nature of our said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the Drawing hereunto annexed, and
the following description thereof, that is to say :-
Figure 1 is an endview or vertical section in a plane at right angles to that
of Figure 2, which is a front elevation. Both Figures are drawn by a scale of
one inch to a foot, and the same letters of reference apply to the same parts of
the machinery in both. A is the frame of cast iron; B is the horizontal axis
of the teazle barrel, which is driven in the common way; C is the top, and D
the bottom winds or cylinders, on which the cloth is wound in the usual
manner; E, F, G, II, are four breasting rollers for guiding the cloth in
passing the teazles; I is a pinion at each end of the machine, fixed on a
horizontal axis, baving its bearings in A, and turned occasionally by the handle
J, as required. The teeth of I act in a toothed portion of the ring K, which
carries the bearings of F, G, H, in order to give more or less breast between
E and F; a is a small ring bolted to A, and serving as a centre, on which the
outer ring K turns when acted on by I; f, g, h, shew the highest places of
F, G, H, and f, g, h, shew the lowest places of the same breasting rollers.
The distances of F, G, H, from the axis B are adjustable by means of the
screws b, b, b In the Figures the axes of these rollers F, G, H, are repre-
sented as horizontal and parallel to the axis B, but in order to give a traversing
direction to the cloth in passing over them, one of the two pinions I may be
disengaged from its ring K, which may then be turned a small portion of a
revolution, while the other ring K at the other end of the machine is at rest,
and when so adjusted I may be again engaged with it, by which arrangement
the axes of F, G, and H, will be out of their former horizontal position; or
instead of this adjustment, one or more of the said rollers may be altered by
shifting the place of 6 in its support K. In this gig mill, we claim as our
Invention the described application of breasting rollers, for the purpose of
giving repeated and various entries to the teazle points as the cloth i passes
against them, producing a far better effect on the cloth with a considerable
saving in the wear of the teazles in comparison with common gig mills.
In witness whereof, we, the said Oliver Bird and William Lewis, have
hereunto severally and respectively set our hands and seals, this Tenth
day of September, One thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.
OLIVER (L.S.) BIRD.
WIM
(L.S.)
LEWIS.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Tenth day of September, in
the seventh year of the reign of His Majesty King William the Fourth
the said Oliver Bird and William Lewis came before our said Lord the King
in His Chancery, and acknowledged the instrument aforesaid, and all and
every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And
also the instrument aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute made in the fifty-fifth year of the reign of His late Majesty King
George the Third
Inrolled the Twelfth day of September, One thousand eight hundred and
thirty-six.