IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR BEATING AND DRYING WOOL AND OTHER TEXTILE AND FILAMENTOUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street, in
the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY FOR BEATING AND DRYING WOOL AND OTHER TEXTILE AND
FILAMENTOUS SUBSTANCES." A communication from abroad by Louis
César Carlier-Vitu, of Ribemont, France.
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Sealed the 18th September 1863, and dated the 20th March 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald Brooman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
20th March 1863.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR BEATING AND DRYING WOOL AND OTHER
TEXTILE AND FILAMENTOUS SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in improved machinery applicable to beating all
kinds of textile and filamentous substances, such as flax, hemp, silk, and
cotton, and particularly wool in the raw state before or after scouring. The
machinery is composed of a framework, an endless feed belt, two grooved or
or plain feed cylinders, three rollers with arms or beaters, which also act
as fans, a grating, and a casing having an opening at one end. The casing
encloses the beater and fan rollers and the grating. The wool, supposing that
to be the substance to be treated, is placed on the feed belt, from whence it is
taken by the feed cylinders and delivered over to the action of the first beater
roller, which passes it to the second roller to be acted upon by the beaters

page_text: thereon, and then it is subjected to the beaters on the third roller, which is driven
at greater speed than the two first rollers, and which finally drives the wool
out through the opening in the casing. The wool which is beaten by the beaters
on the rollers is at the same time dried by the currents of air propelled by the
beaters which, as before stated, act as fans, and all foreign matters beaten out
from the wool pass through the grating out of the machine.
In some cases I place a comb cylinder between the two feed cylinders and
the first beater roller, whereby the wool would be subjected to a drawing
before passing on to the beaters. The beaters on the rollers may be of any
form and shape desired, and they may be made to incline to the right or left,
or may be made to form a screw on the body of the roller. The number of
beater and fan rollers and the number of beaters on the rollers may be
increased in proportion to the beating and drying required. Again, I some-
times place in the interior of the casing steam or hot air pipes to afford
any degree of heat required for drying the filamentous substances under
treatment.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 18th September 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence, that I, the said
Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, admi-
nistrators, 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 BEATING AND DRYING
WCOL AND OTHER TEXTILE AND FILAMENTOUS SUBSTANCES," (a communication
from abroad by Louis César Carlier-Vitu, of Ribemont, France,) upon the

page_text: condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their,
or one of their hands and seals, 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 I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say:-
This Invention consists in improved machinery applicable to beating all
kinds of textile and filamentous substances, such as flax, hemp, silk, and
cotton, and particularly wool in the raw state before or after scouring.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is an elevation, Figure 2 a plan,
and Figure 3 a section, through the line a, b, of Figure 2, of this improved
machinery.
It is composed of a framework A; an endless feed belt B, grooved or plain;
feed cylinders C, C¹; three rollers D, D₁, D", with arms or beaters, which also
act as fans; a grating E; and a casing F, having an opening at one end G. The
casing encloses the beater and fan rollers and the grating.
Figure 4 is an end view, and Figure 5 a front view, of one of the
beater and fan rollers detached. The wool, supposing that to be the substance
to be treated, is placed on the feed belt B, from whence it is taken by the
feed cylinders C, C', and delivered over to the action of the first beater
roller D, which passes it to the second roller D' to be acted upon by the
beaters thereon, and then it is subjected to the beaters on the third roller D",
which is driven at greater speed than the two first rollers, and which
finally drives the wool out through the opening G. The wool which is beaten
by the beaters on the rollers is at the same time dried by the currents of air
propelled by the beaters which, as before stated, act as fans, and all foreign
matters beaten out from the wool pass through the grating out of the machine.
In some cases I place a comb cylinder between the two feed cylinders C, C¹,
and the first beater roller D, whereby the wool would be subjected to a drawing
before passing on to the beaters. The beaters on the rollers may be of any
form and shape desired, and they may be made to incline to the right or left,
or may be made to form a screw on the body of the roller. The number of
beater and fan rollers and the number of beaters on the rollers may be

page_text: increased in proportion to the beating and drying required. Again, I some-
times place in the interior of the casing steam or hot air pipes to afford
any degree of heat required for drying the filamentous substances under
treatment.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the improved
machinery for beating and drying wool and other textile and filamentous
substances constructed, arranged, and operating substantially as herein-before
described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of September, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
R. A. BROOMAN.
(L.8.)