IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR OILING WOOL OR FIBRE TO PREPARE IT FOR CARDING, COMBING, OR OTHER TREATMENT
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis John Crossley, of Willow Hall, near Halifax,
and Joseph Sunderland, of Halifax, in the County of York, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR OILING WOOL OR FIBRE TO
PREPARE IT FOR CARDING, COMBING, OR OTHER TREATMENT."
Sealed the 10th December 1867, and dated the 15th June 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis John Crossley and
Joseph Sunderland at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 15th June 1867.
We, LOUIS JOHN CROSSLEY, of Willow Hall, near Halifax, and JOSEPH
SUNDERLAND, of Halifax, in the County of York, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR OILING WOOL OR
FIBRE TO PREPARE IT FOR CARDING, COMBING, OR OTHER TREATMENT," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in machinery for oiling
For
wool or fibre to prepare it for carding, combing, or other treatment.
this purpose over an endless apron or other instrument which carries the wool
or fibre forward continuously and in a thin layer there is mounted a trough
containing oil. Along this trough from end to end an axis passes, and near
each extremity of the trough there is a disc fixed upon the axis, and wires or
rods are strained between these dises; then as the axis revolves the wires or
rods dip into the oil in the trough and emerge with oil adhering to them.
There is also extending from end to end of the trough a stationary brush su

page_text: placed that the strained wires or rods as they come up out of the oil strike
the bristles of the brush in passing them, and by this means the oil which the
wires or rods take up is thrown off in a fine spray, which is directed on to the
surface of the wool or fibre.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Louis John Crossley and Joseph Sunderland in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 14th December 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, LOUIS
JOHN CROSSLEY, of Willow Hall, near Halifax, and JOSEPH SUNDERLAND, of
Halifax, in the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Louis John Crossley and Joseph Sunderland, Her special licence
that we, the said Louis John Crossley and Joseph Sunderland, our exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Louis
John Crossley and Joseph Sunderland, 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 OILING WOOL OR FIBRE TO PREPARE IT
POR CARDING, COMBING, OR OTHER TREATMENT," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Louis John Crossley and Joseph Sunderland,
our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our
or their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one us or them,
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 Louis John Crossley and Joseph
Sunderland, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in machinery for oiling wool

page_text: or fibre to prepare it for carding, combing, or other treatment. For this
purpose over an endless apron or gill combs or other instrument which
carries the wool or fibre forward continuously and in a thin layer there is
mounted a trough containing oil. Along this trough from end to end an axis
passes, and near each extremity of the trough there is a disc fixed upon the
axis, and wires or rods are strained between these discs; then as the axis
revolves the wires or rods dip into the oil in the trough and emerge with oil
adhering to them. There is also extending from end to end of the trough a
stationary brush so placed that the strained wires or rods as they come up out of
the oil strike the bristles of the brush in passing them, and by this means the
oil which the wires or rods take up is thrown off in a fine spray, which is
directed on to the surface of the wool or fibre.
In the Drawing hereunto annexed is shown an oiling apparatus constructed
as above described.
Figure 1 shows a back view, Figure 2 a transverse section, and Figure 3
an end view of the apparatus.
a is the trough containing oil; each end of this trough is carried by an
arm 6 turning on a rule joint 6', as seen at Figure 3; the fixed half of the
joint is carried by a bar 6, along which is a slot 63, through which bolts are
passed to bolt the bar to the framing of the carding or other machine to
which the oiling apparatus is to be applied. To each end of the trough a is
bolted an end plate c; each end plate is cast with a boss c¹ on its inner side,
which bosses are suitably bored to receive and support the axis d, which
extends from end to end of the trough, and passes out through one of the end
plates, as shown; the end plates are also formed with flanges e¹, between
which the parts of the wooden cover e are held, as shown. On the projecting
end of the axis is fixed a toothed wheel d¹ gearing with a pinion f¹ on a
hollow axis f; this axis has on it a pulley f, to which motion is transmitted
by a belt; the axis f turns on a stud g¹ carried by an arm g, the lower end of
which is formed with a foot g², by which it is bolted to the framing of the
machine; the stud g¹ can be raised or lowered in a slot in the upper end of
the arm, and this end of the arm can also be set nearer to or further from the
axis d by forming slots in the foot g³ for the bolts by which it is held down to
pass through; the toothed wheel d¹ and pinion f¹ can by this means readily
be changed for others of different diameters, and thus the speed at which the
axis d is rotated can be adjusted; d2 are two discs fixed on the axis d, one
near each extremity of the trough; between these dises are passed wires d',
which as the axis revolves alternately dip into the oil in the trough, and
emerge therefrom with oil adhering to them; h is the stationary brush against

page_text: which the wires strike as they are carried round by the axis d; the ends of
the brush are fixed by screw bolts to the upper ends of arms k, which at their
lower ends are fixed by screw bolts to the plates c; at the ends of the
trough 1, 1, are guard plates bolted to each end of the trough, which prevent
oil being scattered at the sides of any machine to which the oiling apparatus
may be applied. The end plate c through which the axis d passes has
also a cup or trough attached to its exterior, by which any oil dropping or
running down from the axis may be caught and allowed to run back into the
trough.
In witness whereof, we, the said Louis John Crossley and Joseph
Sunderland, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Thirteenth
day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-seven.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by
the said Louis John Crossley
and Joseph Sunderland in the
presence of
HEN. PHILBRICK,
LOUIS JOHN CROSSLEY. (L.S.)
JOSEPH SUNDERLAND.
(L.S.)
Sol., Halifax.