IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR FINISHING WAREH DADDING
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Henry Gartside and Charles Timothy
Bradbury, of Buckton Valc, in the County of Chester, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR FINISHING
WAREH DADDING"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Henry Gartside.
and Charles Timothy Bradbury at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents, with their Petition, on the 15th January 1875.
We, JOHN HENRY GARTSIDE and CHARLES TIMOTHY BRADBURY, of
Buckton Vale, in the County of Chester, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR
FINISHING WOVEN FABRICS," (to be as follows) :—
This Invention relates to the fallers in what is commonly called a
beetle machine, wherein the fallers are used in connection with a cylinder
or roller upon which the cloth or fabric to be finished is being wound,
and consists in various improved arrangements and combinations of

page_text: wrought iron or Bessemer steel, wood, and anti-concussion materials, in
order to prevent the excessive wear and tear of the fallers and enable
them to resist the usual breaking action caused by the incessant con-
cussion when in use.
In one arrangement we employ two wrought iron or Bessemer steel
bars or straps welded or cast at one end to a hollow wrought iron or
Bessemer steel block or shoe, so formed and curved that it can be used
as the bottom of the faller, and other parts of the bars are held firmly
at the proper distance apart by rivetted pins, the top ends of the bars
being bent inwards to meet in the middle. In the space between the
bars are placed reduced parts of an upper and lower pair of wooden
blocks, the upper pair of blocks being held together by metal clamps at
the top and bottom, and the lower pair by a metal clamp at the top and
at the bottom by being firmly fitted into the interior of the hollow block
or shoe forming the bottom end of the faller. Between the bent in ends
of the tops of the bars and the upper clamp there is a piece of leather,
india-rubber, or other anti-concussion material, and between the two
middle clamps is keyed a projecting piece of wood mounted with leather
and acted upon by its corresponding tappet on the tappet shaft or
roller, whereby the faller is raised and then allowed to fall by its own
gravity.
In another arrangement we place at the narrow sides or edges of the
bars, at or about the middle, a strong wrought iron or. Bessemer steel
strap having projecting clamps to hold both pairs of wooden blocks in
their places, the space between the sides of the strap corresponding with
the space between the sides of the bars, and therefore the centre or
vertical axis of the faller can be acted upon by a tappet on the tappet
shaft or roller instead of by one on the outside; but it may be here
stated that these arrangements may be modified in various ways so long
as we employ combinations of wrought iron, Bessemer steel, wood, and
anti-concussion materials, in order to prevent the excessive wear and tear
and constant breakages which at present take place in the ordinary
fallers..

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Henry Gartside and Charles Timothy
Bradbury in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 15th July 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
HENRY GARTSIDE and CHARLES TIMOTHY BRADBURY, of Buckton Vale,
in the County of Chester, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said John Henry' Gartside and Charles
Timothy Bradbury, Her special license that we, the said John Henry
Gartside and Charles Timothy Bradbury, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said John Henry Gartside and
Charles Timothy Bradbury; our exccutors, 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 OR APPARATUS
FOR FINISHING WOVEN FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said John Henry Gartside and Charles Timothy Broadbury, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, 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
Scal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said John Henry Gartside and Charles
Timothy Bradbury, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and. by the following statement, that is to
say:-
This Invention relates to the fallers in what is commonly called a

page_text: or roller upon which the cloth or fabric to be finished is being wound,
and consists in various improved arrangements and combinations of
wrought iron or Bessemer steel, wood, and anti-concussion materials, in
order to prevent the excessive wear and tear of the fallers and enable
them to resist the usual breaking action caused by the incessant con-
cussion when in use.
Our improvements will be clearly understood by the following par-
ticular description thereof, reference being had to the figures and letters
on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, in which Figs. 1 and 2 are end
and front views of one of the parts; Fig. 3, a transverse section; and
Figs. 4 and 5, end and front views of one arrangement of our improved
fallers adapted for being acted upon at the outside by a revolving tappet;
and Figs. 6 and 7 are front and end views of a faller in which the tappet
revolves in the interior and acts on the centre or vertical axis.
In the first arrangement we employ two wrought iron or Bessemer
steel bars or straps a welded or cast at the bottom end to a hollow
wrought iron or Bessemer steel block or shoe b, so formed and curved
that it can be used as the bottom of the faller, and other parts of
the bars are held firmly at the proper distance apart by rivetted pins c,
the top ends of the bars being bent inwards, as at d, to meet in the
middle. In the space between the bars are placed reduced parts of an
upper and lower pair of wooden blocks e, f, the upper pair of blocks
being held together by metal clamps g, h, at the top and bottom, and
the lower pair by a metal clamp i at the top and at-the bottom by being
firmly fitted into the interior of the hollow block or shoe b forming the
bottom end of the faller. Between the bent in ends of the tops of the
bars and the upper clamp there is a piece (k) of leather, india-rubber, or
other anti-concussion material, and between the two middle clamps h, i,
is keyed by a key a projecting block of wood m mounted with pieces
of leather n, o, and acted upon at the outside by its corresponding tappet
on the tappet shaft or roller, whereby the faller is raised and then
allowed to fall by its own gravity, and when the several parts are properly
fitted and held tightly together we obtain a faller capable of resisting the
breaking action and wear and tear to an extent not hitherto attained.
In the arrangement shewn in, Figs. 6 and 7 we employ two wrought
iron or Bessemer steel bars or straps q welded or cast to a hollow wrought
iron or Bessemer steel block or shoe », so formed and curved that it can
be used as the bottom of the faller, and to the narrow sides or edges of the

page_text: bars we weld or cast strong straps s, so as to form a case open at the top
and bottom, the top part forming a shoc or holder for holding the bottom
ends of two wooden blocks t held together at the top by the clamp u,
and in the under side of the case there is a wooden block v, and in the
shoe another wooden block w, and it is between these blocks and between
the bars that the tappet wheel revolves for enabling the tappet to act
direct and central on the wooden block v. The wooden blocks slide
against similar wooden blocks of the adjacent fallers, but at the bottom
there is a piece of wood a which slides against the side of one of the
metal bars. Between the clamp u and the bars q there is a piece of
leather, and when desired the block v may be mounted with leather,
and it will be found that by this arrangement and combination of metal,
wood, and anti-concussive materials, a faller is formed of great strength
and power of resistance. But it may be here stated that these arrange-
ments may be modified in various ways so long as we employ com-
binations of wrought iron, Bessemer steel, wood, and anti-concussion
materials, in order to prevent the excessive wear and tear and constant
breakages which at present take place in the ordinary fallers.
Having now described the nature and particulars of our said Invention
we desire it to be understood that we claim, the improved fallers as
herein described and illustrated on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings,
or any mere modifications thereof.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Henry Gartside and Charles
Timothy Bradbury, have hereunto set, our hands and seals, this
Tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-five.