MACHINES FOR CARDING, SCRIBLING, DRESSING, AND BRUSHING WOOL AND WOOLLEN CLOTH
Year: 1804

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
GODWIN, of Avoncliffe, near Bradford, in the County of Wilts, Clothier, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third;
in and by His Letters Patent under His Great Seal of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Thirtieth day
of May, in the forty-fourth year of His reign, for Himself, His heirs and
successors, did give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Godwin, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, His especial license, full power, solo privi-
lege and authority, that I, the said Samuel Godwin, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my
and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said
Samuel Godwin, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within that part of His said Majesty's United Kingdom
called England, His Dominion of Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "MACHINES FOR CARDING, SCRIBLING, DRESSING, AND
BRUSHING WOOL AND WOOLLEN CLOTH;" in which said Letters Patent there is
contained a proviso obliging me, the said Samuel Godwin, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascer-
tain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within one calendar month next and immediately after the date of the said

page_text: recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had,
will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Samuel Godwin, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, by the
Plans or Drawings hereunto annexed, and as follows, (that is to say):-
The merits of this Invention (which is equally useful for cotton or wool)
consist in reducing full one third of the power or force requisite for driving
machines on the old construction. It prevents the flying and wasting of the
finest parts of the wool or cotton, requires little more than half the room,
takes much less card, does more work, and is more easily managed. It is
effected in the manner following:-First, in elevating or applying the whole
circumference of the main cylinder to use, which operates on and regulates
every other movement connected with the machine. From this method of
applying it to use, it will allow of a diminution of full one third in size, weight,
and friction, and presents suflicient space on its surface for placing one or more
additional working rollers, marked in Plate the First, B. From this diminution
it follows that the resistance that the main cylinder meets with in attaching
and detaching the wool to and from its surface must be lessened propor-
tionably to its approximation to the centre or fulcrum. The main cylinders
now universally adopted for scribling and carding have only three or four
working rollers, and are from two feet nine inches to three feet six inches in
diameter, whereas the main cylinder in this improved machine is not more
than from one foot six inches to two feet three inches in diameter. The same
method of application and diminution holls equally good and is of the same
utility in dressing, brushing, and other machines, and is explained by Plate 4,
which represents a brushing or dressing machine, and instead of having the
cloth applied to one side only, shews how it is applied to two or three, by
means of those rollers marked R. The crank and comb are represented,
Plate 1. A represents the crank and comb which finally detaches the wool
from the machine, and instead of working perpendicularly, as in other
machines, in this improved machine works in an inclined direction, by which
means the greatest part of the weight. is taken off from the crank and
supported by D, which are the supports called the crank arms. E is a
balance fly wheel fixed to the crank, which destroys the convulsive motion
caused by the great velocity and irregularity of the weight of the comb, &c.
on the crank bearings. That part of the machine F consists of rollers covered
with cards, and may be made from two to four, six, or eight pair, as the
different sorts of wool they are intended to work may require, each pair of

page_text: rollers increasing in velocity till they present the wool to the roller G, which
delivers it to the main cylinder H. It's application produces this advantage,
that each pair of rollers drawing the wool from the precceding pair, by
increased velocity opens and expands the staple of the wool, &c. and prevents
it from doing that injury to the cards which its immediate delivery without
such preparation occasions, and is another means of lessening the resistance
made against the main cylinder. This principle will be applied to scribling,
carding, and tucking machines, and is clucidated by Plate 2, Fig. 1 and 2,
which contains the two end sections of four pair of rollers, and Plate 3 con-
taining a flat section of both ends of the same. T is a bar or spindle on
which a pulley is fixed, marked in Plate I. Fig. 1, K. It goes thro' the
roller a, Plate 3, and by the wheel 1, Plate 2, Fig. 1, moves wheel 2 and the
roller b, and by the wheel 3, Fig. 2, moves wheel 4 and the roller c, and
the wheel 5, on the roller c, moves wheel 6 and the roller d, and on which is
the cog wheel 7, Plate 2, Fig. 1, which works in wheel 8 and moves roller e,
on which is cog wheel 9, that moves wheel 10 and roller f, on which is cog
wheel 11, Plate 2, Fig. 1, which moves wheel 12 and the roller g, on which is
cog wheel 13, that moves wheel 14 and the roller h, and it likewise drives 15
and 16, which is attached to the feed roller.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Godwin, have hereunto set my
hand and scal, the Second day of June, in the forty-fourth year of
the reign of our said Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the Grace
of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King,
Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and four.