IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PRE- PARING COTTON OR OTHER. FIBROUS MATERIALS TO BE SPUN
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edwin Whittaker, Spinner and Manufacturer, and
Jeremiah Clare, Carder, both.of Hurst, in the County of Lancaster, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PRE-
PARING COTTON OR OTHER. FIBROUS MATERIALS TO BE SPUN."
Sealed the 22nd May 1861, and dated the 5th March 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edwin Whittaker and
Jeremiah Clare at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 5th March 1861.
We, EDWIN WHITTAKER, Spinner and Manufacturer, and JEREMIAH CLARE,
Carder, both of Hurst, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS
FOR PREPARING COTTON OR OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS TO BE SPUN," to be as
follows:-
We extend the principle of the Invention for which we have applied for
Letters Patent, dated the Sixteenth day of January, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-one, No. 124, which is confined to the opener and the blowing
machine to the carding engine, as we find by applying a grid under the carding
cylinder we can advantageously use our Invention of divisions and outlet or
knives to allow the dirt or refuse to escape from the latter as well as the
former.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edwin Whittaker and Jeremiah Clare in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 5th September 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, EDWIN
WHITTAKER, Spinner and Manufacturer, and JEREMIAH CLARE, Carder, both
of Hurst, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Edwin Whittaker and Jeremiah Clare, Her special. licence that we,
the said Edwin Whittaker and Jeremiah Clare, our executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Edwin Whittaker
and Jeremiah Clare, our 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 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING COTTON OR OTHER FIBROUS
MATERIALS TO BE SPUN," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the
said Edwin Whittaker and Jeremiah Clare, our executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of our or 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 we, the said Edwin Whittaker and Jeremiah
Clare, do hereby declare the nature of our 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 (that is to say) :-
Our Invention consists in extending the application of divisions or plates
to the carding engine, the said Invention being described. by us in the
Specification of our Patent, dated the Sixteenth day of January, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-one, No. 124, as being applicable to the. opener
and blowing machine only, but we find that in connection with grids under
the carding cylinder and licker-in roller we can advantageously apply
our Invention of divisions or plates to the carding engine in order to break
the centrifugal force of the cylinder, and to prevent the dirt and refuse

page_text: from being taken up again, the said divisions or plates being placed in any
desired positions.
The application of our said Invention to the carding engine will be clearly
understood by reference to the accompanying Drawing, which is a longitudinal
section of an ordinary carding engine with one of our arrangements of plates
or divisions under the carding cylinder and licker-in roller. a represents
the cylinder; b, the licker-in; c, the grid, formed of round, square, or angular
bars placed across the periphery of the cylinder; and d, the plates or divisions
which may be placed in any desired positions.
Having thus described the nature and particulars of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we desire it to be under-
stood that we claim the application of plates or divisions to the carding engine
in connection with grids for the purpose of breaking the centrifugal force
of the cylinder, and preventing the dirt and refuse from being again taken
up, as such improvements are herein described and illustrated in the accom-
panying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jeremiah Clare, for and on behalf of
myself and the said Edwin Whittaker, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the within-
named Jeremiah Clare, in the pre-
sence of
E. J. HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.
JEREMIAH CLARE. (L.S.)