AN IMPROVEMENT ON THE SYSTEM OF CARD MAKING BY A METHOD OF CUTTING TEETH FOR CARDING OF WOOL AND Tow
Year: 1806

page_text: ROYSTON'S SPECIFICATION.
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, JAMES ROYSTON, of
Halifax, in the County of York, Card Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Sixth day of November, in the forty-seventh year of His reign,
did give and grant unto me, the said James Royston, my exors, admors, and
assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said James Royston, my exors, admors, and assigns, and every of them, by
myself or themselves, or by my or their deputy or deputies, servants, agents, or
such other as I, the said James Royston, my exors, admors, or assigns, should
at any time agree with and in others, from time to time and at all times there-
after, during the term of fourteen years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend his Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT ON THE
SYSTEM OF CARD MAKING BY A METHOD OF CUTTING TEETH FOR CARDING OF WOOL
AND Tow," within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
in such manner as to me, the said James Royston, my exors, admors, and
assigns, or any of them, should in my or their discretion seem meet. And that
I, the said James Royston, my exors, admors, and assigns, should and lawfully

page_text: might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, or advantage, from
time to time coming, growing, accruing, or arising, by reason of the said
Invention, for and during the said term of fourteen years; in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, that if I, the said James Royston,
should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be enrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within one calender month next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent
and liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease,
determine, and become void, as in and by the said Letters Patent (relation
being thereunto had), may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Royston, do hereby declare, that my said Invention is described and
ascertained in and by the Drawings and description thereof in the margin
of these Presents. The same letters refer to the same parts in both the
Figures.
Figure first, A is a cast metal plate upon which the rest of the materials
are fixed. B is a spindle or shaft with the fly wheel and handle C, by which
the whole machine is put in motion. D, D, are a pair of bevel wheels of
equal size which work the upper spindle or shaft E, on which is fixed a
receiving screw. F is a conducting rod, on which the wire staples for the
cards slide down to the receiving screw where they are cut. G, a piece of iron,
which is fixed parallel to the screw for the purpose of holding down the staples
as they pass through it. H, an upright plate screwed down to the plate A,
and on which two steel cutters are fixed at I, which are more fully shown in
the cross section, Figure 2nd. K is a wrought-iron plate which works upon a
pin in the upright plate H, and has a steel cutter upon the top for the purpose
of cutting the wires as they pass through the screw on the spindle E, which
cutter is also shewn in Figure 2nd. L is a diagonal plate on which the spindle
E is fixed. M, a regulating bolt for the purpose of raising or lowering the
plate L, to which the spindle E is fixed for cutting longer or shorter staples, as
occasion may require. N, a steel tappet upon the shaft B, which moves tho
plate K, where the steel cutter upon the top cuts one end of the wire staple
against the cutter at I, and by moving round changes the position of the
plate K, and cuts the other end of the wire staples against the opposite cutter;
and by the continual motion of the machine, the staples slide down upon the
spindle E after they are cut. By means of the spindle E laying in an oblique

page_text: direction, the wire staples are cut to a point as they pass the cutters, which
never has been practiced before my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Royston, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and six.