IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS TO BE SPUN."
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Shore, of Rochdale, in the County of
Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING WOOL AND
OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS TO BE SPUN."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Shore at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
28th February 1867.
I, SAMUEL SHORE, of Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING
WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS TO BE SPUN," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in an improved system of preparing wool and other
fibrous materials to be spun. Instead of passing the fibrous material through
only a single carding engine for producing the ordinary sheet of fibres I first
make two or more sheets by passing the material through as many preliminary
carding or scribbling machines having doffers, and then lead the sheets to the
feed rollers of the carding engine, and combine them into one, and thus a
greater thickness of carded or straightened fibres can be presented to the
finishing or next preparing machine than by the present process; and also by

page_text: varying the colors and strengths of the sheets threads or yarns of variegated
colors and textures can be obtained.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Shore in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
27th August 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
SHORE, of Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of February, 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 me,
the said Samuel Shore, Her special license that I, the said Samuel Shore,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Samuel Shore, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 PREPARING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS TO BE SPUN," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Samuel Shore, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, 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 Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Shore, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say) :-
This Invention consists in an improved system of preparing wool and other
fibrous materials to be spun, milled, fulled, or felted. Instead of passing the
fibrous material through only a single carding engine for producing the
ordinary sheet of fibres I first make two or more sheets by passing the material
through as many preliminary carding or scribbling machines having doffers,
and then lead the sheets to the feed rollers of the carding engine, according to
the strengths or thicknesses required, and combine them into one, and thus a

page_text: greater thickness of carded or straightened fibres can be presented to the
finishing or next preparing machine than by the present process; and also by
varying the colors and strengths of the sheets threads or yarns of variegated
colors and textures can be obtained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Shore, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named Samuel Shore, in
the presence of
E. J. HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.
SAMUEL SHORE. (L.S.)