AN IMPROVED METHOD, BY CERTAIN MACHINERY APPLICABLE TO STOCKS OR FULLING MACHINES, OF MILLING AND SCOURING WOOLLEN CLOTHS AND OTHER FABRICS REQUIRING SUCH PROCESS
Year: 1828

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DANIEL
JOBBINS, of Uley, in the County of Gloucester, Millman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Third day of June, in the ninth year of His reign, did,
for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Daniel Jobbins, His especial licence that I, the said Daniel Jobbins, my
exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Daniel Jobbins,
my exors, admors, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, the
Dominion of Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"AN IMPROVED METHOD, BY CERTAIN MACHINERY APPLICABLE TO STOCKS OR FULLING
MACHINES, OF MILLING AND SCOURING WOOLLEN CLOTHS AND OTHER FABRICS
REQUIRING SUCH PROCESS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained
a proviso obliging me, the said Daniel Jobbins, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature
of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and
to cause the same to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within two months next and immediately after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Daniel Jobbins, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and

page_text: the manner in which the same is to be performed, is described and ascertained
by the Drawings annexed to the margin hereof, and by the words following
(that is to say):
these
In Fig. I., N is the stock of a fulling mill opened; M, the chamber or
trough in which the cloth is placed to be fulled or scoured; L and K are the 5
feet or beaters; H, F, and H, G, are arms or shanks passing through the feet
and moveable on a roller or pin at H. A, B, C is a crank which is more
particularly represented in Fig. II. at A, C, B; to that crank are attached the
connecting rods B, D, F, and A, E, G, which are fastened to the shanks H, F,
and H, G, at F and G, by pins on which they move. At D and E there are
joints in the connecting rods, one of which joints is shewn in Fig. III.;
joints may be made in several ways, but I approve of and use the following:-
In Fig. III., A, E, G, is a connecting rod, with a joint at E, which is permitted
to open on the upper sido a, b, to the extent of about one tenth part of the
circumference of the joint, and the under part of it to about half that extent;
these joints, by lengthening the connecting rods, are of great use in giving
room for the motion of the crank when impeded by the motion of the cloth in
the trough.
Whereas in the old stocks the shanks were moved by tappetts, which
permitted the feet suddenly to descend at equal intervals by their own
weight, and that method was altered by the introduction of such a crank as
gave a continued motion without a sudden fall to the feet; and whereas it is
more beneficial that the feet should fall by their own weight, and not have a
continued motion without a sudden fall; and whereas it is beneficial to increase
the number of strokes of the feet at pleasure, I claim as my Invention the
combination of machinery above described, consisting of the jointing, connected
rods, and cranks above described, made up with the other parts of a stock or
fulling machine above described, producing those results, but I do not claim
any particular parts as being new. Instead of these joints, there may be
sliding rods in the connecting rods, or other methods of increasing the length
of the connecting rods. This piece of combined machinery will mill, full, and
scour woolen cloths and other fabrics more beneficially and usefully, and with
less power and more expedition, than when tappetts were used, or any crank
that produced a continued motion of the feet without any sudden fall.
In witness whercof, I, the said Daniel Jobbins, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.
DANIEL JOBBINS. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fourth day of July, in
the year of our Lord 1828, the aforesaid Daniel Jobbins came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Second day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and twenty-eight.