IMPROVE- MENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO MACHINERY FOR 'MILLING' OR 'FULLING' FABRICS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Leeming Webster, of Dewsbury, in the County
of York, Milling Machine Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO MACHINERY FOR 'MILLING' OR 'FULLING'
FABRICS."
Scaled the 3rd August 1875, and dated the 6th February 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Leeming Webster at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 6th February 1875.
I, LEEMING WEBSTER, of Dewsbury, in the County of York, Milling
Machine Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO MACHINERY FOR MILLING' OR FULLING
FABRICS," to be as follows:
This Invention consists in the application or employment of carthen-
ware or enamelled iron for the surfaces of the rollers and the flanges,
and the spouts, tongues, and lids, and the throats and knocking-off
boards forming parts of "milling" machines, and the turns, checks, and

page_text: bottoms of stocks, and the nebs of the feet of the said stocks, instead of
brass and wood as now used for those parts, whereby the cost of such
machinery is reduced, and the efficiency and durability is increased.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Leeming Webster in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 6th August 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LEEMING
WEBSTER, of Dewsbury, in the County of York, Milling Machine Maker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Leeming Webster, Her special
licence that I, the said Leeming Webster, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Leeming Webster, my
executors, administrators, and 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 "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO MACHINERY FOR 'MILLING' OR FULLING
FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Leeming
Webster, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Leeming Webster, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
ïs to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and

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This Invention consists in the application or employment of earthen-
ware or enamelled iron for the surfaces of the rollers and the flanges,
and the spouts, tongues, lids, and knocking-off boards in milling
machines, and the turns, cheeks, and bottoms of stocks, and the "nebs
of the feet of stocks, instead of brass and wood, as now used for those
parts, whereby the cost of such machinery is reduced and the efficiency
and durability is increased.
When using earthenware or "pot" for the above purposes the material
is ground fine, so that when hardened the surface shall be perfectly
smooth and free from lumps. The earthenware as ordinarily made, when
used for sanitary pipes and similar purposes, may be used with advantage,
but I prefer to use a finer quality prepared as above described, other-
wise the full benefit would not be derived from the use of this material.
The same is to be observed when enamelled iron is used instead of
earthenware, namely, that the enamel be perfectly smooth.
In addition to the purposes above mentioned to which my Invention
is applicable, I also employ the finer quality, or white earthenware and
enamelled iron in the manufacture of the throats of such machinery.
It will be found in practice that either of the materials herein
mentioned is preferable to either wood or brass, inasmuch as they are
more durable, being less affected by moisture of all kinds and friction,
and smoother, and less expensive.
In witness whereof, I, the said Leeming Webster, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Second day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
Witness,
J. W. TASKER,
Patent Agent,
Halifax.
LEEMING WEBSTER. (L.S.)