IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS " PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION OTHER FIBROUSSTAN
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Hoyle, of the Firm of Shackleton, Hoyle,
and Company, of Keighley, in the County of York, Machine
Makers, and Isaac Bailey, of Keighley, aforesaid, Machine Wool
Comber, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Hoyle and
Isaac Bailey at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 1st September 1871.
We, CHARLES HOYLE, of the Firm of Shackleton, Hoyle, and Company,
of Keighley, in the County of York, Machine Makers, and Isaac BAILEY,
of Keighley, aforesaid, Machine Wool Comber, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS
FOR WASHING WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to improved means of lifting the wool or other
fibrous substances out of the vessel after being washed, and depositing
the same on the apron of the squeezing rollers, and consists in the

page_text: employment of one, two, or more swing rakes mounted on axes, and
carried upon arms fixed on a rotary shaft, which shaft is supported on
suitable bearings above the vessel, and receives rotary motion from the
ordinary or first driving shaft which gives motion to the machine.
Under this rotary shaft we apply a friction roller in a suitable position,
and on the axis of each rake we fix a cam-formed lever which comes
into contact with the friction roller as the rakes pass through the "sud"
in the vessel, and these cam levers are so formed and the friction roller
so placed that as each rake is caused to emerge from the "sud " vessel,
the points of the teeth of the rake are projected over the travelling apron
turning into or nearly a horizontal position. Above the travelling apron
is also mounted a shaft carrying one or more intersecting rakes, which
are caused to rotate with their teeth intersecting the teeth of the lifting
rakes at proper times, so that when the rakes have lifted the wool or
other fibrous substances out of the sud and projected the samo over
the travelling apron, the intersecting rakes take it from them or hold it
upon the apron while the lifting rakes withdraw from it. Also an arm
is affixed to the axis of cach lifting rake, which, as it enters the vessel,
comes in contact with a suitably formed bracket fixed on the vessel,
which diverts and causes the teeth of the said rake to intersect the teeth
of the ordinary stationary rako or grate, and take the wool or other
fibrous substance therefrom, thence passing it forward and out upon tho
apron, as previously stated.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Hoyle and Isaac Bailey in the Great Seal 2
Patent Office on the 1st March 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, CHARLES
HOLE, of the Firm of Shackleton, Hoyle, and Company, of Keighley,
in the County of York, Machine Makers, and Isaac BAILEY, of Keighley,
aforesaid, Machine Wool Comber, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
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page_text: and grant unto us, the said Charles Hoyle and Isaac Bailey, Her special
licence that we, the said Charles Hoyle and Isaac Bailey, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Charles Hoylo
and Isaac Bailey, our exccutors, 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, excrcise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR WASHING WOOL OR OTHER
FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the
said Charles Hoyle and Isaac Bailey, our exccutors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under our, 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 we, the said Charles Hoyle and Isaac Bailey,
do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement and accompanying Sheet of Drawings,
(that is to say:-
This Invention relates to improved means of lifting the wool or
other fibrous substances out of the vessel after being washed, and
depositing the same on the apron of the squeezing rollers, and consists in
the employment of one, two, or more swing rakes mounted on axes and
carried upon arms fixed on a rotary shaft, which shaft is supported on
suitable bearings above the vessel and receives rotary motion from the
ordinary or first driving shaft which gives motion to the machine.
Under this rotary shaft we apply a friction roller in a suitable position,
and on the axis of each rake we fix a cam-formed lever which comes
into contact with the friction roller as the rakes pass through the "sud "”
in the vessel, and these cam levers are so formed and the friction roller
so placed that as each rake is caused to emerge from the "sud" vessel
the points of the teeth of the rake are projected over the travelling apron,
turning into or nearly a horizontal position. Above the travelling apron
is also mounted a shaft carrying one or more intersecting rakes, which
are caused to rotate with their teeth intersecting the teeth of the lifting
rakes at proper times, so that when the rakes have lifted the wool or

page_text: other fibrous substances out of the "sud" and projected the same over
the travelling apron, the intersecting rakes take it from them or hold it
upon the apron while the lifting rakes withdraw from it. Also an arm
is affixed to the axis of each lifting rake, which as it enters the vessel
comes in contact with a suitably formed bracket fixed on the vessel, 5
which diverts and causes the teeth of the said rako to intersect the teeth
of the ordinary stationary rake or grate, and take the wool or other
fibrous substance therefrom, thence passing it forward and out upon the
apron as previously stated.
The Drawing hereunto annexed (a longitudinal vertical section), 1
together with the following description thercof, will fully illustrate tho
construction and operation of this our improved machinery or apparatus
for washing wool or other fibrous substances.
"
At A are shewn three swing lifting rakes each mounted on an axis B
and carried by the arms C projecting from the boss D keyed or secured 1
on the rotary shaft E, which shaft is supported by and works in the
bearings F. Motion is communicated to the shaft E from the first driver
or prime moving shaft of the machine through the agency of the shaft G
and the bevel wheels G¹. At H is shown a friction roller on a stud
secured to the sido frame of the machine and adjustable by the bolt and
slot hole I. Attached to the axis B of each rake is a cam-formed lever
J, which as the arms C revolve come in contact with the friction roller
H, as or when the lifting rakes pass through the "sud," shewn by dotted
lines in the vessel. These cam levers are so formed, and the friction
roller so placed, that as each lifting rake A emerges from the sud the
part J causes the points of the teeth a to be raised clear above the roller
and upon apron K, when the succeeding or terminating portion of the
cam J being still acted on by the friction roller H, will project the
lifting rake A outward carrying the wool further over the apron K, above
which are a series of intersecting rakes M mounted on and receiving a
rotary motion from the shaft N, driven from the shaft E by the peg
wheels P, P, and chain R, or by continuation of the shaft G and bevel
gearing. The rakes M rotate with their teeth intersecting the teeth of
the lifting rake A, and removes the wool or holds it whilst the lifting rake
is withdrawn therefrom. The forks of the rake M are operated or held
in position for securing the wool or fibre as deposited by the lifting rako
on the apron by means of the cam levers M³, which levers bearing on or
against the pin M³ are caused to move forward with their points close to

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the said apron K, thereby forwarding or moving the wool or fibre clear
of the teeth or prongs of the lifting rake A, so that the wool is
left or deposited on the apron K, from whence it passes to the squeezing
rollers K', K³. As the arms C and their lifting rakes A revolve by
rotation of the shaft E, the arm or projection S will come in contact with
the incline T, and in sliding down which it will turn the points of the
teeth of the lifting rako A backwards, and cause them to engage with or
intersect the teeth of the stationary rake or grate W, and in moving
forward will take a quantity of wool or other fibre under process of
washing, pass it forward through the sud, and lift it out upon the
feeding apron K, as previously described.
Having thus fully described the nature of our said Invention, and
shewn by Drawings in what manner the same is or may be performed or
carried into practical operation, we would have it understood that we
claim, the rotary arms carrying the lifting rakes and the cam levers
worked by the friction roller, so as to divert and direct the said lifting
rakes together with the intersecting rakes M, as and for the purpose
herein fully described and shewn in the Drawings..
In witness whereof, I, the said Isaac Bailey, for and on behalf of
myself and the said Charles Hoyle, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-second day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
Witness,
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Tasker & Brierley,
Patent Agents,
Halifax & Bradford.
ISAAC BAILEY. (L.S.)