IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR WASHING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Hoyle, William Shackleton, and William
Preston, of the Firm of Messrs. Shackleton, Hoyle, and Company,
of Keighley, in the County of York, Machinists, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR WASHING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS
SUBSTANCES."
Sealed the 1st June 1875, and dated the 4th December 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Hoyle, William
Shackleton, and William Preston at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents, with their Petition, on the 4th December 1874.
We, CHARLES HOYLE, WILLIAM SHACKLETON, and WILLIAM PRESTON,
of the Firm of Messrs. Shackleton, Hoyle, and Company, of Keighley,
in the County of York, Machinists, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR WASHING WOOL AND
OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:
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This Invention relates to machines for washing wool or other fibrous
substances with which mechanical means are employed for transferring
or lifting the said wool or fibre from the washing bowl or vessel, and

page_text: presenting the same to the squeezing rollers used therewith for
expressing the sud or washing liquor therefrom.
The improvements consist in the application and use of a series of
rakes or combs, arranged and operated in a somewhat similar manner to
the gills in the well-known screw gill box employed in preparing 5
wool or other fibres for combing, the said rakes or combs forming a
travelling surface extending from the bottom of the vessel to the rollers,
being moved by screw shafts in the same or a similar manner to the
before-named screw gill box.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Hoyle, William Shackleton, and William
Preston in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th June 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, CHARLES
HOYLE, WILLIAM SHACKLETON, and WILLIAM PRESTON, of the Firm of
Shackleton, Hoyle, and Company, of Keighley, in the County of York,
Machinists, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said Charles Hoyle, William Shackleton, and
William Preston, Her special licence, that we, the said Charles Hoyle,
William Shackleton, and William Preston, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, tho said Charles Hoyle, William
Shackleton, and William Preston, our 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR WASHING WOOL AND OTHER
FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, tho
said Charles Hoyle, William Shackleton, and William Preston, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and

page_text: 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, William Shackleton,
and William Preston, 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, that is
to say:
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This Invention relates to machines for washing wool or other fibrous
substances with which mechanical means are employed for transferring
or lifting the said wool or fibre from the washing bowl or vessel and
presenting the same to the squeezing rollers used therewith for expressing
the sud or washing liquor therefrom.
The improvements consist in the application and use of a series of
rakes or combs arranged and operated in a somewhat similar manner to
the gills in the well-known "screw gill box" employed in preparing
wool or other fibres for combing, the said rakes or combs forming a
travelling surface extending from the bottom of the vessel to the rollers,
being moved by screw shafts in the same or a similar manner to the
before-named screw gill box. -
In order that this Invention may be more fully understood we hiercin
give reference to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings of such parts of
a wool washing machine as are necessary to illustrate our Invention.
Fig. 1 is a sectional clevation and Fig. 2 a plan view. A is the
washing bowl or vessel and B the squeezing rollers; the wool or other
fibrous material is transferred from the vessel to the rollers by means of
the series of rakes or combs C actuated by the screws D which operate in
the same manner as in the screw gill box before referred to, and which
is so well known as to need no farther explanation; the motion of the
screws is derived from the pulley E on the main driving shaft F, and is
communicated by the strap G to the pulley H fixed on the cross shaft J,
from thence by the bevil wheels K and L to the pinions M on the ends
of the screw shafts; the teeth of the rakes or combs pass between the
bars of the grate or scray N projecting sufficiently above the said grate
to carry the wool forward, which is thereby prevented from getting too
firmly entangled or attached to the rakes or combs. The wool is placed

page_text: upon the gills by the lifting rake in the same manner as upon the
ordinary travelling apron.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, and shewn
by Drawings how the same is to be performed or carried into practice,
we would have it understood that what we claim as our Invention and
consider to be new is, the construction of apparatus, substantially as
herein shewn and described, for transferring or carrying the wool or other
fibres from the washing bowl or vessel to the squeezing rollers.
In witness whereof, I, the said Cliarles Hoyle, for and on behalf of
myself and the said William Shackleton and William Preston,
have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Third day of June,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.
Witness,
J. W. TASKER,
Patent Agent,
Halifax.
CHARLES HOYLE. (L.S.)