IMPROVEMENTS IN MILLING ENDLESS CLOTHS
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Heywood Whitehead, of the Royal George
Mills, in the Parish of Saddleworth, in the County of York, Esquire, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MILLING ENDLESS CLOTHS."
Sealed the 9th October 1857, and dated the 18th July 1857:
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Heywood White-
head at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 13th July 1857.
I, JAMES HEYWOOD WHITEHEAD, of the Royal George Mills, in the Parish
of Saddleworth, in the County of York, Esquire, do hereby declare the nature
of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MILLING ENDLESS CLOTHS," to be as.
follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in milling endless cloths..
Heretofore when milling endless cloths, that is, pieces of cloth sewed end to
end in such manner as to produce an endless band of cloth, it has been usual
to employ a milling machine constructed with two rollers, the lower one
having flanches or projections on each side, between which the upper roller.
works, and between the peripheries of these rollers the endless cloths were
continually passed till the desired extent of milling had been accomplished
when it was necessary to unfasten the cloths in order to their being removed
from the milling machinery. Now my improvements consist in supporting.

page_text: one end of the axis of the lower roller by a bracket or suitable support passing
under the lower roller in such manner that the endless cloth whilst under the
process of milling may pass under the support or bracket, and thus facilitate
the removal of the endless band of cloth, without the necessity of separating
the ends. The milling machine is enclosed as heretofore, but on one side of
the enclosure a door is made to enable the workman readily to place au
endless band or pieces of cloth on to, and remove the same from, the lower
roller.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Heywood Whitehead in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 12th January 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
HEYWOOD WHITEHEAD, of the Royal George Mills, in the Parish of Saddle-
worth, in the County of York, Esquire, send grecting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said James Heywood Whitehead, Her special licence that I, the said James
Heywood Whitehead, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said James Heywood Whitehead, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
tiime 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 MILLING ENDLESS CLOTHS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said James Heywood Whitehead, 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 James Heywood Whitehead, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to

page_text: be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in milling endless cloths,
that is, pieces of cloth sewed end to end in such manner as to produce an
endless band of cloth. Heretofore milling machines have been constructed
with two rollers, the lower one having flanches or projections on each side
between which the upper roller works, and between the peripheries of these
rollers the cloths were continually passed till the desired extent of milling bad
been accomplished, but by such machines as heretofore constructed endless.
cloths could not conveniently be milled. Now my improvements consist in
supporting one end of the axis of the lower roller by a bracket or suitable
support, passing under the lower roller in such manner that the endless cloth
whilst under the process of milling may pass under the support or bracket,.
and thus facilitate the removal of the endless band of cloth without the
necessity of separating the ends. The milling machine is enclosed as hereto-
fore, but on one side of the enclosure a door is made, to enable the workman
readily to place an endless band or pieces of cloth on to and remove the same
from the lower roller.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed moro
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 represents a side elevation in section of a rotatory fulling machine
combined according to my Invention. Figure 2 shows a plan; and Figure 3,
a transverse section of the same. A is the lower roller, the axis of which is
supported by the bracket B fixed to the side framing as shown, and the shaft
or axis of this roller receives motion from a steam engine or other suitable
power; C is the upper roller which is to be arranged in such manner as to be
readily raised and lowered in order to admit of the endless cloth being placed
on and removed from the lower roller A whilst in an endless form. The
Drawing shows the raising to be performed by means of a rope and pulleys,
but this may be varied. The machine is suitably enclosed, there being
doors D at the sides to admit of the cloth being introduced and removed from
the rollers A, C; and from the enclosure E is a guide for guiding the cloth to
the rollers; F is the trough or box through which the cloth passes as it comes
from between the rollers A, C.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I make no claim to any

page_text: of the mechanical parts separately, and the details may be varied without
departing from my Invention; but what I claim is the combined rotatory
milling machine herein described, whereby a piece or web of cloth may be
put on and removed from the machine in an endless state.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Heywood Whitehead have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Witness,
JOHN TANNER,
Manager, Royal George Mill.
J. H. WHITEHEAD. (L.s.)