IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR POLISHING THREADS AND YARNS
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Kerr, of New Street Thread Works, Paisley,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR POLISHING THREADS
AND YARNS."
Sealed the 15th February 1867, and dated the 5th November 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Kerr at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th November 1866.
I, PETER KERB, of New Street Thread Works, Paisley, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR
POLISHING THREADS AND YARNS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in machinery for polishing
threads and yarns. For these purposes a cylinder or cylindrical frame is
employed having polishing bars such as have before been used mounted on or
carried thereby parallel with the shaft or axis of such cylinder or cylindrical
frame, and combined therewith are a series of brushes, also fixed to and carried
by the cylinder or cylindrical frame, and parallel with the axis or shaft thereof.
These brushes are arranged along with one or more of the polishing and by
preference grooved bars in such manner that when the yarns or threads are

page_text: resting on and are supported and being rubbed by the grooved polishing bars
the threads or yarns will enter more or less amongst the bristles of which the
brushes are composed, depending on the relative positions of the surfaces of
the polishing bars and the ends of the bristles or materials of which the brushes
are formed. The cylinder or cylindrical frame in its revolution drives the air
amongst the threads or yarns, and drys them; this is at the same time aided
by the friction of the brushes and the polishing or glazing is completed by the
friction of the grooved polishing bars.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Peter Kerr in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th May
1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
KERR, of New Street Thread Works, Paisley, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Peter Kerr, Her special licence that I, the said Peter Kerr, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Peter Kerr, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR POLISHING
THREADS AND YARNS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Peter Kerr, 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 Peter Kerr, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-

page_text: wheels on the axes d. The cylinder or cylindrical frame in its revolution
drives the air amongst the threads or yarns and dries them, this is at the same
time aided by the friction of the brushes, and the polishing or glazing is com-
pleted by the friction of the grooved polishing bars.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Kerr, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this First day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

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