AN IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINERY FOR RAISING THE PILE ON WOOLLEN AND OTHER CLOTHS OR FABRICS
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Kempe, of Holbeck Mills, Leeds, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINERY FOR RAISING THE PILE ON
WOOLLEN AND OTHER CLOTHS OR FABRICS."
Sealed the 18th March 1856, and dated the 1st October 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Kempe at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 1st
October 1855.
I, WILLIAM KEMPE, of Holbeck Mills, Leeds, do hereby declare the nature
of the Invention for "AN IыPROVEMENT IN MACHINERY FOR RAISING THE PILE
ON WOOLLEN AND OTHER CLOTHS OR FABRICS" to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in the machinery for
raising the pile on woollen and other cloths or fabrics, and the improvement
consists of so arranging the bed or surface on which the cloth or fabric is
supported and moved, that it may, in place of being fixed, be moved endwise,
and be adjusted to the varying widths of cloths or fabrics introduced into the
machine, the two selvages of the cloth or fabric in each case being protected
from the action of the raising process.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Kempe in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
31st March 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
KEMPE, of Holbeck Mills, Leeds, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Kempe, Her special licence that I, the said William Kempe, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Kempe, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINERY
FOR RAISING THE PILE ON WOOLLEN AND OTHER CLOTHS OR FABRICS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Kempe; 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 William Kempe, 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 :-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in the machinery for raising
the pile on woollen and other cloths or fabrics, and the improvement consists of
so arranging the bed or surface on which the cloth or fabric is supported and
moved, that it may, in place of being fixed, be moved endwise, and be adjusted
to the varying widths of cloths or fabrics introduced into the machine, the
two selvages of the cloth or fabric in each case being protected from the action
of the raising process.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, I will proceed
more fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
In place of the bed or surface of a raising machine being fixed in the
machinery, as heretofore, the bed or surface (over which the cloth or fabric is

page_text: moved when being raised) is made moveable and adjustable lengthwise, by
which the machine is rendered more suitable for admitting of various widths
of fabrics being raised therein, at the same time leaving the selvages of each
width of fabric untouched by the raising cylinder. The means of forming
and of moving the bed or surface may be varied; but I prefer to form the
bed in such manner that projections on the under side may enter a groove
formed lengthwise in a rail fixed across the machine, and I prefer to use an
axis turning in suitable bearings in the groove formed in the fixed rail, such
axis having a male screw thread thereon, which passes through the projections
formed on the under surface of the moving bed, which projections are formed
with female screws corresponding with the male screws; or, in place of the nuts
or projections being fixed to the under side of the bed, they may simply enter
into recesses formed in the under surface of the bed, by which last arrangement
the bed may at any time be lifted off the fixed bar and replaced without
removing the axis or male screw; hence, by simply turning the axis, the
moving bed may be set to the width of the fabric about to be passed through
the raising machine; or other mechanical means for moving and adjusting
of the bed lengthwise may be used. The bed is made of a length suitable
for the widest cloth or fabric the raising cylinder of the machine is capable of
raising; and when it is desired to raise the surface of a narrower fabric the
bed is moved lengthwise, so that one edge or selvage of the fabric may be
beyond the one end of the bed, and that the other selvage of the fabric may
be beyond the end of the raising cylinder, by which the two selvages of the
fabric will, in the act of raising the pile over the surface of the cloth, be out
of the way of the raising cylinder, and the fabric will be raised and the
selvages preserved, though the fabric be less in width than the cylinder under
other circumstances would be able to raise.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Kempe, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
JNO. ALCOCK.
WILLM KEMPE. (L.S.)