AN IMPROVED CARD CLOTHING
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Openshaw, of the Firm of R. and C.
Goldthorp, of Cleckheaton, in the County of York, Card Manu-
facturers, for the Invention of " AN IMPROVED CARD CLOTHING."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Openshaw at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 14th August 1878.
I, GEORGE OPENSHAW, of the Firm of B. and O. Goldthorp, of
Oleckheaton, in the County of York, Oard Manufacturers, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED CARD CLOTHING,”
to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the back or foundation for retaining the
wire card teeth, and the improvement consists in combining a felted
fabric with either leather or india-rubber joined together by any suitable
cement or other adhesive substance, and by preference the felted fabric
to lie upon a woven ground or foundation. By this Invention the
substance and strength required in card clothing is obtained at greatly
reduced cost.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Openshaw in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 14th February 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
OPENSHAW, of the the Firm of R. and C. Goldthorp, of Cleckheaton, in
the County of York, Card Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
seventh year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said George Openshaw, Her special licence
that I, the said George Openshaw, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said George Openshaw, 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 IMPROVED CARD
CLOTHING," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George
Openshaw, 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 George Openshaw, do hereby declare
the nature of my 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 :—
This Invention relates to the back or foundation for retaining the wire
card teeth, and the improvements consist in combining a felted fabric
with leather, india-rubber, or cotton joined together by any suitable
cement as india-rubber or other adhesive substance, such fabric being

page_text: Such being the nature and object of this my said Invention, I will
now proceed to describe the same in detail in order that the same may
be fully understood and readily reduced to practise.
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I produce or weave by an ordinary loom a woven fabric, by preference
employing cotton for the warp, and for the weft such fabric being
'open woven," that is to say, space is to be left between the threads
composing the warp and the weft threads do not require to be "beaten
up" or close together, such woven fabric is then enclosed between layers
or facing and backing of wool, and the whole felted together by ordinary
means, thus producing a combined woven and felted fabric which is to be
secured to and form the backing of leather, india-rubber, cotton, or
other cloth used for card clothing.
The employment of the woven felted fabric above and as described
secures a cheap and servicable backing, whereby leather by reason of
its being too thin, defective, and otherwise unsuitable for card clothing
is rendered efficient and no longer to be treated or considered as "waste.”
The woven fabric enclosed by the felt prevents the leather stretching or
giving at its faulty parts.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Openshaw, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of February, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.
Witness,
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WATHER BRIERLEY,
Tasker & Brierley,
GEORGE OPENSHAW. (L.S.)
Patent Offices,
Halifax, Bradford, & Blackburn.