IMPROVED APPARATUS TO MACHINERY FOR MAKING FILLETT SHEET AND HAND CARDS, SUCH AS ARE USED FOR CARDING WOOL, COTTON, FLAX, SILK, AND ALL SUBSTANCES CAPABLE OF BEING CARDED
Year: 1810

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
TOWELL RUTT, of Goswell Street, in the County of Middlesex, JOHN WEBB, of
Hoxton, in the same County, and JOHN FRETTON, of the City of London, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Eighth day of October, in the fiftieth year of His reign,
did give and grant unto us, our executors, administrators, and assigns, His
special licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that we, the said
John Towell Rutt, John Webb, and John Fretton, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, our "IMPROVED APPARATUS TO MACHINERY
FOR MAKING FILLETT SHEET AND HAND CARDS, SUCH AS ARE USED FOR CARDING
WOOL, COTTON, FLAX, SILK, AND ALL SUBSTANCES CAPABLE OF BEING CARDED;" in
which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging us, the said
John Towell Rutt, John Webb, and John Fretton, under our hands and seals,
to cause a particular description of the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
(relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
John Towell Rutt, John Webb, and John Fretton, do hereby declare that
our said Invention consists of various improvements on a machine for making
cards, for which a Patent was granted the Twenty-sixth day of June, in the
year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and of which
the Specification has been duly inrolled.
These improvements enable us to make two separate fillett cards, two
separate sheet or hand cards by one and the same operation of the machine,
at the same time, by bringing all the works into the centre of the frame; and
thus preserving an equal balance, we secure the steadiness of the machine.
To construct a machine for making two separate fillett cards at once, and by
which about two hundred and forty staples will be put in in a minute:-The
base frame is three feet eight inches long and one foot eleven inches wide.
This base frame stands on -four feet, one foot nine inches high. At each end
a stand is fixed one foot eight inches high. At the distance of one foot ten
inches from the stand, on the right, another stand is fixed. These stands are
all coupled together by a bar at top. On the centre of the base frame, through
the whole length of it, a bar is fixed on which a carriage slides. This
carriage consists of a bar, on which four upright pieces are fixed, each one
foot six inches high. Two of these pieces are eight and an half inches from
the centre of the carriage, from these the other two are distant one foot.
They are all coupled together by a bar at top. Between each of the two
upright pieces, which are one apart, another carriage is placed ten inches
wide, and one foot high. These carriages consist of a bar, which we call A, at
the bottom, one foot four inches long. On these two upright pieces are fixed
ten inches from each other. These pieces are coupled at the top by a bar.
The bar A slides on a piece of steel, fixed to all the upright bars of the large
or outside sliding carriage. On each of the bars A two small plumbing blocks
are fixed, one six inches from the ends and six inches apart from each other.
Between these a small frame is hung upon centres, two inches high, in which
a roller turns upon centres. On the bar A a spring is fixed which presses it
against another roller. These rollers are placed across each of the small
carriages, and are three inches from the bars A. On the middle back stand a
plumbing block is fixed, eleven inches from the base frame. Through this goes
a spindle which couples at the right and left the aforesaid rollers. On this
coupling spindle a saw tooth ratchet wheel is fixed, of five and a half inches
diameter. Opposite the middle back stand, another stand, which we call B, is
fixed, one foot high, and eleven inches from it. From the top of this, across the
said middle back stand, a bar, which we call C, is fixed, fourteen inches long,

page_text: on the back end of which is placed, on centres, a lever, which we call D,
(having a spring at the top to keep it to its work), one foot three inches long,
which leads to the main arbour (to be afterwards described). On this arbour is
fixed a knob, which by lifting the lever D, on which is fixed a click, which,
going into a tooth in the aforesaid ratchet wheel, raises the leather to the next
row of the work. Against the aforesaid wheel a single dog is placed to enable
it to continue in its proper place. Across the top and bottom of each of the
small carriages are fixed four small bars to guide the leather to and from the
rollers. On each of the four upright bars of the large carriage is fixed a
plumbing block, five inches from the bottom, through which go two spindles,
one to the right and the other to the left. On the middle back stand another
plumbing block is fixed, six inches from the base frame, through which
goes another coupling spindle, which couples to the aforesaid right and left
spindles with sliding couplings. On the aforesaid coupling spindles a small
saw tooth wheel is fixed, underneath which a lever, which we call E, is fixed,
ten inches long. At the end of this lever a click is fixed, which goes into a
tooth of the aforesaid wheel. On the stand B and bar C is fixed a shouldered
piece, which we call F, projecting two and a half inches, and eight and a half
inches long. On this a jointed lever, which we call G, is placed, eight inches
long. It reaches down and is coupled to the lever E. Near the top of the
said jointed lever is placed a roller, which falls into a notch, which is cut in a
round knob fixed on the arbor and thus turns the aforesaid saw tooth wheel,
which turns the aforesaid right and left spindles. On the outward end of the
left and the inward of the right spindle is fixed a round piece of brass, cut in
notches according to the pattern wanted. On the top of the large carriage
two jointed bars, which we call H, are placed, on each of which a knob is
fixed. These knobs fall into a notch of the above brass pieces. On the
jointed bars H a moveable knob is placed, which by pressing against the side
of the small carriages, and by means of a spring on the other side of the
carriages, shifts the said carriages till the desired pattern is obtained. On
each end of the front part of the base frame, a stand, which we call I, is fixed,
one foot high, on the top of which the aforesaid main arbour is placed. About
the centre of the arbour a small wheel is fixed, which drives another wheel,
which is supported on centres by the bar C and the shouldered piece F. This
last wheel drives also another wheel, having a number of teeth according to
the breadth of the work wanted. This wheel is fixed like the last described.
On one of the teeth of the last wheel a piece of brass is fixed, which moves a
piece which we call K, which swings in centres placed on the bar C. On this
piece K a shouldered piece is fixed, the end of which goes into a notch of the

page_text: jointed lever G and thus holds it, at the same time stops the lever D by the
piece K being moved as above. It then goes under the lever of the working
dog and stops it from working one tooth in the rack, and thus enables the
lever D to fall into the notch of the aforesaid knob on the arbour, and thus
raises the leather between the rollers. By this same operation the end of the
said shouldered piece is removed out of the notch of the said jointed lever G
then falls by means of a spring into the aforesaid notch cut in the round knob
on the arbour, thus turning the afore-mentioned coupling spindles to compleat
the desired pattern. This piece K then returns to its place, enables the
working dog again to work, and stops the twill and ratchet levers from falling
into the aforesaid notches till the above piece on the tooth of the wheel comes
round again. Five inches apart from each of the stands I another is fixed to
receive a plate, the construction and operation of which is already described in
the Specification inrolled in One thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, to
which reference has been made. The crookers and pulleys are also described
in the said Specification. To construct a machine for making two separate
sheet or hand cards, it may be made for cards of any size required, and will
put in about two hundred and twenty staples in a minute. As many cards
are used nineteen inches long, the machine of which the improvements are now
described is supposed to make that length. Our base frame is seven feet
three inches long, one foot ten inches wide, and stands on six legs of the same
height as the frame for the fillet cards. In the centre is fixed a grooved bar,
the whole length of the frame, on the back part of which three stands are fixed,
one at each end, and one in the centre, two feet nine inches high, inclining to the
back part, about the angle of thirty degrees. These are all coupled together by
a bar nine inches from the top. On the top of the groove bar a carriage is placed,
which carriage consists of a bar on which four upright pieces are fixed, one foot
eleven inches high. Two of these pieces, one placed within an inch of the ends,
the other two at the distance of two feet four inches from them. These are
all coupled together by a bar at the top. Between each of the bars, that are
two feet four inches apart, a stretching frame is placed. These two stretching
frames hang upon one lifting bar. Upon the top of the back stands a shaft
turns, in the centre of which our saw tooth ratchet wheel is fixed to raise the
lifting bar, which raises the stretching frame, both of which have been just
mentioned. On the centre of the carriage, near the bottom, a round piece of
brass is placed, which is cut in notches to any pattern for twilled or plain
work. On the top of the carriage two jointed bars are placed, on each of
which a knob is fixed, which knob falls out of and into the aforesaid notches
of the round brass piece, one to the right and the other to the left. On the

page_text: aforesaid jointed bars a moveable knob is placed, which, by pressing against
the stretching frame by means of a spring on the other end of the said
stretching frame, shifts it till the desired pattern is obtained. On the front of
the frame three stands are fixed, one on the centre and one at the distance of
one foot nine inches to the right, the other at the same distance to the left.
These three stands are one foot high. On the top of these the main arbour
turns. From the top of the middle front stand, and nine inches from the top
of the middle back stand, a bar is fixed. Our working dog rack is placed on
the centre of the carriage. The other rack is fixed a little to the right. The
working dogs, back dog, their shafts and levers, are all in the centre of the
machine. The working dog lever is fixed on the aforesaid bar. The forms of
these dogs and levers are described in the Specification of the Patent inrolled
in One thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine. On the inner part of each
outward front stand another stand is fixed, one foot high. On these our plates
are fixed. These plates are described in the just mentioned Specification:
Opposite the plates our crookers work. Each of these works on a bar, as
described in the said Specification.
JOHN WEBB. (L.S.)
JOHN FRETTON. (L.S.).
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Seventh day of December, in
the year above mentioned, the aforesaid John Towill Rutt, John Webb,
and John Fretton, came before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein
contained, in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was
stamped according to the tenor of the Statute in that case made and
provided.
Inrolled the same Seventh day of December in the rear above written