AN IMPROVEMENT IN PRESSES POR PACKING COTTON, HEMP, WooL, AND OTHER GOODS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Daniel West, of 69, Euston Square, in the
County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, Esquire, for the Invention
of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN PRESSES POR PACKING COTTON, HEMP, WooL,
AND OTHER GOODS."
Sealed the 2nd March 1869, and dated the 3rd October 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Daniel West at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
3rd October 1868.
I, DANIEL WEST, of 69, Euston Square, in the County of Middlesex,
Civil Engineer, Esquire, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven
tion for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN PRESSES FOR PACKING COTTON, HEMP, WOOL,
AND OTHER GOODS," to be as follows:-
My improvement in presses consists of making both the bed and
follower, between which the bale of goods is compressed, with concave
surfaces to mould the top and bottom of the bale in the press to nearly
the convex form the bale assumes when taken out of the
press.

page_text: No. 1 of the annexed Drawings shews the transverse section of a
bale of cotton, hemp, wool, or other goods compressed between the flat
surfaces of the bed below and the follower above in the press as is
now practiced. Rope lashings or iron bands are put round the bale
through grooves in the bed and follower to retain it in the usual
manner when released from pressure and taken out of the press.
No. 2 exhibits the form which the bale bound with rope or iron
assumes when taken out of the press. The bale out of the press has
strained the rope or iron lashings and increased in height as compared
with its compact rectangular form No. 1 while in the press; both the
top and bottom of the bale have become convex.
No. 3 is the improvement in presses to be effected by making both
the bed and follower with concave surfaces to mould the bale in the
press both at top and bottom nearly to the convex form it assumes when
taken out of the press. The rope lashings or iron bands are put on
whilst the bale is held in the press. The bale when taken out of the
press will expand less in height than bales pressed in the usual way,
because these bales at the places where they are lashed or banded do
not materially change in form when relieved from the pressure, whereas
bales pressed in the usual way as soon as they are released lose the
sharp angles given to them in the press and which they have when
the lashing or banding is applied, and consequently expand greatly in
height.
No. 4 is the bale which has been moulded in the press with the
concave bed and follower; upon being taken out of the press it will
expand less in height for measurement and the bale No. 2. The
transverse sections No. 1 and No. 3 are to be of the same measure in
area, by which adjustment the density of the bale in the press will be
the same in both cases, and require only the same power of the press
to make the bale; the advantage of this improvement of the press
being to make a smaller or tighter bale when out of the press without
increasing the strain upon the machinery or the employment of more
power.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Daniel West in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 24th March 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DANIEL
WEST, of 69, Euston Square, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer,
Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Daniel West, Her special licence that I,
the said Daniel West, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Daniel West, 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 PRESSES FOR
PACKING COTTON, HEMP, WOOL, AND OTHER GOODS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Daniel West, 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 Daniel West, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
My improvement in presses consists of making both the bed and
follower, between which the bale of goods is compressed, with concave
surfaces to mould the top and bottom of the bale in the press to nearly
the convex form the bale assumes when taken out of the press.

page_text: No. 1 of the annexed Drawing shews the transverse section of a bale
of cotton, hemp, wool, or other goods compressed between the flat
surfaces of the bed below and the follower above in the press as is now
practised. Rope lashings or iron bands are put round the bale through
grooves in the bed and follower to retain it in the usual manner when
released from pressure and taken out of the press.
No. 2 exhibits the form which the bale bound with rope or iron
assumes when taken out of the press. The bale out of the press has
strained the rope or iron lashings and increased in height as compared
with its compact rectangular form No. 1 while in the press; both the
top and bottom of the bale have become convex.
No. 3 is the improvement in presses to be effected by making both
the bed and follower with concave surfaces to mould the bale in the
press both at top and bottom nearly to the convex form it assumes when
taken out of the press. The rope lashings or iron bands are put on
whilst the bale is held in the press. The bale when taken out of the
press will expand less in height than bales pressed in the usual way,
because these bales at the places where they are lashed or banded do
not materially change in form when relieved from the pressure, whereas
bales pressed in the usual way as soon as they are released lose the
sharp angles given to them in the press and which they have when the
lashing or banding is applied, and consequently expand greatly in
height.
No. 4 is the bale which has been moulded in the press with the
concave bed and follower; upon being taken out of the press it will
expand less in height for measurement than the bale No. 2. The
transverse sections No. 1 and No. 3 are to be of the same measure in
area, by which adjustment the density of the bale in the press will be
the same in both cases, and require only the same power of the press to
make the bale; the advantage of this improvement of the press being
to make a smaller or tighter bale when out of the press without
increasing the strain upon the machinery or the employment of more
power..
Having thus described the nature and particulars of my improvement
in presses, I claim the use of concave bed and follower to mould the
top and bottom of the bale while in the press to a similar form with the

page_text: convex shape which the bale assumes at top and bottom when taken
out of the press after being pressed in the usual way.
In witness whereof, I, the said Daniel West, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of March, in the year of our
Lord Qne thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
DANIEL WEST. (L.B.)