AN IMPROVED MODE OF FEEDING MACHINES FOR OPENING, CLEANING, BLOWING, AND S
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Pooley, of Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
MODE OF FEEDING MACHINES FOR OPENING, CLEANING, BLOWING, AND
S
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Sealed the 3rd November 1853, and dated the 18th May 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Pooley at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 18th May 1858.
I, CHARLES POOLEY, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Cotton Spinner, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED MODE OF FEEDING MACHINES FOR OPENING, CLEANING,
BLOWING, AND SCUTCHING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES." to be as.
follows:-
My Invention consists in applying a covered trough through which
cotton and other fibrous substances is supplied to openers and other
machines of the like description. The fibrous substance to be operated
upon is fed in at one end of the said trough, and the other end is in

page_text: communication with the interior of the machine; when the requisite
rotary motion is given to the beater or opener a partial vacuum is
produced in the centre of the machine, thereby causing a current of air
in the covered trough; this current of air draws the fibrous substance
which is fed in from the mixing heap by the attendant, and conveys
it to the machine. The covered trough may be of any convenient
length.
My improved mode of feeding is particularly applicable to the
machines. known as Hardacre's Opener, but it may be used to other
machines for opening and cleaning cotton and other fibrous substances.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Pooley in the Great Seal Patent Office,
on the 10th November 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
CHARLES POOLEY, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton
Spinner, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and succes-
sors, give and grant unto me, the. said Charles Pooley, Her especial
licence that I, the said Charles Pooley, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Pooley, 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, MODE OF FEEDING MACHINES FOR OPENING, CLEANING, BLOW-
ING, AND SCUTCHING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles Pooley, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly

page_text: describe and, ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the shine was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in ithe 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 Charles Pooley, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what. manner the same. is
toabe performed,, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by 'the following statement (that is to say):
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My Invention consists in dispensing with the usual feeding apparatus
used in machinės for opening, cleaning, blowing, and, scutching, cotton.
and other, fibrous substances, and in-making the current of air, created
by the partial vacuum formed while the said machines are at work,
draw the cotton or other fibrous substances through a covered trough
into the machine, to be there operated upon in the usual manner; and
in order. that my Invention may fully understood and readily carried
into effect I will proceed to describe the means pursued by me, refer-
ence being had to, the annexed Drawing, and to the letters marked
thereon.
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DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
A, represents the outside of a machine for opening cotton, known as
Hardacre's Patent Opener; the interior of this machine consists of a
vertical shaft, with radial arms which act upon the cotton, as is well
understood by cotton spinners; B, is a covered trough which reaches
from the upper part of the machine A, to the heap of mixed cotton
supposed to be at C; the upper part of the end of the trough B, is
open at D, to admit the cotton or other fibrous substance to be
operated upon. When the machine is put to work the partial
vacuum created within it produces a current of air in the trough B,
which draws the cotton or other fibrous substance (which is fed by
the attendant at D,) from the mixing heap to the machine. The
action of the air on the fibrous substances in the trough tends to loosen
or separate the fibres from each other, thereby delivering them in a fit
state to be advantageously acted upon by the machine. The trough.B,
is shewn broken at E, as it may be made of any convenient length.

page_text: The above described feeding apparatus is equally applicable to several
of the machines known in the trade for opening, cleaning, blowing,
and scutching cotton and other fibrous substances; it is less expensive
than the feeding aprons generally employed for the same purpose,
requires less manual labour, and presents the fibrous substances in a
more fit state for being operated upon.
Having thus described the nature of iny Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that
I do not limit myself to the details herein set forth, as the same
may be varied to suit particular cases; but what I claim is, the feed-
ing of openers, and other machines of the like nature, by means of a
covered trough in which a current of air is produced by the machine
to be fed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Pooley, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Ninth day of November, One thousand
cight hundred and fifty-three.
CHA POOLEY. (L.S.)