A NEW OR IMPROVED AQUEOUS APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING VAPOUR TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH OF THE WORKERS, AND TO SOFTEN THE YARN IN ANY PROCESS FROM THE RAW MATERIAL TO THE
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Humber, of Preston, in the County of
Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, and George Haworth, of the same
Place, Manager, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED AQUEOUS
APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING VAPOUR TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH OF THE WORKERS,
AND TO SOFTEN THE YARN IN ANY PROCESS FROM THE RAW MATERIAL TO THE
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Scaled the 15th August 1873, and dated the 21st February 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Humber and
George Haworth at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 21st February 1873.
We, JOHN HUMBER, of Preston, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton
Spinner, and GEORGE HAWORTH, of the same Place, Manager, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED AQUEOUS
APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING VAPOUR TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH OF THE WORKERS,
AND TO SOFTEN THE YARN IN ANY PROCESS FROM THE RAW MATERIAL TO THE
FINISHED CLOTH," to be as follows:-
:-
Our Invention consists of an <
aqueous apparatus" to be used in
weaving sheds (chiefly), but we can and shall use it in other rooms

page_text: where the yarn is in course of preparation (if required). In the winter
it is customary to heat the rooms with steam. The air is usually kept
moist by small jets of steam. In the summer the steam is not required
to heat the rooms, the atmosphere being sufficiently warm without it.
When the atmosphere is very dry the yarn does not work well, a vapour
therefore is very desirable. This we therefore purpose to supply by our
Invention.
In mills where steam or other pipes are already fixed we use them to
carry a supply of water under sufficient pressure either from water
works, pumps, or head tank. We fix at any required distance apart to
the above pipe a jet cock, to which is fixed a fine rose, mouth piece, or
sponge cap, or other equivalent through which the water or other liquid
is forced into the room, thereby keeping the atmosphere in the proper
state of humidity the nature of the work may require.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Humber and George Haworth in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 20th August 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
HUMBER, of Preston, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, and
GEORGE HAWORTH, of the same Place, Manager, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said John Humber and George Haworth
Her special licence that we, the said John Humber and George Haworth,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others, as we, the said
John Humber and George Haworth, our 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

page_text: the water is forced to any height, such water not vapourised falling into
basin C. We fix inside of such basin an overflow pipe D, bell mouthed
or otherwise at the top, which conveys such overflow water by way of
trough E which is fixed under pressure pipes A; this trough answers the
double purpose of carrying away the overflow water and any leakage
from pressure pipes, and thence to lodge or reservoir. At convenient or
any required distances the above apparatus is fixed in any number the
nature of the work and the state of the atmosphere may require. The
ammount of water injected as required is regulated by the taps F. We
likewise in different parts of the room fix a number of taps and pipes in 1
the main pressure pipe with flexible tubes to carry the water when
required on to the floor, or in case of fire to any part of the building.
These will be especially valuable in weaving sheds to carry the water
under or between the looms.
In times of sickness medicated or health giving gases and liquids 1
may be infused into the atmosphere of any room or building by the
above apparatus.
Having now fully described our Invention, and the way in which we
work or use it, we wish it to be distinctly understood that we do not
confine ourselves to the precise details we have had occasion to describe 2
and refer to, as many variations may be made therefrom without
deviation from the principle or main features of this our Invention, but
what we claim as novel and secured to us herein is,-
First. The application of jets of water fountain wise to vapourise the
atmosphere of rooms or buildings for health giving purposes, and for 2
softening yarn in any process of manufacture, substantially as and for
the purposes herein set forth.
Second. The use of the steam pipes already fixed for steam in winter,
substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.
Third. The pipe B, basin C, tap F, and mouth piece G (or their 3
equivalents), substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.
Fourth. The trough E and overflow pipe D, substantially as and for
the purposes herein set forth.
Fifth. The taps, pipes, and flexible tubes, substantially as and for the
purposes herein set forth.
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page_text: Sixth, and last. The general arrangements of the different parts of the
apparatus, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Humber and George Haworth
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Ninth day of August,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.
Witness,
JOHN LEWIS,
Engineer & Patent Agent,
Preston,
Lancashire.
(L.S.)
JNO. HUMBER.
GEORGE HAWORTH. (L.S.)