IMPROVEMENTS IN TUT D
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Goostrey and George Hulme, of Chedderton,
in the County of Stafford, Paper Manufacturers, and Charles Hough,
of the same Place, Manager, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
TUT
D"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Goostrey, George
Hulme, and Charles Hongh at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 5th April 1855.
We, the said WILLIAM GOOSTREY and GEORGE HULME, of Chedderton, in
the County of Stafford, Paper Manufacturers, and CHARLES HOUGH, of the
same Place, Manager, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING PAPER" to
be as follows:-
Our Invention relates to an apparatus to be adapted to machinery of the
paper manufacture, for the purpose of saving the waste of material arising
from a portion thereof being carried away by the overflow of water, and is
applicable to the washing or subsequent processes. To effect an improvement,
we cause the overflow to be discharged on to a wire gauze or other porous
revolving surface enclosed within a tank; through this surface the water is
allowed to pass and flow off through a hollow axis or aperture situate within.
The material is thus prevented from accompanying the water, and falls from
the wire gauze or other such substance as it revolves into the tank.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Goostrey, George Hulme, and Charles Hough, in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 5th October 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
GOOSTREY and GEORGE HULME, of Cheddleton, in the County of Stafford,
Paper Manufacturers, and CHARLES HOUGH, of the same Place, Manager,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her beirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
William Goostrey, George Hulme, and Charles Hough, Her especial license
that we, the said William Goostrey, George Hulme, and Charles Hough, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said William
Goostrey, Georgo Hulme, and Charles Hough, 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 Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING PAPER,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said William Goostrey,
George Hulme, and Charles Hough, by an instrument in writing under our
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 we, the said William Goostrey, George Hulme, and
Charles Hough, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement and accompanying Drawing
(that is to say):-
Our Invention relates to apparatus to be adapted to machinery of the paper
manufacture, for the purpose of saving the waste of material arising from a
portion thereof being carried away by the overflow of water. To effect our
improvement, we cause the overflow to be discharged on to a wire gauze or
other porous revolving surface enclosed within a tank. The situation at which
the apparatus is placed will depend upon the arrangement of premises, the
machine to which it is applied, or the desire of the manufacturer.
In

page_text: the accompanying Drawing we have, therefore, shewn it detached, it being
complete in itself.
Fig. 1 is a vertical section of the apparatus; Fig. 2, a plan view with the
cover removed; and Fig. 3, a detached view of one part of the porous
cylindrical surface detached. Within a vessel a is an axis b, passing through
stuffing boxes, or otherwise mounted, so as to prevent the passage of water.
This axis is furnished with flanges at c, c, each one having projecting parts d, d,
extending inward. Upon these are placed two semi-cylindrical frames of
metal e, e, covered with wire gauze or other porous material, which are then
secured by means of screws f, f, passing into the parts d, d, by which means a
porous cylinder is formed, capable of being caused to revolve by a pulley g,
driven from any convenient source of power. The axis b is formed hollow for
a portion of its length, and is provided with perforations at that part situate
within the porous cylinder; the hollow extends at one end through the trough
a, as at h, and is there open for the discharge of fluid. At the upper part of
the vessel is a trough i, communicating with a spout k, proceeding from the
washing, the paper, or other machine. Along this spout the overflow will
proceed, and after filling the trough i, will fall over into the porous cylinder,
which is caused to revolve by means of the pulley 9; the water will therefore
accumulate in the vessel a, until on a level with the axis b, after which it will
flow through the perforations therein and be discharged at the orifice h; the
pulp or material, however, which has passed over with the water will be
detained by the porous surface, and may be removed as required. Should the
interior of the cylinder become foul, it may readily be cleaned by turning
the serews ff, and removing the semi-cylindrical parts.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of our said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, we desire it to be understood
that we claim, as secured to us under the above in part recited Letters Patent,
the use of a revolving porous surface for the purposes above set forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Goostrey, George Hulme, and
Charles Hough, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-
eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-five.
WILLIAM GOOSTREY. (L.S.)
GEORGE HULME.
(L.S.)
CHARLES HOUGH.
(L.S.)
WILLIAM GOOSTREY. (L.S.)
GEORGE HULME.
(L.S.)
CHARLES HOUGH.
(L.S.)