MENTS IN BEETLING MACHINES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Smith, of Collyhurst, in the City of Man-
chester, Bleacher, Dyer, and Finisher, for the Invention of “
MENTS IN BEETLING MACHINES."
IMPROVE-
Scaled the 29th January 1875, and dated the 8th August 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Smith at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th August 1874.
I, JOHN SMITH, of Collyhurst, in the City of Manchester, Bleacher,
Dyer, and Finisher, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BEETLING MACHINES," to be as follows:-
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I arrange the fallers in a row nearly adjoining each other in order to
fall successively on a revolving roller, on which the fabric, to be boetled
is rolled, but their sides and the division between them are not in or
parallel to the direction or plane in which the roller rotates, but they are
made of a curved, diagonal, or irregular form, so that they overlap each
other on the fabric, and as the roller revolves every part thereof is sub▾
jected to their action.
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page_text: The face of the fallers may be plain or corrugated. By this means I
dispense with the necessity of giving a to-and-fro motion to the roller, or
of having more than one row of fallers.
I place between an iron roller and the fabrics wound thereon for
finishing a layer of india-rubber or other elastic substance, and a layer 5
of paper or other non-conducting substance, and I support the bearings
for the centres of the rollers with springs, whereby the concussion of the
fallers is broken, and the finish improved.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Smith in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 4th February 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
SMITH, of Collyhurst, in the City of Manchester, Bleacher, Dyer, and
Finisher, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Smith, Her special licence
that I, the said John Smith, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said John Smith, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
BEETLING MACHINES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said John Smith, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said g
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,

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Smith, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement (that is to say) :-
The nature of my Invention consists in making the sides of the fallers
of a curved, diagonal, or irregular form, so that they overlap each other,
and therefore act on every part of the fabric that is wound on the roller
revolving beneath them. By this means the end to-and-fro motion of
the roller may be dispensed with.
Secondly. In the use of curved corrugated fallers for acting on fabrics
wound on a roller.
Thirdly. In winding cloth over two rollers placed at a certain distance
apart to increase the length under operation.
And, Fourthly. In coating iron cloth rollers with a layer of india-
rubber or other elastic substance to improve the finish.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily
carried into operation I will proceed to describe the accompanying Sheet
of Drawings.
Fig. 1 is a front view, and Fig. 2 is an end view of a beetling machine
to which my improvements are applied.
a, a, are the fallers, which are raised by the wipers 6 on the shaft c,
and d is the cloth roller which is placed under the fallers a as usual.
The cloth or fabric to be beetled may be wound as usual on the
roller d, but in order to obtain a greater length to be submitted to the
beetles, and thus to save time in feeding and changing, I wind the fabric
around the rollers & and e, the latter serving as a guide roller, and being
turned round by the friction of the fabric. The cloth roller can be
moved laterally by means of the endless chain f and spoke wheel g,
shewn by dotted lines in Fig. 2. The object of thus moving the cloth
roller is to bring the full roller to one side when the beetling is effected,
and to place another roller full of cloth under the fallers to be operated
upon.
The sides of the fallers are made by preference diagonal, as shewn in
the plan, Fig. 3, in order that the corners may overlap each other, and
that as the fabric is carried round by the cloth roller every portion
thereof may be subjected to the action of the beetles. I also make the

page_text: face of the beetles curved and corrugated to increase the effect of the
blows on the fabric, and to improve the finish.
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The sides of the beetles may also be curved instead of diagonal, as
shown in Figs. 4 and 5, or of an irregular shape, as shewn in Figs. 6
and 7.
By means of these improved modes of constructing the sides of the
fallers the end to-and-fro motion that is given to the cloth roller to dis-
tribute the blows may be dispensed with. It is also not necessary to
have more than one row of fallers.
Another part of my Invention consists in covering the iron roller on
which the cloth to be finished is wound with a layer of india-rubber or
other elastic substance, or an endless belt of india-rubber may be carried
around the rollers d and e, over which the fabric is wound; this elastic
covering or belt yields to the blows of the fallers, and imparts a superior
finish to the cloth.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, and described the
manner of performing the same, I declare that I claim,—
First. Making the sides of the fallers of beetles of a curved, diagonal,
or irregular form, and so that they overlap each other, in the manner
and for the purpose described.
Secondly. The application of curved corrugated fallers for beetling
fabrics wound on a roller, as shewn and described,
Thirdly. Winding the cloth to bo beetled over two rollers to increase
the length under operation, as shewn and described. ;
And, Fourthly. Coating the cloth roller with a layer of india-rubber
or other yielding or elastic material, as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Smith, havo hereto set my
hand and scal, this Second day of February Ono thousand eight
hundred and seventy-five.