IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED FOR WINDING WOOLLEN AND OTHER FABRICS ON ROLLERS, IN ORDER TO SUCH FABRICS BEING BOILED OR FACED WHEN ON THE ROLLERS
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Kempe, of Holbeck Mills, Leeds, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED FOR WINDING WOOLLEN
AND OTHER FABRICS ON ROLLERS, IN ORDER TO SUCH FABRICS BEING BOILED OR
FACED WHEN ON THE ROLLERS."
Sealed the 8th February 1859, and dated the 27th August 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Kempe at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 27th
August 1858.
I, WILLIAM KEMPE, of Holbeck Mills, Leeds, do hereby declare the nature
of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED FOR WINDING WOOLLEN
AND OTHER FABRICS ON ROLLERS, IN ORDER TO SUCH FABRICS BEING BOILED OR
FACED WHEN ON THE ROLLERS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus used for
winding woollen and other fabrics on rollers, in order to such fabrics being
boiled or faced when on the rollers. Heretofore when winding such fabrics
on to a roller, the holding instrument and power for driving the roller have
been applied only at one end of the roller, the other end of the roller being
simply supported. Now my improvements consist partly in applying apparatus
for holding and for giving motion to a roller at each of its ends. By these
means the ends of a roller, when having a fabric wound thereon, will be held
at each of its ends by suitable friction or holding surfaces or instruments, and
both such holding surfaces or instruments will have power applied in order
simultaneously to give rotatory motion to them, and to the roller held by
them. And part of the Invention consists in driving at one end only of a

page_text: roller, by applying friction holding surfaces at both ends, and applying the
driving power at one end only.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Kempe in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
25th February 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
KEMPE, of Holbeck Mills, Leeds, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, hearing date the Twenty-seventh day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said William Kempe, Her special licence that I, the said William
Kempe, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said William Kempe, 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS USED FOR WINDING WOOLLEN AND OTHER FABRICS ON ROLLERS,
IN ORDER TO SUCH FABRICS BEING BOILED OR FACED WHEN ON THE ROLLERS,'
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Kempe, 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 William Kempe, 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 fol-
lowing statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus used for
winding woollen and other fabrics on rollers, in order to such fabrics being
boiled or faced when on the rollers. Heretofore when winding such fabrics
on to a roller, the holding instrument and power for driving the roller have
been applied only at one end of the roller, the other end of the roller being

page_text: simply supported. Now my improvements consist partly in applying apparatus
for holding and for giving motion to a roller at each of its ends. By these
means the ends of a roller, when having a fabric wound thereon, will be held
at each of its ends by suitable friction or holding surfaces or instruments, and
both such holding surfaces or instruments will have power applied in order
simultaneously to give rotatory motion to them, and to the roller held by
them. And part of the Invention consists in driving at one end only of a
roller, by applying friction holding surfaces at both ends, and applying the
driving power at one end only.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same. Upon a bed plate fixed
to the frame of the winding machine, at a convenient height from the floor, I
place two headstocks, after the manner of a lathe, distant from each other the
length of the roller upon which the fabric is wound. The spindles of these
headstocks have cups for receiving the roller ends, friction being applied by a
tightening screw or otherwise at the tail of one of the spindles, thus binding
the spindles and roller longitudinally together. On each of the spindles, at
any convenient part, I fix a toothed wheel, and running longitudinally in the
bed plate I fix a shaft; upon this shaft I fix two pinions of equal teeth, which
gear into the wheel, also of equal teeth, on the spindles of the headstocks;
when this shaft in the bed plate is put in motion by any convenient connection
with the driving gear of the winding machine, both the spindles revolve at an
equal speed, preventing any tortion of the roller, and reducing the amount of
friction necessary for holding the roller. Part of my plan is for holding the
roller in its place between the heads by friction, as stated above, and driving it
from one end only. In this case I fix a toothed wheel on one spindle only
gearing it in any convenient and suitable way with the driving gear of the
machine; but I prefer the method of driving equally from both ends in the
manner as before stated.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Kempe, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
WILL KEMPE. (L.S.)
Witness,
S. CARPMAEL.