IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO MACHINERY EMPLOYED IN PREPARING, COMBING, AND FINISHING WOOL, COTTON, Flax, SILK, OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Bottomley, of Buttershaw Mills, near
Bradford, in the County of York, Spinner and Manufacturer, and
William Haggis, of the same Place, Wool Combing Overlooker,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO MACHINERY
EMPLOYED IN PREPARING, COMBING, AND FINISHING WOOL, COTTON, Flax,
SILK, OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES."
Sealed the 5th December 1871, and dated the 8th June 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Bottomley and
William Haggis at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 8th June 1871.
We, JAMES BOTTOMLEY, of Buttershaw Mills, near Bradford, in the
County of York, Spinner and Manufacturer, and WILLIAM HAGGIS, of
the same Place, Wool Combing Overlooker, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO MACHINERY
EMPLOYED IN PREPARING, COMBING, AND FINISHING WOOL, COTTON, FLAX, SILK,
OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the drawing-off belts used in all the various
classes of machinery employed in preparing, combing, and finishing

page_text: slivers of wool or other fibrous substances to be spun into yarn, and
wherein tooth and pinion or fluted drawing-off rollers and endless belts
are used for the purpose of drawing off the said slivers.
Heretofore the belts used have been made of leather, and in conse-
quence of the constant keen nipping action of the teeth or flutes of the
rollers upon the said belts the leather is very soon damaged or rendered
unfit for further use, and either requires frequent repairs or to be
replaced with new ones, which is very costly in material and much
time is lost in the repairing or exchanging of the said belts. Now to
diminish these evils we employ belts for such purposes made of
caoutchouc or india-rubber, either alone or in any suitable combination
with sulphur or other matters made of gutta percha or materials made
of some textile fabric combined with the said india-rubber, so as to
preserve its elasticity. These belts, although more especially adapted
and intended for the drawing off, may with advantage be used in the
feeding of slivers to such machines.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Bottomley and William Haggis in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 8th December 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wė, JAMES
BOTTOMLEY, of Buttershaw Mills, near Bradford, in the County of York,
Spinner and Manufacturer, and WILLIAM HAGGIS, of the same Place,
Wool Combing Overlooker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said James Bottomley and William Haggis,
Her special licence that we, the said James Bottomley and William
Haggis, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as a
we, the said James Bottomley and William Haggis, 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 3

page_text: Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN ов APPLICABLE TO MACHINERY EMPLOYED IN PREPARING, COMBING, AND
FINISHING WOOL, COTTON, FLAX, SILK, OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES,” upoņ
the condition (amongst others) that we, the said James Bottomley and
William Haggis, our executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under our, 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 tō
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 James Bottomley and William
Haggis, 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 (that is to say) :—
This Invention relates to the drawing-off belts used in all the various
classes of machinery employed in preparing, combing, and finishing
slivers of wool or other fibrous substances to be spun into yarn, and
wherein tooth and pinion or fluted drawing-off rollers and endless belts
are used for the purpose of drawing off the said slivers.
Heretofore, the belts used have been made of leather, and in conse.
quence of the constant keen nipping action of the teeth or flutes of the
rollers upon the said belts the leather is very soon damaged or rendered
unfit for further use, and either requires frequent repairs or to be
replaced with new ones, which is very costly in material, and much
time is lost in the repairing or exchanging of the said belts. Now
to diminish these evils we employ belts for such purposes made of
caoutchouc or india-rubber, either alone or in any suitable combination
with sulphur or other matters made of gutta percha, or materials made
of some textile fabric combined with the said india-rubber, so as to
preserve its elasticity. These belts although more especially adapted
and intended for the drawing off, may with advantage be used in the
feeding of slivers to such machines.
The manner in which these belts are applied and used is precisely the
same as with ordinary leather belts, but their elasticity or yielding
nature renders them more endurable than leather.
Having thus described the nature-and particulars of our said Invention
and stated the manner of applying and using same, we would have

page_text: it understood that we do not confine ourselves to the above or any
specific matters or materials that may be used in combination with the
caoutchouc or india-rubber in the manufacture of such belts; but we
claim the employment of belts for the purposes set forth made of
caoutchouc or india-rubber, either alone or in combination with any
other matter or material which will combine therewith, and so as to
preserve or not destroy its elasticity.
In witness whereof, we, the said James Bottomley and William
Haggis, have hereunto set our hands and seal, this First day of
December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-one.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named James Bottomley
and William Haggis, in the
presence of
WILKINSON WRIGHT,
JAMES BOTTOMLEY. (L.S.)
WILLIAM HAGGIS. (L.S.)
Book-keeper,
Wibsey.