CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY AND INSTRUMENTS FOR DRESSING AND CLEANSING WOOLLEN, COTTON, LINEN, SILK, AND OTHER CLOTHS OR FABRICS, AND WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO THE DRESSING AND CLEANSING OF MACHINERY OF VARIOUS DESCRIPTIONS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OR SUBSTANCES
Year: 1824

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
JONES, of Leeds, in the County of York (late of Gloucester), Brush Manu-
facturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of that part of the United Britain
and Ireland called England, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-seventh
day of January, One thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, in the fourth
year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said John Jones, my exors,
adñiors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said John Jones, my exors, adññors, and assigns,
during the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
AND INSTRUMENTS FOR DRESSING AND CLEANSING WOOLLEN, COTTON, LINEN, SILK,
AND OTHER CLOTHS OR FABRICS, AND WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO
THE DRESSING AND CLEANSING OF MACHINERY OF VARIOUS DESCRIPTIONS, AND OTHER
ARTICLES OR SUBSTANCES;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
that if I, the said John Jones, shall not particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to bo
performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause

page_text: the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages
whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and become void,
as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Jones, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which I perform the same, by the following description thereof,
reference being had to the Drawings and Figs. annexed:-
My improvements consist, first, in machinery used in dressing or brushing
and cleansing woollen and other cloths. In the modification of a perpetual
brushing machine, as represented in perspective by Fig. 1, A, A, is the frame;
B, the first or front cylinder brush, composed of bristles or bristles and wires
intermixed; C, another cylinder brush, of bristles, or bristles and wires inter-
mixed, or of goats' hair, or goats' hair and bristles intermixed. D, D, are
drawing rollers or cylinders; E, a cog wheel, upon the further end of the axle
of which is fixed a pinion working into the teetli of a wheel fixed on the axis
of the lower drawing roller D. E works into the teeth of a pinion fixed on the
axis of the cylinder brush C. F is a wheel working into the teeth of pinions
fixed on the axis of B & C, and is fixed on the main or driving axle G. H is
a box attached to the frame, and placed underneath the cylinder brushes to
receive flocks or dust which may fall from the cloth during the process of
brushing. I is a roller for giving a greater or less pressure to the cloth.
J, K, are retarding cylinders. L is a lever in which the pivot of the roller D
works, for the purpose of raising the upper roller D to introduce the cloth
between the rollers D, D. The cloth to be brushed will first pass over the
roller J, between J and K, under K, over B, under I, over C, and under the
lower roller D, between the two rollers D, D, and over the top of the upper
roller D, it will fall upon M, an inclined plane or curved surface, which is
elevated at the receiving end sufficiently for the cloth to move slowly down-
wards, and the lower end will rest upon the floor immediately under the front
of the machine, the ends of the cloth to be sewed together, or secured with
wire skewers. N is a cylindrical or fan-formed wisk, is placed over B to
cleanse the back or wrong side of the cloth whilst it is being brushed on the
face side of the same; a cylinder brush may also be placed in the room of the
wisk, for the same purpose, or in the room of the roller I, to brush cloth
having a dress upon both sides. Steam can be applied to woollen cloths by
this machine in the usual manner, the apparatus for which it is not needful to

page_text: describe, nor is it shewn in the Drawings. This machine may be applied to
wet brushing of cloths, and it is applicable for brushing and cleansing woollen
cloths in the raw state; or previous to and during the process of burling it
may be proper for this purpose that the pinions on the axles of the brush
cylinders B and C should work into each other, and the wheel F made to work
into one of these pinions, in which case the cylinders B and C will move in
reverse directions.
on the axle G.
My improvements consist, secondly, in the modification of a wet perpetual
brushing or moizing machine, as shewn in Fig. 2. A is the frame; B, the
cylinder brush composed of bristles, or bristles and wires intermixed. D, D,
are drawing rollers; E, a cog wheel, and on the further end of the axle E is
fixed a pinion working into the teeth of the wheel C, which is fixed on the
axis of the upper roller D. F is a wheel working into the teeth of the
pinion H, and fixed upon the axis of the brush cylinder B. F is fixed upon
the main or driving axle G. E works into a pinion fixed
J, K, L, are rails, between which the cloth is to pass. These are moveable in
grooves of the frame, and are made to rise and fall by means of pinions
working into the rack teeth on the projecting arms of the frame. M is a pipe
pierced with small holes, to convey water to the cloth when working. The
cloth will first pass between the rails J, K, L, over B, over the top roller D,
and between D, D, the two ends of the cloth to be sewed together if to pass
more than once through the machine, and to work as described in Fig. 1.
This machine may also be used for dry brushing & steaming woollen & other
lothe
describe, nor is it shewn in the Drawings. This machine may be applied to
wet brushing of cloths, and it is applicable for brushing and cleansing woollen
cloths in the raw state; or previous to and during the process of burling it
may be proper for this purpose that the pinions on the axles of the brush
cylinders B and C should work into each other, and the wheel F made to work
into one of these pinions, in which case the cylinders B and C will move in
reverse directions.
My improvements consist, secondly, in the modification of a wet perpetual
brushing or moizing machine, as shewn in Fig. 2. A is the frame'; B, the
cylinder brush composed of bristles, or bristles and wires intermixed. D, D,
are drawing rollers; E, a cog wheel, and on the further end of the axle E is
fixed a pinion working into the teeth of the wheel C, which is fixed on the
axis of the upper roller D. F is a wheel working into the teeth of the
pinion H, and fixed upon the axis of the brush cylinder B. F is fixed upon
the main or driving axle G. E works into a pinion fixed on the axle G.
J, K, L, are rails, between which the cloth is to pass. These are moveable in
grooves of the frame, and are made to rise and fall by means of pinions
working into the rack teeth on the projecting arms of the frame. M is a pipe
pierced with small holes, to convey water to the cloth when working. The
cloth will first pass between the rails J, K, L, over B, over the top roller D,
and between D, D, the two ends of the cloth to be sewed together if to pass
more than once through the machine, and to work as described in Fig. 1.
This machine may also be used for dry brushing & steaming woollen & other
clothes.
I claim as my Invention,-
First, the construction and application of cylindrical brushes, in which the
bristles, or bristles and wires intermixed, are set or drawed at obtuse angles
from the radius, for the brushing, moizing, or cleansing woollen and other
fabrics and other articles.
Secondly, the cleansing of the back or wrong side of the cloth, either by
cylindrical or fan-formed wisks or brushes, at the same time as the face side
is brushed or cleansed.
Thirdly, the method of bringing the cloth underneath the machine by means
of an inclined plane or curved surface, to prevent the necessity of turning

page_text: Fifthly, the application of brushes with wires and bristles intermixed, for the
purpose of cleansing cotton, silk, & various kinds of machinery.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Jones, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-second day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.