IMPROVEMENTS IN COATING OR PREPARING THE SURFACES OF CYLINDERS OR ROLLERS USED IN CARDING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Walton, of Haughton Dale Works,
Denton, near the City of Manchester, Wire Card Manufacturer, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN COATING OR PREPARING THE SURFACES
OF CYLINDERS OR ROLLERS USED IN CARDING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS
SUBSTANCES."
Scaled the 9th July 1872, and dated the 19th January 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Walton at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 19th January 1872.
I, WILLIAM WALTON, of Haughton Dale Works, Denton, near the
3 City of Manchester, Wire Card Manufacturer, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN COATING OR PREPARING
THE SURFACES OF CYLINDERS OR ROLLERS USED IN CARDING COTTON AND OTHER
FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-

page_text: india-rubber or woven fabric combined with india-rubber, in order to
produce an elastic ground on which the card fillet rests, thereby giving
elasticity to the card teeth. The sheet of india-rubber or its compound
or the fabric combined with india-rubber may be cemented on the
cylinder or roller by means of the ordinary india-rubber cement.
41 now tooth hava a
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Walton in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 15th July 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
WALTON, of Haughton Dale Works, Denton, near the City of Man-
chester, Wire Card Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Walton, Her special licence
that I, the said William Walton, my exccutors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said William Walton, 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 COATING
OR PREPARING THE SURFACES OF CYLINDERS OR ROLLERS USED IN CARDING COTTON
AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said William Walton, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Walton, 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) :—
My Invention is applicable to all cylinders and rollers used in carding
cotton and other fibrous substances, the surfaces of which cylinders or
rollers are covered with card fillets, and it consists in coating or pre-
paring the surfaces of the said cylinders or rollers with a thin sheet of
india-rubber or any suitable compound of india-rubber or woven fabric
combined with india-rubber, in order to produce an clastic ground on
which the card fillets rest, thereby giving clasticity to the card teeth.
The sheet of india-rubber or its compound, or the fabric combined with
india-rubber, may be cemented on the cylinder or roller by means of the
ordinary india-rubber cement, or a film of india-rubber may be deposited
upon the circumference of the cylinders or rollers by coating them with
a liquid solution of india-rubber, the said solution when dry producing
the elastic ground for the card fillet as above described.
My Invention is particularly applicable when the card teeth have a .
flat surface bearing against the coating on the cylinder or roller.
My Invention also supplies another desideratum, inasmuch as the
clastic coating acts as a substitute for the oil paint usually applied to the
surface of the cylinders or rollers to prevent the slipping and consequent
breaking of the card fillet.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, and described the
manner of performing the same, I wish it to be understood that I do not
limit myself to the details given, but that I claim coating or preparing
the surfaces of cylinders or rollers which are afterwards covered with
card fillets in such wise that an elastic ground is obtained for the card
teeth.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Walton, have. hereto
set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of July One thousand