IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR CARDING, GILLING, AND ROVING WORSTED, SILK, Flax, COTTON, AND OTHER FIBRES."AL SPATION
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Fenton and John Fenton, of Liversedge,
in the County of York, and Christopher Huchinson Newsome, of
Birstal, near Leeds, in the aforesaid County of York, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR CARDING,
GILLING, AND ROVING WORSTED, SILK, Flax, COTTON, AND OTHER FIBRES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Fenton, John
Fenton, and Christopher Huchinson Newsome at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 1st January
1875.
We, WILLIAM FENTON, and JOHN FENTON, of Liversedge, in the County
of York, and CHRISTOPHER HUCHINSON NEWSOME, of Birstal, near Leeds,
in the aforesaid County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS for Carding,
GILLING, AND ROVING WORSTED, SILK, FLAX, COTTON, AND OTHER FIBRES," to be
as follows:-

page_text: series of other machines before it has been formed or made into a roving.
Now our Invention is intended to dispense with this expensive and
tedious method of forming rovings, and the improvements consist in
taking the sliver as it comes from the carding engine into the cam, or after
it is formed into a top, and passing it between the feed rollers of a machine
similarly constructed to the carding engine provided with rings of cards
or narrow widths of card clothing placed at equal distances apart around
the various rollers forming this machine. After the material has passed
through this machine it is drawn or stripped off the "doffer cylinder" by
means of combs or gills, and thence drawn forward through these combs
or gills by one or more pair of rollers, and is thence conducted on to
bobbins by flyers and spindles, one bobbin and spindle being employed
to each ring of cards.
By this Invention we form rovings in a considerable less time and at
a much less cost.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Fenton, John Fenton, and Christopher
Huchinson Newsome in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 30th
June 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM 2
FENTON, and JOHN FENTON, of Liversedge, in the County of York, and
CHRISTOPHER HUCHINSON NEWSOME, of Birstal, near Leeds, in the
aforesaid County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of January, in the year 2
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said William Fenton, John Fenton,
and Christopher Huchinson Newsome, Her special licence that we, the
said William Fenton, John Fenton, and Christopher Huchinson a
Newsome, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as we, the said William Fenton, John Fenton, and Christopher
Huchinson Newsome, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all

page_text: 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 MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR CARDING,
GILLING, AND ROVING WORSTED, SILK, FLAX, COTTON, AND OTHER FIBRES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that we, the said William Fenton, John
Fenton, and Christopher Huchinson Newsome, our executors or ad-
ministrators, 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 to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after.
the date of tho said Letters Patent.
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NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said William Fenton, John Fenton,
and Christopher Huchinson Newsome, 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 and accompanying Sheets of Drawings, that is to say:
"
Heretofore in the formation of rovings of wool, cotton, and other
fibres, the material after leaving the carding engine has had to pass
through a series of other machines before it has been formed or made.
into a roving. Now our Invention is intended to dispense with this
expensive and tedious method of forming rovings, and the improvements.
consist in taking the sliver as it comes from the carding engine into the.
can, or after it is formed into a top," and passing it between the feed
rollers of a machine similarly constructed to the carding engine or con-
denser, the rollers of which are provided with rings of cards or narrow
widths of card clothing placed at equal distances apart around the.
various rollers forming this machine. After the material has passed
:through the roller it is drawn or stripped off the "doffer cylinder" by
means of combs or gills, and thence drawn forward through these combs
or gills by rollers and conducted on to bobbins by flyers and spindles,
one bobbin and spindle being employed to each ring of cards.
In order that this our said Invention may be better understood, we
will proceed to describe the accompanying Sheets of Drawings, where
F1, G1, is a longitudinal section of a machine constructed according to
our improvements; and F1, G2, is part of a front elevation of the

page_text: same. A are the feed rollers through which the sliver is fed, and B the
carding rollers similarly arranged as an ordinary carding and condensing
machine, except that the cards do not cover the whole surface of the
rollers but are placed thereon in rings or narrow widths of card clothing,
as shewn at C; in Fig. 2. D are worms or screws driven by bevil
wheels E from a convenient part of the machine for working the combs
or fullers F which doff or strip the fibre off the "doffer cylinder."
G and H are the rollers for drawing the fibre through the gills or combs
to be twisted, and wound on to the bobbin I by the flyers and spindle J;
K is a weight for regulating the "drag" on to the bobbin as required. It
will thus be seen that when the sliver comes from the carding machine
into the can, or after it is formed into a "top" it is fed into this machine
by the rollers A and carried forward through the carding rollers to be
carded or combed. When the said sliver has passed through all the
rollers it is stripped off the doffer cylinder G by the fullers F and drawn
through the combs of such fullers by the rollers H, and conducted to
the flyers to receive the twist required to make it into a roving.
Having now shewn and described the nature of this our said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is or may be performed, we
would have it understood that we do not confine ourselves to the precise
details and arrangements as herein shewn and described, but what we do
claim and believe to be new within the realm is, the general con-
struction, arrangement, and combination of mechanism for forming
rovings direct from the carding or condensing machine, as herein shewn
and described.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Fenton, John Fenton,
and Christopher Hutchinson Newsome, have hereunto set our
hands and seals, this Twenty-sixth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
WILLIAM FENTON.
JOHN FENTON.
CHRISTOPHER HUCHINSON NEWSOME.
(L.S.)
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