IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING, COMBING, AND FINISHING WOOL AND OTHER FIBRES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Turner, of Horton, near Bradford, in the
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· County of York, Spinner and Manufacturer, and John Clayton
Baldwin, of Horton, aforesaid, Overlooker, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING, COMBING, AND FINISHING
WOOL AND OTHER FIBRES."
Scaled the 15th August 1873, and dated the 18th February 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Turner and
John Clayton Baldwin at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 18th February 1873.
We, GEORGE TURNER, of Horton, near Bradford, in the County of
York, Spinner and Manufacturer, and JOHN CLAYTON BALDWIN, of
Horton, aforesaid, Overlooker, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING, COMBING, AND
FINISHING WOOL AND OTHER FIBRES," to be as follows:-
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This Invention relates to the fluted rollers employed on the various
machines employed in preparing, combing, and finishing wool and other
fibres, and over or between which rollers, bolts, or aprons of leather arẻ

page_text: passed for the purpose of obtaining the requisito grip or hold on the
fibre whereby the draft is secured, and the object of this Invention is to
economize the use of such leathers by securing the efficient working of
the same without submitting them to the excessive pressure heretofore
requisite, in order that the rotation of the rollers should be maintained;
for inasmuch as such rollers were driven by the flutes and grooves being
within or in gear with those of the roller working in conjunction there-
with, the leather between the two was subject to sovere pressure, and
the rollers if not sufficiently
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"screwed down were apt to slip and the
leathers were cut and destroyed.
Rollers for these purposes according to this our Invention may be
constructed with the grooves of less depth than heretofore, and we apply
gear wheels on the spindles of the rollers, whereby we prevent the
slipping, and a very slight pressure on the rollers we find amply suffices
to maintain the efficient action of the rollers and belts, or aprons of
leather, the latter being but slightly indented by the flutes and grooves on
the rollers, and the rotation of the rollers and motion of the leathers
is certain and unvarying. The application of gearing as above described
is applicable to existing machinery for the purposes above described.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 2
filed by the said George Turner and John Clayton Baldwin in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th August 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, GEORGE
TURNER, of Horton, near Bradford, in the County of
, Spinner
and Manufacturer, and JOHN CLAYTON BALDWIN, of Horton aforesaid, 2
Overlooker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in
the thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and a
successors, give and grant unto us, the said George Turner and John
Clayton Baldwin,. Her special licence that we, the said George Turner
and John Clayton Baldwin, executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said George Turner and Jolin Clayton Baldwin,
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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 Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING, COMBING, AND FINISHING WOOL
AND OTHER FIBRES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, tho
said George Turner and John Clayton Baldwin, our executors or ad-
ministrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or onò
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 we, the said George Turner and John Clayton
Baldwin, 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:÷
This Invention relates to the fluted rollers. employed on the various
machines used in the preparing, combing, and finishing wool and fibres,
and over or between which rollers, belts, or aprons of leather are
passed for the purpose of obtaining the requisite grip or hold on the
fibre whereby the draft is secured, and the object of this Invention is to
economize the use of such leathers by securing the efficient working of
the same without submitting them to the excessive pressure heretofore
requisite, in order that the rotation of the rollers should be maintained;
for inasmuch as such rollers were driven by the flutes and grooves being
within or in gear with those of the roller working in conjunction there-
with, the leather between the two was subject to severe pressure, and
the rollers if not sufficiently "screwed down" were apt to slip and the
leathers were cut and destroyed.
Rollers for these purposes according to this our Invention may bo
constructed with the grooves of less depth than heretofore, and wo apply
gear wheels on the spindles of the rollers whereby we prevent the
slipping, and a very slight pressure on the rollers we find will amply
suffice to maintain the efficient action of the rollers and belts, or aprons
of leather, the latter being but slightly indented by the flutes and grooves

page_text: on the rollers, and the rotation of the rollers and motion of the leathers is
certain and unvarying. The application of gearing as above described
is applicable to existing machinery for the purposes above described.
Such being the nature and object of this our said Invention, and
having thus fully described the particulars thereof, together with the 5
manner in which the same is to be performed or carried into practical
.effect, we would have it understood that we claim as our Invention the
application and use of gear wheels, as and for the purpose herein fully
.described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Turner, for and on behalf 10
of myself and the said John Clayton Baldwin, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
GEO. TURNER. (L.S.)
Witness,
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Tasker & Brierley,
Patent Agents,
Halifax, Bradford, & Blackburn.