IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MOISTENING OR DAMPING WOOLLEN OR OTHER TEXTILE FABRICS FOR FINISHING
Year: 1855

page_text: Sealed the 4th March 1856, and dated the 1st October 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Radcliffe at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 1st
October 1855.
I, CHARLES RADCLIFFE, of Sowerby Bridge, in the County of York, Manufac-
turer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS FOR MOISTENING OR DAMPING WOOLLEN OR OTHER TEXTILE FABRICS
FOR FINISHING" to be as follows:—
This my Invention, which is an improvement or extension of the principle
of the Invention for which I obtained provisional protection, dated August 29th,
1855, consists of (in addition to the revolving brush or brushes, specified in
the Provisional Specification of the aforesaid Patent,) the employment of a
perforated pipe or vessel, or a perforated cylinder or hollow roller capable of
revolving, the said vessel or roller being supplied with water to the interior,
which is forced through the perforations by hydraulic or other pressure.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Charles Radcliffe in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
1st April 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
RADCLIFFE, of Sowerby Bridge, in the County of York, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Royal
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Ller
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Charles Radcliffe, Her special licence that I, the said Charles Radcliffe,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles
Radcliffe, 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 APPARATUS FOR
MOISTENING OR DAMPING WOOLLEN OR OTHER TEXTILE FABRICS FOR FINISHING,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles Radcliffe,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 Royal Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Radcliffe, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say):-
This my Invention, which is an improvement or extension of the principle
of the Invention for which I obtained Letters Patent, dated August the 29th,
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, consists of (in addition to the
revolving brush or brushes, specified in the aforesaid Patent,) the employment
of a perforated pipe or vessel, or a perforated cylinder or hollow roller,
capable of revolving; the said vessel or roller being supplied with water to the
interior, which is forced through the perforations by hydraulic or other pres-
sure. My Invention will be readily understood by reference to the accom-
panying Sheet of Drawings, where Fig. 1 is an elevation of a machine or
apparatus, partly in section, modified in construction, but in accordance with
the principle of my former Patent, wherein I use a revolving brush, which

page_text: dips into the water or other liquid as it percolates through the perforated
bottom of a trough, and by the centrifugal force of the brush the water is
thrown off in a spray or mist against the fabric as it travels over and at a
suitable distance from the brush. My present Invention is in the use or
employment of a revolving cylinder or hollow roller, in place of the brush,
therein-before described, the surface of which is perforated, water being
supplied to the interior by means of a perforated pipe passing through the
centre or axis of the said cylinder, when by the centrifugal force of the
revolving cylinder the water is forced through the perforations and thrown off
against the fabric, in like manner as by the revolving brush, the proper
quantity of liquid being regulated by a tap, as in my former Patent. Fig. 2 is
a plan of the said cylinder; and Fig. 3, a cross section of the same; Fig. 4
is the perforated pipe, which is also seen in its place a in the cylinder, Fig. 2.
The cylinder is constructed of tin or other suitable netal or material, and the
perforations are made either by puncturing, or by cutting slits or openings and
inserting wire gauze therein, as b, b, in Fig. 2. I also fix wings or ribs c on
the exterior for the purpose of distributing still more finely the spray or mist
as it issues from the interior through the perforations. Or a perforated pipe
or other formed vessel may be fixed in the place of the brush, or the cylinder
and water or other liquid forced through the perforations by hydraulic or
other pressure or force; but I prefer the use of a revolving brush, as described
in my former Patent, or the revolving cylinder, described and illustrated in
this Specification.
Having thus fully described and ascertained the nature and particulars of
this my Invention, and the manner of carrying the same into practical effect,
I desire it to be understood that I claim the use or employment of a perfo-
rated cylinder, roller, pipe, or vessel for moistening or damping woollen or other
textile fabrics, as herein described, and illustrated in the accompanying Sheet
of Drawings, or any modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Radcliffe, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of March, One thousand eight
marea
mity-six.
CHARLES RADCLIFFE. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the within-named
Charles Radcliffe, in the presence of
J. MILLIGAN, Halifax.