IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING COTTON, WOOL, OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES TO BE SPUN
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Luke Cooke, of Sowerby Bridge, in, the County of
York, Manager, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR PREPARING COTTON, WOOL, OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES TO
BE SPUN."
Sealed the 22nd December 1854, and dated the 12th July 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Luke Cooke at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 12th July
1854.
I, LUKE COOKE, of Sowerby Bridge, in the County of York, Manager, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING COTTON, WOOL, OR OTHER FIBROUS.
SUBSTANCES TO BE SPUN" to be as follows:-
This Invention relates especially to improvements in the machine generally.
known as the blowing machine, which is used for opening and cleaning fibrous
materials, which improvements are calculated to decrease the first cost of the
machinery and reduce the wages and general expenses, because it will do more
work in a given time, and do it more effectually and with less injury than by.
the present machines.
My improvements consist of, firstly, liaving a small beater placed under
the usual beater and food rollers and working in opposite directions; the cotton
or other fibre is struck off from the feed roller in the usual way, it is then met.

page_text: by the small beater, carried nearly round the same, and delivered by a roller cr
feed rollers upon the original beater again, from which it is struck and
delivered in the usual manner. I do not confine myself to one carrier beater,
as more can be applied if requisite, by having a larger centre beater, and the
fibre may be delivered from time to time upon the centre beater by means of
these carrier beaters, or otherwise with small rollers only. The accompanying
outline sketch will be clearly understood by all persons conversant with
machinery used for similar purposes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Luke Cooke in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th
January 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LUKE
COOKE, of Sowerby Bridge, in the County of York, Manager, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Royal
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Luke Cooke, Her special licence that I, the said Luke Cooke, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Luke
Cooke, 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 MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR PREPARING COTTON, WOOL, OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES TO BE
SPUN," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Luke Cooke, by
an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describo
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 Luke Cooke, 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):

page_text: My Invention relates particularly to that part of machinery or apparatus
generally known as the blowing machine, which is used for the opening
and cleaning fibrous materials, and consists of placing one or more small
beaters under the usual beater and feed rollers working in opposite directions;
the beaters revolve all one way, but the blades at the working parts pass cach
other in opposite directions. The cotton or other fibre, being struck off from the
feed roller in the usual manner, is met by the small beater or beaters, carried
nearly round, and delivered by a roller or rollers and flexible creeper upon the
original beater again, from which it is struck and delivered in the usual way.
The said rollers and creeper may be used or not, as they are not absolutely
necessary for the working of the machine.
These improvements will be clearly understood by reference to the accom-
panying Drawing, in which it will be observed that the feed rollers deliver the
cotton or fibre much higher on the beater than in the ordinary machines, by
which means I obtain room for three small carrier beaters without passing the
centre of the main beater. The fibre is fed on in the usual way, struck off by
the large beater, and thrown into violent contact with the first small beater.
It then takes the course shewn by the arrow on No. 1 beater, round the
casing, throwing its refuse through the bars, and again comes into violent con-
cussion with the large beater at the point A, from whence it is thrown upon
No. 2, and delivered again at B, to undergo the same process with No. 3
beater, from which the large beater throws it upon the cages d and e, and is
delivered by the rollers fand g upon the creeper H. The dirt and refuse is
drawn down and ejected by the fan, as seen at i. The main beater revolves
at about 1,000 to 1,200 revolutions per minute, the small ones at about 1,500
to 1,800, and the blades pass each other in opposite directions at a distance of
four to five sixteenths of an inch. All the beaters are strongly cased round,
and the grid bars are moveable. It is evident that by this process the fibre
will be more thoroughly opened, and with less injury to the fibre, than it can
be done by the machine now in use; the dirt and other foreign matter will
be more effectually separated from the fibre, and time will be very much
economised in the whole process.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of my said Invention,
I desire it to be distinctly understood that I do not confine myself to the exact
details herein described, as such may be varied or modified without departing
from the principle thereof; but I claim as of my Invention, and which, to
the best of my knowledge and belief, has not been hitherto used within this
realm, the use of one or more small carrier beaters in conjunction with

page_text: the main beater working in opposite directions, as herein described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Luke Cooke, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Tenth day of January, One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-five.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the within-
nanied Luke Cooke, in the presence of
E. J. HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.
LUKE COOKE. (L.S.)