AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR PREPARING AND CLEANSING WOOL FOR MANUFACTURING PURPOSES for Manufacturing
Year: 1839

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN SWAIN
WORTH, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Eleventh day of January, in the second year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John
Swain Worth, Her especial license, full power, sole privilege and authority
that I, the said John Swain Worth, my exors, admors, and assigns, and such
others as I, the said John Swain Worth, my exors, adñors, and assigns, should
at any time agree with and no other, from time to time and at all times during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England and Wales and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR PREPARING AND CLEANSING
WOOL FOR MANUFACTURING PURPOSES;" in which said Letters Patent is con-
tained a proviso that I, the said John Swain Worth, shall cause a particular
description of the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be enrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in
part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto
had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said John
Swain Worth, do hereby declare that the nature of the said Invention, com-
municated to me by a certain Foreigner residing abroad, of an Improved
Machine for Preparing and Cleaning Wool for Manufacturing Purposes,

page_text: consists in a new combination of machinery, by which I am enabled to separate
or divide the wool in its raw state, or subsequent to the willowing process,
from burrs or other extraneous matter, and render it clean and in a more fit
state for the various manufacturing purposes to which it is to be applied. And
the manner in which the same is performed and carried into effect is set
forth and described in the annexed Drawings, and the following description
thereof. In these Drawings the scale is marked thereon, and the various
letters and figures of reference indicate the same parts throughout.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 represents an elevation, and Figure 2 a side view of the improved
machine for the purposes herein-before described, in which A, A, represents
the framework; B, the driving pulley fixed on the driving shaft C, which has
motion communicated to it from any convenient source by means of the
strap D. On the shaft C is placed the long drum E, that imparts motion
through the straps E and G to the two rollers H and. I. These two rollers
revolve in suitable bearings in the framework of the machine, and the diame
ters of the drums or pulleys for driving them, are regulated so that the
surface speed. of each roller shall, be the same. A guard or knife marked K
is fixed at its. extremities to the framing, and, placed in a diagonal direction.
over the lower roller, as best seen at Figure 3. The edge of this guard or.
knife K is turned up. with a burnisher, similar to the edge of a currier's knife.
There is also a clearer, marked L, made of thin wrought-iron plate, having the
edge that passes against. the roller furnished with a covering.of woollen cloth,
which, by coming in contact with the surface of the roller, removes any par-
ticles of wool that may have a tendency to adhere to it; and M represents, a
similar clearer for the same purpose, having a similar covering as that
described for the lower roller H.
Having described the various parts of which, the machine herein-before
mentioned is constructed, and the direction of rotation. of the cylinders or
rollers H and I being indicated by the bent arrows at Figure 8, the
operation of the machine in cleaning the wool will be as follows:-Supposing
the wool in its raw state to be fed by hand, or spread on an endless cloth, or.
any other well known apparatus for feeding, and moved in the direction of the
arrow P towards the rollers H and I that revolve at about, six hundred.
revolutions per minute, it will be drawn forward by the rotation of the lower
roller H, and freed of the earth or extraneous matter by the knife or guard.
which is adjusted at the requisite distance from the roller H to.suit the nature
of the wool, and also the quantity and quality of extraneous matter it contains.

page_text: The wool then passes between the rollers H and I, by which operation any
earthy particles which may have escaped the knife are crushed, and the wool
then passes down the shoot Q on to the floor or into any receptable provided
for that purpose.
Having now described the construction and mode of operation of the In-
vention communicated to me by a certain Foreigner residing abroad, of An
Improved Machine for Preparing and Cleaning Wool for Manufacturing
Purposes, as herein-before described, I wish it to be understood that I do not
claim any of the several or well-known parts of which the machine is com-
posed; but I do claim the combination of two rollers in conjunction with the
guard or knife, as herein-before described, for the purposes before mentioned.
And such the Invention communicated to me by a certain Foreigner residing
abroad being, to the best of my knowledge and belief, new and never before
used in this Kingdom, I deliver this as a true and faithful Specification of the
same.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Swain Worth, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord