AN IMPROVED MODE OF LAYING AND PRESSING COTTON, SILK, WOOL, FLAX, AND OTHER FIBROUS MATTERS INTO CANS, BASKETS, BOXES, OR OTHER DEPOSITORIES
Year: 1847

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSHUA
FIELDEN, of Waterside, Todmorden, in the County of Lancaster, Esquire,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Eighth day of May, One thousand
eight hundred and forty-seven, in the tenth year of Her reign, did, for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Joshua
Fielden, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, Her especial license, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said Joshua Fielden, my exors, admors,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joshua Fielden, my exors, admors,
or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in all Her Majesty's Colonies and Plan-
tations abroad, and also in tho Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark,
and Man, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED MODE OF LAYING AND PRESSING
COTTON, SILK, WOOL, FLAX, AND OTHER FIBROUS MATTERS INTO CANS, BASKETS,
BOXES, OR OTHER DEPOSITORIES;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a
proviso that I, the said Joshua Fielden, shall cause a particular description
of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled
in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery, within six calendar months
next and immediately after tho 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
Joshua Fielden, hereby declare, that my said Invention has relation to

page_text: cotton, wool, flax, and other like fibrous matters when they are in a combed
or drawn out state, and whether twisted or not twisted, preparatory to being
spun into thread, which state is variously designated by the terms slivers,
ribbands, drawings, cardings, rovings, layers, &c., and has relation also to
silk and other like fibrous matters when in the state-of skeins, or hanks, or
waste, which it may be desirable for certain purposes to treat in the same
manner as the cotton and other fibrous matters first before mentioned. And
the nature of the Invention consists in an improved mode of guiding, direct-
ing, and acting on the said fibrous matters when in the state or states afore-
said, by means of suitable machinery (which state or states I shall, for the
sake of convenience, herein-after-express by the term "drawings" alone),
whereby they are received into and laid in cans or other depositories provided
for the purpose, in a more regular and closer succession of layers than here-
tofore, which improved mode prevents the drawings from being afterwards
stretched or rendered uneven in the process of removing them from the cans
or other depositories, and enables the spinner to produce from them a much
more perfect thread. The manner or mode in which this is performed is
fully set forth in the following description thereof, referénce being had to
the illustrative Drawings hereunto annexed.
Figure 1 is a front elevation of the machinery which I employ; and
Figures 2 and 3 are elevations of the two ends of it. A, A, is a strong
framework of metal, which is fixed securely to the floor of the apartment in
which it is set, and in close proximity to a carding or other like engine. B, B,
is a second frame of metal, which oscillates or swings in bearings in the fixed
frame A, A, and holds the can for receiving the drawings, which is kept in its
place by the turn-button fastenings I, I. D is a pulley fixed on the roller
shaft of the carding or other like engine, which gives motion to a second
pulley E through the medium of a belt F. On the spindle of this latter
pulley E there is a crank, which is connected by a rod G to the back of the
oscillating frame B, B, so that when the pulley E is put in motion, the frame
B, B, is made to oscillate. K is a pulley fixed upon the same shaft of the
carding or other engine as the pulley D, which communicates by the belt and
pulley L, L, a rotary motion to a pair of calendar rollers M, M, which have
their bearings in the fixed framework A, A. N is an eye or guide through.
which the drawings pass, and which is made to traverse longitudinally on the
top rail of the frame A, A, (immediately over and parallel with the calender
rollers M, M,) by means of the arrangements next to be described. O is
a pinion fixed upon the spindle of one of the calender-rollers M, M, which
gears into a larger wheel P, which again gives motion to a belt Q running
over two small pulleys R, R. To the outer edge of this belt there is attached

page_text: one end of a cord S, the other end of which is secured to the eye N, so that
while the end of the cord which is attached to the belt Q is descending, the
eye N moves from left to right (through the action of the cord S), but when
it is ascending, the action of the weight T causes it to move in the contrary
direction. U, U, are a pair of pressing rollers, which have their bearings in
the upper part of the fixed frame A, A, and receive an alternating rotary
motion from a segmental rack V, which is fixed to and forms part of the
oscillating frame B, B, which gears into pinions W, W, affixed to the spindles
of the pressing rollers.
In operating with this machinery, the drawing is first passed over a cylin-
drical beam X (made of thin sheet metal, and then through the oye N), and
down between the calender rollers M, M, whereby the drawing is so consoli-
dated as to admit of its being closely packed into the can, and made better
able to bear uninjured the subsequent process of withdrawing from the can.
The parallel motion of the guide or eye N, together with the oscillating of tho
frame B, causes the drawings to fall into the can in regular and uniform
layers, while the rollers U, U, serve to press them down into the can.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is, the
improved mode of laying and pressing cotton, silk, wool, flax, and other fibrous
matters herein-before described; that is to say, in so far as regards the
Oscillating movement given to the can, basket, box, or other depository which
contains the "drawings," the parallel motion of the eye or guide, and the
double. sets of rollers employed to consolidate and press down the "drawings."
In witness whereof, I, the said Joshua Fielden, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixth day of November, One thousand eight