AN IMPROVEMENT IN PREPARING, CRABBING,' OR FINISHING PIECE GOODS, AND IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY EMPLOYED THEREIN
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Hulme Holdsworth, of the Firm of J. Holds-
worth and Son, of Wakefield, in the County of York, Dyers and Finishers,
for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN PREPARING, CRABBING,' OR
FINISHING PIECE GOODS, AND IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY EMPLOYED
THEREIN."
Sealed the 3rd December 1861, and dated the 4th June 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Hulme Holdsworth
: at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
4th June 1861.
I, JOSEPH HULME HOLDSWORTH, of the Firm of J. Holdsworth and Son, of
Wakefield, in the County of York, Dyers and Finishers, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN PREPARING,
CRABBING, OR FINISHING PIECE GOODS, AND IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
EMPLOYED THEREIN," to be as follows:-
My improvement in preparing, crabbing,' or finishing piece goods, consists
in subjecting them to a blast or current of air after having been passed
through troughs containing the usual finishing baths, and preparatory to being
wound upon gathering rollers.
My improvements in machinery consist in the following arrangements :-
First, the goods in the piece are placed upon a giving-off roller, from whence
they are led over, under, and around rollers placed in a bath or trough con-
taining the first preparation in solution, to which the particular goods under
operation are to be subjected; on coming out of the first trough the goods are
led between squeezing rollers into another trough, then between other

page_text: squeezing rollers, and so on iuto as many troughs as are necessary according
to the nature of the goods. From the last pair of squeezing rollers the goods
are passed over guide rollers, and subjected to a blast or current of air.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Hulme Holdsworth in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 4th December 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPHI
HULME HOLDSWORTH, of the Firm of J. Holdsworth and Son, of Wakefield, in
the County of York, Dyers and Finishers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Joseph Hulme Holdsworth, Her special licence that I, tho said
Joseph Hulme Holdsworth, my_executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Joseph Hulme Holdsworth, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN PREPARING, CRABBING, OR FINISHING PIECE GOODS, AND
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY EMPLOYED THEREIN," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Joseph Hulme Holdsworth, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one 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 I, the said Joseph Hulme Holdsworth, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say:
My improvement in preparing, crabbing, or finishing piece goods, consists in
subjecting them to a blast or current of air after having been passed through
troughs containing the usual finishing baths, and preparatory to being wound
upon gathering rollers.

page_text: My improvements in machinery consist in the following arrangements:-
First, the goods in the piece are placed upon a giving-off' roller, from whence
they are led over, under, and around rollers placed in a bath or trough con-
taining the first preparation in solution, to which the particular goods under
operation are to be subjected; on coming out of the first trough the goods are
led between squeezing rollers into another trough, then between other
squeezing rollers, and so on into as many troughs as are necessary according
to the nature of the goods. From the last pair of squeezing rollers the goods
are passed over guide rollers, and subjected to a blast or current of air.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings shews in longitudinal section, and
Figure 2 in plan, one manner in which my Invention may be carried
into effect.
a is the giving-off roller, from which the material is led to rollers b, b, in
the first bath c; d, d, are the first set of squeezing rollers, between which the
material passes to rollers e, e, e, in the second bath f; it then passes between
a second pair of squeezing rollers g, g, to the third bath h, where it again
passes round other rollers i, i, i, to the last set of squeezing rollers j, j', one of
which, j, is mounted upon a shaft carrying fast and loose pulleys k, k, by which
motion is communicated to draw the material forward between the squeezing
rollers; 1, 7, are rollers above, and ₁ is a roller in a shaft m, over and around
which the material is led for receiving a blast of air issuing through the pipe n
to the shaft m, and it is finally wound on the roller o, the shaft of which carries
a pulley p for communicating motion to and for winding the material on it;
o' is a "breast" roller.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, finishing piece
goods by subjecting them to a blast or current of air after having been
passed through the usual finishing baths, and preparatory to their being
wound on a gathering roller or rollers, substantially in manner herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Hulme Holdsworth, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Third day of December, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-one.
J. HULME HOLDSWORTH. (L.S.)