IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR POLISHING YARN, TWINE, THREADS, & OTHER SIMILAR MATERIALS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Gill, Bleacher, of Far Headingley, near Leeds,
in the County of York, & James Parkin, Manager, of the same Place,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR POLISHING YARN,
TWINE, THREADS, & OTHER SIMILAR MATERIALS."
Sealed the 28th July 1863, and dated the 5th February 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Gill and James
Parkin at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 5th February 1863.
We, JOSEPH GILL, Bleacher, Far Headingley, near Leeds, in the County of
York, & JAMES PARKIN, Manager, of the same Place, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR POLISHING.
YARN, TWINE, THREADS, & OTHER SIMILAR MATERIALS," to be as follows:-
Our Invention consists in the combination and arrangement of the polishing
aud conducting rollers with and in relation to the ordinary heated cylinder,
whereby the yarn, twine, thread, or other material is polished on both sides,
and protected from the ordinary liability to breakage. For this purpose the
ordinary roller covered with hair, cocoa-nut fibre, or other suitable material is.
arranged so as to polish the outer surface in the ordinary manner.
The yarn,
twine, thread, or other material is caused to pass from this roller over the
ordinary tin or wooden guiding roller, thence over a smooth conducting roller,

page_text: whence it passes to a second polishing roller with a roughened surface so
placed as to act upon the inner surface of the yarn, twine, thread, or other
material, which thus becomes polished on both sides. By this arrangement of
the several rollers the strain or the yarn, twine, thread, or material becomes
distributed in such a manner as to prevent any undue pressure on any par-
ticular part thereof.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Joseph Gill and James Parkin in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 4th August 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSEPH
GILL, Bleacher, of Far Headingly, near Leeds, in the County of York, and
JAMES PARKIN, Manager, of the same Place, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said Joseph Gill and James Parkin, Her special license that we, the
said Joseph Gill and James Parkin, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Joseph Gill and James Parkin, our
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
POLISHING YARN, TWINE, THREAD, AND OTHER SIMILAR MATERIALS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said Joseph Gill and James Parkin,
by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand
and seal of one of us, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of our 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.
.
KNOW NOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Gill, on behalf of myself and
the said James Parkin, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had to the

page_text: Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon
(that is to say):
Our Invention of "Improvements in Apparatus for Polishing Yarn, Twine,
Thread, and other similar Materials," consists, in the combination and arrange-
ment of the polishing and conducting rollers with and in relation to the
ordinary heated cylinder, whereby the yarn, twine, thread, or other material is
polished on both sides, and protected from the ordinary liability to breakage.
For this purpose the ordinary roller covered with hair, cocoa-nut fibre, or
other suitable material is arranged so as to polish the outer surface in the
ordinary manner. The yarn, twine, thread, or other material is caused to
pass from this roller over the ordinary tin or wooden guiding roller, thence
over a smooth conducting roller, whence it passes to a second polishing roller
with a roughened surface so placed as to act upon the inner surface of the
yarn, twine, thread, or other material, which thus becomes polished on both
sides. By this arrangement of the several rollers the strain on the yarn,
twine, thread, or material which thus becomes distributed in such a manner as
to prevent any undue pressure on any particular part thereof.
Having thus stated the nature of the said Invention, we will proceed to
describe more particularly in what manner the same is to be performed by
reference to the accompanying Drawings, in which is represented the arrange-
ment of rollers above referred to.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a portion of the machine, shewing the relative
positions of the several rollers, and Fig. 2 is a plan or horizontal view of the
same.
A, A, is the framework or standards of the machine; B is the last of the
ordinary series of rollers and brushes, over and under which the yarn, twine,
thread, or other material passes from the sizing trough; C is the ordinary
heated cylinder; D is a polishing roller covered with hair, cocoa-nut fibre, or
other suitable material; E is a guiding or conducting roller of tin or wood;
F is a second guiding or conducting roller; G is a second polishing roller
covered as the roller D.
The yarn, twine, thread, or other material on passing from the sizing trough
and over and under the several guiding rollers and brushes, arrives at the
roller B, whence it passes to one end of the heated cylinder C, on which it is
wound spirially from end to end by means of the conducting roller E which is
placed at an angle with the cylinder C. Whilst so traversing it is acted upon
by the polishing roller D, which is so arranged as to act on the outer surface

page_text: of the material. Thence it is conveyed by the guiding or conducting roller E
on to the second guiding or conducting roller F, whence it passes to the
second polishing roller G, which is so arranged with relation to the guiding or
conducting roller F as to be caused to act on the inner surface of the material,
which thus becomes polished on both sides.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we hereby declare that we do not claim
as of our Invention any of the parts represented and described otherwise than
as combined with the parts herein-after stated; but what we do claim as of
our Invention is, the combination of the guiding or conducting roller F with
the other parts, and the arrangement of the several rollers so as to cause the
yarn, twine, thread, or other material to become polished on both sides, as
herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Gill, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Twenty-fifth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
JOSEPH GILL. (L.S.)