CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS ON MACHINES CALLED GIGS AND SHEARING. FRAME, AND FOR DRESSING CLOTHS, AND IN THE CLOTHING MANUFACTURE
Year: 1810

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPII
CLISILD DANIEL, of Frome, in the County of Somerset, Clothier, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Nineteenth day of June,
in the fiftieth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Joseph
Clisild Daniel, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence, full
power, Sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Joseph Clisild Daniel, my.
exors, adiñors, and assigns, should and lawfully might, during the term of
years therein inentioned, make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS ON MACHINES CALLED GIGS AND SHEARING. FRAME, AND FOR
DRESSING CLOTHS, AND IN THE CLOTHING MANUFACTURE;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso, that if I, the said Joseph Clisild Daniel,
shall not particularly describe and ascertain 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, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately.
after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent,

page_text: T and U, moves the iron roller Q at a greater distance from the center on
which the lever P, P, moves, thereby giving a greater leverage to the weight
or roller acting on the friction pully O, O therefore the cloth will receivo
nearly an equal strain as it is gathered from off the top of roller I by the
bottom one, by means of the pully R, R, following; the cloth (as it diminishes
on the upper roller L) will bring the iron roller Q nearer to the centre or
fulcrum of the lever P, P.
Plan 2 represents the shear frame, my improvements on which are;.
that I have two beds instead of one, and one carriage to carry the whole
number of shears, either two, three, or four shears, which shears serve for.
both beds, so that while the shears are at work on one bed the cloth is pre-
pared to receive the shears on the other alternately. Figure 1 represents the
two beds or shear boards, with the cloth strained in the usual manner by.
means of rollers, racket wheels, &c., fixed under the upper end of the beds.
Figure 2d, side view of the frame, with the main carriage and beds. Figure 3d,
represents an upright end view of the frame. Figure 4th represents an:
upright view of the opposite end of the frame. Figure 5th represents the oppo-
site side view of the frame.. Figure 6th represents the frame of the carriage
with the rising rail on which the points of the shears are supported when lifted:
from off their work. Figure 7th represents the compound lever with which the
rising rail is lifted. Figure 8th represents the shear carriage, which is fixed
to the main carriage. A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, the two beds or shear boards.
set in a paralel line following each other; B, B, B, B, the main carriage,
which moves on truckles C, C, C, C, which truckles run in the frame D, D;
E, the crank, represented by dotted lines, which being fixed to the main.
carriage at the end at its bearings, in which it revolves and gives motion to the:
shears F, F, F, F, in the usual way, the crank having the same number of
throws as there are shears used; G, a pully by which the frame is driven; H.
an iron spindle, on which is fixed a single worm, driving the worm wheel 1,
with forty-two (more or less) teeth, fixed on an upright spindle, on which are
two rollers K, K, from about one and an half to three and an half inches
diameter, according as the cutting requires, by which the main carriage is:
drawn along while in work by means of a cord fastened to the fore part of the:
carriage, and winding round the upper roller K, another cord being fastened:
to the hinder part of the main carriage, and passing over the pulley L, extending.
from which, down the frame to the bottom roller K, by which means, one cord'
winding on as the other winds off, the main carriage is kept steady in its work,.
and the cord tight or kept at a strain while the main carriage is passing from:

page_text: one bed to the other. M, M, a pully, which by means of a strap drives the
crank E, being guided under the main carriage by a small pully N round a
pully O fixed on the crank E, and presents itself again from off the crank
pully on a small pully P, from which it passes to and round the straining pully
Q, and passes on to M, M, progressively. R an iron plate, to which the shear
is fixed by a screw passing through the talent of the shear into the plate, the
plate having a round pivot at each end, which are introduced into the brasses
S, S, which is fitted in the shear carriage T, and which brasses, by being risen
or lowered by means of thumb screws U, U, U, U, U, U, U, U, regulate the
shear in its work. Each shear is fix'd on one of the carriages T, which carriage,
by means of a screw passing through the mortice V into the rail W of the
main carriage at proper distances, as the width of the cloth and the number
of shears require; X, X, the rising rail, on which is fixed as many racks.
Y, Y, Y, Y, as there are shears used, on the points of the shears or fixed wood
or iron (by a screw passing through the shear, or by any other means which
should be thought proper), the ends of which fall into the racks Y, Y, Y, Y,
which steadies the shears when in work, and by which they are risen from out
their work by means of the rising rail. The method or principle of fixing the
shear at talent and steadying at point not being new, it is not necessary to be
so particular in its description. Z, Z, the levers, or compound lever, which
being fixed under the rail, raises it up by depressing that part a, a, which rail,
when having the parts which steadies the shears resting on it, raises the shears
from out their work, and thereby gives liberty of shifting the main carriage
from one bed to the other. b, b, a carr fixed on the center c, in which the end
of the spindle II is supported and revolves, the end d of which lever being
forced down by the hand or by a treadal connected to it by the rod e, rises tho
pulley G, which strains the strap that gives motion to the frame; f, a small
piece of wood or iron fix'd on a center, which keeps the end of the lever ( in
its place when the frame is put into work; y, a piece of wood or iron fixed to
the fore part of the main carriage, which, as the shears on the main carriage
approach the list of the cloth on the upper bed, comes in contact with f, and
forces it off from the lever at d, which gives liberty for the pulley G to drop
and slacken the driving strap; h, a piece of wood or iron on the back part of
the main carriage to act on f (as g is described to do), and stops the working
of the frame when the shears approach the list of the cloth on the bottom bed.
This method of throwing the frame out of work not being new, I shall not
confine myself to use it, as there are many other methods now in use which
might, perhaps, be as conveniently applied.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Seventeenth day of August, in
the year of our Lord 1810, the aforesaid Joseph Chisild Daniel came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Speci-
fication aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in
form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Talled the Thightoauth day of Av
in the
Inrelled the Eighteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One-
thousand eight hundred and ten.