IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY BAD DRESSING AND FINISHING WOVEN GOODS AND FARKICS
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Pattison, of the City of Glasgow, in the
County of Lanark, Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY BAD DRESSING AND FINISHING WOVEN GOODS AND FARKICS"
Sealed the 22nd January 1856, and dated the 3rd November 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Pattison at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 3rd
November 1855.
I, JAMES PATTISON, of the City of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR DRESSING AND FINISHING WOVEN GOODS AND FABRICS"
to be as follows:-
Certain woven fabrics require a peculiar flexibility of texture, which is
imparted to them after the starch has been applied and while they are being
dried, by straining them obliquely in opposite directions alternately, so that the
threads of the warp and woof respectively, which at first cross each other at
right angles, are worked to and fro, so as to cross each other obliquely in
opposite directions alternately, this operation being repeated until the fabric is
entirely dry. One of the methods of effecting this operation is to make the
two selvedges of the piece of cloth move longitudinally with different and
variable speeds, that is to say, either both selvedges may be made to vibrate
longitudinally backwards and forwards, the one moving forwards while the

page_text: other moves backwards, and vice versa, or they may advance alternately, each
selvedge standing still while the other advances.
One of the means known and used for effecting, the alternate motion of the
selvedges at the same time that the cloth is being dried, is by certain improve-
ments for which Letters Patent were granted to Godfrey Pattison, bearing
date the Fifth day of February, Eighteen hundred and fifty-five, part of which
improvement consists in the combination of a stationary drying cylinder, with
a pair of hoops, rings, discs, or wheels, having an alternate, intermittent rotatory
motion, each of such hoops, rings, discs, or wheels serving to hold by means
of pins, teeth, hooks, or otherwise, and to carry round one of the selvedges of
the piece of cloth as it passes round the drying cylinder.
My present Invention consists in using, instead of the single stationary
drying cylinder, a compound or divided drying cylinder, consisting of two or
more divisious or parts of equal-diameter, capable of rotating independently of
each other round the same axis; and in order to take hold of and to carry
round the selvedges of the cloth, the respective divisions with which the
selvedges come in contact receive an alternate intermittent rotatory motion,
like the hoops; rings, discs, or wheels in the existing machines referred to, and
are either themselves provided with suitable teeth; pins, hooks, or other suitable
apparatus for holding the selvedges of the cloth, or have hoops or rings fixed
to them, fitted with such teeth, pins; hooks, or other suitable apparatus.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Pattison in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
2nd May 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM.. THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
PATTISON, of the City of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent. Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of November,, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did,, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,, give and grant unto me, the said
James Pattison, Her special licence that I; the said James Pattison, my,
executors, administrators, and, assigns, or such others' as I, and my exe-
cutors, 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

page_text: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; the Channel Islands, 'and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY 'FOR' DRESSING
AND FINISHING WOVEN GOODS AND FABRICS," upon the condition' (amongst others)
that I, the said James Pattison, by an instrument' in writing under'my'hand
and seal,, 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 James Pattison, do hereby declare' tlie
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the sanie is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained-in and by the following
statement; that is to say: f. 1.
1. :
Certain woven fabrics require a peculiar flexibility' of texture, which is
imparted to them after the: starch has been applied and while they are being
dried, ibyistraining them: obliquely in opposite directions alternately, so that the
threads of the warp: and woof. respectively, which at first cross' each other'at
right angles, are worked to and fro, so as to cross each other obliquely in
opposite directions alternately; this operation being repeated, until the fabric is
entirely dry. One of the methods of effecting this operation is to make the
two: selvedges of the: piece of cloth move longitudinally with different' and
variable speeds; that is to say, either both selvedges may be made to vibrate
longitudinally backwards and forwards; the one moving forwards while the other
moves backwards, and vice versa, or they may advance alternately, each selvedge
standing still while the other advances.
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One of the, means known and used for effecting the alternate motion of the
selvedges at the same time that the cloth is being dried; is by certain improve-
ments for which Letters Patent were granted to. Godfrey: Pattison,, bearing
date the Fifth day of February, Eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and which
are described in the Specification designated as Number 263 of that year, part
of which improvements consists in the combination of a stationary drying
cylinder, with a pair of hoops, rings,. discs, or wheels, having an alternate
intermittent rotatory motion, each of such hoops; rings, discs; or wheels
serving to hold by means of pins, teeth, hooks, or otherwise, and to carry
round one of the selvedges of the piece of cloth as it passes round the drying
cylinder.
My Invention consists in using, instead of the single stationary drying
cylinder, a compound or divided drying cylinder, consisting of two or more
divisions or parts of equal diameter, capable of rotating independently of each
other round the same axis or hollow shaft; and in order to take hold of and

page_text: to carry round the selvedges of the cloth, the respective divisions with which
the selvedges of the cloth come in contact receive an alternate intermittent
rotatory motion like the hoops, rings, dises, or wheels in the existing machines
referred to, and are either themselves provided with suitable teeth, pins, hooks,
or other suitable apparatus for holding the selvedges of the cloth, or have
hoops or rings fixed to them, fitted with such teeth, pins, hooks, or other
suitable apparatus.
To illustrate and exemplify my above-described Invention, I have repre-
sented in the annexed Drawing a front elevation of a compound or divided
drying cylinder, consisting of three divisions or parts A, B, C, of equal
diameter, capable of rotating independently of each other round the same
axis or hollow shaft, parts of which are seen at D, D. The outer divisions
A, C, being those with which the selvedges come in contact, receive an alter-
nate intermittent rotatory motion, by the means practised and published under
the Patent of Godfrey Pattison, herein-before referred to, or other suitable
means, and have hoops or rings E, E, E, E, fixed upon them, and fitted with
suitable teeth, pins, or hooks for holding the selvedges of the cloth, which
hoops or rings may be set at various distances apart to suit the breadth of the
piece of cloth.
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 the general
arrangement and combination of machinery and apparatus for improving
the dressing and finishing of woven goods and fabrics, as berein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I; the said James Pattison, have hereto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord
Eighteen hundred and fifty-six.
JAMES PATTISON. (L.S.)