IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING SILK AND OTHER WASTE, SUCH AS COP BOTTOMS AND HARD SPINNING WASTE WHICH HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY SPUN OR HAD TWIST PUT INTO IT
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Warburton, of Low Mills, Addingham, near
Leeds, in the County of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PREPARING SILK AND OTHER WASTE, SUCH AS COP BOTTOMS AND HARD
SPINNING WASTE WHICH HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY SPUN OR HAD TWIST PUT
INTO IT."
Sealed the 24th June 1864, and dated the 26th March 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Warburton at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th March 1864.
I, JAMES WARBURTON, of Low Mills, Addingham, near Leeds, in the
County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN PREPARING SILK AND OTHER WASTE, SUCH AS COP BOTTOMS AND HARD
SPINNING WASTE WHICH HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY SPUN OR HAD TWIST PUT INTO IT,"
to be as follows:-
My improvement consists in first preparing and then combing silk and
other waste, such as cop bottoms, hard spinning waste which has been pre-

page_text: viously spun or had twist put into it. According to my Invention silk which
has become waste after having been spun, such as cop bottoms and other spun
silk waste with twist in it, is placed on a feed sheet before a drum or other
form of surface filled with steel gill pins or card fillets. The feed rollers hold
the silk waste, the gill pins open out the silk waste, and the teeth become
full; when the pins are full the lap of silk waste is taken from the drum or
sheet and is divided or cut into lengths, say, four or six inches long; or the
laps can be subjected to a common carder and carded; or the cop bottom
and other spun silk, and other waste with twist in it, may go at once through
a carder and be made into slivers to be combed, but I prefer first doing it by
a drum. The laps above mentioned or slivers of the carder are next to be
combed. The combing is performed by means of card teeth on a cylinder,
endless band, or other suitable surface, whilst one end of each quantity of
the silk waste, prepared as above described, is held in a circular, rotating, or
other travelling holder or clam, using by preference holders or clams such as
are described in the Specification of a Patent granted to myself on the 6th
October 1857, (No. 2566,) and in the Specification of a Patent granted to
myself and to Samuel Cunliffe Lister, on the 13th December 1859, (No. 2832),
the other end of each quantity may be similarly combed when held by holders
or clams, or the dirty or uncombed ends may be accumulated in a comb and
drawn in a sliver therefrom.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Warburton in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 8th September 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES!
WARBURTON, of Low Mills, Addingham, near Leeds, in the County of York,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
- Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of March, in the year of our Lord".
- One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year of
.Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said James Warburton, Her special licence that I, the said
James Warburton, my executors; administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said James Warburton, my executors, administrators, and

page_text: 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 Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING SILK AND OTHER WASTE, SUCH AS COP
BOTTOMS AND HARD SPINNING WASTE WHICH HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY SPUN OR HAD
TWIST PUT INTO IT," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
James Warburton, my executors or administrators, 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 James Warburton, do hereby declare
the nature of the 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, that is to say :-
My improvement consists in first preparing and then combing silk and
other waste, such as cop bottoms and hard spinning waste which has been
previously spun or had twist put into it. According to my Invention silk
which has become waste after having been spun, such as cop bottoms and
other spun silk waste with twist in it, is placed on a feed sheet before a drum
or other form of surface filled with steel gill pins or card fillets. The feed
rollers hold the silk waste, the gill pins open out the silk waste, and the teeth
become full; when the pins are full the lap of silk waste is taken from the
drum or sheet, and is divided or cut into lengths, say, four or six inches long,
or the laps can be subjected to a common carder and carded; or the cop
bottom and other spun silk, and other waste with twist in it may go at once
through a carder and be made into slivers to be combed, but I prefer first
doing it by a drum. The laps above mentioned, or slivers of the carder, are
next to be combed. The combing is performed by means of card teeth on a
cylinder, endless band, or other suitable surface, whilst one end of each
quantity of the silk waste, prepared as above described, is held in a circular,
rotating, or other travelling holder or clam, using by preference holders or
5 clams such as are described in the Specification of a Patent granted to myself
on the 6th October 1857, (No. 2566,) and in the Specification of a Patent
granted to myself and to Samuel Cunliffe Lister, on the 13th December 1859,
(No. 2882,) the other end of each quantity may be similarly combed when

page_text: held by holders or clams; or the dirty or uncombed ends may be accumulated
in a comb and drawn in a sliver therefrom.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Warburton, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
Als Zugee,
CARL FREGE.
JAMES WARBURTON. (L.s.)