IMPROVEMENTS IN WORSTED CARDING AND PREPARING MACHINERY."
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Oakes, of Old Hall, Wakefield, in the
County of York, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
WORSTED CARDING AND PREPARING MACHINERY."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Oakes at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 23rd
March 1865.
I, HENRY OAKES, of Old Hall, Wakefield, in the County of York,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE
-MENTS-IN WORSTED CARDING AND PREPARING MACHINERY," to be as follows:→
My Invention has special reference to carding machinery used in the pre-
paration of wool for worsted yarns, and refers to the "doffing" or "delivering"
end of such machinery, my object being to deliver the wool from the cards in
such a manner as to dispense with several intermediate machines now used
after the wool leaves the cards and before it arrives at the finishing machinery,
as well as to diminish the quantity of waste.
To effect these results, in place of the " doffing knife" now used to strip the
"doffer". cylinder, I substitute a cylinder clothed with card of any desired
width at intervals from each other. These cards strip the wool from those,
portions of the "doffer" cylinder opposite to them, the remaining portions
being stripped by a similar cylinder placed underneath the previous one. The
wool is thus delivered in any desired number of strips or slivers on to carrying
rollers with endless bands, and conveyed by the ordinary mouths and funnels

page_text: (rotating, if desired) to the usual balling apparatus; the number of such balls
being varied at pleasure according to the number of strips or slivers thrown
together. These strips or slivers may be slightly twisted, if desired, by means
of a roller having both a rotary and a transverse motion, and placed over the
endless carrying bands, the strips or slivers passing between them on their way
to the funnels or mouths. I am thus enabled to use shorter wool than is
possible by the ordinary. machinery, as well as to prevent a great portion of
the waste now made. Also wool so delivered is in fit condition to be at once
transferred to the finishing spindle frame instead of passing through gill boxes
as is now the case.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Oakes in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
23rd September 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
OAKES, of Old Hall, Wakefield, in the County of York, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year. of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
*said Henry Oakes, Her special licence that I, 'the said Henry Oakes, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry
Oakes, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might makę,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for " IMPROVE-
MENTS IN WORSTED CARDING AND PREPARING MACHINERY," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Henry Oakes, 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 Henry Oakes, do hereby declare the
-nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-

page_text: formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:
My Invention has special reference to carding machinery used in the prepa-
ration of wool for worsted yarns, and refers to the "doffing": or" delivering "
end of such machinery, my object ibeing to deliver the wool from the cards
in such a manner as to dispense with several intermediate machines now used
after the wool leaves the cards and before it arrives at the finishing machinery,
as well as to diminish the quantity of waste.
To effect these results, in place of the "doffing" knife now used to strip
the "doffer" cylinder, I substitute a cylinder clothed with cards of any
desired 'width at intervals from each other. These cards strip the wool from
those portions of the "doffer" cylinder opposite to them on the "condenser "
principle, the remaining portions being stripped by a similar cylinder placed
underneath the previous one. The wool is thus delivered in any desired
number of strips or slivers on to rubbing:rollers, and conveyed by the ordinary
mouths or funnels (rotating if desired) to the usual balling apparatus; the
number of such balls,being varied at pleasure according to the number of
strips or slivers thrown-together. I am thus enabled to use shorter wool than
is possible by the ordinary machinery, as well as to prevent a great portion of
the waste now made. Also wool so delivered is in fit condition-to-be.at once
transferred to the finishing spindle frame or box instead of passing through
gill boxes and drawing boxes as is now the case.
If desired, however, the ordinary balling apparatus may be dispensed with,
and the slivers may be passed between short endless sheets or rubbing rollers
(after being taken off the "doffer" by strippers and carried. by smooth
revolving rollers) direct to a receiving roller or condensing bobbin rotating
by means of an ordinary friction roller, and fixed at the end of the machine.
This latter plaň I prefer as being simpler and more expeditious, as the
receiving roller may be at once transferred, when sufficiently full, to the
finishing spindle frame or box.
-In order, however, that my Invention may be more thoroughly understood,
reference is made to the accompanying Sheet of Drawing, which illustrates
my second and preferred plan, and to the letters and figures marked thereon,
similar letters indicating similar parts, that is to say:―
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a sectional view and Figure 2 an end elevation of my arrange-
ment. A is the "doffer" resting upon an ordinary framework B.
It will be noted on reference to Figure 2 that the "doffer" is clothed with

page_text: :cards at intervals from each other... The number and breadth of the same
may of course be varied. C is the upper-stripper, and may be clothed with
cards along its entire length; D is the lower stripper, and may be clothed
"with alternate strips or cards; whilst d, d, and e, e, are the endless bands
which convey the slivers after being raised by the strippers and carried off
from the "doffer" to the rubbing rollers d, d, and e, e, by the smooth rollers x;
E is the friction roller, by means of which the roller F, upon which the. slivers
are balled, is rotated. Ordinary and well-known mechanism is used for
actuating the respective rollers or cylinders and endless bands.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed; I would have it understood that I do not claim the
various parts separately, but what I do claim is the combined arrangement of
parts shewn and described for the purposes named in my title or any
mechanical equivalent..
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Oakes, have hereunto set my 1
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
"Witness,
PHILIP H. SHARP,
18, East Parade,
Leeds.
HENRY OAKES. (L.S.)