IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR EFFECTING THE DISINTEGRATION OF ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE FIBRES "
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Tolson and John Edwin Tolson of Dewsbury in
the County of York Wool Carbonizers for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR EFFECTING THE DISINTEGRATION OF
ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE FIBRES
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Tolson and
John Edwin Tolson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
16th March 1883.
GEORGE TOLSON and JOHN EDWIN TOLSON of Dewsbury in the county of York
Wool Carbonizers IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR EFFECTING
"
THE DISINTEGRATION OF ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE FIBRES"
This invention relates to machinery or apparatus for effecting the disintegration_
of animal and vegetable fibres by means of gaseous mixtures and our improvements.
consist in the use of a fixed tank in.which to place the material, such tank being
provided with internal agitators, the object being to expose the material to the.
action of the gases. The agitators may be either forks, a revolving cage, a spiked
drum endless aprons or any such device by which the material can be thoroughly'
exposed to the action of the gases.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said George Tolson and John Edwin Tolson in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 15th September 1883.
GEORGE [TOLSON] and JOHN EDWIN TOLSON of Dewsbury in the County of
York, Wool Carbonizers-" IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR
EFFECTING THE DISINTEGRATION OF ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE FIBRES
"
This Invention relates to machinery or apparatus for effecting the disintegration
of animal and vegetable fibres by means of gaseous mixtures and our improvements
consist in the use of a revolving tank in which to place the material such tank
being provided with internal agitators; the object being to expose the material to
the action of the gases. The agitators may be either forks, a revolving cage, a
spiked drum, endless aprons or any. such device by which the material can be
thoroughly exposed to the action of the gases.
In order that the Invention may be better understood, we herein give reference
to the accompanying sheet of Drawings wherein Fig 1 is sectional elevation and
Fig 2 cross section of the apparatus we employ for carrying out our Invention.
The general construction and arrangement of the machine is the same as the one
more fully described in previous Letters Patent granted to us on the 24th November
A.D. 1882, N° 5591. Our present Improvements in or additions to that machine
consisting in the employment of mechanism or means for agitating the fibres
whilst the tank is in motion, whereby the said fibres are more freely exposed to the
action of gases, and the disintegration more effectually accomplished.
agitators we employ consist in a number of forks A attached to the bar B which is
secured to the tank C by means of bolts. It will thus be seen that the internal
agitators will loosen and freely distribute the fibre and prevent it being taken
around "in masses as is the case without such agitators. The tank is made of
metal and provided with a door D at each corner thereof, one side of the said door
is hinged at a whilst the other side is secured by pin and cotter b.
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Having now shewn and described our Invention and the manner of carrying the
same into practice, we would have.it understood that we do not confine ourselves
to the particular form of agitators, as they may be varied without departing from
the main features of our Invention, but what we consider new and claim as our
Invention is-
. The use and employment of agitators such as is herein shewn and described, and
for the purposes set forth.
In witness whereof we the said George [Tolson] and John Edwin Tolson have
hereunto set our hands and seals this Twelfth day of September in the year of
our Lord; One thousand, eight hundred and eighty three.
GEORGE TOLSUN
(L.S.)
JOHN EDWIN TOLSON (L.S.)