Ax TannOWED FEED ROLLED PAR CHIRP CUTTING MACHINES.
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Hugh Carson and John Vidler Toone,
both of Warminster, in the County of Wilts, for the Invention of
"Ax TannOWED FEED ROLLED PAR CHIRP CUTTING MACHINES.
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Hugh Carson
and John Vidler Toone at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 4th March 1872.
We, WILLIAM HUGH CARSON and JOHN VIDLER TOONE, both of
Warminster in the County of Wilts, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for " AN IMPROVED FEED ROLLER FOR CHAFF CUTTING
MACHINES," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in certain improvements in the construction
of feed rollers for chaff cutting machines, whereby the disadvantages
under
which attach to such mechanism as ordinarily arranged, such as,
certain circumstances, the absence of a sufficiently strong holding power

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for the material under treatment, or of having too strong a 'grip" or
holding power, in which case the material is liable to bind around and
between the rollers, are entirely avoided.
The feed roller employed for the purposes of this Invention is of the
deep coarsely fluted kind already known, or a roller consisting of
parallel discs may be used, the same being suitably mounted on a
spindle, and having at either end thereof one or more loose rings. By
means of this arrangement the "gripping" or holding power of the feed
roller is preserved, but it has no tendency to bind the material under
treatment round itself at the ends, because should any such tendency
manifest itself the ring or rings will be checked, and the feed roller
revolve within the same freely and harmlessly.
The feed rollers are constructed of wood or iron, or of a combination
of such materials, and may be used in any desired and suitable number
in each machine, and may be of equal or of different sizes, and are
caused to revolve in fixed bearings, or to rise and fall on compensating
bearings or "slide checks" acted upon by weights, levers, springs, or
other suitable contrivances, as well understood.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Hugh Carson and John Vidler Toone in 2
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th September 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
HUGH CARSON and JOHN VIDLER TOONE, both of Warminster, in the
County of Wilts, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 2
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-fifth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said William Hugh Carson and John Vidler Toone,
Her special licence that we, the said William Hugh Carson and John 3
Vidler Toone, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as we, the said William Hugh Carson and John Vidler Toone,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,

page_text: 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 Invention for "AN IMPROVED
FEED ROLLER FOR CHAPP CUTTING MACHINES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said William Hugh Carson and John Vidler Toone,
our exccutors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
our, 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said William Hugh Carson and John
Vidler Toone, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to
say:
Our said Invention consists in certain improvements in the construc-
tion of feed rollers for chaff cutting machines, whereby the disadvantages
which attach to such mechanism as ordinarily arranged, such as under
certain circumstances, the absence of a sufficiently strong holding power
for the material under treatment, or of having too strong a "grip
" or
holding power, in which case the material is liable to bind around and
between the rollers, are entirely avoided.
The feed roller we employ for the purposes of this Invention is of
the deep coarsely fluted kind already known, or a roller consisting of
parallel discs and known as the " toothed” roller may be used, the same
being suitably mounted on a spindle, and having at either end thereof
one or more loose rings. By means of this arrangement the " gripping"
or holding power of the feed roller is preserved, but it has no tendency
to bind the material under treatment round itself at the ends, because
should any such tendency manifest itself the loose ring or rings only will
be checked, and the feed roller will revolve within the same freely and
harmlessly.
The feed rollers are constructed of wood or iron, or of a combination
of such materials, and may be used in any desired and suitable number in
each machine, and may he of equal or of different sizes, and are caused

page_text: to revolve in fixed bearings, or to rise and fall on compensating bearings
or "slide cheeks" acted upon by weights, levers, springs, or other
suitable contrivances, as well understood.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of our said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we would
observe in conclusion, that what we consider novel and original, and
therefore claim as constituting the Invention secured to us by the said
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the construction of feed
rollers for chaff cutting machines with one or more loose rings at either
end thereof, substantially as and for the purposes herein-before set forth
and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Hugh Carson, have on
behalf of myself and the said John Vidler Toone, hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Third day of September, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
two.
WILLIAM HUGH CARSON. (L.S.)