AN IMPROVEMENT IN. THE TREATMENT OR FINISHING OF WOOLLEN AND WORSTED FABRICS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Binus, of Leeds, in the County of
York, Cloth Dresser, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN.
THE TREATMENT OR FINISHING OF WOOLLEN AND WORSTED FABRICS."
Sealed the 13th April 1854, and dated the 19th October 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. left by the said. William Binns at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 19th October 1853.
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1, WILLIAM BINNS, of Leeds, in the County of York, Cloth Dresser,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVE...
MENT IN THE TREATMENT OR FINISHING OF WOOLLEN AND WORSTED FABRICS"
to be as follows:
The said improvement consists in producing a brilliancy of lustre.
and superiority of feel, as well as giving what is termed a press face
to woollen and worsted fabrics, liaving. either woollen, cottoni, or; silk;
warps; by means of pressure between one or more pairs of cylinders or-
rollers, revolving i close or nearly close contact with each one of; such
pair or every such pair of cylinders or rollers, being heated by, steam;
hot water, or hot air, heated metals, &c. caused to circulate through
the same:
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page_text: Both of the cylinders or rollers composing a pair may be metal (such
as steel, iron, copper, &c.), or one of the rollers may be of metal and the
other a paper roller; and where more than one pair are used, one pair
may be both metal and the other pair or pairs made up of a metal and
a vaper roller.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Binns in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 19th April 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
WILLIAM BINNS, of Leeds, in the County of York, Cloth Dresser,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
seventeenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said William Binns, Her special
licence that I, the said William Binns, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Binns, my execu-
tors, 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 the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT
N THE TREATMENT OR FINISHING OF WOOLLEN AND WORSTED FABRICS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Binns,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should par-
ticularly 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 Scal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Binns, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by

page_text: the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings
hereunto annexed (that is to say):
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My said improvement consists in producing a brilliancy of lustre and
superiority of feel, as well as giving what is termed a
press face" to
woollen and worsted fabrics having either woollen, cotton, or silk warps,
by means of pressure between one pair or two or more pairs of cylin-
ders or rollers revolving in close or nearly close contact with each
other, one of such pair or every such pair of cylinders or rollers being
heated by steam, hot water, hot air, or heated metals, &c. caused to
Both of the cylinders or rollers composing
circulate through the same.
a pair may be of metal (such as steel, iron, copper, &c.), or one of the
cylinders or rollers may be of metal and the other a
paper roller,"
and where more cylinders or rollers than one pair are used, one pair
may be both of metal and the other pair or pairs made up of a metal.
roller or cylinder and a "paper roller." In all cases, however, one
roller or cylinder of every pair, or both if needful, when the two are of
metal, must be heated, as above mentioned.
Figure 1, of the Drawings hereunto annexed is an end view of a
pressing or glazing machine constructed according to my Invention';
and Figure 2, is a front view of the same. A, A1, A2, is the general
frame-work of the machine, which is composed, by preference, of iron to
secure lightness and strength; B, C, are a pair of pressing rollers or
cylinders, the axes of which work in bushes a, a, sliding in vertical slots
in the end standards A', A'. The roller or cylinder B, is composed of
solid iron or other hard metal turned true on the exterior, and the
roller C, is also composed of iron or other hard metal turned on the
exterior, but is made hollow for the admission of steam, hot air, hot
water, or other convenient heating medium. The roller B, is pressed
into close contact with the roller C, by means of screws D, D, which
are tapped through nuts formed in the top cross framing and bear
against the bushes in which the axes of the roller B, turn. E, F, are
another pair of pressing rollers the, axes of which work in bushes b, b,
in vertical slots in the end standards A2, and which are pressed into
close contact by means of screws G, acting against the bushes in which
the axes of the roller E turn, in the same manner as described with.
reference to the rollers B, C. The roller E, is a paper roller, that is,

page_text: it is composed of several layers of paper 'mounted on an iron foundation
roller, and turned true on the exterior ;.and the roller F, is composed of
iron or other hard metal, made hollow and heated in the same manner
as, the roller C. H, I, are respectively a drawing or feeding roller and
a delivery 'roller, composed of wood; and turning in bearings between 'the
end framings of the machine: J, J, are wood stretchers. K, is a wood
bearing roller; and L, a fan with sheet iron blades for the purpose of.
driving a current of air against the cloth as it passes from one pair of
pressing rollers to the next pair. The arrows indicate the direction in
which the cloth passes through the machine. The top rollers B, and
E, are worked endways either by screws M, M, or by slides, to suit the
width of the articles requiring a lustre or finish to be given to them..
The bottom rollers G; F, are set in motion by means of wheel gearing
so as to cause them to revolve at the same speed, and the fan L; is:
driven by a strap from the first motion shaft.
And having now described tlie nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to, be performed, I declare that what I claim
as my improvement in 'the treatment or finishing of woollen and worsted
fabrics is,
The subjecting of the same to pressure between one pair or two or
more pairs of cylinders or rollers, one of such pair or of every such pair
of cylinders or rollers being heated for the purpose of giving a press
face to such fabrics, as herein before describeil:
In witness whereof,. I, the said William Binns, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of April, One thou-
sand eight hundred and fifty-four.
WILLIAM BINNS. (L.S.)
Leeds, 17th Apt 1854.
Witnesses to the signature,
WILLIAM RENTON.
EDWARD BINNS.
WILLIAM SCRIVENER STOFFORD.