A NEW FOLDING MACHINE FOR FOLDING SHEEP, AND IN MAKING TEMPORARY ENCLOSURES IN PLACE OF HURDLES. NETTINGS. AND OTHER PLANS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to RICHARD WINDER, of Farningham, in the County
of Kent, Engineer, for the Invention of "A NEW FOLDING MACHINE
FOR FOLDING SHEEP, AND IN MAKING TEMPORARY ENCLOSURES IN PLACE OF
HURDLES. NETTINGS. AND OTHER PLANS."
Sealed the 16th June 1868, and dated the 9th January 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said RICHARD WINDER at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 9th January 1868.
I, RICHARD WINDER, of Farningham, in the County of Kent,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A
NEW FOLDING MACHINE FOR FOLDING SHEEP, AND IN MAKING TEMPORARY
ENCLOSURES IN PLACE OF HURDLES, NETTINGS, AND OTHER PLANS," to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists in a means of folding sheep, and in making
temporary enclosures in place of hurdles, netting, and other plans now
adopted. The plan adopted in my Invention is to roll and unroll
flexible netting made of wire, string, cocoa fibre, or of any other
material; and thus form the enclosure.

page_text: The following is the general description of my Invention:-A frame
to support the roller and other parts of the machine is fixed upon
wheels which run along the ground when the netting is being rolled
or unrolled, or when the machine is taken from place to place, or
from field to field. On the frame is fixed a vertical roller of a length
equal to the height of the netting, around which roller the netting is
rolled and unrolled according as the netting is required to be run out
or taken in. Motion is given to this vertical roller by cog wheels of
different diameters fixed underneath or above the frame. The small
cog wheel for simplicity is turned by a horizontal fly wheel with a
handle fixed thereon for the man to turn by; if preferred a pair of
bevil wheels can be substituted, so as to alter the motion from the
horizontal to the vertical; a guide frame is also attached to the above-
mentioned frame for leading the netting straight and even upon the
vertical roller or off it. The selvage rope or wire being of larger
diameter than the material the netting is made of passes over a
grooved pulley which is split or separated into two parts, these two
halves or parts are fixed at a distance apart to let the netting pass
between them, and as this split pulley is fixed at the height of the
netting it leads it evenly on and off the vertical roller. A horizontal
roller is fixed at one end of the frame, upon which the lower part
of the netting is made to pass when being run out or taken in. Light
right-angled triangular frames made of wood or iron are to be fixed at
about 6 feet apart to keep the netting up and in place that forms
the fold. Corner posts to fix at the angles of the fold are made of
iron or wood properly stayed and fixed to bear any strain put upon
the netting. These corner posts are also fitted with hooks upon which
to hang the netting, and they are further secured, by iron pins fixed
into the ground at the ends of the two horizontal stays or struts; these
corner posts are in form a right-angled triangle in elevation.
Part of my Invention consists also in the use of a horizontal roller
instead of the vertical roller above described, for winding the netting
upon or unwinding the netting off it.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Richard Winder in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 4th July 1868.
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD:
WINDER, of Farningham, in the County of Kent, Engineer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria by Her
Letters Patent bearing date the Ninth day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Richard Winder, Her special licence, that
I, the said Richard Winder, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Richard Winder, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 "A NEW FOLDING MACHINE
FOR FOLDING SHEEP, AND IN MAKING TEMPORARY ENCLOSURES IN PLACE OF
HURDLES, NETTINGS, AND OTHER PLANS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Richard Winder, 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 Richard Winder, 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 the following statement thereof, reference being had to the
Drawings hereunto annexed, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in a means of rolling and unrolling netting of
any kind used for folding sheep, and in making temporary inclosures,
nettings, and other plans as follows The corner post is fixed and the
end of the netting fastened to the centre ring of the corner post: The
man then pulls the machine forward by the handle marked D in the

page_text: Drawing, and as he does so lays out the netting to form the fold; stakes
are then driven at certain distances apart and the netting fixed to these
and made to form the fold. When the fold is required to be taken up
the netting is taken off the intermediate stakes and made to lie on the
ground horizontally. The man then turns. the handle marked G in the
Drawing and winds the netting on the barrel B, and as one end of
the. netting is fixed to the corner post O, the machine travels towards
that corner, post as long as the man continues to wind the netting on
the barrel.
.Also my Invention further consists of a portable frame upon wheels
having a winding barrel or any number of winding barrels fixed or
placed upon the portable frame with all necessary gearing, friction
rollers, and other parts for winding the netting upon the winding barrel
or barrels when taking up the fold, and for paying out and unrolling the
netting when laying out the fold.
I also claim as part of my Invention the alternative of winding and
unwinding the netting vertically instead of horizontally as shewn in the
accompanying Drawing.
The accompanying Drawings shew more fully the manner in which I
carry Invention into effect.
Fi is a perspective general view of the machine: shewing the plan
of awing out and winding up the netting horizontally.
The better to shew and explain the machine. A, A, is the frame of
the machine, which is mounted on wheels, and upon which the gearing
which works the roller, the roller upon which the netting is wound, the
guide rollers, and the trace eyes or irons are all fixed; B is the roller
upon which the netting is wound; C, C, the cog wheel gearing for
working the roller; D, the handle by which the man pulls the machine
along while unwinding the netting E, E, E, E. Wrought-iron eyes or
tugs fixed at both ends of the machine to attach a trace horse to when
the machine is required to be pulled up steep hills; F, F, F, three wheels
to carry the frame of the machine and move it from place to place;
G, the handle the man turns to wind the netting upon the roller; H, H,
wrought iron diagonal braces. to steady and strengthen the front wheel;
I, the vertical bar that holds the front wheel; K, a wrought-iron brace
reaching from the lower part of the vertical bar I to the back axle,
thereby strengthening the fore carriage; L, L, two vertical rollers to
guide the netting evenly upon, the roller B; M, a horizontal roller

page_text: also to guide the netting evenly upon the roller B; N, diagonal wrought-
iron stays connecting the frame A to the back axle; O, the wrought-iron
corner post to which the end of the netting is made fast (as shewn in
the Drawing) when being paid out to form the fold.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be worked, I declare that I claim as my improved
method of folding sheep and of making temporary inclosures,―
First. The method of and apparatus for winding and unwinding and
carrying the netting from place to place as herein-before described and
represented in the accompanying Drawing.
Secondly. The method of and apparatus for winding and unwinding
and carrying the netting from place to place by a portable frame upon
wheels, but arranged for the roller (upon which the netting is wound
and unwound) to be vertical instead of horizontal as shewn in the
accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Winder, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
RICH. WINDER. (L.8.)