CERTAIN. IMPROVEMENTS IN EXPRESSING OR EXTRACTING LIQUIDS OR MOISTURE FROM WOOLLEN, COTTON, AND OTHER STUFFS AND SUBSTANCES, EITHER IN A MANUFACTURED OR UNMANUFACTURED STATE
Year: 1838

page_text: 'SEYRIG'S SPECIFICATION.
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I; JOHANN.
GOTTLOB SEYRIG, of, Paris, in the Kingdom of France, now of Old Compton.
Street, Soho, in the County of Middlesex, Mechanic, send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty. Queen Victoria, by Her.
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date. at West-
minster, the Sixteenth day of February,.in the first year. of Her.reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant.unto. me,. the said.
Johann Gottlob Seyrig, Her especial. license, -full. power, sole privilege and.
authority, that I, the said Johann Gottlob Seyrig, my. exors, adiňors, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Johann Gottlob Seyrig, my exors, admors,
or assigns, -should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should and law-
fully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within.. England, Wales, and the.
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN. IMPROVEMENTS IN
EXPRESSING OR EXTRACTING LIQUIDS OR MOISTURE FROM WOOLLEN, COTTON, AND
OTHER STUFFS AND SUBSTANCES, EITHER IN A MANUFACTURED OR UNMANUFACTURED
STATE;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said
Johann Gottlob Seyrig, shall cause a particular description of the nature of
my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited

page_text: to the double drum C, C; R is a tension pulley, to draw the endless rope N
tight, when necessary. The axis S of the pulley R is placed upon a move-
able piece T, which is adjusted by a screw, subject to the action of a spring,
which arrangement allows the mobility of the tension pulley R, and thus
regulates the endless rope N. If the great wheel is put in motion by the
handle H, or by the pulley placed upon the axis T, or by the pulley placed
upon the axis L, that motion is transmitted by the pulleys O, O, to the axis
E of the drum, which then turns at the rate of two or three thousand revo-
lutions or more per minute, according to the relation of the radius of the pullies,
and the substances operated upon in the drum will be freed from all their
moisture, which will be expelled in less than three or four minutes, through the
small holes with which the drum is perforated. The double drum c, c, is
surrounded by another rim B, which receives the liquid. A ventilator K,
formed of four boards placed in the form of a cross, is fixed on the axis E in
the interior of the drum. The object of that ventilator is to suck in the
external air from the holes d, d, placed at the bottom of the drum, to send it
into the drum c, c, by the means of the holes b, b, b, b, in order to dry more
promptly and to a higher degree the objects operated upon; by the means of a
pipe hot air can also be introduced into the drum to hasten still more the
drying.
The second motion is transmitted directly to the drum by steam as follows:
-The steam is conducted by the pipe X, the bottom part of E then rises in
the interior of the axis, and is impelled into the centre of the cross pipe Y,
which is curved at the two extremities in a direction contrary to the gyration
of the drum. The steam, by endeavoring to escape at the extremities of the
cross pipe Y, compels it to turn, and naturally the drum with it, with all the
velocity of the steam, which is then escaping into the box Z, fixed to the frames
A, A, and gets out by the pipe h to return into the boiler, or it can be used
for any other purpose. The steam in reaching the interior of the axis E, by
the pipe X, must have at the bottom of the axis e a ball and socket, to allow
its rotative action and the deviation of the drum.
Drawing No. 2 represents another machine. Fig. 1 represents the exterior
view of the drum, with part of the interior shewn in section; Fig. 2, the complete
machinery, as the machine can be suitably fixed on a wall or upon a building.
The drum A is fastened at the bottom of the axis B, instead of being placed at
the top; it is constructed in two parts a and b, one fixed on the other, so that
the larger part 6 can be withdrawn from the other a, to enable the piece of
cloth, stuff, or other material to be wound round a, which is an advantage to
the cloth, and at the same time improves the action of the machine. When.

page_text: the cloth is properly set, the drum b is then replaced; the diametrical equi-
librium of the drum during the rotation is also obtained by another means,
different to those given in Drawing 1. It is as follows:-In the interior of
the drum a is placed a mechanism upon the unequal load of the substances
operated upon, which acts in such manner that the diametrical equilibrium can
be replaced at every moment; this end is obtained by the means of a liquid,
which places itself on the lightest side of the drum whenever an unequal-load
requires it. The drum a has two bottoms c and d; c is perforated with holes,
to allow the water to pass back; on d is fixed the small axis e, with a socket
H; the axis é passes through at the bottom into a socket E, and upon its other
end, inside the drum; are placed four rods g, only one of which is seen. "By
means of these rods, the axis forces open the valves G, G, G, G; which act
on the pivots fiff, f, on that side of the drum which is least loaded; the
space between the two bottoms c and d is filled with water. By the centrifugal
power, the water is forced upwards into the drum by the valve which opens at
the top of the drum, which is divided into as many partitions as there are
valves. By those means the water remains in the side where it rises, and thus
restores the equilibrium and the gyration to the proper centre of its axis, which
contracts the circle of its motion and shuts the valves.
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And having now fully described my said invented improvements, I declaré
that I claim as new and of my Invention the machines or apparatus, herein-
before described, by which liquids or moisture may be extracted or expressed
from woollen, cotton, and other stuffs and substances, either in a manufactured
or unmanufactured state, and also all colorable or evasive modifications of the
same; and I more particularly claim the raising or placing the drum in "a
ananner' so as to allow it to take by itself the rotativé point fixed by the centri-
fugal power, according to the inequality of the load in the drum, that the point
of rotation being natural to the drum where it exists in turning the equilibrium
of its diametrical weight, which end is obtained either by the means of an
elastic collar, or by an axis, the motion of which is free, and in which moves
the drum, see Fig. 1 and Fig. 2, Drawing No. 1; also in the apparatus by
which the diametrical equilibrium of the drum is always kept at central
point of its axis by the means of a liquid which places itself in necessary
quantity at every movement on the lightest side of the drum; and in the
means of applying the steam as the mover of the machine, and by which the
drum is put in motion without the addition of any other mechanism;' or of any
other contrivance.
And such my Invention being, to the best of my knowledge and' belief;
entirely new, and never before used within that part of Her' said Majesty's

page_text: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, Her said
Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare
this to be my Specification of the same, and that I do verily believe that this
my said Specification doth comply in all respects, fully and without reserve or
disguise, with the proviso in the said herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent contained; wherefore I hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and
privilege to my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Johann Gattlob Seyrig, have hereunto
set my hand and seal. this Sixteenth day of August in the year Que
JOHANN GATTLOB SEYRIG. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixteenth day of August, in
the year of our Lord 1838, the aforesaid Johann Gattlob Seyrig (through the
interpretation of Mr. Lecomte de Fontainemoreau, Gent", of No. 14, President
St., King's Square, Goswell Street Road, the said interpreter being first sworn
that he had truly interpreted the acknowledgment about to be administered to
the said Johann Gottlob Seyrig,) came before our said Lady the Queen in
Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every
thing therein contained and specified, in form above written. And also the
Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made
for that purpose.