CERTAIN IMPROVED MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR WASHING, SCOURING, OR CLEANSING TEXTILE FABRICS OR MATERIALS
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Mosley, mor, Sanford,
Lancaster, Manager, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVED MACHINERY
OR APPARATUS FOR WASHING, SCOURING, OR CLEANSING TEXTILE FABRICS OR
MATERIALS."
Sealed the 12th June 1860, and dated the 16th December 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Mosley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
16th December 1859.
I, WILLIAM MOSLEY, junior, of Salford, in the County of Lancaster,
Manager, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN
IMPROVED MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR WASHING, SCOURING, OR CLEANSING
TEXTILE FABRICS OR MATERIALS," to be as follows:-
The improvement relates principally to that description of fabrics termed
'piece goods," and consists in inclining or placing at a suitable angle the
trough, bed, or board, on or over which the fabric passes, between the feeding or
delivering and the squeezing or drying rollers, so that as the beaters (usually
employed) and the water scour the fabric or disengage the impure particles
therefrom, they are rapidly carried away by the descending current consequent
upon the inclination or angle of the trough or bed, and the fabric is thereby
more quickly and thoroughly cleansed.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Mosley in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
16th June 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
MOSLEY, junior, of Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Manager, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, and in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William Mosley, junior, Her special licence that I, the said William
Mosley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
William Mosley, my executors, 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 "CERTAIN IM-
PROVED MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR WASHING, SCOURING, OR CLEANSING TEXTILE
FABRICS OR MATERIALS," upon the condition, amongst others, that I, the said
William Mosley, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
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 William Mosley, junior, 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 and accompanying Drawings (that is to say):-
The improvement relates principally to washing, scouring, or cleansing that
description of fabrics termed "piece goods," and consists in inclining or placing
at any suitable angle the trough, bed, or board in or over which the fabric
passes between the feeding or delivering and the squeezing or drying rollers,
so that as the beaters (usually employed) and the water scour the fabric or
disengage the impure particles therefrom, they are rapidly carried away by the
descending current consequent upon the inclination or angle of the trough or
bed, and the fabric is thereby more quickly and thoroughly cleansed.
In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained in

page_text: detail, I have hereunto annexed a Sheet of Drawings made upon a scale of
about half an inch to a foot.
Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of the improved apparatus for washing or
cleansing textile fabrics, in which a, a, is a chamber containing the beaters b, b,
which act upon the fabric and beat out or disengage the impurities; the fabrics
then pass upwards in the inclined trough c, c, down which a current of water is
constantly flowing, and around any number of beaters d, d, and upwards again to
the squeezing and drying rollers e, e. It will be obvious that by thus inclining
the trough and causing the fabric and water to pass in opposite directions, the
fabric as it becomes cleansed will be washed by purer water as it ascends
towards the squeezing rollers, and the impure particles being carried away by
the descending current, further contamination thereby is prevented.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
manner of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be distinctly
understood, that I claim the novel arrangement of apparatus for washing,
scouring, or cleansing textile fabrics produced by giving a suitable inclination
to the trough, bed, or board in or over which the fabric passes to be cleansed.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Mosley, junior, have hereunto
set my hand and scal, this Fifteenth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.