CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN CARDING ENGINES
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Kershaw, of Heywood, in the County of
Lancaster, Manufacturer, and James Taylor, of the same Place, Manager,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Kershaw and
James Taylor at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 18th August 1854.
We, SAMUEL KERSHAW, of Heywood, in the County of Lancaster, Manu-
facturer, and JAMES TAYLOR, of the same Place, Manager, do hereby declare
the nature of our said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN CARDING
ENGINES"to be as follows:-
Our improvements consist, first, in the application of a comb, or toothed or.
serrated edge or plate, to the extremity or edge of what is well known and
technically called "Bodmer's feeding plate;" and, secondly, in the application
of the "patent india-rubber cards," for the purpose of wrapping or clothing the
"feed roller" to be used in combination therewith, such india-rubber cards
not hitherto having been used for "feed rollers."

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Kershaw and James Taylor in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 17th February 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM. THESE. PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, SAMUEL
KERSHAW, of Heywood, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturer, and JAMES
TAYLOR, of the same Place, Manager, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of August, in the
Lord
year of our
One thousand eight-hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Samuel Kershaw and James Taylor, Her especial license that we,
the said Samuel Kershaw and James Taylor, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Samuel Kershaw and James
Taylor, our 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 IMPROVEMENTS IN
CARDING ENGINES," upon the condition, amongst others, that we, the said
Samuel Kershaw and James Taylor, or one of us, by an instrument in writing
under our hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, 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 I, the said Samuel Kershaw, 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
and accompanying Drawings (that is to say):
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Our improvements in carding engines consist in the application of a comb,
For toothed or serrated edge or plate, to the extremity or edge of what is well
known and technically termed "Bodmer's feeding plate," in combination with
"the patent india-rubber cards," applied for the purpose of wrapping or clothing
the "feed roller," such "india-rubber cards" not hitherto having been used for
"feed rollers" either separately or so combined.
.
In order that our improvements may be the better understood and explained
in detail, we have hereunto attached an illustrative Drawing, made upon a
scale of about half the full-size, and havo-placed upon each Figure similar
etters of reference on corresponding parts of the machinery.

page_text: Fig. 1 represents a transverse sectional view of our improvements; and
Fig. 2 exhibits a top or plan view of "Bodmer's feeding plate," with a serrated
edge or comb of metal attached thereto. a represents the "feeding plate,"
with a serrated edge, plate, or comb b, secured to the plate a in the manner
we most prefer. c is the "feed roller" of the carding engine, revolving closely
upon the comb b, by aid of the novel adaptation of the "india-rubber cards" d,
upon the feed roller c. By the use of these elastic cards, the "lap" is fed in
and over the plate a, and up to the serrated edge or comb b, which is always
kept clear, in consequence of the elasticity of the cards upon the feed roller.
The lap is then delivered to the "licker in " e, which, in consequence of the
perfect clearing of the comb b, is much less likely than as in machines at
present in use to injure or destroy the material. A similar effect may be pro-
duced by employing on the feed roller a bedding or layer of india-rubber cloth
or other elastic medium, and over this the leather or other cards, as at present
in use.
In consequence of the rigidity of the cards as heretofore used for
clothing or wrapping the "feed rollers," the desirable effect has not been
attained by employing a serrated edge or comb at the extremity of "Bodmer's
feed plate;" but by the arrangements and applications which constitute our
improvements, we are enabled considerably to facilitate and improve the
productions of carding engines.
Having now particularly described the nature of our Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, we wish it to be understood that
we are aware of its having been proposed to employ a comb at the extreme
edge of "Bodmer's feeding plate;" we do not therefore claim as our Invention
a comb, or toothed or serrated edge or plate, in conjunction with "Bodmer's
feeding plate;" but what we claim as our Invention is, the application,
employment, and use of the "patent india-rubber cards" for the purpose of
wrapping and clothing "feed rollers" of carding engines (as well as the
employment and use of "feed rollers" clothed or wrapped as lastly described),
in conjunction or combination with the comb, or serrated edge or plate b, as
herein particularly described and set forth, and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Kershaw, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
SAMUEL KERSHAW. (L.S.)