IMPROVEMENTS IN 'PAPERING' AND 'PRESSING' IN THE 'FINISHING' OF WOVEN FABRICS, AND IN. THE MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Holt, Merchant, Robert Burli
Mechanic, and Henry Sampson, Stuff Finisher, all of Bradford, in
the County of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
'PAPERING' AND 'PRESSING' IN THE 'FINISHING' OF WOVEN FABRICS, AND
IN. THE MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN."
Sealed the 17th October 1868, and dated the 27th April 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Holt, Robert
Burlison, and Henry Sampson at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents, with their Petition, on the 27th April 1868.
We, RICHARD HOLT, Merchant, ROBERT BURLISON, Mechanic, and
HENRY SAMPSON, Stuff Finisher, all of Bradford, in the County of York,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN 'PAPERING' AND 'PRESSING' IN THE 'FINISHING' OF WOVEN FABRICS, AND IN
THE MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN," to be as follows:-
In effecting the process called "papering" in the "finishing" of
woven fabrics it is usual to apply paper fabric in separate sheets of com-

page_text: paratively small size between folds of the fabric, and then pressure is
applied thereto.
use
The object of our Invention is to substitute for the use of separate
sheets of paper fabric a sheet or sheets of considerable length con-
tinuously laid with the fabric. For this purpose the fabric to be operated
upon is fed from a roller or other source of supply to the surface of one
or more cylinders, of which we prefer there should be several to act on
both surfaces of the fabric, and that they be heated in order to raise the
temperature of the fabric. The fabric is thence wound on to an accu-
mulating roller, which is borne by weighted pressure against a feed
cylinder. In like manner the paper to be laid between the surfaces of
the fabric is fed from another roller or other source of supply, and is
thence also acted upon by one or more cylinders (by preference heated)
in its passage to the fabric, so that the paper and fabric are wound
together on the accumulating and pressing cylinder or drum. Both the
fabric and the paper may also pass over or between bars or small rollers
to aid in straightening or putting tension on them. These continuous
sheets may be of paper fabric of a character similar to the separate sheets
now used, or combined with other fabric or material. to strengthen them.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Richard' Holt, Robert Burlison, and. Henry
Sampson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 27th October
1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, RICHARD
HOT, Merchant, ROBERT BURLISON, Mechanic, and HENRY SAMPSON,
Stuff Finisher, all of Bradford, in the County of York, send greeting;
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of April, 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 us, the said Richard Holt, Robert Burlison, and
Henry Sampson, Her special licence that we, the said Richard Holt,
Robert Burlison, and Henry Sampson, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Richard Holt, Robert Burlison,

page_text: and Henry Sampson, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN 'PAPERING' AND 'PRESSING IN THE
FINISHING OF WOVEN FABRICS, AND IN THE MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED
THEREIN," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Richard
Holt, Robert Burlison, and Henry Sampson, our executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under our or their hands and seals,
ör under the hand and seal of one of us or them, 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 we, the said Richard Holt and Henry Sampson,
on behalf of ourselves and the said Robert Burlison, do hereby declare
the nature of the 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, that is to say :-
In effecting the process called "papering" in the "finishing" of
woven fabrics it is usual to apply paper fabric in separate sheets of
comparatively small size between folds of the fabric, and then pressure
is applied thereto.
.
The object of our Invention is to substitute for the use of separate
sheets of paper fabric a sheet or sheets of considerable length con-
tinuously laid with the fabric. For this purpose the fabric to be
operated upon is fed from a roller or other source of supply to the
surface of one or more cylinders, of which we prefer there should be
several to act on both surfaces of the fabric, and that they may be
heated in order to raise the temperature of the fabric. The fabric is
thence wound on to an accumulating roller, which is borne by weighted
pressure against a feed cylinder. In like manner the paper to be laid
between the surfaces of the fabric is fed from another roller or other
source of supply, and is thence also acted upon by one or more cylinders
(by preference heated) in its passage to the fabric, so that the paper
and fabric are wound together on the accumulating and pressing cylinder

page_text: or drum. Both the fabric and the paper may also pass over or between
bars or small rollers to aid in straightening or putting tension on them.
These continuous sheets may be of paper fabric of a character similar
to the separate sheets now used, or combined with other fabric or
material to strengthen them.
But that our Invention may be fully understood we will by the aid of
These continuous sheets may be of paper fabric of a Chal
to the separate sheets now used, or combined with other fabric or
material to strengthen them.
But that our Invention may be fully understood we will by the aid of
the accompanying Diagramm proceed to illustrate the Invention.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
The Diagram represents by outline a series of cylinders or rollers
arranged to operate in carrying out the Invention, and we would state
that we have not thought it necessary to show the various gear and
the framing, as such will be readily understood by persons acquainted
with this class of machinery.
The red line a indicates the woven fabric for the time under the
operation of "papering" for "pressing" in the "finishing" of the
fabric, whilst the brown line 6 indicates the sheet of paper or such
like fabric to he laid with the woven fabric under operation. The
fabric a having been wound into a roll upon the beam c and placed in
position to be fed against the surface of the respective rollers, is thence
conducted first under the roller d, and between the surfaces of that
roller and the surface of the roller e over which it passes to between
it and the surface of the roller f, partly around which it passes and is
thence received on to the beam g, which acts as an accumulating roller.
The paper fabric 6 having been wound on to a beam is placed in
position to be conducted against the surfaces of other rollers i, i, i, and
thence between the fabric passing from the roller f and that on the
beam g. The cylinders or rollers d, e, f, and i, i, i, may all be formed
to receive steam or other suitable heating media so as to impart heat
to the respective fabrics. And the bars or rollers j, j, may be employed,
if desired.
Having thus described our Invention and means which we adopt in
carrying the same into effect, we would have it understood that we
do not confine ourselves to the arrangement and method of working
indicated as the same may be varied; but what we do claim is, the so
arranging or combining apparatus that sheets of paper or other fabric
may be laid continuously or in considerable lengths between woven

page_text: fabric in the process of pressing in the finishing of woven fabrics, in
manner substantially as described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Richard Holt and Henry Sampson,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-fourth day
of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight.
RICHARD HOLT. (L.S.)
HENRY SAMPSON. (L.S.)