A NEW METHOD OF REMOVING THE FLY DROPPINGS, WASTE, AND OTHER MATTERS, WHICH BEING SEPARATED FROM THE MATERIAL, PALLS BELOW THE CYLINDERS AND BEATERS IN THE RESPECTIVE PROCESSES OF CARDING, WILLOWING, DEVILLING, BATTING, BLOWING, SCUTCHING, SPINNING, OR MIXING OF COTTON WOOL, SILKAX, WOOL, OR ANY
Year: 1838

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
RADCLIFFE, of Stockport, in the County of Chester, Machine Agent, send
greeting.
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 Twenty-fourth day of May, in the first year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John
Radcliffe, Her especial licence that I, the said John Radcliffe, my exors,
adiñors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Radcliffe, my exors,
adors, 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
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW METHOD OF
REMOVING THE FLY DROPPINGS, WASTE, AND OTHER MATTERS, WHICH BEING
SEPARATED FROM THE MATERIAL, PALLS BELOW THE CYLINDERS AND BEATERS IN
THE RESPECTIVE PROCESSES OF CARDING, WILLOWING, DEVILLING, BATTING, BLOWING,
SCUTCHING, SPINNING, OR MIXING OF COTTON WOOL, SILK, FLAX, WOOL, OR ANY

page_text: carding engine or other machine. M, a flanch end or bracket for guiding the
fly or other waste material on to the roller (L). N, weights fixed on the levers
(O) to press down the roller pivot ends (I.) to make the fly or lap compact and
even. O, other levers attached to the bracket joints (P), on which the weights
(N) are fixed with a sit screw through inside. P, the brackets or joints to
which the levers (0) are fixed with bolts so as to form a hinge. Q, the bevil
which which drives the bevil pinion (R) on the top of the downright shaft (T).
R, the bevil pinion wheel on the top of the downright shaft (T). S, the worm
at the bottom of the shaft (T). T, the downright shaft which drives the
roller (I). U, the spur wheel fixed on the pivot of the roller (1), and driven
by the worin (S). V, the brackets supporting drawer (A). W, the
foot bracket to hold the downright shaft (T). X, inside linings along the
framing (a) to conduct the (ly or waste deposit on to the cloth or flexible grid
(E). Y, the bracket or filbow which holds the shaft (T). Z, the thumb-screw
pivots on which the tin roller (H) revolves. a, the machine framing to which
the self-acting waste-gatherer apparatus is attached. b, stops on the mote
waste or dirt drawer (D) to regulate the same. c, the bracket or step in
which the pivot (d), attached to the dirt conductor (B), turns when regulated
by the thumb-screw (C). d, the pivot on the dirt conductor (B).
Now, whereas I claim as my Invention the apparatus hercin-before described
for gathering or collecting and removing the fly waste, droppings, and other
matters aforesaid, which become disengaged in the various proces e aforesaid.
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
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, Her said
Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby declaro
this to be my Specification of the same; and that I do verily believe 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 John Radcliffe, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of November, One thousand
eight hundred and thirty-eight.
JN° RADCLIFFE. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Seventeenth day of November,
in the year of our Lord 1838, the aforesaid John Radcliffe 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.
Inrolled the Twenty-first day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.