CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN CARDING ENGINES
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Holland, of the Adelphi Mills, Salford, in
the County of Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, for the Invention of "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN CARDING ENGINES."
Sealed the 5th December 1862, and dated the 11th June 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Holland at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 11th
June 1862.
I, WILLIAM HOLLAND, of the Adelphi Mills, Salford, in the County of
Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN CARDING ENGINES," to be as follows:-
In carding engines of the usual construction it is requisite to employ a large
sheet metal or tin trough to guide the fleece from the doffer to the calender
rollers or drawing head; this trough is expensive, inconvenient, and liable to
injure the selvages of the fleece. Now my Invention consists in dispensing
with the trough above referred to and in guiding the fleece to the calender
rollers or drawing head by a peculiarly shaped guide attached to or placed
before the trumpet mouth or funnel, the sides of which cause the selvages of
the fleece to curl on leaving the doffer, and thereby prevent the jagged edges
of the fleece from falling down. The guide is of a segmental shape in the
centre and has horns at each side, forming recesses, which turn in or curl the
selvages of the fleece before it enters the funnel or trumpet mouth or other
guide, and the fleece is drawn evenly forward by the calender rollers or
drawing head.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Holland in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
9th December 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
HOLLAND, of the Adelphi Mills, Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton
Spinner, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William Holland, Her special license, that I, the said William Holland,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
William Holland, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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
I, the said William Holland, my executors or administrators by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 Holland, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following.
statement:-
Whereas in carding engines it has been heretofore customary to employ a
large sheet metal or tin trough to guide the fleece from the doffer to the
calender rollers or drawing box; and whereas the trough, as it has been
heretofore employed, is found to be expensive and inconvenient. Now my
Invention consists in dispensing with the trough above referred to and in
guiding the fleece from the doffers to the calender rolls or draw box by means
of a suitably shaped, a simpler, less expensive, and more effective instrument,
consisting of a guide or guide plate placed before the calender roller or draw
box. The shape of the guide plate which I recommend to be used is shewn
in the accompanying Drawings. When a trumpet mouth or funnel is used

page_text: I attach the guide thereto, but when no trumpet mouth or funnel is used the
guide may be fixed by means of brackets or other fixings to the carding
engine in any convenient manner. The object to be attained by the use of
my guide or guide plate is to cause the selvages of the fleece to curl on leaving
the doffer, and thereby prevent the jagged edges of the fleece from falling
down, which has not hitherto been effectually done. To effect this object
I make my guide or guide plate of a rounded or segmental shape in the
centre with protuberances or horns at each side, forming recesses, as shewn in
the Drawings, and thereby causing the selvages of the fleece to turn in or
curl under before the fleece reaches the calender rollers or draw box. By this
Invention I am enabled to produce a better and more even fleece, whose
edges are protected from injury, and to replace the trough heretofore used
with carding engines by a simpler, more effective, and more economical
instrument, such as I have described.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named William Holland,
in the presence of
J. CAMPBELL ROWLEY,
Solicitor,
WILLIAM HOLLAND. (L.S.)
Manchester.