IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR CARDING, FLAX, Tow, OR OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Waithman, of the City of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Flax Spinner, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR CARDING, FLAX, Tow, OR OTHER FIBROUS
MATERIALS,"
Sealed the 6th January 1863, and dated the 11th July 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Waithman, at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th July 1862.
I, JOSEPH WAITHMAN; of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lan-
caster, Flax Spinner, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR CARDING FLAX, Tow; OR OTHER
FIBROUS MATERIALS," to be as follows:-
These improvements consist.in the application to carding engines of revolving
cylinders or rollers constructed: of tin. or other suitable metal or material,
which cylinders or rollers are placed contiguous to the rollers or workers,
clearers, or strippers and lickers-in, in order to cause the fibres to be more
firmly held or retained on the rollers or workers, clearers, or strippers, and
lickers-in, thus preventing waste in fibre and only allowing the dust and shieve
to be thrown off.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Waithman in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
9th January 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
WAITHMAN, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Flax
Spinner, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Joseph Waithman, Her special licence, that I, the said Joseph Waithman,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Joseph Waithman, my exccutors, 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
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR CARDING FLAX, TOW, OR OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Joseph Waithman, ny
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their,
or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describo 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 Joseph Waithman, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to bo per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say:-
These improvements consist in the application.to carding engines of revolving
rollers constructed of tin plate or other suitable metal or material, which rollers
are placed contiguous to the card rollers or workers, clearers or strippers and
lickers-in, in order to cause the fibres to be more firmly held or retained on
the card rollers or workers, clearers, or strippers, and lickers-in, thus pre-
venting waste in fibre, and only allowing the dust and refuse to be thrown off.
The manner in which my Invention is to be performed will be clearly under-
stood by referring to the letters of reference on the accompanying Drawing
representing a vertical section of a portion of an ordinary tow carding engine.

page_text: a represents the card cylinder; b, the feed rollers; c, the licker-in; d, the
clearers or strippers; e, the card rollers or workers; f, the doffing cylinder; and
g my improved rollers, which are usually made of tin plate, and caused to
revolve in either direction, and placed either nearer the clearer d, the card
roller e, or the licker-in c, as may be found most advantageous. Motion is
given to the improved rollers g by gearing, straps, or other means from any of
the working parts of the carding engine, and I apply any number of the said
rollers g of the diameter most suitable for the purpose required. Although I have
only shown the application of my improved rollers to a tow card, I adapt them
to all descriptions of machinery for carding flax, tow, cotton, and other fibrous
materials.
Having now described the nature and particulars of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be understood
that I claim the improvements in machinery or apparatus for carding flax, tow,
or other fibrous materials, as herein described and illustrated in the accom-
panying Sheet of Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Waithman, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventh day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named Joseph Waithman,
in the presence of
E. T. HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
London.
JOSEPH WAITHMAN. (L.S.)