CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS Substances
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Hodgkinson, of Marple, in the County of
Chester, Cotton Spinner, and James Ardern, of the same Place,
Mill Manager; for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY FOR PREPARING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS Substances.”
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Hodgkinson and
James Ardern at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 4th October 1873.
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We, HENRY HODGKINSON, of Marple, in the County of Chester,
Cotton Spinner, and JAMES ARDERN, of the same Place, Mill Manager,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN Improve-
MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES,"
to be as follows :—
Our Invention is applicable to drawing frames and other machines of
the like nature, and it consists in the application of spouts or guides
for supporting the slivers between the front drawing rollers and the
rollers which carry the slivers forward to the coiler or can or other-

page_text: receptacle. These spouts or guides protect the slivers from the currents
of air in the room, and prevent the short fibres being blown about,
thereby producing better work and preventing the lapping of the front
roller, which frequently occurs, owing to the slivers being unsupported,
as now customary.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Hodgkinson and James Ardern in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 4th April 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, HENRY
HODGKINSON, of Marple, in the County of Chester, Cotton Spinner, and
JAMES ARDERN, of the same Place, Mill Manager, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto us, the said Henry Hodgkinson, and
James Ardern, Her special licence that we, the said Henry Hodgkinson,
and James Ardern, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said Henry Hodgkinson and James Ardern, 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.thercin
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 MACHINERY FOR PREPARING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES,”
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Henry
Hodgkinson and James Ardern, our executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under our, 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

page_text: calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
'NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Henry Hodgkinson and James
Ardern, 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:-
The objects of this Invention are to provide machinery whereby
fibres are taken as they are delivered from the rollers, and the edges of
the sliver gently turned up and conducted to the delivery rollers into
the can, the sliver being relieved of its own weight and protected from
any currents of air, which are very common in card rooms, and aro
detrimental to unprotected drawing frames, so that thousands of fibres
pass into yarn that would otherwise be wasted, consequently cannot fail
to add to the quantity also to the quality produced.
By the use of this machinery breakages of front ends seldom' occur,
and all lapping of rollers entirely prevented; thus considerably loss
waste is made, fewer rollers spoiled, and there is much less labour for the
tenter.
Our Invention is applicable to drawing frames and other machines of
the like nature, and it consists in the application of spouts or guides
for supporting the slivers between the front drawing roller and the
rollers which carry the slivers forward to the coiler or can or other:
receptacle. These spouts or guides protect the slivers from the currents
of air in the room, and provent the short fibres being blown about,
thereby producing better work and preventing the lapping of the front
roller, which frequently occurs, owing to the slivers being unsupported,
as now customary,
Our Invention is applicable to every description of fibrous material.
Having thus far described the nature of our Invention, we will by
aid of the accompanying Drawings proceed to describe and ascertain the
nature and object of the same, and in what manner the said Invention is
carried into effect.
Fig. 1 represents our Invention as adapted for double boss rollers, the

page_text: the rollers, the middle piece B dividing the trough into two channels for
the purpose of conducting the fibres from each boss.
Fig. 2 represents our Invention adapted for a single boss roller, and in
this case the part B, Fig. 1, is dispensed with, the trough being made
smaller as required.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature and
object of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed or carried out in practice, we hereby declare that we claim
the Invention of "Certain Improvements in Machinery for Preparing
Cotton and other Fibrous Substances," as the same is herein-before set
forth and described and illustrated by the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, we, the said Henry Hodgkinson and James
Ardern, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Second day
of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-four..
Witness,
WILLIAM RAWCLIFFE,
Hollins' Mill,
Marple.
H. HODGKINSON. (L.S.)
JAS. ARDERN.
(L.S.)