IMPROVEMENTS IN WIRE CARD COVERING FOR CARDING TOW. FLAX. OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES.
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Savile Goodall, of Brighouse, in the County of
York, Card Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WIRE CARD
COVERING FOR CARDING TOW. FLAX. OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES.
Sealed the 15th June 1860, and dated the 19th December 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Savile Goodall, at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
19th December 1859.
I, GEORGE SAVILE GOODALL, of Brighouse, in the County of York, Card
Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN WIRE CARD COVERING FOR CARDING TOW, FLAX, OF OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES,
to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the employment of steel wire of angular or round
section set in wood lags at a suitable angle or obliquity to the surface thereof.
The ends of the wire being beveled or cut away at a slope to form points, and
in order to secure the points of the wire in proper position, I first bend the said
wire into staples whilst in a softened state, after which I harden or temper
them as required.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Savile Goodall, in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 15th June 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
SAVILE GOODALL, of Brighouse, in the County of York, Card Maker, send
greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said George Savile Goodall, Her special licence that I, the said George
Savile Goodall, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such other
as I, the said George Savile Goodall, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no other, 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 Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WIRE CARD COVERING FOR CARDING Tow, FLAX, OR
OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," upon the condition, amongst others, that I, the said
George Savile Goodall, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
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 George Savile Goodall, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (that is to say) -
This Invention consists in the employment of steel wire of angular or round
section set in wood lags at a suitable angle or obliquity to the surface thereof,
the ends of the wire being beveled or cut away at a slope to form points; and
in order to secure the points of the wire in proper position, I bend the said
wire into staples whilst in a softened state, after which I harden or temper
them as required.
In further explanation of this my said Invention, I would observe that steel
wire pins with ground points set or driven into wood lags have heretofore been
used as card covering for purposes as herein-before stated, but on account of
the difficulty of setting single pins of angular or round section with bevel
points true or in proper position, and also their liability of becoming loose and
working out of the lags when thus put in, I have found it desirable to form
the wire into double pins or staples and introduce or insert them into the lags
in a similar manner, as in the leather card covering employed for carding tow
and other fibrous substances; and because of the strength or stiffness required
in such pins or cards for operating upon tow, flax, or fibrous substances of
such like nature, iron wire is not sufficiently strong or stiff; to overcome

page_text: which difficulties and objections I use steel wire of any form of section, but I
prefer it to be of angular, or sectoral cross section, and in order to the formation
of such wire into staples it is necessary to have it in a softened state by
annealing. It is then cut into suitable lengths bevel pointed and bent or
formed into staples by any suitable machinery, after which the said staples are
hardened or tempered as required and set or fixed in the wood lags as before
described passing the points through the lags; the crowns of the staples
resting on the inner or concave surface of the said lags, and may be slightly let in
or sunk into the wood so that the lags may rest solid upon the roller or
cylinder to which they are fixed for use.
Having thus fully described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, or carried into practical effect,
I would have it distinctly understood that I do not claim the use of wood
lags nor steel wire for the purposes as herein set forth, but what I do claim
and which I believe to be new within the realm is,-
Firstly, the forming or constructing staples of steel wire in manner and for
purposes as herein described.
Secondly, the combining steel wire staples with wood lags to form a card
covering as herein set forth.
Thirdly, the application and use of such card covering, for carding or
operating upon tow, flax, or other fibrous substances.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Savile Goodall, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty.
GEORGE SAVILE GOODALL. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered, by the
within-named George Savile Goodall,
in the presence of
W. TASKER, Patent Agent,
Halifax.