Blankets and other Woven Fabrics.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Mar., 1886.
Complete Left, 20th Dec., 1886.
Complete Accepted, 21st Jan., 1887.
Blankets and other Woven Fabrics.
We WILLIAM ARTHUR SUTCLIFFE of the firm of J. Atkinson & Sons, Watsons
Mill Sowerby Bridge in the County of York Woollen manufacturer, and GEORGE
THOMAS of Mill Bank, Triangle, near Halifax in the County aforesaid, Cloth finisher,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of improvements in machines for purpose aforesaid wherein
appliances are arranged and combined so as to perform the operation of brushing
raising or cleansing of both surfaces or sides of the fabric at one operation and time.
I mount upon frame ends two or four brushes of vegetable fibre hair or wire these
are coupled or seperately driven at a surface speed greater than the traverse speed of
the fabrics under operation and by preference in opposite direction to the movement
of the fabric a series of guide rollers are employed over which the fabric is passed to a
"cuttle" or other like device.
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Town Hall Buildings, Halifax,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: DIGHAVUD,
We, WILLIAM ARTHUR SUTCLIFFE of the firm of J. Atkinson and Sons Watson
Mills, Sowerby Bridge in the County of York, Woollen Manufacturer and GEORGE
THOMAS, of Mill Bank, Triangle, near Halifax in the County aforesaid, Cloth Finisher
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment :-
This invention consists of improvements in machines for purpose aforesaid
wherein appliances are arranged and combined so as to perform the operation of
brushing or cleansing of both surfaces or sides of the fabric at one operation and
time.
We mount upon frame ends two or four brushes of vegetable fibre hair. or wire;
these are coupled or seperately driven at a surface speed greater than the traverse
speed of the fabric under operation, and by preference in opposite direction to the
movement of the fabric, a series of guide and draw rollers are employed over which
the fabric is passed to a "cuttle" or other like device.
Such being the nature and object of our said invention, the following is a complete
description of same reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part
of this Specification in which
The drawing illustrates a side elevation in section of our improved machine.
According to this our invention we mount upon frame ends 1, two or more
brushes 2, 2, of vegetable fibre, hair, or wire, these are coupled by driving belt 3, or
driven separately at a surface speed greater than the traverse speed of the fabric 4
under operation, and by preference in opposite direction (in which case I cross the
driving belt 3) to the movement of the fabric. A guide roller 5, or series of guide
rollers, and draw rollers 6. 64 are employed over which the fabric passes to a
"cuttle"
or other device.
The machine is driven as follows
On the shaft 24 of the brush 2 is a pulley driven from any convenient source, and on
the shaft 2 is another pulley 34 which drives by means of belt 44, the pulley 5ª which
drives the draw roller 6, communicating motion to the draw roller 64 by means of the
cord 7.
The fabric 4 passes through the machine in the direction indicated by the arrows,
the cords 7 acting as a carrier for carrying the fabric from the draw roller 6 to the
draw roller 6A

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature and object of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is;
The general construction combination, and arrangement of the parts constituting the
improved machine for purpose aforesaid and as herein described, and substantially as
illustrated by the annexed drawings.
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Town Hall Buildings, Halifax,
Agent for the said
William Arthur Sutcliffe and George Thomas.