IMPROVE- MENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PUNCHING WASHERS FOR THROSTLES AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Nelson, of the City of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Machine Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PUNCHING WASHERS FOR THROSTLES
AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES."
Sealed the 1st April 1862, and dated the 12th October 1861. .
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Nelson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 12th
October 1861.
I, HENRY NELSON, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Machine Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PUNCHING WASHERS FOR THROSTLES
AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of two rollers or cylinders revolving in suitable
bearings, between which the cloth or material to be punched passes. On one
of the said rollers or cylinders is one or more projecting cutters, so that as the

page_text: material to be perforated comes in contact with each cutter, the requisite hole
is punched; and to cause the material to pass through or between the rollers
regularly without slipping, one or both of them are grooved, and at the front
of the apparatus any suitable guides may be fixed to keep the material in a
straight direction. The required distance of the perforations is regulated by
the diameter of the rollers, and consequently the distance of the punches
asunder. Motion may be given to the rollers either by hand or power.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Nelson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
12th April 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
NELSON, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Machine
Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Henry Nelson, Her special licence that I, the said Henry
Nelson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Henry Nelson, my 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 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 PUNCHING WASHERS FOR
THROSTLES AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Henry Nelson, 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 Henry Nelson, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
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page_text: -performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the fol-
lowing statement (that is to say ):-
This Invention consists of two rollers or cylinders revolving in suitable"
bearings, between which the cloth or material to be punched passes.
On one
of the said rollers or cylinders are one or more projecting cutters, so that as
the material to be perforated comes in contact with each cutter, the requisite
hole is punched; and to cause the material to pass through or between the
rollers regularly without slipping, one or both of them are grooved or fluted,
and at the front of the apparatus any suitable guides may be fixed to keep the
material in a straight direction. The required distance of the perforations is
regulated by the diameter of the roller, and consequently the distance of the
punches asunder. Motion may be given to the rollers either by hand or
power.
These improvements will be clearly understood by referring to the figures
and letters on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a
transverse section, and Fig. 2 a front elevation, of my improved machinery or
apparatus for punching washers of cloth or other material for throstles and
other similar purposes.
The two rollers or cylinders between which the cloth to be punched passes
are shewn at a, b, having shafts or pivots c, d, which work in the bearings e,
attached to or forming part of the small frame or table f.
The shafts c, d, of
gearing into each
the two rollers have at one end the toothed wheels g, h,
other, in order to give simultaneous motion to the rollers, and at the opposite
end of the lower roller there is a toothed wheel i, gearing into the toothed
wheel or pinion k, fixed to the driving pulley l, which, with the loose pulley m,
work loose on the stud n. The bottom roller b is fluted, and has fixed to it
the punches or cutters o, at the required distance apart. The top roller a is
made of soft metal, so as not to injure the cutters when they project through
the cloth or material, and the top roller is adjusted to its proper distance from
the bottom roller by the set screws p. At the front of the rollers there is a
guide q, for maintaining the cloth or material in a straight direction. The
rollers may be made of any desired diameter, and driven at any suitable speed,
und they may also be reversed, so that the soft metal roller shall be below and
he roller with the cutters above.
Having now described the nature and particulars of my said Invention, and
he manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be understood
hat I claim as my Invention, the employment of cutters or punches fixed to a
lain or fluted roller acting in concert with a soft metal roller, for the purpose

page_text: of punching washer cloth or other material for throstles and other similar pur-
poses, as herein described, and illustrated in the accompanying Sheet of
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Nelson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Tenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named Henry Nelson, in the
presence of
E. J. HUGHES,
HENRY NELSON. (L.B.)
Patent Agent,
Manchester.