IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR SIZING AND DRESSING WARPS, YARNS, OR THREADS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Burton, of Padiham, near Burnley, in the
County of Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
OR APPARATUS FOR SIZING AND DRESSING WARPS, YARNS, OR THREADS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Burton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th June 1856.
I, THOMAS BURTON, of Padiham, near Burnley, in the County of Lancaster,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR SIZING AND DRESSING WARPS, YARNS, OR THREADS,"
to be as follows:-
Instead of the usual method of passing steam from the boiler to the size
trough and drying cylinders simultaneously, I pass the steam from the boiler
direct to the cylinders, and then convey the exhaust steam from the said
cylinders to the size trough, by which I effect a great saving or economization
of the steam; and when any condensed steam is made in the cylinders I cause
it to escape, thus preserving the steam sufficiently pure to boil the size in the
machine at the same operation, instead of being boiled by a separate process,
as heretofore.
. In the accompanying outline Drawing, Fig. 1, a represents the feed pipe

page_text: from the boiler to the cylinders b, c; and in Fig. 2, d represents the outlet for
the cylinders to the size trough e, where the size or thickening matter is
boiled represents the outlet for any condensed steam that may be made in
the cylinders.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Burton in the Great Scal Patent Office on the
16th December 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
BURTON, of Padiham, near Burnley, in the County of Lancaster, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Royal
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Thomas Burton, Her especial license that I, the said Thomas Burton, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas
Burton, 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 SIZING AND DRESSING WARPS, YARNS, OR THREADS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Burton, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manuer 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 Royal Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Burton, do hereby declare the
nature of the 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):1
Instead of the usual method of passing steam from the boiler to the size
trough and drying cylinders simultaneously, I pass it from the boiler direct to
the cylinders, and then convey the exhaust steam from the said cylinders to the
size trough, by which I effect a great saving or economization of the steam;

page_text: and when any of the steam becomes condensed in the cylinders I allow it to
escape, thus preserving the steam sufficiently pure to boil the size in the
trough at the same operation, instead of being boiled by a separate process, as
heretofore adopted.
The manner in which my said Invention is to be performed will be
clearly understood by reference to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, and
the letters of reference thereon, in which Fig. 1 is an elevation of my
improved sizing machine, and Fig. 2 a plan thereof. A represents the large
cylinder; B, the small cylinder; C, the size trough; D, the injection pipe,
where the steam enters and passes through the cylinders, as shown by the
direction of the arrows, to the condenser E, which may be made upon any of
the well-known principles. From the said condenser the steam passes to the
size trough in the direction shewn by the arrows. F is a tap which I use for
injecting steam occasionally, the first thing in the morning, to boil the sizo
immediately, and thus save a little time.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I desiro it to be distinctly understood that
I do not confine myself to any particular construction or dimensions of the
machinery or apparatus; but I claim as my Invention, and which, to the best
of iny knowledge and belief, has not been hitherto used within this realm, the
method of passing the steam direct from the boiler to the cylinders and
condenser, and from thence to the sizing trough, as herein described, and illus-
trated in the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Burton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord Oue thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the within-
named Thomas Burton, in the presence of
E. J. HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.
THOMAS BURTON. (L.S.)