IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ROLLERS FOR PRE- PARING. SPINNING. DOUBLING, SIZING. WINDING. WARPING. AND WEAVING
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Harrison, of the Firm of Messieurs J. Harrison
and Sons, of Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Makers,
and Robert Parkinson, of Blackburn, aforesaid, Tin Plate Worker, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ROLLERS FOR PRE-
PARING. SPINNING. DOUBLING, SIZING. WINDING. WARPING. AND WEAVING."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Harrison and
Robert Parkinson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 26th May 1862.
We, JOHN HARRISON, of the Firm of Messieurs J. Harrison and Sons, of
Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Makers, and ROBERT
PARKINSON, of Blackburn, aforesaid, Tin Plate Worker, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
ROLLERS FOR PREPARING, SPINNING, DOUBLING, SIZING, WINDING, WARPING, AND
WEAVING," to be as follows:-
Our Invention consists in making the rollers or drums of the various
machines employed in preparing, spinning, doubling, sizing, winding, warping,
and weaving of sheet iron coated with lead, or a combination of lead with
other metals or materials, which sheet iron is known to the trade as the
"Patent coated sheet iron," instead of making such rollers of tinned sheet
iron, or brass, or other metal, or of wood, as now customary, thereby reducing
the cost both of material and labour.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Harrison and Robert Parkinson in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 26th November 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
HARRISON, of the Firm of Messieurs J. Harrison and Sons, of Blackburn, in
the County of Lancaster, Machine Makers, and ROBERT PARKINSON, of Black-
burn, aforesaid, Tin Plate Worker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said John Harrison, and Robert Parkinson, Her special license, that.
we, the said John Harrison and Robert Parkinson, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said John Harrison and
Robert Parkinson, 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, 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. THE MANUFACTURE OF ROLLERS FOR PREPARING, SPINNING,
DOUBLING, SIZING, WINDING, WARPING, AND WEAVING," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said John Harrison and Robert Parkinson,
our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or
their, or one of our or 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 we, the said John Harrison and Robert Parkin-
son 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 (that is to say) :-
Our Invention consists in making the rollers or drums of the various
machines employed in preparing, spinning, doubling, sizing, winding, warping
and weaving, of sheet iron coated with lead, or a combination of lead with
other metals or materials, which sheet iron is known to the trade as the
"Patent coated sheet iron," instead of making. such rollers of tinned sheet

page_text: iron, or brass, or other metal, or of wood, as now customary, thereby reducing
the cost both of material and labour.
In performing our Invention we take sheets or plates of iron coated with
lead or tin, or alloys of lead and tin, in the manner described in the Specifi-
cation of Letters Patent granted to Thomas Banks and Thomas Morgan, on
the Eighth day of February, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one,
No. 317, and known to the trade as the "Patent coated sheet iron;" these
sheets or plates of the requisite length and width are bent in the ordinary
manner, and secured to discs or flanges to form rollers, as now customary in
making rollers of tinned sheet iron or other sheet metal; and as the "Patent
coated sheet iron" is durable, incorrodable, inexpensive, and of great strength
it is peculiarly adapted as a substitute for wood, tinned sheet iron, sheet brass,
or other metal hitherto employed in the manufacture of rollers for the various
machines employed in preparing, spinning, doubling, sizing, winding, warping,
and weaving.
We therefore claim the use of Banks' and Morgan's Patent coated sheet
iron for the purposes described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Harrison, have hereto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-fifth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
JOHN HARRISON, (L.8.)