IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR OILING WOOL
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Martyn John Roberts, of Peudarren House,
Crickhowell, in the County of Brecon, Esquire, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR OILING WOOL."
Sealed the 26th April 1864, and dated the 30th October 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Martyn John Roberts
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 30th October 1863.
I, MARTYN JOHN ROBERTS, of Pendarren House, Crickhowell, in the County
of Brecon, Esquire, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR OILING WOOL," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists of a hollow T-shaped pipe open at the bottom and
provided with perforations at the two arms; a pulley for receiving a strap is
fitted to the apparatus in order to its being made to rotate. The apparatus
is fitted in a box with an adjustable opening to allow of the oil being sprinkled
on the wool, which is made to travel on an apron under the opening. Upon
the apparatus being made to rotate rapidly it draws a supply of oil through
the hollow bottom or foot, and by centrifugal force ejects it in a state of spray
or dew from the arms upon the wool.
My Invention also consists of a pipe furnished at bottom with a perforated
rose or spreader, and which I cause to move to and fro over the wool to be
oiled like a pendulum. I prefer, however, the apparatus first described.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Martyn John Roberts in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 30th April 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MARTYN
JOHN ROBERTS, of Pendarren House, Crickhowell, in the County of Brecon,
Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight 'hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Martyn John Roberts, Her special licence that I, the said Martyn
John Roberts, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Martyn John Roberts, 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 Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR OILING WOOL," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Martyn John Roberts, 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 Martyn John Roberts, 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 thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say :-
My Invention consists of a hollow T-shaped pipe open at the bottom, and
provided with perforations at the two arms; a pulley for receiving a strap is
fitted to the apparatus, in order to its being made to rotate.
The apparatus
is fitted in a box with an adjustable opening to allow of the oil being sprinkled
on the wool, which is made to travel on an apron, under the opening. Upon
the apparatus being made to rotate rapidly it draws a supply of oil through
the hollow bottom or foot, and by centrifugal force ejects it in a state of spray
or dew from the arms upon the wool.
My Invention also consists of a pipe furnished at bottom with a perforated

page_text: rose or spreader, and which I cause to move to and fro over the wool to be
oiled like a pendulum; I prefer, however, the apparatus first described.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a longitudinal section; Figure 2
a section through the line a, b, of Figure 1; and Figure 3, a plan, with the top
of the box removed, of an apparatus for oiling wool, constructed as just
described.
A, B, is a hollow T-shaped pipe open at the end A and placed in an
inclined position; one of its arms B is closed at the outer end, and the outer
end of the other arm is fitted with a nozzle C with an aperture therein, or
the outer ends of both arms may be open and fitted with nozzles; by changing
the nozzles for nozzles with a greater or smaller aperture the quantity of oil
delivered may be regulated; D is a pulley on a shaft E fixed to the head of
the pipe for receiving a strap, in order that the T pipe may be made to
rotate. The T pipe is fitted in a box F with an opening G to allow of the
oil being sprinkled on the wool, which is made to travel on an apron H under
the opening. The size of the opening, and consequently the width of surface
over which the oil is sprinkled, may be regulated by slides I, I. J is a pipe
for supplying oil to the box. When the apparatus is made to rotate rapidly
it draws a supply of oil through the hollow bottom A, and by centrifugal force
ejects it in a state of spray or dew through the nozzle C upon the wool. In
some cases, where, for instance, a high speed cannot be conveniently imparted
to the apparatus, I make the leg of the Ta hollow screw, or I insert a hollow
screw within it.
Figure 4 is a longitudinal section of an arrangement in which the T pipe
is placed horizontally. The same letters refer to corresponding parts in
Figure 1. K, K, is a strong pipe perforated near its lower end, as shewn,
fixed to the box F at foot, and with an additional support L; this pipe
surrounds part of the leg of the T pipe, which fits nicely in it. When the
T pipe is caused to revolve the oil will be sucked from the box F through
the pipe K into the T pipe, which ejects it upon the wool, as before explained.
To prevent air getting in between the T pipe and the pipe K, and thus pre-
venting the oil rising, I form the pipe K with an enlargement at the part M,
and fix a corresponding flange or disc N on the T pipe; when the T pipe is
caused to revolve this flange or disc throws up oil, which fills any space there
may be between the two pipes.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,-
First, constructing apparatus for oiling wool in the form of a T acting in
manner berein-before described.

page_text: And, second, constructing apparatus for oiling wool in the form of a pen-
dulum, acting in manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Martyn John Roberts, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this 26th day of April, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-four.
MARTYN J. ROBERTS. (LS.)