US Patent: 5,546X
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| Making Cloth by Machinery
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Patentee:
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| Henry Raymond (exact or similar names) - New York, NY |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Jun. 27, 1829 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. Little is known about this patent. There are no patent drawings available. This patent is in the database for reference only.
“There is in Mr. Raymond's specification, a very exact description of the machinery which he employs in manufacturing cloth by felting, without spinning or weaving. We have recently had occasion to notice some patents which have been issued for the same purpose and have adverted to former attempts of the same kind. Besides the present claimant, it will be seen that patents bearing the same date have been obtained by Mr. Van Hosen, of Connecticut, and Messrs. Peck and Taylor, of New York.
The revival of this plan for manufacturing cloth, has, we have no doubt, been suggested by the machines now so extensively used in the manufacture of hats, in which the wool is taken from the carding machine on to a conical former, for the purpose of felting.
The essential parts of Mr. Raymond's machine are a wool carding machine, and a roller fixed upon a carriage, which traverses in front of the doffing cylinder. In the machine described, the cylinder upon which the Bat of wool is to be received, as it is delivered in a sheet from the carding machine, is five feet in length, and three feet in diameter. As the carriage which supports it traverses in front of the doffing cylinder, and in the direction of its axis, the wool alternately crosses the preceding layer. A second, and smaller cylinder, or roller, rests on the periphery of the large one, and, by its pressure, slightly consolidates the layers of wool, and prepares it for felting. A cylinder of this size will afford a piece of cloth of about five by nine feet, but this may be varied according to the size of the machinery. The particular mode in which the large cylinder is made to revolve, and its carriage to traverse, it is not thought necessary to describe.
The claim is to the above method of forming cloth webbing, of wool, or of any other material which has felting properties, by the use of the carriage and two cylinders, made to perform the above mentioned motions.
It is stated, that upon this plan of operation cloth may be made of any desirable length and width, and suitable for carpets, blankets, rugs, gentlemen's wear, and other purposes, in greater perfection, with more despatch and less expense, than by any other method; and the machinery is easily kept in repair.”
Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 6, Sept. 1829 pg. 192
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