FX Patent: FX-5,538
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| Felt of Wool Without Spinning or Weaving
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Patentee:
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| Levi Van Voeson (Van Hoosen), Jr. (exact or similar names) - Norwalk, Fairfield County, CT |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Jun. 17, 1829 |
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| FX patents are fractional X patents. This patent is #5538 1/2.
Only about 2000 of the almost 10000 X-patent documents were recovered.
Because of the Patent Office fire in Dec. 1836, little is known about this patent. Only the patent drawings are available. This patent is in the database for reference only.
For a machine for Making Felt of Wool without spinning or weaving; Levi Van Hosen, junr., Norwalk, Fairfield county, Connecticut, June 27.
“Although the object of this patent is the same with the last, the manner of effecting it varies in several particulars. Instead of one carding machine, there are three, one of them of four feet, and two others of two feet in width each. The sheet of wool as it comes off the four-foot machine, passes upon an endless cloth, which hangs down through the floor of the manufactory, into the apartment below, and extending in length about twelve feet. The wool from the two narrower machines is in like manner received upon endless cloths, having their planes at right angles with that of the wider cloth. The wool passes below on to a frame called the felting machine, upon which the wider web is laid. This frame has a vibrating motion, for the purpose of carrying it backwards and forwards under the wool delivered from the narrower machines, causing their fibres to cross those from the wider machine at right angles. This it is made to do on both sides of it, until there is sufficient thickness to form the felt. Thus, the wool from the four-foot machine may be compared to the warp, and the others to the filling; the warp being in the centre, and the filling on each side of it. The felt after it acquires sufficient thickness for use, is received between two cylinders about six inches in diameter, which are put in motion by gearing on the other end of the frame. The felt passes between two cloths, which revolve by the same gearing which draws the felt, and the first process of basoning is produced by cylinders which revolve and generate steam. [? How?]
What I claim, is the mode of setting up the felt in the piece, and crossing the wool like warp and filling, directly at right angles, by laying the warp in the centre, and the filling on each side of the felt.”
Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 6, Sept. 1829 pgs. 192-193
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