The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-01-16
LAWYER IS
AN INVENTOR.
William \. OruTY's Spinning
Machine a Success.
NOW IN OPERATION IN ENGLAND
The Inventor Is Wealthy and veluuisslst
His Services In Behalf Of TIVE Men Re-
csatb PMdsnsd From Prison


Boston. Mass, Jan. 16-William H.
Drury. inventor OF a spinning machine
that IL hailed in the manufacturing CEN
tres of England as epoch making, Is un-
like most inventors in that he is not poor
He IN lawyer with large practice,
and only a month ago appeared as vol
unteer counsel for Stain and Cromwell.
pardoned I'm Maine after having served
twelve years In prison.
lie was associated with Roscoe Conk-
ling I'm cases before the Supreme court In
Washington in' 1885. He has palatia
home In Waitham, but one small square
room with bare floor and cheap furnish
ings IN the den" where he spends most
OF HIS time.
lie offered his services in the Stain
Cromwell case because ne had always be-
lived the men innocent OF the murder OF
which they were convicted
Mr.. Drury is more than sixty years old.
In addition TO his study OF the law. he
has taken n deep interest all his life I'm
mechanics and has invented many
things OF great practical value. He has
famliarized himself with the law re-
lating TO patents In this and other coun-
tries. and has fought many patent cases
In the higher courts
BELGIAN GAVE Hun THE IDEA.
He was surprised when told that cable
dipatches from England called him the
Arkwrigbt and Crompton OF the twen-
tieth century"
How I'm the world did they learn about
it?' he said. 81 should suppose IL would
have come out IN this country
'It was some five or six years ago that
I became interested I'm this machine" ne
continued. "one day a friend showed
me a spinning machine invented by q
Belgian. After looking it over carefull:'
! thought | could improve upon Il. and
during the next few months | studied It's
problems The original idea developed
into the present machine which Is now
in practical operation In Bradford. Eng
land.
"'rhe machine is not q LOOM but a spin
ming machine for manufacturing yarn
directly from carding machine by sin
gle ~ oDsr,tt operation and not by large number
The material Is cardins on a carding
maehine exactly as In any process or
making, yarn. Then the hbrous mater
ial IL delivered on the main cylinder OF
the carding machine To a couple OF ring
doffers These doffers are cylinders
with card clothing in the form OF rings.
CAN SPIN COARSE MATERIAL
"One Of the ring doffers Is above and
one below and the rings OF the upper dof-
fer are In line above tho vacant spaces.
between the rings OF the lower doffer,
that *. the rings OF the two cylinders
work alternately. NV mechanism takes
the material on the rings. of the doffers
and converts this material into as many
strands OF yarn as there are rings on the
doffers"
II left for England with my first ma:
chine i'm December 1898. The .eason I
took IL 10 England was that a gentleman
whom ] knew very well at that time
was induced to follow this suggestion"
AMERICANS SOON TO USE THEM.
II remained I'm Bradford. large manu-
featuring city, about eight months, dur
ing which time the machine was further
perfected. and demonstrations were given
OF It's practicablity. Since my return
the American gentleman who first In
duced me to cross the water has been
guarding my interests. The machine
appears 10 have become a necessity In
Lfs.erl "A