IMPROVEMENTS IN DRIVING SPINDLES BY MEANS OF BANDS
Year: 1875

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by Matthew Wright and James
Pollard at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition and Declaration, on the 13th January 1875, pursuant to
the 9th Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, MATTHEW
WRIGHT and JAMES POLLARD, both of Wibsey, in the County of York,
send greeting.
WHEREAS we are in possession of an Invention for “IMPROVEMENTS IN
DRIVING SPINDLES BY MEANS OF BANDS," and have petitioned Her Majesty
to grant unto us, our executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal
Letters Patent for the same, and have made solemn Declaration that
we are the first and true Inventors thereof.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Matthew Wright and James
Pollard, do hereby declare that the following Complete Specification,
under our hand and seal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed in
and by the following statement :-
The object of this Invention is to obviate the necessity for so many
endless or jointed bands in the driving of spindles in spinning and

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drawing frames, or any other machine requiring more than one spindle
driving by means of bands. We accomplish this object by driving the
whole or any less number of spindles in a spinning or drawing frame by
means of one band requiring only one piecing. The tendency of this
band to slacken, and thus loose the grip of the pulleys upon the spindlo
is obviated by applying to one portion of the band, for convenience
say at one end of the frame, a bar carrying two pulleys centred upon a
pivot attached to the framework of frame, and capablo of adjustment,
so as to put the required pressure upon the band to keep it tight.
In a spinning frame the band passes round two spindles over the 1
cylinder, and back again underneath, round two other spindles on the
same side, and in this same way until all the spindles on that side the
frame have been driven. The band passes over the cylinder round two
spindles on the other side and under the cylinder, and back again over
the top, round two other spindles on the same side, and in this same way
until all are driven on this side, the opposite to the first-mentioned side.
The cylinder and spindles require to bo lifted in applying an endless
hand to drive och snindle

page_text: end, or attached to any convenient portion of the spinning or drawing
frame. The cord passes over G' and under G'; when the bar is moved in
the direction of the arrows K' and K*; the band is tightened, and is held
in any position by nut and washer or thumb screw..
Having thus described the nature of this our said Invention, and
shewn upon the Drawings how the same is to be carried into practice,
we would have it understood that we claim as our Invention, the driving
of one or more spindles by one and the same band.
In witness whereof, we, the said Matthew Wright and James
Pollard, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twelfth.
day of January, in the year of our Lord 1875..
Signed, sealed, and delivered.
in the presence of
JOHN WAUGH,
Engineer and Patent Agent,
⚫ Bradford,
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York
MATTHEW WRIGHT. (L.S.)
JAMES POLLARD. ·
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(L:S.)