IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING COTTON, WOOL, AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jonas Tatham and John Smith, both of Rochdale,
in the County of Lancaster, Machine Makers, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING COTTON, WOOL, AND OTHER
FIBROUS MATERIALS."
Sealed the 6th February 1866, and dated the 12th August 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jonas Tatham and John
Smith at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 12th August 1865.
We, JONAS TATHAM and JOHN SMITH, both of Rochdale, in the County of
Lancaster, Machine Makers, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING COTTON, WOOL, AND
OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS;" to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the "back motion" of roving, slubbing, and
intermediate frames, and has for its object a means of avoiding the friction
consequent upon the "jack" working in a contrary direction to its shaft,
which we effect by arranging the jack upon an extra or separate shaft or
stud (placed near the shaft usually employed for carrying the jack), which
shaft or stud may be constructed in one or more parts; we thus avoid the
friction consequent upon the old method of working the jack, and are enabled
to attain an increased speed with great facilities for and economy in oiling,
the working parts. The Invention may
The Invention may readily be applied to existing
machinery..

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Jonas Tatham and John Smith in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 10th February 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JONAS
TATHAM and JOHN SMITH, both of Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster,
Machine Makers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of August, in the year of our Lord
'One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of
'Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said Jonas Tatham and John Smith, Her special licence that we,
the said Jonas Tatham and John Smith, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, t the said Jonas Tatham and John Smith, our
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 Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR
PREPARING COTTON, WOOL, AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Jonas Tatham and John Smith, our execu-
tors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, 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 inmediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Jonas Tatham and John Smith do
hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement, and on reference to the accompanying Drawings.
This Invention relates to the "back motion" of roving, slubbing, and
intermediate frames, and has for its object a means of avoiding the friction
consequent upon the "jack" working in a contrary direction to its shaft,
which we effect by arranging the jack upon an extra or separate shaft or stud
(placed near the shaft usually employed for carrying the jack), which shaft
may be constructed in one or more parts; we thus avoid the friction consequent
upon the old method of working the jack, and are enabled to attain an
increased speed with great facilities for and economy in oiling the working
parts. The Invention may readily be applied to existing machinery...

page_text: Such being the nature of our said Invention, we will now proceed to
describe the same more fully, and in order that the same may be distinctly
understood, we have hereunto annexed a Sheet of Drawings illustrative
thereof, and have marked the same with letters of reference.
A shews part of the frame end of a roving, slubbing, or intermediate
frame; B, the driving shaft (on which shaft the jack works in aforesaid
machinery as heretofore constructed); C, the extra or separate shaft or stud,
on which we arrange and work the jack D by means of the gear wheels E
and F. At G is shewn a spur wheel gearing with the carrier wheel H,
which latter wheel geers with the copy wheels; we thus dispense with the
gearing and apparatus known as the "swing," heretofore employed in
connection with the copy; the shaft C is supported by the brackets c, and has
a hole d bored longitudinally and vertically therein (as shewn in dotted lines in
the Drawing) for the purpose of conveying oil to the jack. The use and
employment of an extra or separate shaft on which to arrange and work the
jack avoids the friction consequent on the jack working on the driving shaft
(and in a contrary direction thereto) as heretofore, offers greater facilities
for and economy in oiling, with an increased speed and greater regularity in
the work performed.
Having thus fully described the nature and object of this our Invention for
"Improvements in Machinery for Preparing Cotton, Wool, and other Fibrous
Substances," together with manner in which the same is to be or may be
performed or carried into practical effect, we would have it distinctly under-
stood that we claim as our Invention, the use and employment of a separate
or additional shaft on which to arrange and work the jack, and the peculiar
arrangement of the working parts thereof, as shewn in the Drawings and
above fully described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Smith, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, for and on behalf of myself and-the said Jonas-Tatham,
this Ninth day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-six.
Witness,
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Patent Agent,
Halifax and Blackburn.
JOHN SMITH. (L.S.)