IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN MACHINERY FOR WINDING YARNS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Haslam and John Riley, both of Bolton,
in the County of Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN MACHINERY FOR WINDING YARNS."
Sealed the 21st May 1875, and dated the 30th March 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Haslam and
John Riley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 30th March 1875.
We, WILLIAM HASLAM and JOHN RILEY, both of Bolton, in the
County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN MACHINERY FOR
WINDING YARNS," to be as follows:-
The Invention relates principally to winding frames used for winding
yarns or threads from cops or spindles on to bobbins, and is designed to
prevent breakages and to clean the yarn from any dirt or inequalities

page_text: that may be attached thereto, but it is also equally applicable to any
other machine or apparatus wherein yarns or threads are wound from
one bobbin spool or spindle to another.
The improvements consist in the employment and use of an open
reed or comb, to which a continual vertical oscillating movement is
imparted by means of a cam or other equivalent arrangement of
mechanism. This oscillating reed or comb is intended to be used
instead of the ordinary stationary "snick plates "now in use, which
only allow a certain "count" of yarn to pass through them, and which
cause the yarn or thread to break whenever there is any dirt or impurities
in the cotton.
By the use of our improvements any "count" of yarn or thread may be
wound in the same frame, the teeth of the comb being flexible, and the
dirt or impurities in the yarn is cleared and breakages prevented, a
better yarn produced, and consequently a better cloth.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
HASLAM and JOHN RILEY, both of Bolton, in the County of Lancaster,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
cighth year of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give i
and grant unto us, the said William Haslam and John Riley, Her
special license that we, the said William Haslam and John Riley, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
William Haslam and John Riley, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time a

page_text: 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 APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN
MACHINERY FOR WINDING YARNS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said William Haslam and John Riley, our executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under our, or one of 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 immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Riley, (on behalf of myself
and the said William Haslam,) do hereby declare the nature of the 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 accompanying Drawings:-
This Invention relates principally to winding frames used for winding
yarns or threads from cops or spindles on to bobbins, and is designed to
prevent breakages and to clean the yarn from any dirt or inequalities
that may be attached thereto, but it is also equally applicable to any
other machine or apparatus wherein yarns or threads are wound from
one bobbin spool or spindle to another.
The improvements consist in the employment and use of an open
reed or comb, to which a continual vertical oscillating movement is
imparted by means of a cam or other equivalent arrangement of
mechanism. This oscillating reed or comb is intended to be used
instead of the ordinary stationary snick plates now in use, which only
allow a certain count of yarn to pass through them, and which cause
the yarn or thread to break whenever there is any dirt or impurities in
the cotton.
By the use of our improvement any count of yarn or thread may be
wound in the same frame, the teeth of the comb being flexible, and the
dirt or impurities in the yarn is cleared and breakages prevented, a
better yarn produced, and consequently a better cloth,

page_text: Such being the nature and object of our said Invention we will now
proceed to describe more in detail the manner in which the same is to be
or may be performed or carried into practical effect; and in order that
the same may be clearly understood we have annexed hereunto a
Sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof, and have marked the same with
figures and letters of reference corresponding with those in the following
explanation thereof :-

page_text: crank or other equivalent.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Riley (on behalf of myself
and the said William Haslam) have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Twenty-seventh day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
Witnessed by,
JOHN HUGHES,
Clerk to George Davies, C. E.,
Patent Office,
4, St. Ann's Square,
Manchester.
JOHN RILEY. (L.S.)