CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR DRAWING AND SPINNING WOOL, OR WOOL MIXED WITH OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Wimpenny, of Holmfirth, in the County of
York, Manufacturer, and Jonas Wimpenny, of Rawtenstall, in the County
of Lancaster, Surgeon, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR DRAWING AND SPINNING WOOL, OR WOOL MIXED
WITH OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES."
Sealed the 17th August 1855, and dated the 18th April 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Wimpenny and
Jonas Wimpenny at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 13th April 1855.
We, THOMAS WIMPENNY, of Holmfirth, in the County of York, Manufac-
turer, and JONAS WIMPENNY, of Rawtenstall, in the County of Lancaster,
Surgeon, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention for "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR DRAWING AND SPINNING WOOL, OR
WOOL MIXED WITH OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
Our Invention applies to a novel construction or arrangement of machine
or apparatus for the purpose of simultaneously "drawing" and spinning wool
"cardings," (or wool mixed with other fibrous substances,) and consequently
dispensing with the traversing spindle carriage at present in use in "billies,"

page_text: "mules," &c. employed in spinning wool and worsted. This improvement
consists in passing the "carding" (immediately upon its leaving the delivering
rollers) through a pair of fluted drawing rollers (revolving at the required
speed) enclosed in a circular box or case, and which rollers are made to revolve
in an opposite direction to each other by means of a small spur pinion con-
nected with a worm and worm wheel inside or attached to one of the fluted
rollers, the small pinion gearing into a larger toothed wheel fixed to the cir-
cular case and revolving with it. This case or box is driven after the manner
of an ordinary pulley, with a band or cord passing round its periphery. The
"carding" is passed in at one side of the case between the fluted rollers and
out at the other side, and thence direct through a "flyer" on to the spindle,
as in a common "throstle;" rotatory motion being imparted to the circular
case or box will cause the fluted. drawing rollers therein to revolve at a greater
speed than the "delivering rollers," and thus "draw" the "carding" down to
any required fineness, whilst at the same time (being held firmly between the
fluted drawing rollers and the delivering rollers) it will be spun or twisted.
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SPECIFICATION.in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Wimpenny and Jonas Wimpenny in the Great Seal
Patent Office on, the 13th October 1855.
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
WIMPENNY, of Holmfirth, in the County of York, Manufacturer, and JONAS
WIMPENNY, of Rawtenstall, in the County of Lancaster, Surgeon, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
Thomas Wimpenny and Jonas-Wimpenny, Her especial. license that we, the
said Thomas Wimpenny and Jonas Wimpenny, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Thomas Wimpenny, and Jonas
Wimpenny, 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 CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR DRAWING AND SPINNING WOOL, LOR WOOL MIXED

page_text: WITH OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said Thomas Wimpenny and Jonas Wimpenny, by an instrument in
writing under our 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.
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NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Thomas Wimpenny and Jonas Wim-
penny, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement and accompanying Drawings; that is
to say:-
This Invention applies to a novel construction or arrangement of machine
or apparatus for the purpose of simultaneously "drawing and spinning" wool
cardings (or wool mixed with other fibrous substances), and consequently dis-
pensing with the traversing spindle carriage at present in use in "billies,"
"mules," &c. employed in spinning wool and worsted. This improvement
consists in passing "the carding" (immediately upon its leaving the delivering
rollers) through a pair of fluted drawing rollers (revolving at the required
speed) enclosed in a circular box or case, and which rollers are caused to
revolve in an opposite direction to each other by means of a small spur pinion
connected with a worm and worm wheel inside or attached to one of the fluted
rollers, the small pinion gearing into a larger toothed wheel secured on the
circular case, and round which the pinion revolves. This case or box is driven
after the manner of an ordinary pulley, with a band or cord passing round its
periphery. The carding is passed in at one side of the case between the
fluter rollers and out at the other side, and thence direct through a "flyer" on
to the spindle, as in a common "throstle;" rotary motion being imparted to the
circular case or box will cause the fluted drawing rollers therein to revolve at
a greater speed than the "delivery rollers," and thus "draw" the "carding"
down to any degree of fineness, whilst at the same time (being held firmly
between the fluted drawing rollers and the delivering rollers) it will be spun
or twisted.
In order that this Invention may be the better understood and explained in
detail, we have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawing, having marked upon
the several Figures similar letters of reference on corresponding parts of the
machinery or apparatus. Fig. 1 is made to a scale of about two inches to the
foot, and Figs. 2, 3, and 4 are represented as about full size.
Fig. 1 exhibits a transverse sectional elevation of a metal framing with this

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Invention attached; Fig. 2 is a front elevation of this Invention detached; and
Fig. 3 illustrates a similar view, with the front plate removed to exhibit more
clearly the worm and worm wheel and their connection with the drawing
rollers; Fig. 4 exhibits a sectional view, taken in the direction of the dotted
line in Fig. 2. In this machine the frame may be constructed for the employ-
ment of any desired number of spindles working in conjunction with this
Invention. The "cardings" are supplied direct from the carding engine to
each delivery roller by any ordinary well-known mechanism or apparatus in
connection with the doffing cylinder of the carding engine, such as an arrange-
ment of endless bands or straps upon which are mounted a series of buckets,
equivalent in number to the spindles employed. These endless bands, on
which the buckets are mounted, traverse longitudinally the entire length of
the machine parallel to the line of spindles, the buckets being at right angles
to the line of spindles. As the doffer takes each carding from the doffing
cylinder of the carding engine it falls, and is received in one of the buckets
before mentioned, a second being presented to receive the succeeding carding
taken off by the "doffer," and so on, until the whole of the buckets are filled
with cardings.
Beneath the buckets on their endless bands a "lattice or
creeper," likewise traversing on endless straps or bands, but moving in an
opposite direction, or at right angles to the traversing bands of the buckets,
is employed, to receive the cardings as they are tilted (an arrangement being
provided for such tilting) from the buckets, and conduct them to the delivery
rollers. It will now be understood that the first operation for the supply of
this machine with "cardings" is the filling from the doffing cylinder each
bucket as it is presented with a carding until such number of buckets as there
are spindles employed shall have been filled. At this juncture cach bucket
is opposite to a spindle and its accompanying drawing and spinning apparatus,
and by an appropriate arrangement of machinery or apparatus one and all are
simultaneously tilted, each bucket depositing its carding on the lattice beneath,
which being in motion carries the carding to the delivery roller. By the time
that the whole of the cardings have nearly passed between the delivery rollers
and have been drawn and spun, the whole of the buckets have been refilled
with cardings, and have traversed to their original position, and the tilting
process is again brought into operation, depositing on the "lattice"
creepers a fresh supply of "cardings" in such a manner that their ends
may just overlap the ends of the cardings that are being drawn and spun. By
the operation of the "shuffling" or "rubbing" apparatus a junction is formed
between the two "cardings," and thus, by the constant supply of "cardings"
from the buckets on the lattice and by the lattice to the delivery rollers, as
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continuous "carding" is supplied to the 'delivery rollers." In Fig. 1, a, a,
represents the framing of the machine; and 6, the spindle; c, the flyer; and e',
the bobbin; d exhibits the carding passing between the delivery rollers e, e,
and thence to the drawing rollers f, f, (Figs. 2, 3, and 4; it is within the
space between the "delivering rollers" e, e, and the drawing rollers f, f, that
the "carding" d (of wool, or wool mixed with other fibrous substances,) is drawn
and spun. The drawing rollers f, f, being caused to revolve at any desired
rate exceeding that of the "delivery rollers," regulates the distention of the
"carding" d, whilst the revolution of the small box or case g, within which the
"drawing rollers "f, f, are secured and enclosed, imparts the desired twist
which it is found necessary to give to the carding while under the operation of
being "drawn." h and j are two tin drums extending the whole length of the
machine, and caused to revolve by appropriate gearing; the drum h imparts
motion to the whole of the spindles employed, and the drum j actuates the
revolution of the whole of the small circular boxes or cases employed, as
shewn at g. We would here remark that the whole of the motions before
described are regulated and dependent on machinery or apparatus connected
with the "doffer" of the "carding engine" in such a manner that the
"delivery rollers" may have nearly taken up one set of cardings in the same
time that the "doffer" has filled the whole of the buckets (before described)
employed, ready to replenish the delivery rollers with fresh cardings.
Figs. 2, 3, and 4 are illustrative of the manner in which motion is commu-
nicated to the drawing rollers f, f, enclosed in the box or case g. It will
be observed, on reference to Fig. 2, that the boss of the spur wheel k is
squared on its two sides at k', k', by which means when the wheel k is placed
is the slot of the standered (Fig. 1), it becomes rigidly fixed. Motion
being imparted from the tin drum j to the revolving box or case g, it will be
at once evident that the small pinion m gearing into the wheel k will be caused
to revolve round it, thereby attaining its motion. On the shaft of the small
pinion m is a worm n (Figs. 3 and 4), gearing into a worm wheel o, secured
on the shaft of one of the drawing rollers f. It will now be seen that motion
being imparted from the tin drum j through a band or cord to the small box
or case g, the box or case g is caused to revolve rapidly, carrying with it the
small pinion m, which gears into the fixed wheel k, thus giving it a double
rotary motion, one round and encircling the fixed wheel k, the other round its
own centre. This latter motion causes the revolution of the worm n and worm
wheel o, through which the desired motion is given to the drawing rollers f, f,
which slightly gear into each other. The speed of the drawing rollers f, f, being
always greater than that of the "delivery rollers" e, e, it will be evident

page_text: that the carding d must be "drawn." in its passage between them simul-
taneously with this "drawing," the card d being slightly compressed or held
between the drawing rollers f, f. The necessary degree of "twist"
"spinning" will be given. to the woollen carding d in consequence of the
revolution of the box or case g with its contents. It must be observed that
the boss of the fixed wheel k is hollow, as well as the shaft of the box or
case g, thereby and for the purpose of allowing an open channel for the
carding d in its passage from the "delivering rollers to the "drawing rollers,"
between which it is drawn and spun, and from thence to the flyer and on to
the bobbin e..
Having now described the nature of our Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, we wish it to be distinctly understood that
we claim the novel application, employment, and use of the particular arrange-
ments of the several parts of the box or case g and the mechanism connected
therewith (or any slight modification of the same), for the purpose of simul-
taneously drawing and spinning wool, or wool mixed with other fibrous
'substances, as herein particularly described and set forth, and fully illustrated
in the accompanying Drawing.
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In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Wimpenny and Jonas Wim-
penny, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Eleventh day of
October, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-five.