IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR SPINNING
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Ernst Gustavus Reuss, of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINES FOR SPINNING."
Sealed the 23rd January 1872, and dated the 10th November 1871.

page_text: being enabled to regulate such twist in accordance with the article to be
spun.
To effect my object I get an ordinary frame used in such machines
with the ordinary driving gear in the lower part of it. On the upper
part of such frame I use a tubular spindle or shaft, on which I key a
cone of pullies between two suitable bearings. On the inner end of
this spindle or shaft is a disc plate, into the outer edege of this disc
plate I secure two guide legs acting as a flyer to wrap the yarn on the
bobbin, which bobbin is fixed on a spindle fixed into a headstock pro-
vided for that purpose. This headstock is made to slide "to and fro,"
the length of the body of the bobbin by means of a heart-shaped or
other kind of cam motion driven by a screw and wheel, countershaft, or
other equivalent. In the front of the machine at the entrance of the
tubular spindle or shaft I fix a pair of conical tension rollers (Unsworth's
Patent) or their equivalent. Before these rollers or their equivalent I
fix a mouth piece to guage the amount of material entering. I fix on
the driving shaft a break wheel and lever in front of the machine, and
convenient to the foot of the minder. The regulation of twist is effected
by the various speeds I have provided by my cones of pullies, also by a
thumbscrew and break strap acting on the break axle of the bobbin.
The strain or tension by the before-mentioned conical tension pullies or
their mechanical equivalent.

page_text: thirty-fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Ernst Gustavus Reuss, Her special
licence that I, the said Ernst Gustavus Reuss, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Ernst Gustavus Reuss,
my 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 MACHINES FOR SPINNING," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Ernst Gustavus Reuss, my executors or admi-
nistrators, by an instrument in writing under my, 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 Ernst Gustavus Reuss, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner tho
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement and Sheet of Drawings, in the several
Figures of which similar parts are marked by corresponding letters of
reference :-

page_text: require. At the entrance of the hollow shaft H is an arrangement of
friction rollers or other equivalent, having for its object to stretch or
drag the yarn, and to regulate the tension as required. I prefer to do
this by two conical pullies K, K, round which the yarn passes. The top
plate B carries the movable standard L, which contains a small hollow
shaft M, traversed by a pin which carries the taking up bobbin N. The
taking up or winding up of the yarn on to bobbin N is acted upon
by a break O and thumb screw a; P and Q are worm wheels in com-
munication with each other by a cord or other equivalent, giving a slow
rotary motion to the heart cam motion R, which latter imparts an in-
and-out motion to the small rollers V. These rollers are connected to
the movable standard L, therefore will travel with a regular speed. This
speed will be slow for thin yarn and quick for thick yarn which is
produced by the two three-grooved cone pullies S, S; T is a tension
pulley to tighten the driving band or belt; U is a break on driving shaft,
which comes in action by the foot of the attendant pressing down the
lever X disengages rod Y with strap fork W at the end, with the aid of
the spiral spring 6 moves the belt or band from fast to loose pulley
E and E¹.
The yarn has to pass first round the stretching rollers K, K, thence
through the the hollow shaft H on to flyer I, and round the bobbin N,
and by tightening or slacking the thumbscrew a the strap and friction
block o is acted upon, and the amount of twist in the yarn regulated.
When the bobbin is full it easily taken out by pulling out the pin which
traverses the hollow shaft M.
Having fully described my Invention, and the way it is worked, I
wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to the precise
detail I have had occasion to refer to, as many variations may be made
without deviating from the principle, but what I claim as herein
secured is,―
First. The use of conical pulls K, K, for stretching the yarn; the
use of the cones F and G for altering speeds, substantially as herein set
forth.

page_text: Third and last. The general arrangement of the different parts of the
machine as and for the purposes herein set forth and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Ernst Gustavus Reuss, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of June, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
ERNST GUSTAVUS REUSS. (L.S.)