IMPROVE- MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR DRAWING AND SPINNING COrton.”
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Ward, of Blackburn, in the County of
"
Lancaster, Cotton Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR DRAWING AND SPINNING COrton.”
MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR DRAWING AND SPINNING COTTON.”
Sealed the 3rd November 1874, and dated the 4th May 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Ward at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
4th May 1874.
I, JOSEPH WARD, of Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR DRAWING AND SPINNING COTTON," to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to machinery for drawing and spinning cotton,
.so constructed and designed as to perform these operations direct from
the sliver without the use (when the "jack frame" is employed) of the
intermediate and roving frames.
I mount on a "jack frame," or on roving frame (or on framework
specially designed for the purpose) a series of drawing rollers, rotation

page_text: .being imparted to these rollers by means of gear wheels of such diameter
and pitch respectively as will impart various speeds or draughts, that is
to say, the draughts of the rollers are graduated, so that on the cotton
being fed from cans or bobbins to the first and second pair of rollers it
will between the two undergo a "drawing" or receive a certain draught.
On passing between the second and third pair the draught will be
continued, and so on between each succeeding pair until reduced to a
state suitable for receiving the twist by ordinary means.
In the intervening space or spaces between the rollers is or are placed
one or more conical or angular shaped guides or apparatus, through or
between which the fibre is passed for the purpose of compressing or
condensing the same, and securing uniformity and evenness.
The Invention is equally applicable or capable of being readily applied
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Ward in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
4th November 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
WARD, of Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Ward, Her special licence
that I, the said Joseph Ward, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph Ward, 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
MACHINERY FOR DRAWING AND SPINNING COTTON," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Joseph Ward, my executors, or administrators,

page_text: 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 Joseph Ward, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (that is to say) :-
This Invention relates to machinery for drawing and spinning cotton,
so constructed and designed as to perform these operations direct from
the sliver without the use of the intermediate and roving frames.
I mount on a jack frame, or on a roving frame (or on framework
specially designed for the purpose) a series of drawing rollers, rotation
being imparted to these rollers by means of gear wheels of such diameter
and pitch respectively as will impart various speeds or draughts, that is
to say, the draughts of the rollers are graduated so that on the cotton
being fed from cans or bobbins to the first and second pair of rollers it
will between the two undergo a "drawing," or receive a certain draught.
On passing between the second and third pair the draught will be
continued, and so on between each succeeding pair until reduced to a
state suitable for receiving the "twist" by ordinary means.
In the intervening space or spaces between the rollers is or are placed
one or more conical or angular shaped guides or apparatus, through or
between which the fibre is passed for the purpose of compressing or con-
densing the same, and securing uniformity and evenness.
The Invention is equally applicable or capable of being readily applied.
to mules, throstles, or other machinery for spinning cotton.
:
Such being the nature and object of this my Invention I will now
proceed to describe the same in detail, and in order that the Invention
and its practical working may be fully understood I have hereunto
annexed a Sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof, and have marked the
same with figures and letters of reference, the same letter referring to
the same part in the various views or Figures.
T
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal vertical section of the apparatus employed;
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page_text: Fig. 3 is a detail or view (detached) or the apparatus for continuing
and compressing the fibre.
Fig. 4 shows another form of an angular shaped apparatus for a like.
purpose of compressing and condensing.
I mount or arrange on a jack frame, on a roving frame, mule, throstle,
or on other machinery for spinning cotton a series of drawing rollers-
A A, B B, C C, DD, EE, F F, GG, HH, J J, K K, LL, L', L'.
Rotation is imparted to these rollers by means of gear wheels, as in the
ordinary way of gearing and coupling drawing rollers, the gear wheels
being of such diameter and pitch respectively as will impart various
speeds and draughts, according to the length of staple or nature of the
fibre under operation. The draughts of the several rollers is thus
graduated so that the cotton on being fed in the state of a sliver M from
sliver cans or bobbins N through the guides P to the rollers A A, will
between such rollers and the rollers B B, receive a certain amount of
draught," a like further "drawing" taking place between the several
drawing rollers referred to and shewn. The rollers J J, I perfer should
be of less diameter than the others, so that the nipping portion of these
and the adjoining rollers may when necessary be nearer each other.
"
During the "drawing," or operation of reducing the bulk of fibre
from the sliver to a state suitable for receiving the " twist or actual
spinning, it is absolutely necessary the fibre should at one or more
points be supported, confined, compressed, or condensed, and this I
effect by means of the conical or angular guides R, which may, as shewn
on the Drawing, be applied between the first rollers A. A, and second
rollers B, B, or between some one or more pairs of the said rollers,
according to the nature or quality of the cotton operated upon. S S, are
rollers over which works an endless sheet T for the purpose of receiving
and conveying to the oscillating, cleansing, or removing combs V loose
fibre falling during the operation of draughting. The loose fibre as
removed by the combs V V', is received in the trough or receptacle. W,
and is available for use on being reworked, the oscillating comb V
being actuated by the rocking shaft X, worked by the connecting rod Z
attached to the disc Z' on the shaft of the roller S, the latter receiving
its rotation by means of the pulley and cord Z³ driven from any con-
venient rotary shaft.
Having thus fully described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, together with the manner in which the same is to be per-

page_text: Witness,
WADDINGTON BRIERLEY,
Clerk to Walter Brierley,
Patent Agent,
Halifax and Blackburn.
JOSEPH WARD. (L.S.)