A CERTAIN APPARATUS APPLICABLE TO PREPARATION MACHINES USED IN THE SPINNING OF COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1844

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HOLLAND BUTTERWORTH, of Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton
Spinner, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, on or about the Twentieth day of March now last past, did for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John
Holland Butterworth, my exors, adñors, and assigns, Her especial licence,
that I, the said John Holland Butterworth, my exors, admors, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said John Holland Butterworth, my exors, adñiors,
or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A CERTAIN APPARATUS
APPLICABLE TO PREPARATION MACHINES USED IN THE SPINNING OF COTTON AND
OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a
proviso, obliging me, the said John Holland Butterworth, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
and to cause the same to be enrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the said Letters Patent,
reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Holland Butterworth, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention
to consist in a revolving apparatus placed over the mouth of a can, such as is
used for the reception of slivers, which apparatus receives the sliver of cotton

page_text: or other fibrous materials in the state it leaves a carding engine, a drawing
frame, or a slubbing frame, and disposes it in a can in coils, so that when
such coiled sliver reaches from the bottom of the can to the apparatus, that
part of the sliver which is subsequently passed out of the apparatus presses
upon, and by the aid of the apparatus, condenses, the other coiled part in the
can, so that by this, my Invention, a sliver of cotton or other fibrous material
may be disposed in a can or other suitable receptacle in coils, and condensed
to any degree required without elongating, crimping, or otherwise damaging
it for the subsequent operations used in spinning. And in further compliance
with the said proviso, I, the said John Holland Butterworth, do hereby describe
the manner in which my said Invention is to be performed, by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings annexed, and to
figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say :-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a front view, in section, cut through the middle of my revolving
apparatus, placed over the mouth of a can, and below a pair of callender
rollers, from which it is receiving the sliver and passing it into the can.
Figure 2 is a plan of the upper side of my apparatus, part of which is
shewn in section in Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a side view of Figure 2.
Figure 4 is a front view of another arrangement of my revolving apparatus.
Figure 5 is a plan of the upper side of my apparatus, shewn in Figure 4.
Figure 6 is a front view of another arrangement of my apparatus.
Figure 7 is an end view of the two callender rollers and parts of the
apparatus shewn in Figure 6.
I have used the same letters and figures to denote similar parts throughout
the description and Drawings.
In Figure 1, A represents the callender rollers; b, the sliver; c, a skew
bevil wheel, fixed on and driven by the axis of the lower callender roller; dis
a skew bevil wheel, which takes into and is driven by c. This wheel d, and
the spur wheel e are fixed upon the same axis f, which is hollow. B are rods
rising from the floor of the room to which they are fixed. Between the rods
the cans C, or other suitable receptacle for the sliver, is placed. g is a short
cylinder of metal, which has two projecting bosses on the outside, each boss having
a hole through it to receive one of the rods B, upon which rods the bosses are s
fastened by screws, and hold the cylinder g in its working position. A bearing
h, which carries the shaft i, is also fixed upon one of the rods B by screws,
upon which shaft the hollow axisf works. The cylinder g has a belt or ring j

page_text: fixed within it, which belt or ring has a groove and a number of teeth k,
forming a bevil wheel on its upper side. The plate D has a short cylinder /
fixed on its under side. This cylinder descends and rests upon the bottom of
the groove in the ring j, in which groove it works. Around the cylinder l are
cast a number of teeth forming a spur wheel, which wheel takes into and is
driven by the spur wheel e. E is a circular plate, with a short cylinder fixed
on its upper side, which extends to the plate D, by which cylinder the two
plates are kept at a proper distance from each other. The central portion of
this plate E is made lower than the part around it, for the purpose of dis-
tributing the coils of sliver in the can in a spiral form when such coils reach
so high as to be acted upon by it. There is an opening in the plate E for the
sliver to be passed through to the can. The plate E is screwed to the plate D,
so that they revolve together.
In Figure 2, m is a short shaft, supported so that it can revolve in a
bearing n; on one end of the shaft m is a bevil wheel o, which takes into the
fixed bevil wheel k; and on the other end is a spur wheel p, which takes into
and drives the spur wheel fixed on the axis of the roller 9. On the other end
of this axis is fixed the spur wheel r, which takes into and drives the spur
wheels, which is fixed on the axis of the other rollers. t, u, and v, are con-
ducting rollers. An endless band of leather z (see Figure 1) passes partly
round the rollers t and u, and another endless band z passes partly round the
rollers q and v. The bands of leather have strips of brass running across them
on the outside, parallel to the rollers. The under surface of the top endless
band, and the upper surface of the lower endless band, run in contact, and the
sliver passes from the rollers A through the trumpet-mouth w, between the
rollers I and t, between the endless bands and the conducting rollers v and u,
through the opening in the plate E, into the can C. The four rollers 9 t, v,
and u, are supported in nicks or slots in the bearings a, which are fixed to
the under side of the plates D, and the surfaces of the endless bands z run at
the same speed as the surfaces of the callender rollers A. It will be evident
from the foregoing description, that when the callender rollers A are set in
motion, a rotary motion will be given to the plate D in the direction of the
arrows (see Figure 2) through the wheels c, d, e, and l, and a revolving motion
will be given by the wheels k, o, to the rollers 9 and t, and to the endless
bands z, which receive the sliver from the rollers A, and deliver it in coils in
the can. When the coiled sliver reaches to the plate E, the delivering endless
bands continue to pass more of the sliver on the top of that coiled in the can
until the whole of the contents of the can become as much compressed as is
reauired

page_text: In Figure 4, my revolving apparatus is shewn with the sliver passing from
the callender rollers A between a ball and a grooved pulley, and through an
opening in the plates D and E into the can.
Figure 5 is a top view of Figure 4.
In Figure 6 another arrangement of my revolving apparatus is shewn with
the sliver 6 passing through a trumpet-mouth 2, which is placed over the
centre of the apparatus through another trumpet-mouth w, through two
callender rollers 3, and through an opening in the plates D and E into the
.can.
Figure 7 is an end view of the two callender rollers and parts of the
apparatus shewn in Figure 6.
Those parts of the apparatus by which rotary motion is given, so as to
deposit the sliver in coils in a can, are the same in all the Figures.
Having now described the manner in which my said Invention is to be
performed, I declare that I do not claim, as my Invention, any of the parts of
the apparatus herein-before described separately; but I do claim as my Inven-
tion the revolving apparatus, combined and arranged as herein-before described,
and which is applicable to preparation machines used in the spinning of cotton
and other fibrous materials. And this my Invention, being, to the best of my
knowledge and belief, entirely new and never before used within that part of Her
said Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England,
Her Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby
declare this to be my Specification of the same, and that I do verily believe
this my Specification doth comply, in all respects, fully and without reserve
or disguise, with the proviso in the said herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent contained. Wherefore I do hereby claim to maintain exclusive right
and privilege to the said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Holland Butterworth, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-four.
JOHN HOLLAND (L.B.) BUTTERWORTH.
Signed, sealed, and delivered (being
first duly stamped), by the within-
named John Holland Butterworth,

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Nineteenth day of September,
in the year of our Lord 1844, the aforesaid John Holland Butterworth came
before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twentieth day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-four.