IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO SPINNING, DOUBLING, WINDING AND WARPING YARNS OR THREADS
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Webb, of Tutbury, in the County of Derby,
Cotton Spinner, and James Craig, of the same Place, Manager, for the
Invention of IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO SPINNING, DOUBLING, WINDING
AND WARPING YARNS OR THREADS,"
Sealed the 28th January 1859, and dated the 30th July 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Webb and James
Craig at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 30th July 1858.
We, THOMAS WEBB, of Tutbury, in the County of Derby, Cotton Spinner,
and JAMES CRAIG, of the same Place, Manager, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO SPINNING, DOUBLING,
WINDING, AND WARPING YARNS OR THREADS," to be as follows:-
The object of our Invention is to obtain yarns or threads in a suitable form
for transport, and at the same time in a proper condition for being used by
the manufacturer. This we accomplish by performing the operations of
spinning, doubling, winding, and warping, or their equivalents upon tubes
constructed of paper or other such material, so as to be light for carriage and
sufficiently economical for temporary use.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Webb and James Craig in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 29th January 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
WEBB, of Tutbury, in the County of Derby, Cotton Spinner.and JAMES CRAIG,
of the same Place, Manager, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of Herreign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
Thomas Webb and James Craig, Her special license that we, the said Thomas
Webb and James Craig, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said Thomas Webb and James Craig, our executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigus, 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 APPLICABLE TO SPINNING. DOUBLING,
WINDING, AND WARPING YARNS OR THREADS," upon the condition (amongst
others), that we, the said Thomas Webb and James Craig, or one of us,
by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand
and seal of one of us, 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 Thomas Webb, do hereby declare the
nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and accompanying Drawing (that is to say):-
The object of our Invention is to obtain yarus or threads in a suitable form
for transport, and at the same time in a proper condition for being used by
the manufacturer. This we accomplish by performing the operations of
spinning, doubling, winding, and warping, or their equivalents, upon tubes
constructed of paper or other such material, so as to be light for carriage
and sufficiently economical for temporary use, as well as to save the expence
of reeling and re-winding.
According to the present method of preparing yarns for the manufacturer's

page_text: use, they are, as is well known, spun upon bobbins or other surfaces, from,
which they are wound into hanks, which have subsequently to be re-wound
ou to spools or bobbins; now by our Invention, we spin ordouble upon paper,
or other such tubes as aforesaid, which tubes are adapted to the ordinary
spindles, and when the required quantity of material is wound thereon, it is
removed, together with the tube, which therefore remains and stands in the
place of an ordinary bobbin, so as to be suitable for application to any machine
in which bobbins of fibrous materials are used, so that the operation of
re-winding from the hank, or the extra carriage and loss arising from the
transport of bobbins, is saved.
In like manner we employ these tubes for any of those operations of winding
and warping, which are required for yarns or threads." We do not however
confine ourselves to those cases in which a re-winding is avoided, for, as before
stated, our Invention facilitates the transport of the goods. In carrying our
Invention into practical operation, we have found it desirable to employ
certain apparatus in connexion with the ordinary spindles for the purpose of
facilitating the removal of the paper tubes with the material wound thereon.
The accompanying Drawing represents this arrangement, in which Fig. 1
is a view of part of a spindle for doubling or spinning, and Fig. 2, a detached
view in section of an additional apparatus we employ. The spindle is shown
at a, supposed to be mounted in the frame as usual, and the copping rail at b
resting upon this, and mounted so as to turn upon the spindle is a block c, to
which is affixed a thin metal tube d formed conical, so that its upper end
bears against the spindle a, this apparatus is shown detached at Fig. 2, and
may be considered as an ordinary bobbin with one flange. Upon the metal
tube d, the paper or other such tube is placed as shewn by the red line at e,
and the material to be spun or doubled is wound thereon by the ordinary
operations of the flyer and drag.
In the Drawing we have shewn the material wound with two conical ends,
there being any ordinary shortening motion applied to the copping rail as is well
understood. In winding we also use the supplementary apparatus shown at
Fig. 2, and place them upon the vertical spindles, and they are there, together
with their paper tubes, driven by the usual friction disc; but the arrangement
may be horizontal if desired, and in place of using the metal tube, the paper
or other such tube may be placed direct upon the spindle, but in such case
the said spindle should be tapered. Our object in adopting that form for
carrying the paper tubes being their ready removal when filled. To the
winding operation weapply ordinary shortening and differential motions, soas
to build the material as at Fig. 1, and regulate the revolutions according to

page_text: the increasing diameter. In warping we proceed as above described, but
without the shortening motion, so that the material is built with square ends,
and in order to secure these square ends, we impart a quicker traversing
motion than that usually adopted.
We have above spoken of the temporary tubes as composed of paper, but
we do not confine ourselves thereto; at present we make them of that material,
and find three or four folds of brown paper wound upon a roller, and pasted at
their ends, are sufficient for the purpose, but they may be made wholly or in
part of other material possessing the requisite properties, and answering sub-
stantially the ends of our Invention as before explained. We would remark
that when the material is wound into the form represented at Fig. 1, we find
it of advantage, previously to removing the tubes for the attendant as they
revolve, to apply a thin layer of paste or other such matter to the conical
ends, so as to secure the threads at those parts from displacement. We would
remark that we are aware of short tubes of paper having been used on mule
spindles, but in such cases the said tubes are only applied to one end of the
cops, whereas according to our Invention they constitute the whole surface
upon which the yarns or threads are wound.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, we desire it to be understood that we claim as
secured to us under the above in part recited Letters Patent, and as applied
for receiving yarns or threads in spinning, doubling, winding, and warping,
or their equivalent operations, the use of tubes composed of paper or other
such material as aforesaid.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Webb, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
THO WEBB. (L.S.)