A MACHINE FOR TWISTING, WINDING, AND DOUBLING SILK, COTTON, AND WOOL
Year: 1792

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
ATHERTON, of Hunter Street, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Engine
Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Fifth day of July, in the Thirty-second year of His reign,
give and grant unto me, the said Peter Atherton, His especial licence, that I,
the said Peter Atherton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, during the
term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within that part of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also
in all His Colonics and Plantations abroad, my Invention of "A MACHINE FOR
TWISTING, WINDING, AND DOUBLING SILK, COTTON, AND WOOL;" in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Peter
Atherton, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW. YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Peter Atherton, do hereby declare that the plan hereuunto annexed is a plan

page_text: No. I is a full view of one of two wind wings, made of iron, and which may be
made of brass, or any other metal or strong substance; No. 1 A is a side view
of ditto; No. 2 is a full view of tho top piece, made of wood, or of any other
strong substance; No. 2A is a side view of ditto; No. 3 is a centrifugal
guard. The cylinder part of it is made of iron, the lower part of brass, and
both parts of it may be made of any other metal or strong substance. No. 4
is also a centrifugal guard with a joint, and is made of the same materials as
No. 3. That part on which the joint is placed may be inade more or less
conical or bell-mouthed, or may be mado cylindrical. The assistant guard "K"
may be made narrower or broader, and may be placed in any other manner,
provided it is kept nearly parellel to the roller; it may also be placed stationary
at any distanco within the compass of two inches from the ring end of No. 7.
No. 5 is a double-jointed tube guard, the upper part made of iron, the rest of
thin brass, and all the parts niny be made of any other metal or strong sub-
stance; No. 6 is a full view of a vibrating slide lever, made of steel, and it
may be made of any other strong, metal; No. 6A is a side view of ditto;|
No. 7 is a full view of a ring-ended slide lever, made of the same metal as
No. 6; No. 7 A is a side view of ditto; No. 8 is a lever joint, made of brass,
and it may be made of iron, or wood, or any other strong substance; No. 9 is
a fluted roller, made of wood; No. 10 is the edge view of a spring, made of
steel; the breadth thereof is three-eighths of an inch. The dotted circles
X, X, X, are the sizes of the holes in the cylindrical parts of No. 3, 4, and 5.
THE MANNER IN WHICH THE PARTS OF THE SAID MACHINE ARE
PUT TOGETHER.
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No. 1, the two wind wings, are screwed fast near the top ends of B, B,
respectively to No. 2 at B, B, B, B; No. 3, the cylindrical part, is inserted in
the center of No. 2, and then No. 3 is fastened at the shoulder N to No. 2 at
C, C. C, C, by screws, and it may bo fastened to rivets, bolts, or otherwise;
No. 4 is fastened at the shoulder P to No. 2 at C, C, C, C, in the same manner
ns No. 3; No. 5 is also fastened at the shoulder O to No. 2 at C, C, C, C, in
the same manner. Only one of the parts No. 3, 4, and 5 can be fastened to
No. 2, or used at one time. No. 6 is connected to No. 5 by a scrow at D.;

page_text: the upper part of the said screw is not tapped, and will move easy in the eye
or slot of No. 6 at D. No. 6 is also placed in the eye or slot of No. 8, and
connected at E by a screw pin, on which it will move easy; No. 7 is placed
in No. 8, in the same manner as No. 6; only one of the levers No. 6 & 7
can be used at one time. No. 8 is hung on the conical points of screws F, F,
and will move thereon. The screws F, F, are screwed through the sides of
the old octagon box at equal distance from the wind wings. No. 9 is fixed
on an axle of steel, with pivots on which it moves between and near the
bottom of the wind wings; No. 10 is fastened by screws at H, H, the end at I
pressing on the levers at S.
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The above machinery being placed together, as above described, is fixed to
the old octagon twisting and winding box by screws near the bottom of No. 1
at M, M, M, M, the sides of the said old box being first cutt off a little above
the octagon squares. The above machinery is also applicable to all the other
twisting and winding boxes now in use.
THE ACTION AND USE OF THE MACHINERY ABOVE DESCRIBED.
The machinery placed and put together as above directed is put in motion
by turning the old octagon twisting and winding box, and the machinery
thereto belonging, or by turning any other twisting and winding box or
machinery to which this Invention may be connected. No. 1, the wind wings,
assist No. 3 and 4 in throwing the wind from the work, in performing which
wind is caused by the velocity of the machine's motion. No. 3 turns in a collar
at R, and is proper to be used for twisting coarse yarn, rovings, and cords,
and guards the articles in twisting from being thrown out of their proper
direction by the centrifugal force of the machine's motion. No. 4 also turns
in a collar at R, and is proper to be used for twisting finer yarns, rovings, and
cords, and guards them also from being injured by the centrifugal force of the
machine's motion. The assistant guard K may be moved by the joint inwards
and outwards to suit the position of the lever No. 7, or may be made fast at
any part of its motion by a screw at L, or may be fastened by the ends to the
wind wings, or otherwise made fast at a proper distance from the ring end of.
No. 7. No. 5 also moves in a collar at R, and is adapted for making all
sizes of rovings; it has a free and easy motion in its joints, which are formed
by hanging on screw pins Q, Q, Q, Q. No. 6 receives its vibrating motion by
an eccentric wheel in the old box rubbing against it at S, which vibrates the
end of the tube of No. 5 at T, the length of the roller No. 9. No. 7 receives
its motion in the same manner as No. 6, and vibrates the same distance.
No. 8 may be moved inwards and outwards by the screw at U, being turned

page_text: as the velocity of the machine's motion or the quantity of the twisted article
on the bobbin may require. No. 9 being placed on its pivots in two slots or
grooves in the old box, is moved round by the uppermost wheel in the said old
box acting in a wheel on one of its pivots. This roller No. 9 gives motion by
friction to a bobbin laid thereon, and thereby winds the article when twisted on
the bobbin; the bobbin is kept in its place by its own wire pivots passing through
the slots or grooves in No. 1. The cotton, silk, and wool, in doubling, twisting,
and winding, enters No. 3 & 4 at W, and passes through No. 3 & 4, and also
passes through the ring of No. 7, which delivers it to the bobbin whereon it
is to be wound; the article to be twisted also enters No. 5 at W, and passes
through No. 5, and is delivered at T to the bobbin, whercon it is wound. In
case of the article breaking in twisting, when No. 5 is used it is pushed
through from W to T to be ready for pieceing, by a small wire made rough at
the end like a file. The advantages of this machine are in twists, and winds
rovings and other slack-twisted yarns, threads, and cords quicker than any other
machine, and makes less waste of the silk, cotton, and wool. The above parts
are drawn at the full size; they may be made on a larger or smaller scale, and
will produce nearly the same effect.
In witness whereof, I, the snid Peter Atherton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Third day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and ninety-two.
IDW MONTAGU.
PETER ATHERION. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Third day of August,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Peter Atherton came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And
also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same Third day of August. in the year above written.