IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING FIBRES
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edmund Tweedale, Manager, and Samuel Tweedale,
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Foreman Mechanic, both of Accrington, in the County of Lancaster, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING
FIBRES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edmund Tweedale and
Samuel Tweedale at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th
July 1878.
EDMUND TWEEDALE, Manager, and SAMUEL TWEEDALE, Foreman Mechanic, both
of Accrington, in the County of Lancaster. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR
SPINNING AND DOUBLING FIBRES."
This Invention relates to improved manufacture of spindles (mainly designed for
ring frames), on which the bobbin or tube is placed, and to improved means for
mounting the "wires" employed for holding down the wharls or whurrs when the
bobbins or tubes are being doffed or lifted off the spindles.
According to this our Invention we manufacture the spindles partly of metal and
partly of wood, paper, or cork, so as to obtain the requisite diameter upon which
the yarn may be wound without the use of bobbins or tubes as heretofore.
The combination of metal, wood, paper, cork, or other such light substances in
the manufacture of spindles enables the same to be made of sufficient strength, and
so light as to be run with ease.
In order to facilitate the withdrawal of the cop from the spindle the latter is
grooved or corrugated longitudinally or spirally.
The "wires" for holding the wharls or whurrs and bobbins upon the spindles
during the act of doffing or pulling off the cop are mounted to a sliding or folding
rail or rod, so as to admit of the said wires being moved clear of the wharles or
whurrs when the latter and the spindles are to be removed for lubrication or other
purpose.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Edmund Tweedale and Samuel Tweedale in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 28th January 1879.
EDMUND TWEEDALE, Manager, and SAMUEL TWEEDALE, Foreman Mechanic, both
of Accrington, in the County of Lancaster. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR
SPINNING AND DOUBLING FIBRES."
This Invention relates to improved manufacture of spindles (mainly designed for
ring frames) on which the bobbin or tube is placed, and to improved means for
mounting the "wires" employed for holding down the wharles or whurrs when the
bobbins or tubes are being doffed or lifted off the spindles.
According to this our Invention we manufacture the spindles partly of metal
and partly of wood, paper, paper pulp, or cork, so as to obtain the requisite diameter
upon which the yarn may be wound without the use of bobbins or tubes as
heretofore.
The combination of metal, wood, paper, cork, or other such light substances in
the manufacture of spindles enables the same to be made of sufficient diameter,
strength, and so light as to be run with ease.
In order to facilitate the withdrawal of the cops from the spindle the latter may
be grooved or corrugated longitudinally or spirally.
The "wires" for holding the wharles or whurrs and bobbins upon the spindles
(during the act of doffing or pulling off the cop) are mounted to a sliding or folding
rail or rod so as to admit of the said wires being moved clear of the wharles
or whurrs when the latter and the spindles are to be removed for lubrication or
other purpose.
Such being the nature and object of this our said Invention, in order that the
same may be clearly understood we have hereunto annexed two Sheets of
Drawings illustrative thereof, and have marked the same with figures and letters of
reference.
Sheet 1 shews the construction of combination spindle.
Sheet shows the sliding rail and wires before referred to
According to this our Invention we manufacture the spindles partly of metal
and partly of wood, paper, paper pulp, or cork, as at A (see Fig. 1), so as to obtain
the requisite diameter upon which the yarn may be wound without the use of
bobbins or tubes as heretofore.
The combination of metal, wood, paper, paper pulp, cork, or other such light
substances in the manufacture of spindles enables the same to be made of sufficient
strength, and so light as to be run with ease.
In order to facilitate the withdrawal of the cop from the spindle the latter may
be grooved or corrugated longitudinally or spirally (see Figs. 2 and 3.
Figs. 4, 5, and 6 show the "wires" A for holding the wharles or whurrs and
spindles B during the act of "doffing" or pulling off the cop; the wires are mounted
on a sliding or folding rail or rod C, so as to admit of the said "wires" being moved
clear (by the lever motion E) of the wharles or whurrs when the latter and the
spindles are to be removed for lubrication or other purpose.
Having thus described the nature and particulars of this our said Invention we
would have it understood that we claim,―
Firstly. The manufacture and use of spindles, constructed partly of metal and
partly of wood, paper, paper pulp, or cork, as described and illustrated.

page_text: Secondly. The use of the "wires" A when mounted upon the sliding rail
C, and operated in manner and for purpose described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Edmund Tweedale and Samuel Tweedale,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Eighteenth day of January,
in the year One thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.
Witness,
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Patent Agent,
Halifax & Blackburn.
EDMUND TWEEDALE, (L.S.)
SAMUEL TWEEDALE. (L.S.)