IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PUTTING COP TUBES ON TO THE SPINDLES OF MULES FOR SPINNING, AND IN APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING THE COP TUBES TO THE SAID MACHINERY
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Lawson, of Holcomb Brook, near Bury, in the
County of Lancaster, Mechanic, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY FOR PUTTING COP TUBES ON TO THE SPINDLES OF MULES FOR
SPINNING, AND IN APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING THE COP TUBES TO THE SAID
MACHINERY."
Sealed the 12th April 1861, and dated the 27th October 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Lawson at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents with his Petition on the 27th October
1860.
I, HENRY LAWSON, of Holcomb Brook, near Bury, in the County of Lan-
caster, Mechanic, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PUTTING COP TUBES ON TO THE SPINDLES
OF MULES FOR SPINNING, AND IN APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING THE COP TUBES TO
THE SAID MACHINERY," to be as follows:-.
The cop tubes are put in vertical pipes of any convenient length made of
glass or other material, the distance between these pipes must correspond to
the distance between the spindles on to which the cop tubes are afterwards to
be put, the lower end of these pipes is closed by a slide. The machinery for
putting the cop tubes on to the spindles consists of a perforated roller placed
within a case; the perforations are spaced to half the distance between the
spindles, and the roller is capable of moving endwise on its axis; to the case

page_text: are attached a row of guide spouts, and in charging or supplying the roller
with cop tubes the machinery is placed under the pipes above referred to,
the slide at the bottom of the pipes is then moved to one side to allow the
cop tubes to drop into the perforations in the roller; the roller is then turned
partly round to bring another row of perforations under the pipes, thereby
allowing another row of cop tubes to drop into the perforations of the roller;
this is continued until the roller has been turned once round, it is then moved
endwise, and the intermediate perforations in the roller are in like manner
supplied with cop tubes, there is a blank space in one part of the circum-
ference of the roller to cover the guide spouts when the machinery is carried
about. When the roller is thus charged with cop tubes, it is brought over
the spindles of the mule, the casing of the roller being guided and held by two
of the spindles, the operator then turns the roller partly round to bring a row
of the perforations in line with the spindles, when the cop tubes in the said
perforations will drop on the spindles, the roller is then brought over another
set of spindles, and the cop tubes are in like manner supplied to them; it is
evident that the roller must be moved endwise when all the cop tubes in one
circular row of perforations have been put on the spindles in order to bring
the intermediate cop tubes over the spindles.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Henry Lawson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 27th
April 1861.
HENRY
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
LAWSON, of Holcomb Brook, near Bury, in the County of Lancaster,
Mechanic, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen: Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth-year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Henry Lawson, Her special licence that I; the said. Henry Lawson, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others' as I, the said Henry
Lawson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with and no others, from time to time, and 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

page_text: FOR PUTTING COP TUBES ON TO THE SPINDLES OF MULES FOR SPINNING, AND IN APPA-
BATUS FOR SUPPLYING THE COP TUBES TO THE SAID MACHINERY," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Henry Lawson, my executors or adminis-
trators, 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 Henry Lawson, do hereby declare the
nature of my 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 (that is to say):-
The cop tubes are put in vertical pipes of any convenient length made of
glass or other material, the distance between these pipes must correspond to
the distance between the spindles on to which the cop tubes are afterwards to
be put, the lower end of these pipes is closed: by a slide. The machinery for
putting the cop tubes on to the spindles consists of a perforated roller placed
within a case;
the perforations are spaced to half the distance between the
spindles, and the roller is capable of moving endwise on its axis; to the case
are attached a row of guide spouts, and in charging or supplying the roller
with cop tubes the machinery is placed unr the pipes above referred to, the
slide at the bottom of the pipes is then moved to one side to allow the cop
tubes to drop into the perforations in the roller; the roller is then turned partly
round to bring another row of perforations under the pipes, thereby allowing
another row of cop tubes to drop into the perforations of the roller; 'this is
continued until the roller has been turned once round, it is then moved end-
wise, and the intermediate perforations in the roller are in like manner
supplied with cop tubes. There is a blank space on one part of the circum-
ference of the roller to cover the guide spouts when the machinery is carried
about. When the roller is thus charged with cop. tubes it is brought over
the spindles of the mule, the casing of the roller being guided and held by
two of the spindles, the operator then turns the roller partly round to bring a
row of the perforations in line with the spindles, when the cop tubes in the said
perforations will drop on the spindles, the roller is. then brought over-another
set of spindles, and the cop tubes are in like-manner supplied to them'; -it. is
evident that the roller must be moved endwise when all the cop tubes in one
circular row of perforations have been put on the spindles, in order to bring
the cop tubes in the intermediate perforations over the spindles.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood, and readily carried

page_text: into operation, I will proceed to describe the means pursued by me, reference
being had to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, and to the figures and
letters marked thereon.
Figure 1 is an elevation of my improved machinery partly in section;
Figure 2 is a sectional end view of the saine; Figure 3 is a plan of part of
the same; Figure 4 is a front elevation of part of a set of mule spindles with
the improved machinery for supplying the cop tubes; and Figure 5 is an end
elevation of Figure 4.
:
In Figures 1 and 2, a, a, is a set of pipes made of glass or any other
material.. I prefer to have twenty-five of these pipes in the set, but I do not
confine myself to this number. These pipes are about five feet high, or more
or less, and they are secured above in the cross bar b, and below in the cross
bar 6, the cross bars are held in the side frames c, c. The distance between
the centres of the pipes a must coincide with the distance between the centrès
of the spindles of the mule, to which the cop tubes are to be supplied. The
cop tubes marked d, d, are fed by hand into the pipes a, a, and they are held
in the pipes by the double doors or slides e, e, which are hinged to the
frames c, c; to one of the hinges of the doors e is fixed a small lever e', and
to the other door is attached the end of the spring e, the doors e are con-
nected so as to open and close simultaneously by a little piece of wood fixed
to the one and projecting under the other. The mode of opening and closing
these doors will be explained hereafter.
The machinery for putting the cop tubes on to the spindles consists of the
perforated roller f which is placed within the case g; the roller f is divided
into twenty-one or other convenient number of equal parts, one of which is left
blank as shewn at f¹ in Figures 2 and 3, the other portion of the circum-
ference of the roller is perforated, and each perforation is provided with a short
tube ffixed to the outer part of the roller; at each end of the roller is
soldered or otherwise attached a disk f³, to which and to an inner disk f" the
axles or trunnions f' and f³ are fixed, within the roller f is a smaller roller fƒ*,
upon which the cop tubes drop when supplied by the pipes a, a.
The axle f*
is furnished with two grooves into which the shot bolt h fits, this bolt slides in a
staple fixed to one of the disks f³, to the axle f³ is fixed the division wheel i,
the catch of which is jointed to a bracket fixed to the case 9 (see
Figure 5), the case 9 is provided with a set of guide spouts g', which are
soldered to a sliding plate g³, to the case 9 are also: attached the holders g³,
which fit on the spindles of the mule as shewn in Figure 4, and the handles g'
for the attendant to take hold of when moving the case 9 and roller f; the
doors e, e, are opened and closed by the division wheel i, on the teeth of which

page_text: the lower end of the rod e³ rests, the upper end of the said rod being jointed
to the lever e¹ fixed to one of the hinges of the door e. The mode of operation
is as follows:-The doors e, e, are supposed to be closed, and the pipes a, a,
supplied with the cop tubes d, the roller f and case g are then placed under the
pipes a, the guide spouts g¹ having been previously moved to one side as
shewn in Figure 2, the doors e are then opened to, allow the bottom row of
cop tubes to drop into the first row of perforations in the roller f.; the attendant
then turns the roller f. partly round in the direction of the arrow, and the
moment the roller begins to move the rod e³ acting on the lever e¹ closes the
doors e, which are recessed and slightly raise the cop tubes d within the pipes a
so as to allow the roller f to perform its required portion of a revolution with-
as soon as the roller f has been
out injuring the points of the cop tubes; as into a fresh tooth of the
moved the requisite distance, the catch
division wheel i, and at the same time the rod e³ also drops over the same tooth,
and opens the doors e, thereby allowing another set of cop tubes to drop into
the perforations of the roller f; these operations succeed each other until the
roller has performed one revolution, or until one half of the perforations in
the roller is supplied with cop tubes; the attendant then liberates the shot
bolt h from one of the grooves in the axle f*, and moves the roller f endwise
until the shot bolt h can be brought into the other groove, the intermediate
perforations in the roller fare thus brought under the pipes a, and are supplied
with the cop tubes as before. When the intermediate perforations are filled,
the blank space f¹ and the guide spouts g¹ are brought in a line with the
holders, the roller being now completely charged with cop tubes is taken
with the case to the mule, and the holders 93 are placed upon two of the
spindles, with the guide spouts 9¹ reaching partly over the spindle points as
shewn in Figures 4 and 5, and the blank space f¹ in a line with the guide
spouts, the attendant then moves the roller f until the first row of perforations
comes over the row of spindles, the cop tubes being thus set at liberty drop
on to the spindles, the attendant then places the roller f over the next set of
spindles, and again moves it partly round to liberate the cop tubes in the next
row of perforations, and these operations are repeated until all the spindles of
the mule are supplied with cop tubes. It will be apparent that the rollerf must
be moved endwise on its axle when all the cop tubes have been discharged
from each alternate perforation, in order to bring the intermediate perforations
in line with the guide spouts and spindles.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention and described the manner
of performing the same, I declare that I claim,-

page_text: First, the apparatus described for supplying cop tubes to machinery, by
which they are put on to the spindles of mules.
And, secondly, the improved machinery shewn and described for putting
cop tubes on to the spindles of mules.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Lawson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord
1One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
HENRY LAWSON. (L.S.)