CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING, SLUBBING, AND ROVING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1846

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
SEED, of Preston, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Fourteenth day of July, in the tenth year of Her reign, and
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-six, did, for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said William
Seed, Her especial license, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the
said William Seed, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and such others
as I, the said William Seed, my executors, administrators, 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 and Wales, and the Town of Berwick
upon Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR PREPARING, SLUBBING, AND ROVING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS
SUBSTANCES;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I,
the said William Seed, shall cause a particular description of the nature of
my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
inrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters

page_text: Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more
fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Seed, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described and
ascertained in and by the Drawings hereto annexed, and the following
explanation thereof (that is to say):
My improvements in machinery or apparatus for preparing, slubbing, and
roving cotton and other fibrous substances apply solely to that part of such
machinery called the flyer, which is employed in connection with the spindle
for the purpose of winding the sliver or roving upon the bobbin. My Invention
consists in the application of the principle of centrifugal force to the flyers
employed in the above-mentioned machinery, for the purpose of producing the
required elasticity or pressure upon the bobbin, by causing the small spur or
lever, which conducts the sliver of cotton or other fibrous material on to, the
bobbin, to press or bear against the same simply by the action of such force,
instead of being effected by springs or such other mechanical pressure.
By the application of this Invention the bobbin of rovings will not only
be made hard, but equally compressed throughout, as the pressure upon
the same will be found to decrease slightly as the diameter of the bobbin
increases, and thus equalize the formation thereof, instead of having the
outer or finished diameter made harder than the interior, which has hitherto
been the case.
And in order more clearly to illustrate my Invention, and the method of
carrying the same into practical effect, I have attached to these Presents
a Sheet of Drawings, representing one mode of applying the same to a
flyer, as employed in an ordinary roving machine. The Drawing is made
full size, and similar letters of reference marked upon corresponding parts
in all the Figures. Figure 1 is a front elevation of the flyer; Figure 2
is a side or edge view of the same; and Figure 3 is a plan or horizontal
view, as seen from above. a, a, is the spindle; b, b, the bobbin; and c, c, the
flyer. To one or both of the legs of the flyer c, c, are attached two or more
fixed bearings d, d, supporting the guide or pressing apparatus e, f, g, formed
of wire. The lower part or portion e of this wire is bent and formed into a
small spur or lever, for the purpose of conducting and delivering the sliver o
roving of cotton, &c. on to the bobbin, and the vertical portion of the wire
swivels loosely in the bearings d, d, attached to the hollow flyer leg; the upper
end g is also bent into the form shewn in the Drawing, and has a smal
weight attached thereto. It will thus be evident that as the flyer c, c

page_text: revolves at a high velocity, the weight h upon the upper end of the wire will
be thrown from the centre, and cause the spur or lever e at the lower end of
the wire to bear or press against the bobbin b, b, the pressure slightly decreasing
as the increasing diameter of the bobbin causes the weight h to approach the
centre of rotation.
The above apparatus represents one particular and practicable mode of
applying my Invention; but I would here remark that I do not intend to
confine myself to this particular method; but I claim as my Invention, the
application of the law or principle of centrifugal force to the particular
or special purpose above set forth, that is, to flyers used in machinery
or apparatus for preparing, slubbing, and roving cotton and other fibrous
materials, for the purpose of producing a hard and evenly compressed bobbin.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Seed, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twelfth day of January, One thousand eight hun-
dred and forty-seven.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twelfth day of January,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid William Seed came before our Lady
the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and everything 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 Fourteenth day of January, in the year above written.

page_text: Commissioners of Patents for Inventions, pursuant to an Act passed in
the 5th and 6th years of the reign of His late Majesty King William
the Fourth, intituled "An Act to amend the Law touching Letters
Patent for Inventions;" and also to an Act passed in the 15th and
16th years of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria,
intituled "An Act for amending the Law for granting Patents for
Inventions."
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
SEED, of Preston, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent under
the Great Seal of this realm, dated the Fourteenth day of July, in the tenth
year of Her reign, did grant unto me, my exors, adiñiors, and assigns, the sole
privilege of making, using, exercising, and vending my Invention of "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING, SLUBBING, AND
ROVING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," within England, Wales, and
Berwick upon Tweed, during the term of fourteen years thence next ensuing:
And whereas, in pursuance of a condition in the said Letters Patent contained,
I caused a Specification in writing under my hand and seal, dated the Twelfth
day of January, One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, particularly
ascertaining and describing the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be duly enrolled in Chancery on the
Fourteenth day of January, One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven :
And whereas I have been advised that the claim of my Invention, contained
in the said Specification, may be construed in such a manner as to be more
extensive than I intended, and by reason thereof I am desirous of making
and extending the Disclaimer herein-after expressed or contained, for the
purpose of preventing any doubt with respect to such construction of my said
Specification and the said claim, and therein contained.

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NOW THESE PRESENTS WITNESS, that by and with the leave of Sir
Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, Knight, Her said Majesty's Attorney
General, I, the said William Seed, for the reason aforesaid, do hereby disclaim
all application of the law or principal of centrifugal force as being part of my
said Invention, or as being comprised in my claim of Invention contained in
the said Specification, except only the application of centrifugal force by
means of a weight acting upon a presser so as to cause it to press against a
bobbin, as described in the said Specification; and I hereby declare that the
above-written Disclaimer is not intended to extend the exclusive right granted
by the said Letters Patent, and shall not extend the said exclusive right in any
way whatsoever.
I
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twelfth
way whatsoever.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twelfth
day of August, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
WILLIAM (L.S.) SEED.
To the Clerk of the Patents of England.
This is to certify, that William Seed, of Preston, in the County of Lancaster,
Machine Make, has applied to me for leave to file with you the above-written
Disclaimer and Memorandum of Alterations of a certain Invention, for which
Letters Patent were granted to him under the Great Seal, dated the 14th day
of July 1846, and to which a Specification was duly enrolled; and on con-
sidering the said application, I directed him to advertize his said Disclaimer
and Memorandum of Alterations in the London Gazette, and in the Times,
Daily News, and Preston Pilot newspapers; and such advertizements having
been made, and no objection being entered to the said application, I have
accordingly granted leave to the said William Seed to file his said Disclaimer
and Memorandum of Alteration, pursuant to the Statute passed in the fifth and
sixth years of the reign of His late Majesty, entitled "An Act to amend the
Law touching Letters Patent for Inventions.”….

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twelfth day of August, in the
year of our Lord 1854, the aforesaid William Seed came before our said
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Disclaimer afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Disclaimer aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Saturday, the 18th day of November, in the 18th year of the reign of Her
Majesty Queen Victoria, 1854.
In the Matter of the Patent of William Seed, of Preston, in the
County of Lancaster, Machine Maker, for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING, SLUBBING, AND ROVING
COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES."
Upon the humble Petition of the said William Seed, this day preferred
unto the Right Honorable the Master of the Rolls, it was alleged, that on
the 23d day of August 1854, a Disclaimer of a portion of the above-named
Patent was enrolled in the High Court of Chancery; that it has recently been
discovered that a mistake exists in the Fiat or Certificate of Her Majesty's
Attorney General, the date of the Patent being stated to be "1847," instead
of 1846," the correct date; that the above mistake is simply a clerical error,
the clerk of the Attorney General having mistaken the 10th year of the reign
of Her Majesty to be 1847, instead of 1846; that Her Majesty's said Attorney
General has amended the said Certificate by inserting the correct date; that
there is no time limited by law within which Disclaimers of Patents are
required to be amended after their date: It was therefore prayed, and upon
reading the affidavit of George Augustus Frederick Bertie, filed the 17th day
of November 1854, it is accordingly ordered, that the Clerk of Inrolments
be at liberty to amend the enrolment of the said Fiat or Certificate of
Her Majesty's Attorney General by altering the date of "1847" to "1846,"

page_text: in the said Certificate. And it is ordered, that a copy of this Order be
endorsed on the back of the roll on which the said Fiat or Certificate is
enrolled.
Therefore, on the Twenty-second day of November, in the year of our
Lord 1854, the amendment aforesaid was made accordingly.