IMPROVEMENTS IN BOBBINS
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Bash, of Paisley, in the County of
Renfrew, North Britain, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
BOBBINS."
Sealed the 22nd July 1873, and dated the 11th February 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Bash at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th February 1873.
I, SAMUEL BASH, of Paisley, in the County of Renfrew, North
Britain, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN BOBBINS," to be as follows, that is to say:
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This Invention, which relates to improvements in paper bobbins, is a
development of the Invention for which Letters Patent were granted to
Wolf Bash, Samuel Bash, and Gustav Bash, No. 52, A.D. 1872.
According to the mode of constructing the improved bobbins under
the present Invention the tubular body or barrel is made in any
required number of pieces, and the heads or ends are so shaped that each

page_text: head or end is formed of one piece, which not only closes the required
portion of the body or barrel, but constitutes the flanch or projection
also. This object is attained by pressing the ends between dies so
shaped that a projection is formed on one face of the end pieces, which
either fits into the end of the tubular body or barrel, or fits over the
tubular body or barrel. The portion projecting radially beyond the part
which fits into or on to the body or barrel constitutes the flanch at each
end of the bobbin. The pieces of which the improved bobbin is con-
stituted are fastened together by glue, paste, cement, or other adhesive
substance.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Samuel Bash in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 9th August 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
BASH, of Paisley, in the County of Renfrew, North Britain, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in
the 36th year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Bash, Her special
license that I, the said Samuel Bash, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel Bash, my executors,
administrators, or assigns, 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 IN
BOBBINS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Samuel
Bash, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Bash, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
My said Invention, which relates to improvements in paper bobbins,
is a developement of the Invention for which Letters Patent were granted
to Wolf Bash, Samuel Bash, and Gustav Bash, Number 52, A.D. 1872.
And in order that my said Invention may be properly understood I
now proceed more particularly to set forth the system, mode, or manner
in or under which the same is or may be used or practically carried into
effect, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings, and to the
letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say) :—
On the Sheet of Drawings hereunto appended Figure 1 is a side
elevation, and Figure 2 a vertical section of a paper bobbin constructed
in accordance with one modification of my said Invention; Figures 3
and 4 are respectively a detailed vertical section and plan looking from
the under side of one of the heads or ends of the bobbin. As shewn at
Figures 1 and 2, the tubular body or barrel A of the bobbin, which may
be made of any required number of pieces, is terminated within the
heads or ends B, in lieu of being made the full length of the bobbin, as
under the Invention herein-before referred to, and the said heads or
ends B are each formed of one piece, which not only closes the required
portions at the extremities of the tubular body or barrel A, but constitutes
the flanch or projection a by which the thread is retained on the body
of the bobbin. The heads or ends B are formed by pressing the paper of
which they are composed, and which may or may not in the first
instance be formed into one or more cylinders or tubes of different dia-
meters, between dies so shaped that a projection 6 is formed on the under
side or face of each head or end piece, and which projection fits into the
ends of the tubular body or barrel A, and a flanch c is also formed on
each head or end piece B by the die which fits over the end of the
tubular body or barrel A, as shewn more particularly at Figure 2 of the
Drawings. The periphery of the projection b, and also the face of the
flanch c, is by preference formed bevelled or countersunk, in order to
more securely retain the head or end piece B in position at the extremity
of the body or barrel A, when it has been placed or forced thereinto, by

page_text: any suitable means. The portion a projecting radially beyond the part c,
which fits on to the body or barrel A, constitutes the flanch at each end
of the bobbin.
Figure 5 is a side elevation, and Figure 6 a vertical section of another
form of bobbin constructed in accordance with my said Invention ;
Figure 7 is a detailed vertical section, and Figure 8 a plan looking from
the under side of one of the heads or ends of the bobbin, the formation
of which is so clearly shewn on the Drawings as to render further
description thereof unnecessary, it being understood that the heads or
ends A of the said bobbin are constructed in one piece by pressing the
paper of which they are composed between dies, as herein-before set
forth.
The bobbins herein-before described and shewn at Figures 1, 2, 5,
and 6 of the Drawings are of the class on which comparatively short
lengths of thread are wound, but the same principle of constructing
bobbins is equally applicable to bobbins for receiving any length of
thread by extending the flanches a on the heads or ends, and by pro-
portionately lengthening the projections 6, as shewn at Figures 9, 10, 11,
and 12 of the Drawings.
The pieces of which the improved bobbins are constructed are fastened
together by glue, cement, paste, or other adhesive substance.
In order to impart any desired colour to the bobbins constructed
in accordance with this Invention, the pulp of which the paper, paste-
board, or cardboard from which the bobbin is made is composed may be
coloured in any desired manner; or the bobbins themselves, after being
constructed, may be painted, stained, enamelled, varnished, or otherwise
tinted; or the bobbins may, whilst being constructed, be covered with
. paper to which the desired colour has been imparted.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and the system, mode, or manner in or under which the
same is or may be used or practically carried into effect, I would
observe in conclusion that I do not confine myself to the arrangements of
bobbins precisely as shewn on the Drawings, as the forms of the bobbins
may be considerably varied, but what I consider to be novel and original,
and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein-before
in part recited Letters Patent is, constructing paper bobbins in the

page_text: manner herein-before described and shewn on the Sheet of Drawings
hereunto appended, or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Bash, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighth day of August One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-three.