IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR TWISTING INTO BANDS
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter John Railton, of Blackburn, in the County of
Lancaster, Engineer, and David Walton, of the same Place, Innkeeper,
for the Invention of "IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR TWISTING INTO BANDS
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Sealed the 2nd April 1867, in pursuance of an Order of the Lord Chancellor,
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter John Railton and
David Walton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 10th September 1866.
We, PETER JOHN RAILTON, of Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster,
Engineer, and DAVID WALTON, of the same Place, Innkeeper, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR
TWISTING INTO BANDS COTTON, LINEN, WOOLLEN, SILK, HEMP, OR WIRE," to be as
follows:-
Our Invention is carried into practical effect by the following machinery :-
We make a square frame of wood or metal, in the front of which we place
any number of flyers or spindles, under which is a bobbin, and below such is
a traverse; at the back of such frame are a less number of flyers or spindles
for completing the band, the number of each will be regulated by the number
of strands required in the band. In the centre of the frame we fix a drum
for driving. On the side of the frame is a cam which acts upon a lever

page_text: underneath, at each end of such lever is a chain which is connected to the
traverse above, and in the centre of each front and back spindles or flyers are a
pair of rollers, through which the threads pass from front to back, these rollers
are worked by a pair of speed pullies; in the centre of each fly or spindle is
a band running on to each roller through the guide fixed in the middle of the
frame to the rollers at the back. The action is as follows:-Take any
number of strands from the bobbins in front, thence through the flyers or
spindles through guides in middle of frame to centre roller at back, thence
through back flyer or spindle to bobbin below, the frout spindles will run in
an opposite direction to the back spindles; thus it will be seen that the
strands and bands are twisted at one and the same time without changing.
SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor by the said l'eter John Railton and
David Walton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 2nd April 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, PETER
JOHN RAILTON, of Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster, Engineer, and
DAVID WALTON, of the same Place, Innkeeper, send greeting.
WHEREAS Iler most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto, the said
Peter John Railton and David Walton, Her special licence that they, the
said Peter John Railton and David Walton, their executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as they, the said Peter John Railton and David
Walton, our executors, administrators, and 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 "IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR TWISTING
INTO BANDS COTTON, LINEN, WOOLEN, SILK, HEMP, OR WIRE," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Peter John Railton and David Walton,
our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, 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 on
or before the Third day of April then next.

page_text: NOW KNOW IE, that we, the said reter John Itailton and David Walton,
do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
Our Invention relates to the so arranging machinery to twist into bands,
cotton from waste cops (or otherwise), linen, woolen, silk, hemp, or wire, and
so arranged that strands and bands are made by one machine at one and the
same time.
Having explained the nature of our Invention, we will now proceed to
describe the same by and through the accompanying Drawings, reference
being had in the several Figures to the corresponding letters of references.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation at line A, B, on plan Fig. 3; Fig. 2 is tho other
side elevation on line C, D; Fig. 3, plan; Fig. 4, plan with top framo
removed at A, B, in Fig. 2; Fig. 5 is end view shewing cop board, position
of cops, and arrangement of gearing in and outside of frameing.
a, a, in Figs. 3 and 4, is the main or first motion shaft, seting in motion
shafts b, b, in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, thence communicating motion to the verticlo
spindles c, c, c, c, c, c, c, c, c, c, c, in Figs. 1 and 2, by and through the wheels
d, d, d, d, d, d, d, d, d, d, d, in same Figures, on the same spindles, slideing up
such spindles and carried by a plate w, the motion of which is up and down to
give the regular lap of the twist or band; this motion is obtained by screw and
wheel and reverse motion; at the top of such spindles are ordinary flyers through
which whatever number of threads may be passed from the cops and bobbins
as shewn on Figs. 1, 2, and 5, as may be required in the strands for the various
thickness or strength of banding required, the back part of the frame is so
arranged that any required number of flyer spindles and bobbins wound on the
other side at and through roller e likewise may be used for completeing the
banding by takeing the strands so made over the machine to the opposite side.
It will be seen in Fig. 3 at the roller h three strands are passed through guide
holes (in a top bar provided for such) to the flyers working under, marked in
the several Figs. f. There are guides to pass the threads to their various
destinations, marked G, G, in Figs. 1 and 3, and grooved, as shewn, and are
immediatly under. the shafts h, h, in Fig. 3. There are two longitudional
bars i, i, suported by pedestal pillars J on board K; these bars form a guide
to threads from cops to roller e, thence to flyers f. The cop board g may bo
made to carry any number of cops, the guide bars h passing round form the
top centres for spindles of flyers; likewise caps for journals of shafts n, n.
The speed wheels 1, 1, 1, communicate motion to shafts h, h, reducing speed
from main shaft a; the wheel m obtains its motion from screw n through

page_text: shaft O to and by mitre wheels P, P, through shaft Q to wheels r, s, t, giving
motion to chain wheels u, u. The chains v, v, are connected to each end of
plate w, w, which plate carrys the bobbins up and down inside the flyers. The
regular up-and-down motion is obtained by a heart cam and lever at the
bottom of each bobbin. x, x, x, x, x, is a friction strap regulated by screws
y, y, y, y, y; the straps are for the purpose of keeping the bobbin
firm in its up-and-down traverso in order to wind on the bobbin evenly.
The only difference between this and the other side of our machine is that
the bobbin plate w, w, does not work up and down, and there are six
bobbins instead of five, but we do not confine ourselves to making this a
fixed plate, as under certain circumstances and for the different purposes we
have designed to use it as herein enumerated we shall require to make it a
facsimile with the other side, and the number of bobbins will have to be
regulated according to requirements.
Having now described the nature of our Invention, and how the same is to
be performed, we wish it to bo understood that we do not confine ourselves
to the precise details herein described and illustrated, as the same may be
varied without departing from the nature or principle of our Invention; but
what wo claim as our Invention is,―
Firstly, the general arrangement of machinery for twisting into bands
cotton from waste cops (or otherwise) linen, woollen, silk, hemp or wire, the
strands and bands being made by the same machinery at one and the same
time as herein-before described.
Secondly, tho feed roller e with its attendant arrangements as herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Peter John Railton and David Walton,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twentieth day of
February, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-seven.
PETER JOHN RAILTON. (L.S.)
DAVID WALTON.
(L.S.)
Witness,
RICHARD ASPDEN.