CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE PREPARATION OF COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS FOR SPINNING, CALLED SLUBBING FRAMES AND ROVING FRAMES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Wild, of Bury, in the County of Lancaster,
Cotton Spinner, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE PREPARATION OF COTTON
AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS FOR SPINNING, CALLED SLUBBING FRAMES AND
ROVING FRAMES."
Sealed the 12th November 1861, and dated the 6th September 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Wild at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 6th
September 1861.
I, WILLIAM WILD, of Bury, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton Spinner,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE PREPARATION OF COTTON AND
OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS FOR SPINNING, CALLED SLUBBING FRAMES AND ROVING
FRAMES," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to that portion of slubbing and roving frames known
as the spindle and flyer, and is designed for the purpose of steadying the
spindle during its rapid rotation.
The Invention consists in the novel use of a long tube or" collar" extending
upwards from a rail beneath the "copping rail" to that part of the spindle
close beneath the "flyer," the spindle passing through the tube is thereby
steadied.

page_text: The improvement consists in the use of this peculiar elongated form of "collar"
in contradistinction to any of a shorter description which do not afford
support to the spindle closely beneath the flyer, such being a material
advantage.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Wild in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 25th
January 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, J, WILLIAM
WILD, of Bury, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton-Spinner, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William Wild,. Her special license that I, the said William
Wild, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as 'I, the
said William Wild, my 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
CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE
PREPARATION OF COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS FOR SPINNING CALLED
SLUBBING FRAMES AND ROVING FRAMES," upon the condition, amongst others,
that I, the said William Wild, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, und 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 tho said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Wild, do hereby declaro
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say) :-
My Invention relates to that portion of slubbing and roving frames known
as the spindle and flyer, and is designed for the purpose of steadying the
spindle during its rapid rotation.

page_text: The Invention consists in the novel use of a long tube or "collar" extending
upwards from a rail beneath the "copping rail" to that part of the spindle close
beneath the "flyer," the spindle passing through the tube is thereby steadied.
The improvement consists in the use of this peculiar elongated form of "collar"
in contradistinction to any of shorter description which do not afford support
to the spindle closely beneath the flyer, such being a material advantage.
In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained in
detail I have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings made upon a scale of
about three inches to the foot, and having letters of reference marked there-
upon.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of that portion of a roving frame to which my
Invention is applied, such being shewn in section and exhibiting the long
"steadying collar "a, extending from the rail a¹, to within a short distance
beneath the flyer b, whereby great steadiness is given to the spindle in its
revolutions. The spindle c revolves within the steadying "collar" and the
bobbin & is placed upon a second tube e, which is driven by the bevil wheels f,
and rotates upon the exterior of the steadying "collar" a.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention together with the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be distinctly
understood that I claim the novel employment and use of the long steadying
collar a, extending upwards to closely beneath the flyer, in contradistinction to
any of a shorter form which do not afford the required support to the upper
end of the spindle as herein-before described, set forth, and fully illustrated in
the Drawings attached.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Wild, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
WILLIAM WILD. (L.S.)