CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MACHINERY USED FOR TARRING, REELING, AND MANUFACTURING YARN INTO CABLES AND ROPE OF EVERY SIZE
Year: 1817

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
BOUNSALL, of Crown Street, Old Street Road, in the Parish of Shoreditch and
County of Middlesex, Taylor, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by His
Lettors Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twelfth day of August, in the
fifty-seventh year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said James
Bounsall, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said James Bounsall, my exors, admors,
and assigns, should and lawfully might, during the term of years therein.
expressed, make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MACHINERY USED FOR TARRING, REELING, AND MANUFACTURING YARN INTO
CABLES AND ROPE OF EVERY SIZE;" in which said Letters Patent there is con-
tained a proviso that if I, the said James Bounsall, shall not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chan-
cery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties
and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine,
and become void, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may
more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Bounsall, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained in and by the Drawings hereunto annexed, and the following
description thereof (that is to say):-
Fig. 1 sheweth the manner of reeling the yarn from the spinning, to wind
each yarn single on a reel by means of a wheel being turned by hand or any
other power. As four reels are turned at once, each reel is turned by means
of a socket being fixed between the reel and the sheeve, which, being fixed in
the uprights, receive the bands and turn the reels. The sheeves are fixed on
pins, and are a little distance from each other, that the bands may work clear
on the wheel. The socket receives the pin of the reel, and the other end falls
into a notch in the pin of the sheeve, which passes thro' the upright and bears
on a catch, and by this means the reel is taken in and out. The yarns are
guided on the reels by the guider in front either by hand or any other means.
1, the yarns; 2, the guider; 3, the reels; 4, 4, 4, the uprights or frame for
the reels and sheeves; 5, the shecvcs; 6, the socket; 7, the bands; 8, the
wheel; 9, the sheeve; 10, the reel.
Fig. 2 sheweth the manner of tarring and reeling the yarn at the same
time. The yarns being reeled single from the spinning are put in a frame
of uprights, from which they are drawn through the tar kettle, and passing
through a shoot about six feet long, they are hove or drawn out by a dented
capstand, which draws the yarns thro' the knipper steady, and, passing round
the capstand, are guided by a dented roller which prevents them from surging.
The capstand may be worked by any power. The yarns are then divided, and
cach yarn is brought to a reel and wound single. The reels are fixed in
a frame which is made for the purpose. Each reel is turned by the means of
the socket between the reel and 'the sheeve, the same as Fig. 1. The bands
which turn those sheeves pass round a cylinder wheel which is fixed over the
frame, and is about three feet diameter, and as long as the frame. Any
nuniber of reels may be turned by it at one time. An iron wheel is fixed at
each end, and is turned by a pinion. The yarns are guided on the reels by a
guider in front, the same as Fig. 1, and may be moved by any power. 1, 1,
the frame of uprights; 2, the tar kettle; 3, the dented capstand; 4, ithe
knipper; 5, the dented roller; 6, the yarn divided; 7, the reels; 8; .8, 'the
frame, with reels and sheeves under the cylinder wheel; 9, the cylinder
wheel; 10, the bands.
Fig. 3 sheweth the 'manner in which the lissem or strand is formed. As
many strands may be formed at one time as are needful. The yarns being

page_text: tarred and reeled, the reels are put into a frame for the purpose. The
yarns are then conducted from the plate pierced in a triangle form and divided
into as many subdivisions as are required, according to the size, lissem, or
strand that is to be formed. The plate may be made of wood or iron or any
other substance. If the lissem or strand. to be formed contain the number of
fifty yarns or any less number, they are to be subdivided into nine parts, or
more or less. The plate of triangles is to be fixed at a proper distance from
the tube box about two or three feet, more or less, as may be required, in
order to cause each subdivision to be twisted. before they pass thro' the tube
box in one or two triangles, which they must next do, and then form the
lissem or strand thro' one tube. In this manner the yarns will work inside
and out alternately. If the lissem or strand contains any number of yarns
above fifty, they are to be subdivided into twelve, more or less; parts, and pass
through the tube box in six parts, or more or less, and then form the lissem or
strand thro' a tube. The lissem or strand is formed by being twisted by
means of an equalizing machine, is drawn down the ground. by .a capstand or
any other power. The tube box is made of iron or any other substance, and
is pierced in one or two triangles, three or four inches distance in the back
part, and about one inch distance in the front, and is about four inches long,
and is fixed in front of the triangle plate. The wheel of the machine is fixed
under the shaft of pinions and is turned by a rope, and the wheel turns the
shaft of pinions, which turns the hooks as the machine is drawn down to the
length required. 1, 1, the frame for the reels; 2, 2, the reels; 3, the yarns,
sub-divided and twisting; 4, the plate, pierced in a triangle form; 5, the tube
box; 6, the tube; 7, the lissem or strand forming; 8, the machine; 9, the
shaft of pinions; 10, the hooks; 11, the wheel under the shaft; 12, the
capstand.
Fig. 4 sheweth the manner of closing the strands and the cable. The lissems
being formed are brought to the closing machine, and one hooked to the hooks
of the pinions. The crank is fixed to the pin of the wheel to give a quick
motion to harden and close the strands, even when the strands are closed.
The crank is fixed to the pinion, which will give a slow motion to close the
cable even. Each pinion has a paul to stop it from turning when the wheel
is out of gear, which it must be to heave a book up or beat a hook down. The
wheel is taken out of gear by taking hold of the pin, which is made long for
the purpose.
The machine is made with five pinions to close either a three
or four strand rope. 1, the closing machine; 2, 2, the hooks of the pinions ;
3, the crank; 4, the pin of the wheel; 5, 5, the pinions; 6, the cable closing;
7, 7, the pauls of the pinions; 8, the wheel.

page_text: Altho' I have described the whole process of the machinery by four different
Figures, yet it is well known that it is impossible to form any machinery
without using something that is old; therefore, as far as it respects rope
making, I claim what is new in the machinery of my own Invention.
In Fig. 1. I claim the manner of making the socket and of joining the reel
and the sheeve together, in order to take the reels in and out, and the manner
of affixing the sheeves that the bands may work clear, and of turning each
sleeve with a single band.
In Fig. 2, I claim the manner of drawing the yarn through the knipper
with the dented capstand and roller, and of fixing the sheeves and of joining
the reel to the sheeve by the socket, as in Figure 1, and the cylinder wheel to
turn every reel with a single band.
In Fig. 3, I claim the manner of subdividing the yarn in a triangular form
and twisting them between the plate and the tube box to make the yarns work.
inside and out alternately, and of forming the tube box, and of forming the
lissem or strand in a triangular form.
In Fig. 4, I claim the manner of taking the wheel in and out of gear, and
the pauls of the pinions, in order to turn a single hook, and the manner
of fixing the crank to answer two purposes, either a slow or quick motion.
Herein I claim the protection of my Patent, which expressly says no person
shall use or form a likeness of the same without my consent.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Bounsall, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eleventh day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
JAMES (L.S.) BOUNSALL.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED; that on the Eleventh day of February, in the
year of our Lord 1818, the aforesaid James Bounsall came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Eleventh day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighteen.