IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING BANDS OR CORDS FOR DRIVING MACHINERY AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jonathan Hague, of Ashton-under-Lyne, in the
County of Lancaster, Overlooker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING BANDS OR CORDS FOR
DRIVING MACHINERY AND OTHER PURPOSES."
Sealed the 16th December 1856, and dated the 20th June 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jonathan Hague at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
20th June 1856.
1, JONATHAN HAGUE, of Ashton-under-Lyne, in the County of Lancaster,
Overlooker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING BANDS OR CORDS FOR
DRIVING MACHINERY AND OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to machinery or apparatus for manufacturing bands
or cords from cotton, flax, hemp, or other fibrous substances, in which a series
of strands or threads are twisted or twined together, and consists in an arrange-
ment of apparatus whereby each of the strands or threads are kept at an equal
tension as they are twisted or twined together and wound on to the bobbins.
One arrangement I have found to answer is as follows:-The bobbins or cops
of the yarn or thread to be twisted are arranged and capable of turning on
suitable centres placed in a convenient position of the machine, the required
number of strands or threads to be twisted or twined together being passed

page_text: from thence through guides, and around a revolving roller, covered with gutta
percha or other suitable substance, after which they are conducted through
guides, and twisted or twined and wound on to bobbins on a series of spindles
by means of flyers mounted on the ends of the same; the bobbins also receive
a vertical traversing motion on the spindle by means of a copping rail, actuated
by any ordinary arrangements of apparatus applicable for such purpose; and
the required amount of "drag" upon the bobbins, for the purpose of producing
an equal tension of the strands or threads, above mentioned, is effected by an
arrangement of ccrds or bands and suspended weights acting upon friction
pulleys loose on the spindles aforesaid, which are mounted in suitable bearings,
and driven, together with the flyers before mentioned, by a suitable arrangement
of gearing. If it be desirable, a number of the strands or threads produced
as above described may again be twisted or twined together in the machine or
apparatus arranged as above set forth.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Jonathan Haguo in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
18th December 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JONATHAN
HAGUE, of Ashton-under-Lyne, in the County of Lancaster, Overlooker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS IIer most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, tho said
Jonathan Hague, Her especial licence that I, the said Jonathan Hague, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Jonathan
Hague, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING BANDS OR CORDS FOR DRIVING
MACHINERY AND OTHER PURPOSES," upon the condition, amongst others, that I,
the said Jonathan Hague, 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

page_text: filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Jonathan Hague, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what. manner. the' same is to. bo
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and accompanying Drawings, that is to say:
My improvements relate to machinery or apparatus for manufacturing bands
or cords from cotton, flax, hemp, or other fibrous substances, in which a series
of strands or threads are twisted or twined together, and consists in an arrange-
ment of apparatus whereby each of the strands or threads are kept at an equal
tension as they are twisted or twined together and wound on to bobbins...
And in order that the same may be fully understood, I have appended to
this my Specification an illustrative Drawing, which I will now proceed to
describe..
Fig. 1 is a vertical section of one arrangement I employ; and Fig. 2, a
detached portion thereof. The cops of material intended to form the band or
cord are placed in any required number upon a board or creel, as at a; the
threads or stands pass from thence through a guide plate b, and under a trans-
verse rod c, which rod is provided with projecting parts d and loops e for each
set of threads. In this united form they are conducted through a trumpet f,
and from thence entirely around a shaft g, after which they are guided by
pullies to the flyer i and bobbin k. The flyers are mounted upon spindles l,
which are driven from the main shaft m by suitable gearing. Upon the
spindles are mounted loose wharves n, the peripheries of which are held with
a certain degree of force by a band o (see Fig. 2), the ends of which are
attached to any convenient part which moves upward and downward with the
bobbins. The bobbins rest upon the wharves n, and the two- are caused to
rise and fall for the purpose of distributing the material by the copping rail p,
actuated in any ordinary manner. The shaft g is driven by suitable wheel-
work, so as to revolve at any determined speed in proportion to that of the
flyer, and this may be varied by the usual system of change wheels. By this
arrangement the shaft g may be caused to detain or give off the material at a
quicker or slower rate, but maintaining an uniform tension; at the same time
the flanges of the bobbins resting upon the wharves n will cause the latter to
revolve against the friction of the band o, and thus a drag will be effected for
maintaining an uniform tension in winding on. At qa portion of a cop is
shewn, the thread from which passes onwards with those proceeding from
below, and to this situation others may be transferred as they become unwound
towards the bottoni.

page_text: Figs. 3 and 4 represent a modification of the foregoing, and adapted to the
purpose of twisting a number of cords or bands already manufactured by the
machine, Fig. 1. The bobbins & are mounted in a creel r, and from them
the twisted cords are passed over guides s, and through trumpets t to a shaft u;
after passing around this they are turned around another shaft u*, from which
they are conducted by a guide roller v to the flyer i. The friction whaves n
are in this case each provided with a band o, one end of which is attached to
the copping rail p, and from the other a weight w is suspended, in order to
effect the required drag.
The shaft u is driven by gearing, as before described in reference to that of
Fig. 1, shewn at g, and is connected by wheelwork to u*, so that the two may
revolve at the same surface speed. The bobbins & rest upon wbarves x,
mounted loosely, but retarded by bands y, one end of each of which is fixed
and the other provided with a weight, by which means the unwinding of the
material is regulated.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be understood
that I claim, as secured to me under the above in part recited Letters Patent,
the methods above described for regulating the tension of the material, con-
sisting of the shafts g, u, and wharves n and their bands, or any modification
thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jonathan Hague, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
HAGUE (S.)