CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR DRAWING, ROVING, SPINNING, AND DOUBLING COTTON; WOOL, AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1825

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
FREDERICK SMITH, of Dunston Hall, in the Parish of Chesterfield, in the
.i.
County of Derby; Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twenty-first day of June, in the sixth year of his reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
John Frederick Smith, His especial licence that I, the said John Frederick
Smith, my exors, adññiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John
Frederick Smith, my exors, adñiors, or assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR DRAWING, ROVING, SPINNING, AND
DOUBLING COTTON; WOOL, AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES;" in which said' Letters
Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Jolin Frederick Smith, by
an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, and to cause the same to be enrolled in His said Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the

page_text: date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being
thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Frederick Smith, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention
to consist of two particulars:-First, in a can having two false bottoms fitting
equally into either end; and secondly, in a bobbin made in several parts, and which
is capable of being taken to pieces after fibrous substances have been wound
upon it without disturbing the arrangement of such substances. And in
further compliance with the said proviso, I, the said John Frederick Smith,
do hereby describe the manner in which I perform my said Invention by
the following description thereof, reference being had to the Drawing annexed
and the figures marked thereon, that is to say:
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is an elevation of one of my said cans, showing the false bottom
lifted off at the end H, and closed or fitted on at the end K.
Figure 2 represents one of my said bobbins when put together, and ready
to have any fibrous substance wound upon it; and it should be here observed,
that I have found metal better adapted for the bobbin than wood, where it is
not of a very large size.
Figure 3 is a view of the two sides of my said bobbin when drawn asunder.
A, B, are the two sides, being flanged, of thin metal; C is a hollow tube open
at both ends and soldered into A, each end having a brass bushing within it to
sustain the friction; D is another tube, open also at both ends and furnished
with a small flange or shoulder at E; the side B of the bobbin which is shewn
on the tube D, slides along it, and the shoulder E is to prevent the side B
slipping off at that end of the tube.. The tube C is made small enough to
slide stiffly within the tube D, and when the two tubes are slided one within
the other they assume the appearance shown in Fig. 2. G is a small collar
fixed to the side B of the bobbin to keep it steady when sliding on, the
tube D.
Figure 4 shows the tube D with the side B of the bobbin partly slid
along it.
Figure 5 is a plan of one of the sides, or a side view of the bobbin.
And whereas different kinds of false bottoms to cans other than those here
represented and described will answer as well as those herein-before mentioned;
and whereas my said bobbin may be made of various metals or combi-
nations of metals, or of wood, and may be made to take to pieces in
various ways; but I claim as my Invention,-

page_text: First, a can for drawing and roving purposes with two false bottoms fitting
equally into each end; one of the said false bottoms being removed during the
process of receiving the fibrous substance in the can.
2ndly, a bobbin made of several parts in such manner as to be capable of
being taken to pieces after any fibrous substance has been wound upon it, and
entirely withdrawn from such fibrous substance without disturbing the arrange-
ment which was given to such fibrous substance upon the bobbin.
And such my said Invention as here claimed being, to the best of my know-
ledge and belief, entirely new, and never before used within that part of His
said Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England,
His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby
declare this to be my Specification of my said Invention, and that I do verily
believe this my said Specification doth comply in all respects, fully and
without reserve or disguise, with the proviso in the said herein-before in
part recited Letters Patent contained, wherefore I hereby claim to maintain
exclusive right and privilege to my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I the
my hand and seal, this
said John Frederick Smith, have hereunto set
Third day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-five