IMPROVEMENTS IN REGULATING THE TENSION OF YARN IN THE PROCESSES OF WARPING, WINDING, SIZING, WEAVING, AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Gaskell, of Blackburn, in the County of
Lancaster, and Henry Walmsley, of Great Harwood, near Blackburn,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN REGULATING THE TENSION OF YARN
IN THE PROCESSES OF WARPING, WINDING, SIZING, WEAVING, AND OTHER
SIMILAR PURPOSES."
Sealed the 9th June 1863, and dated the 12th December 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Gaskell and Henry
Walmsley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 12th December 1862.
We, JAMES GASKELL, of Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster, and
HENRY WALMSLEY, of Great Harwood, near Blackburn, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN REGULATING THE TENSION
OF YARN IN THE PROCESSES OF WARPING, WINDING, SIZING, WEAVING, AND OTHER
SIMILAR PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
Our Invention consists of improvements in regulating the tension of the
yarn by giving motion to the bobbins or other apparatus on which the yarn
is wound. For this purpose we put a loose or fast spindle or shaft through
the bobbin or bobbins, and give motion to the said spindle or shaft by a
wharve, wheels, or pulley, in connection with the moving power by a band
or other suitable means, and thus obtain the required motion. Or, if found

page_text: desirable, the wharve or pulley may be turned on the bobbin head instead of
being separate; or we use a friction roller on which the bobbin or bobbins
rest for the same purpose, this latter plan being more especially applicable to
winding, sizing, and weaving processes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said James Gaskell and Henry Walmsley in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 11th June 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JAMES
GASKELL, of Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster, and HENRY WALMSLEY,
of Great Harwood, near Blackburn, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said James Gaskell and Henry Walmsley, Her special license that
we, the said James Gaskell and Henry Walmsley, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said James Gaskell and
Henry Walmsley, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
REGULATING THE TENSION OF YARN IN THE PROCESSES OF WARPING, WINDING, SIZING,
WEAVING, AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that we, the said James Gaskell' and Henry Walmsley, our executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of
our or 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
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
KNOW NOW YE, that we, the said James Gaskell and Henry Walmsley,
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 (that is to say) :-
Our Invention consists of regulating the tension of the yarn by giving

page_text: motion to the bobbins or other apparatus on which the yarn is wound. For
this purpose, we put a loose or fast spindle or shaft through the bobbin or
bobbins, and give motion to the said spindle or shaft by a wharve, wheels, or
pulley in connection with the moving power by a band or other suitable
means, and thus obtain the required motion. Or, if found desirable, the
wharve or pulley may be turned on the bobbin head instead of being separate;
or we use a friction roller on which the bobbin or bobbins rest for the same
purpose, this latter plan being more especially applicable to winding, sizing,
and weaving processes. We place the shaft or bobbin in a vertical, horizontal,
or diagonal position, as may be found most desirable.
Having thus described the nature and particulars of our said Invention, we
desire it to be understood that we claim the improvements in regulating the
tension of the yarn in the processes of warping, winding, sizing, weaving, and
other similar purposes, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Gaskell, for and on behalf of
myself and the said Henry Walmsley, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named James Gaskell, in
the presence of
E. J. HUGHES,
JAMES GASKELL. (L.S.)
Patent Agent,
Manchester.