IMPROVEMENTS of MACHINERY EMPLOYED IN SPINNING AND TWISTING WOOL AND OTHER FIBRES."
Year: 1880

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LETTERS PATENT to Jabez Bunting Farrar, of Halifax, in the County of
York, Machine Maker, and William Lumb, of Mytholmroyd, near Halifax
IMPROVEMENTS IN
aforesaid, Worsted Spinner, for an Invention of
MACHINERY EMPLOYED IN SPINNING AND TWISTING WOOL AND OTHER
FIBRES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jabez Bunting Farrar and
William Lumb at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th
December 1880.
JABEZ BUNTING FARRAR, of Halifax, in the County of York, Machine Maker,
and WILLIAM LUMB, of Mytholmroyd, near Halifax aforesaid, Worsted Spinner.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY EMPLOYED IN SPINNING AND TWISTING WOOL
AND OTHER FIBRES."
This Invention relates to machinery employed in spinning and twisting or
doubling yarns or threads of wool and other fibrous substances, and the improve-
ments consists in a new combination and arrangements of parts. For this purpose
we employ a stud or dead spindle fixed onto a stationary rail, and provided with a
tube and wharle which revolves upon the said stud but does not traverse up and
down thereon. Upon the said tube is placed a bobbin or spool, onto which the yarn
is wound by means of a ring and traveller attached to a lifting rail for building
The bobbin or spool is
the yarn on the bobbin or spool in a regular manner.
caused to revolve by means of a band passing around the wharle in the ordinary
way.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Jabez Bunting Farrar and William Lumb in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 15th June 1881.
JABEZ BUNTING FARRAR, of Halifax, in the County of York, Machine Maker,
and WILLIAM LUMB, of Mytholmroyd, near Halifax aforesaid, Worsted Spinner.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY EMPLOYED IN SPINNING AND TWISTING WOOL
AND OTHER FIBRES."
This Invention relates to machinery employed in spinning and twisting or
doubling yarns or threads of wool and other fibrous substances, and the improve-
ments consist in a new combination and arrangements of parts. For this purpose
we employ a stud or dead spindle fixed on a stationary rail, and provided with a
tube and wharle which revolves upon the said stud but does not traverse up and
down thereon.
Upon the said tube is placed a bobbin or spool, onto which the yarn is wound by
means of a ring and traveller attached to a lifting rail for building the yarn on the
bobbin or spool in a regular manner. The bobbin or spool is caused to revolve by
means of a band passing around the wharle in the ordinary way.
In order that my Invention may be more fully understood, I herein give reference
to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof.
A represents a fixed rail which carries the dead spindles or studs B. Upon these
spindles or studs are mounted the tubes C, to which are fixed wharles D, the upper
flange of the wharle being of larger diameter than the lower one so as to afford
greater frictional surface to the bottom of the bobbin E. The rings and travellers F
are mounted on a rail G, which has a rising and falling motion for the purpose of
winding the yarn on to the bobbins.
By giving the traversing motion to the ring and travellers instead of to the
bobbins or tubes, as in cap frames, the bands are kept at an uniform tension, and as
the spindles or studs are much aborter there is less vibration and therefore a much
greater speed can be attained.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in which the
same is to be or may be performed or carried into practice, I would have it under-
stood that I claim,-
The use of non traversing tubes C mounted and revolving upon short dead
spindles or studs B in combination with rings and travellers F, as herein shewn and
described.
In witness whereof, I, Jabez Bunting Farrar, for and on behalf of myself and
the said William Lumb, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eleventh
day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
eighty one.
JABEZ BUNTING FARRAR. (L.S.)