AN APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED WITH REELS, CYLINDERS, OR ROLLERS, AND FOR PLACING UPON OR TAKING OPF THEREFROM HANKS, SKEINS, BANDS, AND OTHER ARTICLES, WITHOUT REMOVING SUCH REELS, CYLINDERS, OR ROLLERS FROM THEIR BEARINGS
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Harvey, of Mansfield, in the County of
Nottingham, Mechanic, in the employment of John Bradley, of Mansfield,
Cotton Doubler, for the Invention of "AN APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED
WITH REELS, CYLINDERS, OR ROLLERS, AND FOR PLACING UPON OR TAKING OPF
THEREFROM HANKS, SKEINS, BANDS, AND OTHER ARTICLES, WITHOUT REMOVING
SUCH REELS, CYLINDERS, OR ROLLERS FROM THEIR BEARINGS,"
Sealed the 18th April 1856, and dated the 20th November 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Harvey at.
the Office of the Commissioners, of Patents, with his Petition, on the
20th November 1855.
I, WILLIAM HARVEY, of Mansfield, in the County of Nottingham, Mechanic,
in the employment of John Bradley, of Mansfield, Cotton Doubler, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED
WITH REELS, CYLINDERS, OR ROLLERS, AND FOR PLACING UPON OR TAKING OFF THERE-
FROM HANKS, SKEINS, BANDS, AND OTHER ARTICLES, WITHOUT REMOVING SUCH
REELS, CYLINDERS, OR ROLLERS FROM THEIR BEARINGS," to be as follows:-
My apparatus consists of a wheel; the nave of which is pierced to receivo
one end of the shaft or axis of a reel, cylinder, or roller, which is keyed or
mounted upon it, the opposite end of the shaft or axis revolving in a bearing
of any ordinary construction. A portion (about one-sixth) of the rim of this

page_text: wheel is removed or cut away, and the edge of the remaining portion is grooved
to receive a semicircular bearing on which it rests.
Supposing the apparatus to be fitted to a reel or cylinder employed for
recling fibrous substances from bobbins or otherwise, and forming the same
into hanks or skeins, and it be required to remove such hanks or skeins from
such reel or cylinder, each of the hanks or skeins drawn to that end of the
reel at which the apparatus is fixed, the wheel is turned until the open part
thereof is brought above the bearing, and part of the hank is placed in the
opening and across the wheel; the wheel is then caused to make rather more
than half a revolution, which will bring the open part again above the bearing
on the opposite side, and the bank or skein may then be completely withdrawn
from the cylinder. By reversing this process a bank or skein may be put
upon the cylinder.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by tho said William Harvey in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
20th May 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
HARVEY, of Mansfield, in the County of Nottingham, Mechanic, in the employ-
ment of John Bradley, of Mansfield, Cotton Doubler, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Harvey, Her special licence that I, the said William Harvey, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Harvey, 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 "AN APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED
WITH REELS, CYLINDERS; OR ROLLERS, AND POR PLACING UPON OR TAKING OFF.
THEREPROM HANKS, SKEINS, BANDS, AND OTHER ARTICLES, WITHOUT REMOVING SUCH
REELS, CYLINDERS, OR ROLLERS FROM THEIR BEARINGS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Harvey, my executors or admi-
nistrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their

page_text: 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Harvey, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to bo per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say:-
My apparatus consists of a wheel, the nave of which is pierced to receive
one end of the shaft or axis of a recl, cylinder, or roller, which is keyed or
mounted upon it, the opposite end of the shaft or axis revolving in a bearing
of any ordinary construction. A portion (about one-sixth) of the rim of this
wheel is removed or cut away, and the edge of the remaining portion is
grooved to receive a semicircular bearing on which it rests.
The manner in which I carry my Invention into effect is shewn in the
annexed Drawings, adapted to a reel for reeling fibrous substances from
bobbins, and forming the same into hanks; but it will be readily understood
that a cylinder or roller may be substituted for a reel.
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a reel with the apparatus applied thereto;
Figure 2, an end view; Figures 3 and 4, section and elevation of the apparatus
detached. A, A, is the reel, keyed on to an axis B, with which it revolves.
The axis is supported in an ordinary bearing at C, while its opposite end
revolves in a bearing formed in a boss D, supported by arms E, E, E, in the
apparatus or wheel F. This wheel has a portion of its rim, from a to b,
removed, and the remaining portion thereof is grooved to fit upon a bearing
G, in which it is free to turn. His a
handle for giving motion to the reel.
fixed on to the axis to receive motion
or other prime mover.
handle for turning the wheel; and I, a
Instead of a handle a pulley may bo
through a band from a steam engine
To remove hanks from the reel, the wheel is turned until the open part is
brought above the bearing, then the hank to be removed is drawn to that end
of the reel to which the apparatus or wheel is applied, and slipped off the
upper side of the reel, and that part of the bank which is then loose is laid or
placed in the opening in the rim of the wheel; the wheel is then caused to
make rather more than half a revolution, which will bring the open part again
above the bearing on the opposite side, and the hank or skein may then be
completely withdrawn from the reel. By reversing this process a hank or
skein may be put upon a reel.

page_text: And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the adaptation to
reels, cylinders, and rollers, of an apparatus or wheel with a portion of its rim
removed, acting in the manner and for the purposes herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Harvey, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of May, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-six.
WILLIAM HARVEY. (L.B.)