CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN FLYERS FOR SPINNING, PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Westley, Machinist, and Thomas Richard
Beaumont, Cotton Spinner, both of Pieston, in the County of Lancaster,
for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN FLYERS FOR SPINNING,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Westley and
Thomas Richard Beaumont at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with theit Petition, on the 17th July 1866
We, THOMAS WESTLEY, Machinist, and THOMAS RICHARD BEAUMONT,
Cotton Spinner, both of Preston, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
FLYERS FOR SPINNING, ROVING, OR SLUBBING COTTON OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES,"
to be as follows.—
Our Invention relates to the construction of flyers with solid legs to be used
for spinning, roving, or slubbing cotton or other fibrous substances in place
of the ordinary tubular leg or other presser flyers. The flyer is made with
solid legs, and at or about the top of the straight part of each leg we form a
collar or portion of a collar supporting a bearing capable of revolving or
partially evolving round the leg; this bearing carries the upper end of a

page_text: split tube. and its motion round the leg of the flyer is limited by a notch in
the lower side of the bearing working against a projection on the collar, or by
a pin or other similar means The lower end of the split tube is fixed in and
supported by the heel of the "presser arm," which is also capable of revolving
partially round the lower extremity of the solid leg of the flyer, the split
tubes with their bearings acting centrifugally (upon the revolution of the
spindle and flyer) thus cause the presser arms to bear against the bobbin with
the necessary pressure In some instances we propose to support the tube
and piesser arm at the bottom of the leg by means of a screw and washer
so contrived as to be able to lock the presser arm and tube at any convenient
angle.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Tetters Patent. filed
by the said Thomas Westley and Thomas Richard Beaumont in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 16th January 1867
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
WESTLEY, Machinist, and THOMAS RICHARD BEAUMONT, Cotton Spinner, both
of Preston, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS IIer most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her reign
did for Herself. Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
Thomas Westley and Thomas Richard Beaumont, Her special licence that we,
the said Thomas Westley and Thomas Richard Beaumont, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Thomas Westley and
Thomas Richard Beaumont, 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
CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN FLYERS FOR SPINNING, ROVING, OR SLUBBING
COTTON OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that we, the said Thomas Westley and Thomas Richard Beaumont, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in waiting under our, or
one of our, or their, or one of 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

page_text: Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Thomas Westley and Thomas Richard
Beaumont, 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 in writing, and on reference to
the accompanying Sheet of Drawing, that is to say:
Our Invention relates to the construction of flyers with solid legs to be used
for spinning, roving, or slubbing cotton or other fibrous substances in place of
the ordinary tubular leg or other presser flyers. The flyer is made with solid
legs, and at or about the top of the straight part of each leg we form a collat
or portion of a collar supporting a bearing capable of revolving or partially
revolving round the leg, this bearing carries the upper end of a split tube, and
its motion 1ound the leg of the flyer is limited by a notch in the lower side of
the bearing working against the projection on the collar, or by a pin or other
similar means. The lower end of the split tube is fixed in and supported by
the heel of the "piesser arm," which is also capable of revolving partially
round the lower extremity of the solid leg of the flyer, the split tubes with
their beanings acting centrifugally (upon the revolution of the spindle and
flyer) thus cause the presser arins to bear against the bobbin with the
necessary pressure. The upper end of the tube is formed with a bell mouth.
In some instances we propose to support the tube and presser arm at the
bottom of the leg by means of a screw and washer so contrived as to be able
to lock the presser arm and tube at any convenient angle.
Such being the nature and object of our said Invention for "Certain
Improvements in Flyers for Spinning, Roving, or Slubbing Cotton or other
Fibrous Substances," we will now proceed to describe more in detail the
manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into
practical effect, and in order that the same may be distinctly understood we have
annexed her cunto a Sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof, and have marked
the same with figures and letters of reference corresponding with those in the
following explanation thereof, that is to say:-
On reference to the accompanying Drawing, Figure 1 represents a side
view of a flyer made according to our Invention, and Figure 2 is an edge
view of the same. The legs a, a, of the flyer are made solid, and at or
about the top of the straight part of each leg we form a collar or portion of a
collar b, b, supporting the beaung c, c, which is capable of partially revolving
1ound the leg, this bearing c, c, carries the upper end of a split tube d, d,
(the top of which is bell-mouthed), its motion round the leg a, a, of the flyer

page_text: being limited by a notch e, e, in the lower side of the said bearing working
against a tooth or projection f. f, on the upper side of the collar b, b; this is
more clearly shewn in Figure 8, which is an inside view of one of the legs of
the flyer with its split tube attached. The lower end of the split tube d, d, is
supported by the heel g, g, of the presser arm h, h. Figure 4 is a horizontal
section through about the line 1-2 in Figure 1.
Having now described the nature and object of our said Invention for
"Certain Improvements in Flyers for Spinning, Roving, or Slubbing Cotton or
other Fibrous Substances," together with the manner in which the same is to
be or may be performed or carried into practical effect, we would remark in
conclusion that we claim as our Invention, attaching split tubes to the legs
and presser arms of solid leg flyers substantially in the manner and for the
purposes herein-before set forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Westley and Thomas Richard
Beaumont, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fourteenth
day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-seven