IMPROVE- MENTS IN RINGS USED IN MACHINES FOR THE CONTINUOUS SPINNING, DOUBLING
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Reuben Sykes and Philemon Sykes, of Huddersfield.
in the County of York, Machine Makers, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN RINGS USED IN MACHINES FOR THE CONTINUOUS SPINNING, DOUBLING,
"
Sealed the 13th January 1863, and dated the 13th November 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Reuben Sykes and
Philemon Sykes at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 13th November 1862.
We, REUBEN SYKES and PHILEMON SYKES, of Huddersfield, in the County
of York, Machine Makers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN RINGS USED IN MACHINES FOR THE CONTINUOUS SPINNING,
DOUBLING, AND TWISTING OF WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS," to be as
follows:-
Our Invention relates to the manufacture of the rings used in substitution
for the ordinary flyers employed in machines for spinning, doubling, and twist-
ing wool and other fibrous materials, and consists in the first place in making
such rings of "malleable" cast iron, and afterwards hardening the same by the
agency of heat, the said rings being used in the same manner and for the same
purpose as the glass rings described in the Specification of Letters Patent
granted to us, and bearing date the 27th day of January 1860, No. 208.
And our Invention consists, secondly, in varying the form of the said rings

page_text: from that represented and described in the Specification of the Patent above
referred to, so as to dispense with the bead or rounded projection on the inner
side at the upper part thereof, which bead is intended to prevent the ring flyer
from leaving the ring during its rotation. For this purpose the ring is formed
with the inner side bevilled off at the upper part, instead of with a bead or
rounded projection, and the lower part of the inner side is bevilled in the
opposite direction, that is to say, so that the diameter of the ring is less at the
upper part of the bevilled or inclined side than at the lower, thereby having a
tendency to prevent the ring flyer from leaving the ring.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Reuben Sykes and Philemon Sykes in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 12th May 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, REUBEN
SYKES and PHILEMON SYKES, of Huddersfield, in the County of York, Machine
Makers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of November, 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 Reuben Sykes and Philemon Sykes, Her special licence, that we, the
said Reuben Sykes and Philemon Sykes, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Reuben Sykes and Philemon Sykes, 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 RINGS USED IN MACHINES
FOR THE CONTINUOUS SPINNING, DOUBLING, AND TWISTING OF WOOL AND OTHER
FIBROUS MATERIALS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
Reuben Sykes and Philemon Sykes, our executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand
and seal of one of us or them, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Reuben Sykes and Philemon Sykes,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the.
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement thereof, that is to say:-.
Our Invention relates to the manufacture of the rings used in substitution.
for the ordinary flyers employed in machines for spinning, doubling, and:"
twisting wool and other fibrous materials; and consists, firstly, in making such
rings of malleable cast iron, and afterwards hardening the same by the agency
of heat, the said rings being used in the same manner, and for the same purpose
as the glass rings described in the Specification of Letters Patent granted to
us, and bearing date the 27th day of January 1860, No. 208.
Our Invention consists, secondly, in varying the form of the said rings from
that represented and described in the Specification of the Patent above.
referred to, so as to dispense with the bead or rounded projection on the inner
side at the upper part thereof, which bead is intended to prevent the ring.
flyer from leaving the ring during its rotation. For this purpose the ring is
formed with the inner side bevilled off at the upper part, instead of with a
bead or rounded projection, and the lower part of the inner side is bevilled in
the opposite direction, that is to say, so that the diameter of the ring is less
at the upper part of the bevilled or inclined side than at the lower, thereby
having á tendency to prevent the ring flyer from leaving the ring.
In making rings of malleable cast iron for the purpose st
stated, the metal is
cast in the usual manner. The castings are then annealed and made
malleable," by which means the metal is rendered soft enough to admit of
the rings being turned to the form herein-after described.
"
The rings after being turned, as required; are case-hardened in the usual
manner, by which process they are made as hard as steel; we do not, however,
limit ourselves to, or claim as of our Invention any particular mode of manu-
facturing our improved rings, so long as they are composed of malleable
cast iron.
The improved form of the ring is represented in the annexed Drawing.
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation, shewing the ring as applied to a spinning
machine, certain parts of which (herein-after referred to) are here shewn;
Figure 2 is an elevation of the said ring; and Figure 3 is a plan of the
same. The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several
Figures.
A is the ring, which is without bead on the inner side, and is bevilled
inwards from a to b at the upper part of the said inner side, the lower part
thereof being bevilled in the opposite direction, or outwards from 6 to c. Thus

page_text: the upper part of the side of the ring is thicker than the lower part, and the
sides of the ring from c to 6 are caused to incline inwards. B is the ring
flyer, similar to that used under the Patent herein-before referred to, which
ring flyer is prevented from leaving the ring during its rotation by the inclined
form of the inside of the ring, thereby obviating the necessity of an internal
bead or projection at the upper part of the ring; C is the ordinary spindle; D
is the bobbin; E is the yarn upon it; and F, F, are the ordinary drawing
rollers of a spinning or twisting frame.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, we wish it to be understood that we do not
claim as of our Invention any of the parts represented and described otherwise
than, as herein-after stated; but what we claim as of our Invention is, the
application to machines for spinning, doubling, and twisting wool and other
fibrous materials, of rings composed of hardened malleable cast iron, and
formed with bevilled or inclined sides for the purpose herein-before described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Reuben Sykes and Philemon Sykes,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Eleventh day of May, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
Signed by the said Reuben Sykes
and Philemon Sykes, in my
presence,
CHARLES THEWLIS,
(Their Clerk).
REUBEN SYKES.
(L.B.)
PHILEMON SYKES. (L.S.)