IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE APPLIED TO WINDING FRAMES OR OTHER SIMILAR MACHINES FOR THE PURPOSE OF REMOVING LUMPS OR DIRT FROM THE YARN
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Isaac Wood, of Greenfield, in the County of
York, for the Invention of "IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE APPLIED TO
WINDING FRAMES OR OTHER SIMILAR MACHINES FOR THE PURPOSE OF REMOVING
LUMPS OR DIRT FROM THE YARN."
Sealed the 30th January 1872, and dated the 21th October 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Isaac Wood at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
24th October 1871.
I, ISAAC WOOD, of Greenfield, in the County of York, do hereby
5 declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE
APPLIED TO WINDING FRAMES OR OTHER SIMILAR MACHINES FOR THE PURPOSE OF
REMOVING LUMPS OR DIET FROM THE YARN," to be as follows:-

page_text: gates" or notches, through one of which each thread is drawn, and in
passing through becomes cleared of any lumps' or dirt adhering to the
yarn. It will be evident that by this arrangement a variety of plates
having coarser or finer notches or
saw-gates" must be kept and
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changed for each different thickness of yarn.
My Invention consists in using for this purpose two plates, one sliding
over the other and having wider notches or saw-gates than usual. To
the left hand side of each notch on one plate is attached a die plate, and
to the right hand side of each notch on the other plate is attached a
similar die plate, and it will be evident that by sliding one of these plates
over the other the spaces between the faces of each pair of die plates can
be made wider or narrower, and that all the dies will be opened or
closed simultaneously and in an equal degree. By these means the dies
can be readily adjusted to any thickness of thread required by merely
turning a screw which is attached to one plate, and works through a nut
fixed to the other.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Isaac Wood in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 23rd April 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ISAAC
WOOD, of Greenfield, in the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Isaac Wood, Her special license
that I, the said Isaac Wood, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Isaac Wood, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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

page_text: 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 clearly understood I have annexed hereunto 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 :-
Fig. 1 in the annexed Drawing represents a view of the back or fixed
plate, and Fig. 2 a view of the front or sliding plate. Fig. 3 is a plan
view, and Fig. 4 a front view of the yarn clearer complete, showing the
two plates in the respective positions which they occupy when in use.
Both the back or fixed plate a, a, and the front or sliding plate b, b,
are made with wider notches or saw-gates than usual, and it will be
observed that die plates c, c, are attached by screws to the left hand side
of the notches on the front of the back or fixed plate a, a, whilst similar
die plates d, d, are attached by screws to the right hand side of the
notches on the back of the front or sliding plate, so that when the two
plates a and b are placed together as shown at Fig. 3 the inner edges of
the die plates c and d will come opposite to cach other, leaving a fine
notch or opening between them for the yarn to pass through.
I may here observe that it will be evident that the die plates may (if
preferred) be attached at the right-hand side of the notches on the fixed
plate, and to the left-hand side of the same on the sliding plate.
The back plate a, a, is fixed to the rail of the winding machine by
screws passing through the holes e, e, and the front plate b, b, is attached
to the former by screws f, f, passing through slightly clongated holes in a
the front plate b, b, to allow of it sliding on the back plate a, a. A
small stud or support g, g, fixed to one of the plates carries an adjusting
screw, h, passing through a nut i, i, fixed to the other plate, so that by
turning this screw the movable plate b, b, is caused to slide over the
fixed plate a, a, and open or close all the dies simultaneously and equally a
so as to adjust them to the thickness of the thread required to bo
operated upon.
As the die plates c, c, and d, d, are movable, if any of them should
become worn or otherwise damaged they are easily replaced without any
necessity for interfering with the remainder or renewing the whole.
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page_text: Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention,
together with the manner in which the same is to be or may be per-
formed or carried into practical effect, I wish it to be understood that I
claim as my Invention the improved apparatus for such purpose herein-
before described and shown on the annexed Drawings, consisting mainly
of a fixed and a movable notched plate, provided with right-hand and
left-hand die plates respectively, constructed and operating substantially
in the manner and for the purposes set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Isaac Wood, have hereunto set my
'
hand and scal, this Twentieth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
ISAAC WOOD. (L.S.)