IMPROVEMENTS IN INDICATORS AND IN APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING THE SPREAD OF FIRE IN MULES FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Taylor, of Oldham, in the County of
Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, and Thomas Newall, of the same Place,
Manager, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN INDICATORS AND IN
APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING THE SPREAD OF FIRE IN MULES FOR SPINNING
AND DOUBLING."
Sealed the 11th November 1873, and dated the 31st May 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Taylor and
Thomas Newall at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 31st May 1873.
We, WILLIAM TAYLOR, of Oldham, in the County of Lancaster,
Cotton Spinner, and THOMAS NEWALL, of the same Place, Manager,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN INDICATORS AND IN APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING THE SPREAD OF FIRE IN MULES
POR SPINNING AND DOUBLING," to be as follows:-
To the cam shaft of the mule is fixed a worm which drives a wheel of
the indicator; to this wheel is fixed a pinion gearing into a wheel to
which is fixed another wheel having 99 teeth; to the axle of this wheel

page_text: is fixed an index finger which points to the divisions on a dial to which
is fixed a wheel with 100 teeth; the wheel with 99 teeth gears into a
pinion which drives the wheel with 100 teeth and the dial. The
divisions on the dial indicate the number of hanks that have been spun.
By this means at the end of the day, or a week, or other definite
time the master or overlooker can ascertain how many hanks have been
spun.
Our improved apparatus for preventing the spread of fire in mules,
consists of a number of sheet metal divisions which are fixed in the mule
carriage, so that if the fly or loose fibre should be ignited by friction or
otherwise in one part of the carriage it cannot spread to other parts
thereof.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Taylor and Thomas Newall in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 29th November 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
TAYLOR, of Oldham, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, and
THOMAS NEWALL, of the same Place, Manager, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said William Taylor and Thomas
Newall, Her special licence that we, the said William Taylor and
Thomas Newall, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said William Taylor and Thomas Newall, 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 INDICATORS AND IN APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING THE SPREAD
OF FIRE IN MULES FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said William Taylor and Thomas Newall, our

page_text: executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or
their, or one of our or 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 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 William Taylor and Thomas
Newall, 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 (that is to say) :-
To the cam shaft of the mule is fixed a worm which drives a wheel of
the indicator; to this wheel is fixed a pinion gearing into a wheel to
which is fixed another wheel having 99 teeth; to the axle of this wheel
is fixed an index finger which points to the divisions on a dial to which
is fixed a wheel with 100 teeth; the wheel with 99 teeth gears into a
pinion which drives the wheel with 100 teeth and the dial. The
divisions on the dial indicate the number of hanks that have been spun.
By this means at the end of the day, or a week, or other definite time the
master or overlooker can ascertain how many hanks have been spun.
Our improved apparatus for preventing the spread of fire in mules
consists of a number of sheet metal divisions which are fixed in the mule
carriage, so that if the fly or loose fibre should be ignited by friction or
otherwise in one part of the carriage it cannot spread to other parts
thereof.
And in order that our Invention may be fully understood, we will
proceed to describe the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation, and Fig. 2 a section of our improved
indicator; in these views a is the cam shaft or other convenient shaft
forming part of the mule; on this shaft is keyed the worm a¹ gearing
into the wheel b, which revolves on a stud fixed in the casc c which is
suspended to the shaft a. To the wheel is cast or fixed the pinion 6¹
which gears into the wheel d loose on a stud c¹ fixed in the case c.
To the boss of the wheel d is fixed the wheel e which has 99 teeth, and
to the same boss is fixed the index finger h which points to the divisions
on the dial g, to which is fixed the wheelf with 100 teeth. The dial g
and wheel run loose on the boss of the wheel d. Both the wheels

page_text: And secondly. Dividing the carriage of mules into several compart-
ments by sheet metal plates to prevent the spread of fire as shewn and
described.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Taylor and Thomas Newall,
have hereto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-eighth day of
November, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.