CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS ON AND ADDITIONS TO MACHINES OR MACHINERY TO BE USED AND APPLIED FOR CONDUCTING TO AND WINDING UPON SPOOLS, BOBBINS, OR BARRELS, ROVINGS OF COTTON, FLAX, WOOL, OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES OF THE LIKE NATURE
Year: 1830

page_text: DYERS SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
CHEESEBOROUGH DYER, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Paten
Card Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His late most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth, did,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-seventh
day of February, in the eleventh year of His reign, give and grant unto me,
the said Joseph Cheeseborough Dyer, my exors, admors, and assigns, His
especial licence, full power, and sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
Joseph Cheeseborough Dyer, my exors, adñors, and assigns, should and
lawfully might, during the term of fourteen years therein mentioned, make,
use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick
upon Tweed, an Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS ON AND ADDITIONS TO
MACHINES OR MACHINERY TO BE USED AND APPLIED FOR CONDUCTING TO AND
WINDING UPON SPOOLS, BOBBINS, OR BARRELS, ROVINGS OF COTTON, FLAX, WOOL,
OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES OF THE LIKE NATURE;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso, that if I, the said Joseph Cheeseborough Dyer,
should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months then next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said
Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages thereby granted, should utterly

page_text: cease, determine, and become void, as in and by the same, relation being
thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joseph Cheeseborough Dyer, do hereby declare that the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are
particularly set forth and ascertained in and by the nine Sheets of Drawings
hereunto annexed, and the following description thereof:-
My said improvements on and additions to machines and machinery as
aforesaid, are severally designed to effect different objects as connected with
the operation of conducting to and placing rovings upon bobbins. I shall
therefore proceed to describe the nature of the machinery, and improvements
employed by me in effecting such objects, separately.
Firstly, as to a machine or frame to be used and applied for conducting
rovings of cotton, flax, &c. from the front or delivering rollers of the common
drawing frame through a conducting tube for twisting and untwisting the
same, and thence to a bobbin upon which it is wound in a hard or dense
mass, in which state the rovings may be removed with greater facility than
when they are delivered as heretofore from the said rollers loosely into cans.
The construction of a machine for this purpose is represented on the four
Sheets of Drawings herewith, numbered respectively 1, 2, 3, and 4. The same
letters and figures of reference denote the same parts in each of these
Drawings. Sheet Number 1 is an end elevation, No. 2 a. transverse section,
No. 3 a plan, and No. 4 a partial front elevation, of the machine. The cast-
iron frame supports are shown at A, A', A³, A³. A head of drawing and
delivering rollers (in the common form) is shewn at B, B', B. C, C¹, C³, is
the conducting tube, presser, and frame support; D is the friction cylinder;
and E, the bobbin, mounted in the situation for receiving the rovings in the
act of winding the same thereon; F and F is the main shaft, with fast and
loose pulleys for driving the machine. The friction cylinder D is driven by
the train of wheel work, as shewn at G, G1, G2, through the long cylinder
pinion G³.. This long pinion is for the purpose of admitting the traverse or
back and forth run of the cylinder D, as shewn, mounted upon the sliding
frame D. The bobbin, being supported upon and allowed to turn freely with
the cylinder D, is thereby driven by the contact or friction of their surfaces,
and as D is at the same time made to traverse endwise, the rovings will
be duly taken up and lapped upon the said bobbins in regular spiral
coils. The sliding frame D2 is driven back and forth as follows:-A toothed
sector H upon the upright shaft K acts alternately in the racks J', J, which
are fixed to the sliding frame on the opposite sides of the shaft K; this shaft

page_text: is driven by the worms L', L³, acting alternately in the wheel K³. These
worms are fixed on the axis of the fugle bobbins L, L, which bobbins are
driven alternately by the friction cylinders M and M', which are geered
together and driven by a strap from the pulley on the main shaft at F³; the
fugle bobbins are successively let down to bear upon the cylinders, and the
one so let down, being empty at the commencement, is made to take up
a chord previously wound upon the other bobbin, which is raised up and
out of geer, whereby the fugle bobbin which is in action has its diameter
increased in winding on the said chord, and consequently its speed decreased,
so as to cause the required decrease of motion to traversé frame in the process
of filling the bobbins E with rovings, as aforesaid. The lever, tumbler, hooks,
and frames and weights, as seen at N, N1, N2, N3, are for the purpose of easily
and speedily reversing the action of the fugle bobbins and worms with the
wheel K, when the bobbin filled with rovings is to be doffed, and the process
recommences upon an empty one. The conducting tube C is for the purpose
of twisting and untwisting the cotton roving, so as to pack or compress the
same in its transit from the delivering rollers to the surface of the bobbin.
These tubes are provided with the presser C¹ through a hole in the smooth
face of which the rovings pass, and are thereby pressed home upon the surface
of the bobbin as they are drawn forward. through the tubes and wound
thereon. The conducting tube and presser, being mounted to turn upon the
pivot or axis at C, is allowed to recede from the bobbin as it increases in size;
at the same time the requisite pressure may be given to the roving as it passes
from the tube on to the bobbin by the action of a weighted lever upon the
axis C. From the foregoing description, and by due inspection of the
Drawings referred to, any machine maker conversant with cotton and other
roving frames will easily and fully understand the construction and operation of
this machine. The dimensions of these machines may be varied, according to
circumstances, to wind the cotton upon bobbins of a greater or less size. The
one shewn in the Drawings is adapted for an eight-inch bobbin, all the
Drawings being upon a scale of one-fourth of the full size. These bobbins
when filled will hold about half a pound of cotton rovings each, more or
less, according to the closeness of packing or winding on and the size of
filling. It will be obvious that this machine is mainly intended to render
slivers or thick rovings more portable for undergoing the subsequent pro-
cesses, and that it partakes essentially of the nature of a "drawing head"
and "lap machine" united, but with the addition of the conducting tube, for
compressing the rovings upon the bobbins, as described.
I will now proceed, secondly, to describe my said additions and improve-

page_text: ments as applied to another class of machines called "patent tube machines,'
which are designed for reducing cotton rovings to the proper finenesses for
spinning. The construction of a machine of this class is reprosented on four
other Sheets of the Drawings herewith, numbered respectively 5, 6, 7, and 8,
and the same letters and figures of reference on these Sheets do also denote
the same parts in each of them. The "tube machine" here delineated
partakes of the like principles of operation as is embraced in an Invention for
which I obtained His late Majesty's Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth
day of July, One thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, which was duly
specified and enrolled on the Sixteenth day of January, One thousand eight
hundred and twenty-six, and the machine now to be specified may therefore be
considered as containing additions to and improvements on the Invention so
before secured to me, and I do, in the first place, refer unto the said former
Specification, in order more clearly to distinguish and ascertain the nature
and extent of my said additions and improvements as applied to the "tube
machines" aforesaid. In the Drawings referred to, Sheet Number 5, Figure 1,
is an end elevation, Number 6, Figure 2, is a transverse section, and Number
7, Figure 3, is a front elevation, shewing the two ends of the machine with
the middle portion left out, to exhibit the separate parts more distinctly; and
on Sheet Number 8, Figure 4 is a plan, exhibiting two other distinct modifica-
tions and methods of using the said tube machines, as herein after described.
In the three Sheets, Figures 5, 6; and 7, the principal cast-iron beam and
frame supports are shewn at A, A1, A2, A3, A; at B, B, are shewn two sets of
drawing rollers mounted upon stands, the back set being elevated a little above
the front set. These rollers with the parts connected and employed with them
in the operation of drawing the rovings are all accurately shewn in the
Drawings, which renders any further verbal description thereof unnecessary.
The employment of two sets of drawing rollers instead of one set (as specified
in my said former Patent) is important in the operation of this machine, as it
requires much less labour in the back tending, the great speed of the front or
delivering roller rendering the back tending troublesome when only one set is
employed. E represents the traverse beam, upon which D, D, the friction
cylinders, are mounted, and made to revolve by the driving wheel D' and
the sliding coupling, as shewn by the sections at. D', in Figures. 1 and 3.
This beam is supported upon its bearings E', E', moving upon the large
friction rollers E, E, and, the central bearing roller E³; by this arrange-
ment the friction cylinders D, D, together with the bobbins mounted thereon,
as shewn in the Drawings, are made to revolve, and at the same time
to traverse back and.. forth endwise in the process of placing the roving

page_text: upon bobbins. The apparatus for giving the traverse motion (to be here-
after described) is adapted to shorten the length of the run of the traverse
beam at each successive lap of the rovings, in the course of placing the
same upon the bobbins, so as in fact to make the ends thereof conical when
filled with rovings. This is an important improvement in the method of placing
rovings upon bobbins as connected with the other properties of my said Inven-
tion, by which the said rovings are compressed and wound upon the said
bobbins in a hard or dense mass. By this method of tapering the ends of the
bobbins so filled, a simple wood cylinder or barrel is used in lieu of the common
bobbin with end flanges, the expense of such barrels and their liability to break
being much less than the common sort, and they are also more convenient and
portable in use. At C, C', is shewn a pair of conducting tubes and presser as
mounted upon the carriage, which turns on the centres at C3, C, the said tubes
being separately driven by bands proceeding from the drum C. These driving
bands must be made to pass through guide .holes concentric with the axis of
the tube frame at C, in order to neutralize their action in the bearing of the
presser against the bobbin. They are, however, for clearness, left out in Figures
1 and 2, but are shewn with the driving bands passing through them at C2,
Figure 6, by the detached Drawing. The conducting tubes, being arranged in
pairs, are made to converge towards their delivering ends, (as shewn separately
at Figure 9, Sheet 6,) so as to deliver the roving from each tube through one
aperture in the presser; this aperture being formed so as to draw the two
strands or rovings close together, and lay them side by side, in the act of pressing
and winding the sane upon the bobbins. The form of the conducting tubes is
separately delineated and shewn of the full working size at Figure 7, Sheet 8.
By this form it will be seen that as the roving passes from the delivering roller.
through the centre of the conducting tube to the stop or bridge near the front
end, and there passes over the said bridge, and thence back to the centre and
through the small hole or mouth of the tube, the rovings will by the rotation
of the tubes be twisted from the point where they pass out from the centre of
the tubes and over the said bridge back to the delivering roller, and the same
twist will be given out as the rovings return to the centre of rotation, and pass
out from the delivering ends upon the bobbins, by which means they will be.
duly compressed and placed thereon in an untwisted state, and in a hard or
dense mass, as aforesaid. F is the driving shaft, separately fixed upon the
principal beam A, and at F are the fast and loose pullies, communicating with
any first mover for giving motion to the machine. The drawing rollers are
driven from this shaft by wheel work, shewn at F2, and the friction cylinders
at D are driven by a train of wheel work from the same shaft, as shewn at

page_text: F, F. F is the twist pulley for driving the drum C³ and pulley C'; a
strap from the pully H, on the axis of D', proceeds to the expanding pulley H',
for driving the traverse motion. This traverse motion is produced as follows:
The shaft H³ of the expanding pulley, being driven as above, has a small
pinion on the opposite end, working into the mangle wheel H; and the
pinion upon the axis of this wheel, working in the sliding rack. H³, drives
the said rack back and forth by each alternate back and forth revolution
of the mangle wheel; and this rack, by means of the stud and connecting
rod He, which is jointed to the vibrating lever at H', causes the said lever
to turn upon its fulcrum at Hs, and to vibrate back and forth through equal
arcs at each successive run of the rack. A sliding piece H is fixed to move
up and down in the curved slot of this lever, to which piece is jointed the
connecting rod H, the same being attached at its opposite end to the traverse
bar E, by means of the descending arm and joint pin H". Upon the sliding
piece of the traverse lever is also fixed a plate H, with graduated ratchet
teeth cut upon its opposite edges, into which the slido clicks are brought
successively to act, to sustain the weight of the said slider, connecting rod,
and plate. When the slider is raised to the top of the slot in the lever, the
are of its vibration is adapted to give the full length of run required in com-
mencing to wind the rovings upon an empty bobbin, when at each subsequent
vibration of the lever the tail of one click comes in contact with a trip screw,
and disengages it from a notch on that side, and allows the plate and-rod to
fall down upon the click on the opposite side, and so on alternately, until the
slide is let down to the bottom of the slot in the lever. The number of ratchet
teeth in this plate, and the length of the slot in the lever, may be variously
adapted to give any required taper to the ends of the bobbins in filling the
same with rovings; as it is manifest that by the descent of the end of the
connecting rod at H, along the slot of the vibrating lever, the back and forth
distance of run given to the traverse bar E will be reduced by the shortening
of the arcs through which He will pass as it approaches the fulcrum H³ of
the lever; and by this means, if deemed expedient, the surface or cylindrical
part of the bobbin may be shortened directly as its diameter increases, so as
in effect to take up the same length of roving laid in equal spiral coils at each
successive back and forth. run in the act of filling the bobbins. The use of
this improved traverse motion is highly important as applied to the said
patent tube roving machines, seeing that all the operations thereof are accu-
rately determined by the action of the toothed geering, connecting rods, and
lever motions, as described, besides the apparatus thus described as belong-
ing to this traverse motion, and which is made to operate by a uniform speed

page_text: of the driving shaft Hs. I have applied to the said shaft an apparatus for
expanding its driving pulley H¹, and which may be used or not. If it be
desired to make the cylindrical part of the bobbins as long, 'and' conical ends
as short, as possible, with a view to their containing a greater quantity of
roving when filled, then the expanding pully may be advantageously used to
lengthen the time of the successive runs of the traverse, so as to lay a
proportionally increasing length of roving in cach successive coil. This
expanding pulley is formed by fixing the opposite ends of six rods at equal
distances round the edges of two circular plates of unequal diameter, and the
driving shaft passing loosely through the centre of these plates, the rods will
converge at one end towards the shaft. A central boss is fastened to the shaft
for guiding six angular segments of a pulloy surrounding the same, and each
of the converging rods is made to pass through one of these segments of the
pulley, (see Figure 3, H, also a detached view and section at Figure 8.)
His a sliding ratchet bar attached to the boss of the small sliding plate,
and when this plate is slided back to the boss of the expanding pulley the
pully will be contracted to its smallest diameter (when all the six segments will
he brought in contact); and by the gathering of successive teeth of the ratchet
bar, by means of the click H₁ upon the vibrating lever, the rods will be drawn
along the shaft, and causing their opposite ends with the large sliding plate
to approach the pully, and thereby the segments will be all thrust out to form
its greatest diameter, and consequently to decrease proportionally the time of
its successive revolutions. The machine is thrown out of geer when the
bobbins are filled by means of a trip, brought down by the sliding piece H,
which acts upon the levers K and K', thereby disengaging the upright lever
K², and shooting the rod K³ endwise, and carrying the strap on to the loose
pulley by means of the guide K. The four Sheets of Drawings last described
are upon a scale of one-fourth of the full size, being adapted for placing 'the
rovings upon bobbins or barrels of six inches in length, and of about three
inches in diameter when filled. By the above described arrangement of
the conducting tubes, whereby they are made to operate together in pairs
upon cach bobbin in the act of filling them with rovings, (instead of ope-
rating singly upon the bobbins, as specified in the original Patent, herein-
before referred to,) an important improvement is effected. By this method
of placing the tubes, twice the number of slivers or rovings are passed
through them, and placed upon any given number of bobbins in the
same time; again, twice the strength is given to the rovings for "coming
off" or twining the said bobbins in unwinding the rovings in the process
of spinning, which latter object is very essential when it is required to

page_text: produce rovings of such a degree of fineness or tenuity as 'would render
them liable to break in. coming off when placed (as heretofore) in single
strands on the bobbins. Thus, a double strength may be given to fine rovings,
or a double weight. of. coarse ones. may be. obtained..by. the. aforesaid improxe-
ment, for making the tubes act together in pairs upon each bobbin, instead of
acting thereon singly, as before. This principle may be still farther extended
by arranging the tubes in triplicates, to converge in like manner at their
delivering ends, so as to conduct three slivers or rovings together, and place
them side by side on each bobbin; but for common purposes I prefer using
them in pairs, as already.described. It is obvious that these. machines may
be made of various lengths, but in general I prefer them of about sixteen
feet in length, that length being adapted to contain twenty six inch bobbins, as
shewn in the Drawings:
⚫ I will now describe the two other modifications of this tube machine as
shewn on Sheet Number 8, and before referred to; all the operative parts of
which are the same as before described, except as to the arrangement of the
conducting tubes, bobbins, and traverse motions, as follows:-At Figure 4 the
tubes are arranged: to act singly, but at short distances from each other, in
filling a number of short bobbins of any required diameter, placed along in
succession upon the same spindle or axis.. This spindle may be of any con-
venient length to contain ten or twelve bobbins, more or less, of three or four
inches each in length, (six only of which, with their conducting tubes, are
shewn in the Drawing.) The spindle or axis for these bobbins is provided
with end nuts for setting the bobbins fast together when placed in the
machine for filling, but they may be put loosely upon a spindle or axis for
winding off the rovings, so that they will turn round separately in case the
rovings should be taken up from some of them faster than from others; this
modification of the machine being principally designed for fine rovings. The
traverse motion in this case is. of course adapted to the length of run corre-
sponding with the short bobbins and conical ends, as shewn in the Drawing,
and the process of conducting to and placing the rovings thereon is the same
as before described for the other bobbins. At Figure 5 on the same Sheet is
delineated and shewn the other modification above réferred to. In this case
single cylinders or barrels are employed, of proper diameter, to afford due
strength and of sufficient length. to allow a range of ten or twelve conducting
tubes, more, or less, to act all together in conducting to and placing the rovings
upon the said cylinders. These cylinders are supported by thin end pivots on
the friction cylinders of corresponding lengths, and furnished with flanges at
the ends to. support the rovings. The traverse motion in this case must have

page_text: an equable back and forth run, corresponding to the distance the conducting
tubes are placed from each other; hence, when a given number of tubes
are so arranged, say, at the distance of about three inches apart, and the
traverse being made to move back and forth the same distance, the tubes will
conduct to and place the rovings upon the cylinders, so that each successive
coil laid on by one tube will reach the coil of the next tube in succession,
whereby the said coils will all come in contact with and support each other,
and the cylindrical form will be preserved by the rovings in the act of filling
these long bobbins or barrels. Thus a large quantity of such rovings are
placed upon each cylinder, which may be made of any required length and
diameter that shall be found convenient in practice. This last plan of placing
the rovings upon large and long cylinders is calculated for coarse rovings;
as the ends will all require to be drawn off together, the cylinders, being placed
horizontally in creels, will be pulled round by the joint action of the ends in
winding off.
It will be observed, that in all the modifications of my said Invention of
additions to and improvements" "on machines or machinery to be used and
applied for conducting to and winding upon spools, bobbins, or barrels, rovings
of cotton, flax, &c.," the same are shewn and described as combined with the
joint action of the "conducting tubes" and "pressing instrument" employed
for twisting and untwisting, the rovings in their transit from the delivering
roller to the bobbin, for the purpose of packing or condensing them, and for
delivering and pressing home the same in a dense mass upon the bobbin; and
also that the rovings are in each case drawn forward and taken up by the
rotation of the said bobbins, the equable motion of which for that purpose:is
given by the action upon thin surfaces of the friction cylinders, on which they
are mounted to turn, as shewn and before described. The processes of twisting
and untwisting, pressing upon the bobbin, and taking up the rovings, being
similar in principle to the like operations specified in the former Patent referred
to, it may be proper to consult the Specification thereof along with the present,
in order the more clearly to perceive the nature and extent of the said
improvements and additions to be used and applied in conjunction-therewith;
and which appertain to my present Invention, as herein-before set forth and
described.
I will now, thirdly, proceed to describe the part or portion of my said Inven-
tion to be used and applied in conjunction with the class of roving machines
called or known by the name of bobbin and fly or jack frames, the object of
such additions and improvements being to wind the roving of cotton, flax, &c.
upon the bobbins in a harder or more compressed state than is effected in a

page_text: common method of winding the rovings upon bobbins with machines of this
class, for the purpose aforesaid. I attach a moveable arm or pressing instru-
ment to the lower end of the guide arm of the flyer, by which the rovings are
conducted thence to the surface of the bobbins, and condensed or pressed hard
thereon in the act of filling the said bobbins. The said improvements may be
applied to any of the well-known machines of this class; it is therefore un-
necessary here to describe the general construction and movement of such
machines, as the application thereto of my said improvement may be suffi-
ciently set forth and explained by reference to the Drawing on Sheet No. 9.
In these Drawings, Figure 10 is a front elevation of a portion of a frame,
shewing the spindles, bobbins, and flyers and delivering rollers, mounted in the
usual form, but with the addition of the aforesaid arm or pressing instrument
attached to the flyers. The same are again shewn attached to the flyers, repre-
sented upon a scale of half the usual size, by elevations and sections, at Figures
11, 12, 13, and 14. These arms or pressers, being made of different forms, are
designed to perform the office of guiding and pressing the rovings in different
methods as follows, namely:-A cross arm, as shewn at Figure 11, is made to
swing freely upon the guide arm of the flyer as a centre of rotation; the open
circular groove in one end of this arm serves to conduct to and press the
roving upon the surface of the bobbin. A part of this pressure is produced
by the drag of the roving along the said groove in the process of winding the
same upon the bobbin, the bobbin having in this case an excess of motion
beyond that of the flyer, sufficient to cause the rovings to be duly taken up
or wound thereon as they are delivered to the flyer. A further pressure of
such rovings upon the surface of the bobbin is effected by the centrifugal force
acting upon the opposite and heavier end of the arm or pressing instrument,
as shewn in the section at Figure 11. The pressing instrument, as shewn at
Figure 12, is fixed upon the arm of the flyer by means of a spring collar, which
allows the same to turn thereon, but with its motion opposed by a proper
degree of friction from the pinch of the said collar. By placing the delivering
end of this presser against the naked bobbin, in commencing to wind the
rovings thereon, the drag of the rovings along the groove in the presser will,
as in the former case, assist its action of pressing the rovings hard upon the
bobbin, but such pressure will be increased by the filling of the bobbin, and
consequent turning out the said pressing arm against the resistance of its
friction collar, as aforesaid. Another form of the pressing instrument as fixed
to the flyer by a collar permitting it to turn more freely thereon than the last
is shewn at Figure 13. The presser here shewn is formed with a spiral groove,
around which the roving is coiled, and from the end of which it is delivered to

page_text: and wound upon the bobbin. The drag of the roving in this case will be
increased by the friction of the roving along the said groove, whereby the
pressure on the bobbin will be proportionally increased, and the bobbins wound
in a hard or dense state. The like effect of winding the cotton in a hard or
dense state upon the bobbins may be produced by a pressing instrument of
the form as shewn at Figure 14, the pressing action of which is mainly pro-
duced by the action of a spiral spring, coiled round one arm of the flyer and
forcing the presser against the bobbin, whilst the roving is delivered from the
opposite arm of the flyer and through a hole in the said presser on to the
bobbin, as shewn at said Figure 14.
In the course of describing the nature of my said Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be carried into effect, by the foregoing Specification
thereof, I have pointed out and distinguished several of the most important
portions and properties of my said additions and improvements as being appli-
cable to such roving machines as belong to the class called "patent tube
machines," such machines having been secured to me by a former Patent,
herein-before referred unto; I do therefore hereby claim, as appertaining to my
present Invention, all such additions and improvements so pointed out and
distinguished as aforesaid; and amongst which are especially comprehended,―
First, the form and plan of arranging the "conducting tubes," whereby they
are made to operate in pairs or three together upon each separate bobbin,
converging at their ends near the bobbin, so as to deliver their respective
strands or charge of rovings close together as the same are pressed against
and wound upon the bobbins, as described.
Second, the apparatus for giving the traverse motion, as described, whereby
the rovings are wound on simple barrels or bobbins without end flanges, and
protected from injury in moving by their conical ends, and being wound
thereon in a hard or dense mass.
Third, the method of arranging and using the conducting tubes near
together and parallel to each other, so as to act separately but upon short
bobbins, a series of which are placed on the same spindle or axis, as shewn and
described at Figure 4 in the Drawings.
Fourth, the plan of arranging and using the said conducting tubes also near
together and parallel to each other, but to act conjointly in winding the
rovings upon one large and long bobbin, as shewn and described at Figure 5.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Cheeseborough Dyer, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of August, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty.
JOSEPH C. (L.S.) DYER.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on tho Twenty-fourth day of August,
in the year of our Lord 1830, the aforesaid Joseph Cheeseborough Dyer
came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and-acknowledged
the Specification aforesaid, and all and everything therein contained and
specified, in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was
stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-seventh day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand, eight hundred and thirty.