IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS FOR SPINNING
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Tatham, of Rochdale, in the County of
Lancaster, Machine Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS
MATERIALS FOR SPINNING."
Sealed the 21st August 1863, and dated the 23rd February 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Tatham at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
23rd February 1863.
I, JOHN TATHAN, of Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Maker,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS
FOR SPINNING," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates, firstly, to the drawing frame, and consists in a
method of driving the coilers thereof. For this purpose I place the line shaft
above the carrier wheels; which impart motion to the said coilers; and in
order to enable me to adopt this arrangement I form the beam which
supports the stands or slides so that the top thereof extends partly only
between the front and back portions of the said beam.
Another part of my Invention relates to feed rollers of preparing machinery,
and consists in so disposing them that the fibrous material is caused to lap
around one or more of their surfaces..
Another part of my Invention relates to the slubbing frame,and consists in

page_text: conducting the material, after it leaves the delivering rollers, and before it
reaches the flyer, through a trumpet or guide, whereby the said sliver is
brought to a cylindrical form.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said John Tatham in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
21st August 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
TATHAM, of Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seven year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said John Tatham, Her special license that I, the said John
Tatham, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said John Tatham, my 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 MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING COTTON AND
OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS FOR SPINNING," upon the condition, amongst others,
that 1,tbe said John Tatham,by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal,should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, 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 I, the said John Tatham, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and accompanying Drawings, that is to say:-
My Invention relates, firstly, to the drawing frame, and consists in a
method of driving the coilers thereof. For this purpose I place the line shaft
above the carrier wheels, which impart motion to the said coilers; and in

page_text: order to enable me to adopt this arrangement I form the beam which supports
the stands or slides so that the top thereof extends partly only between the
front and back portions of the said beam.
Another part of my Invention relates to feed rollers of preparing machinery,
and consists in so disposing them that the fibrous material is caused to lap
around one or more of their surfaces.
Another part of my Invention relates to the slubbing frame, and consists in
conducting the material, after it leaves the delivering rollers and before it
reaches the flyer, through a trumpet or guide, whereby the said sliver is
brought into a cylindrical form.
In the accompanying Drawing Fig. 1 represents part of a drawing frame in
section, constructed according to my Invention. The drawing rollers are at a
This beam,
mounted on the stands b, which are supported by the beam c.
instead of being continued, as usual, from the back c¹ to the front c², is dis-
continued at the point d, so as to leave an aperture in its upper surface, the
front and back being connected by midfeathers at suitable distances apart.
The line shaft for the coilers is at e, carrying bevil wheels, one of which is
shewn at f, situate within the aperture above mentioned of the beam, and
taking into a pinion g mounted upon a stud, and carrying at the other end of
its boss a carrier wheel h, which drives the coiler plate i. This arrangement
is of course repeated for as many coilers as are employed. I have above
supposed the aperture in the top of the beam as extending along the whole of
its length, but it may be formed at those situations only which are required
for the bevil wheels f.
The next part of my Invention is illustrated at Fig. 2, in which k may be
considered the licker-in of a carding engine, or the beater of an opener,
scutcher, or other such machine; I, I, are ordinary feed rollers, before which
are two other rollers m, n, so arranged that the one shewn at m causes the
material as it passes towards the machine to lap partly around the surfaces
of A, n. This arrangement may be repeated if desired, and other combinations
may be adopted, which will cause the above-described lapping to take place;
as, for instance, the rollers n may be omitted.
Fig. 3 shews that part of my Invention which relates to the slubbing frame.
The front pair of rollers is shewn at o, delivering the material to a trumpet-
shaped guide p fixed to the framework, from whence it passes to the flyer q,
having acquired a cylindrical form by its passage through the guide p.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it be under-

page_text: stood that I claim as secured to me under the above in part recited Letters
Patent,―
Firstly, and in reference to drawing frames, placing the line shaft for
driving the coilers above the carrier wheels, illustrated at h, and forming an
opening or openings on the top of the beam for the purpose above-mentioned.
Secondly, as applied to carding engines and openers or scutchers, or other
such machines, so arranging the feed rollers that the material is caused to lap
around the surface or surfaces of one or more of them, substantially as
described in reference to Fig. 2.
Thirdly, in reference to slubbing frames, the application of a trumpet-
shaped guide between the rollers and the flyer.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Tatham, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
JOHN TATHAM. (L.S.)