CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN FLYERS TO BE EMPLOYED IN ROVING, SLUBBING, AND SPINNING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Settle, of Bolton, in the County of Lancaster,
Spindle and Flyer Maker, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN FLYERS TO BE EMPLOYED IN ROVING, SLUBBING, AND SPINNING COTTON
AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES."
Sealed the 16th October 1863, and dated the 22nd April 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Settle at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
22nd April 1863.
J, THOMAS SETTLE, of Bolton, in the County of Lancaster, Spindle and
Flyer Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN FLYERS' TO BE EMPLOYED IN ROVING, SLUBBING,
AND SPINNING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to a novel method of securing the "flyers" upon the
spindles employed in machinery for roving, slubbing, and spinning cotton and
other fibrous substances, and consists in forming a long vertical "key" or rib
in a suitable position in the interior of the flyer tube in which tho spindle fits,
in contradistinction to the use of a short stud, as hitherto employed, and which
does not form a sufficiently perfect union between the spindle and flyer.
The top of the spindle is grooved vertically into any required number of
recesses, into which the said long "key" or rib falls, and so secures the flyer

page_text: on the top of the spindle, the chief feature in the Invention being the
elongated form and position of the "key" by the lengthened bearing or
surface of which a better and steadier hold is effected between the spindle
and flyer.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Settle in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
22nd October 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
SETTLE, of Bolton, in the County of Lancaster, Spindle and Flyer Maker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenth-second day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Thomas Settle, Her special license that I, the said Thomas Settle, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas Settle, 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN FLYERS' TO BE
EMPLOYED IN ROVING, SLUBBING, AND SPINNING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUB-
STANCES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Settle
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of 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 I, the said Thomas Settle, 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
and accompanying Drawings (that is to say) :-
My Invention relates to a novel method of securing the "flyers" upon the
spindles employed in machinery for roving, slubbing, and spinning cotton and
other fibrous substances, and consists in forming a long vertical "key" or rib

page_text: in a suitable position in the interior of the flyer tube in which the spindle fits,
in contradistinction to the use of a short stud, as hitherto employed, and which
does not form a sufficiently perfect union between the spindle and flyer.
The top of the spindle is grooved vertically into any required number of
recesses, into which the said long "key" or rib falls, and so secures the flyer
on the top of the spindle, the chief feature in the Invention being the
elongated form and position of the "key" by the lengthened bearing or
surface of which a better and steadier hold is effected between the spindle
and flyer.
In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained in
detail, I have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings, made about full size.
Fig. 1 represents a sectional view of an old description of flyer, that is,
without a socket within the flyer, in which a short stud has been employed to
a limited extent, such imperfect arrangement being to the best of my know-
ledge the only manner in which the key has hitherto been applied; Fig. 2
represents a sectional view of the improved description and combination of
key with a flyer as now employed in spinning cotton, shewing the slotted
spindle retained in the flyer tube by the long key; Fig. 3 is also a sectional
view of a flyer, shewing the elongated key and its position in the flyer.
In Fig. 1a is the flyer, in which a stud b has hitherto been employed to
enter a slot in the spindle as a means of connecting them together, but which
proved very ineffectual. In Figs. 2 and 3 a is the flyer as now employed in
preparing and spinning cotton, wherein a long tube c is employed to give
stendiness to the spindle, within which tube the elongated key b is placed,
which affords a longer bearing in the slot of the spindle d, and consequently
effects a more steady connection. The spindle may have several vertical slots
or grooves formed around its circumference, so as to allow the key to enter
any, so as to obviate the necessity of turning the flyer round to find the slot
as when only one is used.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, I would remark that since
the filing of the Provisional Specification for my said Invention I have ascer-
tained that the application of a stud key to the spindles employed in preparing
and spinning wool and other fibrous substances is not so novel or original nor
of such utility as I then considered it to be, and I therefore disclaim the
words "or other fibrous substances;" but I wish it to bo distinctly understood
that I claim the novel application and use of a long key or rib in the interior
of the flyer fitting into a slot in the top of the spindle as a means of con-
nection between the two, as shewn, and to be employed in machinery for

page_text: roving, slubbing, and spinning cotton, as herein-before described, set forth, and
fully illustrated in the Drawings attached.
Signed, sealed, and delivered this Twentieth day of October 1863, by the
aforesaid Thomas Settle, by making his mark, the same having been
first distinctly read over and fully explained by me to the above-named
deponent Thomas Settle, who seemed perfectly to understand the
same, and who set his mark thereto in my presence.
Witnessed by
JNO. L. DAVIES,
Office for Patents, Manchester.
THOMAS SETTLE.
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his mark.
(L.B.)