METHOD OF TWISTING AND LAYING OF HEMP, FLAX, ROPES, TWINE, LINE, THREAD, MOHAIR, WOOL, COTTON, SILK, AND METALS BY MACHINERY
Year: 1815

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
VAUGHAN PALMER, of Ilminster, in the County of Somerset, Esquire, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, in and by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Fourth day of April last past, for Himself, His heirs and
successors, did give and grant unto me, the said William Vaughan Palmer,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said William Vaughan Palmer, my execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves,
or by my and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I,
the said William Vaughan Palmer, my executors, administrators, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my invented "METHOD OF TWISTING AND
LAYING OF HEMP, FLAX, ROPES, TWINE, LINE, THREAD, MOHAIR, WOOL, COTTON,
SILK, AND METALS BY MACHINERY;" in which Letters Patent there is con-
tained a proviso obliging me, the said William Vaughan Palmer, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately

page_text: after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
reference being thereto had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Vaughan Palmer, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by the
Plans or Drawings in the margin of these Presents, and the following descrip-
tion thereof (that is to say):-
Figure 1 is the elevation of the frame marked A, A, and a front view of
the machine. B represents the principal shaft, which is acted upon and
turned round by means of straps or wheel gearing marked C, C, C. The
principal shaft is of a length and size proportioned to the size and strength of
the work, and when revolving on its own axis communicates motion by the
aid of wheels or otherwise to any required number of flyers as D, D, D,
each flyer containing its requisite portion of strands, yarns, or parts of the rope,
cord, twine, line, &c., which is intended to be laid or twisted together. These
several flyers turn also on their own axis, and by such movement twist the
several strands, yarns, or component parts of the rope, cord, twine, line, &c.,
before they pass through the apertures at the upper end of the shaft, which,
finishes the whole lay of the rope, &c., at the point of its revolving top at E.
The rope, cord, twine, or line, &c., when laid, passes over a pulley marked F,
and is coiled upon the reel G. The flyers being thus turned by and revolving
round the principal shaft, and that turning also on its own axis, both twists
and lays the several strands or parts of the rope, &c., and lays the same into
a rope, cord, or line, &c., by one and the same operation; h, h, represents
two of the strands passing from the bobbins and flyers to the top of the main
shaft.
Figure 2: C, C, is an horizontal frame placed underneath and between
the pillars marked A, A, in Figure 1. A represents a large fixed wheel in
which the flyers move and are turned by their pinion wheels marked B, B, B.
Figure 3 is the principal shaft. A, A, are the requisite number of holes.
perforated, through which the several strands pass to receive the lay at the top.
Figure 4 represents one of the flyers. At A is a tube through which the
material is conducted from the bobbins to the head of the principal shaft.
Figure 5 is an iron plate. A is the place where it is fixed to the main
shaft; b, b, b, are sockets which receives the lower ends of the. flyers.
.
Figure 6 is an iron plate at the upper ends of the flyers. A is the place.
where the main shaft is fixed, and b, 6; b,cate openings receiving the upper:
ends of the flyers.
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page_text: Figure 7 represents a bobbin having round it the yarns, threads, &c.,
intended to be twisted and laid, one of which bobbins is placed in each flyer.
Figures 8 and 9 are the pulleys, around which are the straps or gearing to
move the main shaft.
Figure 10 is a spring to regulate the speed of the bobbins.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Thirtieth
day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and fifteen
Inrolled the First day of June, in the year above written.