IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING, DOUBLING, AND TWISTING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Clark Ogden, of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, and William Gibson, of the
same place, Manager, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING, DOUBLING, AND TWISTING
COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS."
Sealed the 17th February 1854, and dated the 17th August 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Clark
Ogden and William Gibson at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 17th August 1858.
We, THOMAS CLARK OGDEN, of Manchester, in the County of Lan-
caster, Cotton Spinner, and WILLIAM GIBSON, of the same place,
Manager, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING, DOUBLING,
AND TWISTING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS" to be as
follows:-
The first part of our Invention relates to all descriptions of machinery
or apparatus employed for preparing, doubling, and twisting cotton and
other fibrous materials wherein drawing rollers are used, and consist of
a certain novel construction of slide rod to be applied to the roller

page_text: stands for the purpose of regulating the distance between the rollers.
The slide rod passes through each of the roller stands, and is provided
with a series of inclined projections which act against similarly inclined
notches or slots formed in the stand slides. The rod being moved by
means of a screw at one end will set all the rollers at the same distance
from end to end of the machine.
The second part of our Invention relates to what are called "self-
acting twiners," and to such twisting, twining, or doubling machines as
are actuated by what is usually termed "Smith's self-acting headstock."
and consists of a certain novel arrangement of mechanism for regulating
the winding on" of the yarn on to the spindles by gradually tighten-
ing the friction band upon the "winding on pulley;" this we effect by
means of a lever acted upon by a cam or scroll keyed upon the boss of
the mangle wheel.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Clark Ogden and William Gibson in
the Great Seal Patent Office, on the 17th February 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
THOMAS CLARK OGDEN, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Cotton Spinner, and WILLIAM GIBSON, of the same place, Manager,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of August, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
seventeenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said Thomas Clark Ogden and
William Gibson, Her especial licence that we, the said Thomas Clark
Ogden and William Gibson, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said Thomas Clark Ogden and William
Gibson, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great

page_text: Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an In-
vention for CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PRE-
PARING, DOUBLING, AND TWISTING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Thomas Clarke
Ogden and William Gibson, by an instrument in writing under our
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be perfornied.
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 Thomas Clarke Ogden and
William Gibson, 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:
The first part of our Invention relates to all descriptions of machinery
or apparatus employed for preparing, doubling, and twisting cotton and
other fibrous materials, wherein "drawing rollers" are used or em-
ployed, and consists of a certain novel 'construction of slide rol or bar
to be applied to the roller stands for the purpose of regulating the
distance between the rollers. The slide rod passes through each of
the roller stands from end to end of the machine, and is provided with
a series of inclined projections which act against similarly inclined
notches or slots formed in the roller stand slides. The rod being
moved by incans of a screw or other convenient apparatus) will set all
the rollers at the same distance apart from end to end of the machine
simultaneously, instead of their being set or regulated separately by
hand as heretofore, and exactly in a similar manner and by a similar
arrangement of apparatus as described in the Specification of a Patent
granted to us by Her most Excellent Majesty, dated Seventeenth
February, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and therein
referred to as exhibited in Figs. 2, and 3, of the accompanying Draw-
ing." but claimed as applicable solely to the mule or spinning frame.
The second part of our Invention relates to machines called "self-
acting twiners," and to such twisting, twining, or doubling machines

page_text: as are actuated by and what is usually termed "Smith's self-acting
headstock," and consists of a certain novel arrangement of mechanism
for regulating the "winding on" of the yarn on to the spindles by
gradually tightening the friction band upon the "winding on pulley;"
this we effect by means of a lever acted upon by a suitably formed cam
or scroll upon the common "mangle wheel" in such well known
headstock.
Having thus described the nature and object of our said Invention of
improvements in machinery or apparatus for preparing, doubling, and
twisting cotton and other fibrous materials, together with the manner
of carrying the same into practical effect, we would remark, in con-
clusion, that we claim as of our Invention, first, the regulating of the
distance of the "drawing rollers" by means of a rod or bar having
diagonal projecting pieces, slots, or inclined planes, acting simulta-
neously the whole length of the machine wherein such rollers are or
may be employed, as above particularly set forth and described; and,
secondly, the regulating the "winding on" of the yarn in self-acting
twiners by means of a lever and cam or scroll attached to the "con-
mon mangle wheel" in "Smith's self-acting headstock" for mules, &c.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Clark Ogden and William
Gibson, have hereunto set our hands and seals, the Sixteenth
day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-four.
THOMAS CLARK OGDEN. (L.S.)
WILLIAM GIBSON.
(L.S.)