IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOBBINS AND SPOOLS
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Spence of Shipley near Bradford in the County
of York for an invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
BOBBINS AND SPOOLS"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Spence at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th April 1882.
JOSEPH SPENCE of Shipley near Bradford in the County of York "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOBBINS AND SPOOLS
"
My invention has reference to bobbins and spools used in spinning and weaving
yarns and for other purposes.
I construct the barrel or body of the bobbin or spool of paper, paper pulp;
cotton or linen fabrics, cotton or linen waste or such combinations of material
as are used in the manufacture of papier maché and paper. When I make the
barrel or body of the bobbin or spool of paper or cotton or other fabric the
material is coiled round a spindle or mandril to a suitable thickness or diameter
and whilst being coiled pressure is applied to the material and also paste or other
adhesive substance is laid on such applications imparting thereto the required
solidity.
When I make the body or barrel of the bobbin or spool of such materials as are
used in the manufacture of paper pulp or papier-maché I form them by compressing
the material into a mould of suitable form.
The flanges of the bobbin or spool may be made of paper, cotton or other fabric
formed in layers and secured together by paste or other adhesive material but by
preference I make them of the material used in the manufacture of paper pulp or
papier-maché the material in each case being made in flat sheets of millboard form
and afterwards stamped out the required size for the flanges.
The flanges being formed they are placed on the barrel or body in a similar
manner to those employed for ordinary wood bobbins and are fastened thereto by,

page_text: a wooden bush but in some cases the wooden bush may be dispensed with and the
flange placed on the end of the barrel or body in a partially moist state and
contracted thereon by drying.
The above mentioned construction of flange may be applied to wooden barrels
or bodies instead of the wooden flanges usually employed.
The bobbins or spools after being constructed are coated with shellac (dissolved
in wood spirit or other suitable solvent) or drying oil or other suitable varnish.
Bobbins or spools constructed according to my invention are more durable
impervious to moisture and less liable to fracture than bobbins or spools constructed
of wood.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Joseph Spence in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
5th October 1882.
JOSEPH SPENCE of Shipley near Bradford in the County of York
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOBBINS AND SPOOLS
"
"IMPROVE-
My, invention has reference to bobbins and spools used in spinning and weaving
yarns, and for other purposes.
I construct the barrel or body of the bobbin or spool of paper, paper pulp,
cotton or linen fabrics cotton or linen waste or such combinations of material
as are used in the manufacture of papier maché and paper. When I make the
barrel or body of the bobbin or spool of paper or cotton or other fabric the
material is coiled round a spindle or mandril to a suitable thickness or diameter
and whilst being coiled pressure is applied to the material and also paste or other
adhesive substance is laid on such applications imparting thereto the required
solidity.
When I make the body or barrel of the bobbin or spool of such materials as are
used in the manufacture of paper pulp or papier maché, I form them by compressing
the material into a mould of suitable form.
The flanges of the bobbin or spool may be made of paper cotton or other fabric
formed in layers and secured together by paste or other adhesive material, but by
preference I make them of the material used in the manufacture of paper pulp or
papier maché, the material in each case being made in flat sheets of inillboard form
and afterwards stamped out the required size for the flanges.
The flanges being formed they are placed on the barrel or body in a similar
manner to those employed for ordinary wood bobbins and are fastened thereto by
a wooden bush but in some cases the wooden bush may be dispensed with and the
flange placed on the end of the barrel or body in a partially moist state and
contracted thereon by drying.

page_text: The above mentioned construction of flange may be applied to wooden barrels
or bodies instead of the wooden flanges usually employed.
The bobbins or spools after being constructed are coated with shellac (dissolved
in wood spirit or other suitable solvent) or drying oil or other suitable varnish.
Bobbius or spools constructed according to my invention are more durable,
impervious to moisture, and less liable to fracture than bobbins or spools constructed
of wood.
Having now described my invention and the means which I adopt in carrying
the same into effect I would have it understood that I do not claim in my improve-
ments the employment or application of coils or layers of paper for the manufacture
of bobbins being fully aware that such have been used before, but what I do claim
is; the construction of bobbins or spools of paper, paper pulp, cotton, or linen
fabrics or linen waste or such combinations of materials as are used in the manu-
facture of papier maché, such bobbins or spools being coated with dissolved shellac
drying oil, or other suitable varnish, or materials of a like nature, and also the
construction of the flanges of the bobbins or spools of the materials above mentioned
such materials being in each case first made in a solid flat sheet of millboard form
afterwards stamped or cut out to the required size, and coated as above described.
In Witness whereof, 1, the said Joseph Spence have hereunto set my hand
and scal this twenty-second day of September in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty two
JOSEPH DIENCE (LS.)