improvements in machinery for spinning cotton and other fibrous sub- stances
Year: 1829

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
WILLIAM, LEE, of Bagnio Court, Newgate Street, in the City of London,
Merchant, send. greeting..
WHEREAS, in consequence of a communication made to me by a certain
Foreigner residing abroad, I am in possession of an Invention of certain
improvements in machinery for spinning cotton and other fibrous sub-
stances; and whereas His present most Excellent Majesty King George
the Fourth, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain,
bearing date at Westminster, the Second day of May, in the tenth year of His
reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said George William Lee, His especial licence that I, the said George William
Lee, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
George William Lee, my executors, admors, or assigns, shouldat any timeagree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times 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, the said Inven
tion of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING COTTON AND OTHER
FIBROUS SUBSTANCES;" in which said Letters Patent is, contained a proviso,
obliging me, the said George William Lee, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed and to cause the
same to be enrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto-had, will
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said-proviso,-1,-the-said-

page_text: consist in substituting for the ordinary flyer used in spinning machines a hook,
which I cause to revolve round or with a circular rim or hoop, whereby I am
enabled to obtain a greater speed than the arms of the flyer and common opera-
tions of the bobbin will allow of, and to increase the length of the bobbins so
that a greater quantity of yarn can be spun before they require shifting, and to
produce a more constant and even tension of the yarn than is produced in the
common mode of spinning, while the trembling of the spindle occasioned by
wear is less injurious when fitted' in my manner. And in further compliance
with-the said proviso, I, the said George William Lee,do hereby describe the
manner in which the said Invention is to be performed, by the following descrip
tion thereof, reference being had to the Drawing annexed, and to the figures
and letters marked thereon (that is to say) :-
T
.DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 represents the improvements of the hook revolving round acircular
rin, and which may be effected in two ways, both of which are shown by this
Figure. C is a rail, or thin plate of cast iron, pierced with holes for the bobbins
and spindles to work in. Disa circular rim, fixed into one of the holes, and
standing up above' the surface of the rail. On the outside of this rim is cut
a groove, in which the ring E is loosely placed, so as to revolve easily round it;
and Fis a hook fastened to the said ring, and answers to the eye or hook on the
common flyer. In this Figure the bobbin is supposed to turn with the spindle,
which has two studs or pins extending upwards from a collar.formed on it, with
holes or mortices in the base of the bobbin for that purpose. His the yarn,
which being placed in the hook F, drags it round as the spindle turns, while the
friction of the ring E in its groove gives the required tension to the yarn. G is
another manner of effecting the same object. G is a hook fastened to
segment which travels in a groove cut in the top of the rim D, such segment
being long enough to hold and steady the hook. A, A, are the spindle and
boddin. B, B, B, B, the spindle rail and step rail.
Figure 2 represents the improvement of a hook revolving with a circular hoop,
the hook being; in fact, cut in the hoop itself. A, A, are the spindle and bobbin,
which in this Figure is supposed to turn on the spindle. I, I, I, are friction
pullies, furnished with projecting rims marked M, which work into corre-
sponding grooves, creases, or channels L, L,-cut in the circular hoop E; which
hoop is held against the friction pullies by the bands coloured blue, and marked
J. These bands are supposed to lead to a cylinder or drum, by means of
which the circular hoop is driven. F is a hook formed in the upper edge of
the hoop E, and into which the yarn H is passed, and which drags the bobbin
like the arms of a common flyer. The spindle and boddins in both Figures

page_text: must be made to vibrate in the usual manner, in order to distribute the yarn
over the whole length of the bobbins.
It should here be observed, that the hook shown in these Figures should be
placed where the lower extremity of the flyer in common spinning frames
moves; and the body of the bobbin should be half as large again as those of
the common kind, and may be greatly increased in length without inconve-
nience, provided the vibrating movement be made to correspond.
Now whereas I claim as the said Invention the following improvements
(that is to say):
First, a hook revolving round a circular rim, in manner aforesaid and for
the purpose aforesaid;
And, secondly, a hook revolving with a circular hoop, in manner aforesaid
and for the purpose aforesaid.
And such the said Invention being, to the best of my knowledge and belief,
entirely new, and never before used within that part of His said Majesty's
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, His said
Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick upon Tweed, I do hereby declare this
to be my Specification of the same, and that I do verily believe this my said
Specification doth comply in all respects, fully and without reserve or disguise,
with the proviso in the said herein-before in part recited Letters Patent
contained, wherefore I hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege
to the said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said George William Lee, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventh day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.