IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING WOOL, COTTON, AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES." FOR SPINNING WOOL, COTTON, AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES.
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Edward Wadsworth, of Leeds, in the
County of York, for the Invention of " IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
FOR SPINNING WOOL, COTTON, AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES."
FOR SPINNING WOOL, COTTON, AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES.'
Scaled the 19th April 1876, and dated the 17th November 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Edward Wads-
worth at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 17th November 1875.
I, JAMES EDWARD WADSWORTH, of Leeds, in the County of York,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING WOOL, COTTON, AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES,”
to be as follows:---
The object of my Invention is to dispense with the ordinary mule,
which requires a great width of mill room, and to provide a spinning
machine, which may be made to work in factories, of much less width
than the herein-before mentioned mule, and also do more work, all as
hereafter described.
I provide a carriage or framework for carrying the spindles and give
to it a vertical motion instead of a horizontal one, and cause it for this

page_text: purpose to run in suitable vertical guides. By this arrangement I am
able to get two sets of spindles on the same framework or carriage;
these spindles are, by preference, mounted at an angle similar to those
on the ordinary mule. That part of the machinery for giving the
required "feed" and "twist" may be of a similar construction to that
on the ordinary mule, but placed in a suitable position to suit the
required vertical motion of the carriage or framework carrying the
spindles. The required motion is transmitted to the spindles from a
cylinder similar to those used on mules of ordinary construction, and
from suitable motive power.
The condenser bobbin " from which the material is fed to the
machine to supply the "weft" and "warp" bobbins on the spindles are
mounted in any convenient position to suit that of the "weft" or
" warp "bobbins on the spindles.
The drums employed for unwinding the “condenser bobbins" are of
the construction employed on ordinary mules, and are driven in a similar
manner.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Edward Wadsworth in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 17th May 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
EDWARD WADSWORTH, of Leeds, in the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her.
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said James Edward Wadsworth,
Her special licence, that I, the said James Edward Wadsworth, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James
Edward Wadsworth, 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 Kingdóm
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man,
an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING WOOL,

page_text: COTTON, AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said James Edward Wadsworth, 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Edward Wadsworth, do hereby
declare the naturo of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement reference being had to the accom-
panying Drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon, that
is to say :-
The object of my Invention is to dispense with the ordinary mule
which requires a great width of mill room, and to provide a spinning
machine which may be made to work in factories of much less width
than the herein-before mentioned mule, and also do more work, all as
hereafter described.
'I provide a carriage or framework for carrying the spindles and give
to it a vertical motion instead of a horizontal one, and cause it for this
purpose to run in suitable vertical guides. By this arrangement I am
able to get two sets of spindles on the same framework or carriage;
these spindles are, by preferance, mounted at an angle similar to those
on the ordinary mule. That part of the machinery for given the
required "feed" and "twist" may be of a similar construction to that
on the ordinary mule, but placed in a suitable position to suit the
required vertical motion of the carriage or framework carrying the
spindles. The required motion is transmitted to the spindles from a
cylinder similar to those used on mules of ordinary construction, and
from suitable motive power.
The condenser bobbin" from which the material is fed to the
"
machine to supply the "weft" and " warp bobbins on the spindles are
mounted in any convenient position to suit that of the "weft" or
"warp" bobbins on the spindles.
"
are of
The drums employed for unwinding the "condenser bobbins
the construction employed on ordinary mules, and are driven in a similar
manner.

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letters and marks of reference thereon.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 represents an end elevation; Figure 2, a side elevation; and
Figure 3 a sectional plan of machinery constructed according to my
Invention; and Figures 4, 5, and 6, shew various details of the
machine.
a is the carriage or framework which is made to work freely between
the vertical guides or uprights b, being provided with the runners or
rollers c.
On this framework or carriage a are arranged two sets of
spindles d. and e (mounted at an angle similar to those on the ordinary
mule) which run in steps of ordinary construction, and supported on
the centre rail f. The feed rollers h and pressing rollers i are mounted
in suitable brackets on the framework or vertical guides b. These
brackets are more clearly defined at Figures 4, 5, and 6. j, k, l, m, n,
and o, are pulleys through which motion is transmitted from the mule
headstock" or driving apparatus for the quick speeds of the spindles.
The drum p and gearing 9 transmit the slow rotary motion to the
spindles from the mule "headstock" or driving apparatus; the feed
roller hare driven by the ordinary known means.
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The scrowls and 8, around which the rope coils when propelling
the carriage during the "run out" and "run in," are all well-known
parts of mechanism in connection with the mule "headstock," or
driving apparatus.
The driving apparatus for giving the required traverse to the carriage
or framework, also the motion for the "feed" and "twist," may be of
ordinary construction, except that the arrangement is placed vertically
between the carriages instead of horizontally in order to more readily
give motion to the various parts of the machine and to suit the vertical
motion of the carriage or framework a carrying the spindles.
In order to assist in raising or "running in" the carriage, I provide
the counterbalance weights t which are connected to the carriages at u
by means of the chain v or its equivalent, which passes over the
guide pulley w mounted on a shaft on the vertical guides or
upright b.

page_text: JAMES EDWARD WADSWORTH. (L.S.)