CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING, SLUBBING, AND ROVING COTTON, WOOL, AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1846

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
JONES, of Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS He present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing dato at West-
minster, the Twenty-second day of June, in the tenth year of Hei reign, and
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-six, did, for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and giant unto me, the said Thomas
Jones, He especial license, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said Thomas Jones, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and such
others as I. the said Thomas Jones, my executors, administrators, or assigns,
should at any time agree 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 and Wales and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR PREPARING, SLUBBING, AND ROVING COTTON, WOOL, AND OTHER
FIBROUS MATERIALS," in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
that I, the said Thomas Jones, shall; cause particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be enrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said m part recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will
more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that i compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Jones, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described
_and_ascertained in and by the Drawings hereto annexed, and the following
explanation thereof (that is to say):-
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These Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for Preparing, Slubbing,
and Roving Cotton, &c. apply to the "flyer" (employed for winding the sliver
of cotton, &c. on to the bobben) usually employed in that description of slub-
bing and roving machines now known to spinners and manufacturers as
presser frames." These machines are well known to persons acquainted
with the preparation of cotton, &c. for spinning, and are so called in conse-
quence of the flyer being provided with a smaller "presser" lever, for the
purpose of guiding the roving, and laying it in a compact and even state upon
the bobben.
My improvements may readily be applied either to what are called single
"presser frames" (or to "double-pressor frames," as required), and I have
exhibited in the Drawing attached to these Presents their application to the
--flyer of a "double-pressor frame," as described in the Specification of Letters
Patent granted by Her present Majesty to Samuel Hardman, the Twenty-
seventh day of August, One thousand eight hundred and forty-one. This
Invention consists in the peculiar form or construction of spring, and its
peculiar application to the flyer, for the purpose of imparting the required
elasticity to the presser or small guide lever attached, which will be better
explained by referring to the Drawing annexed, in which my Invention is
shewn full size.
Figure 1 represents an elevation or front view of a double "presser flyer,"
spindle, and bobbin, with my improvements shown as applied thereto.
Figure 2 is a side or edge view of the same, and Figure 3 is a sectional plan
view, taken at about the "line A, B; in Figure 1. a, a, is the spindle, b the
bobbin, and c, c, the flyer. The "pressers" d, d, are attached to the tubes e, e,
working on the ends of the legs of the flyer f,f, is a small spring, composed
(or wire, as they may be made
of one, two, or more narrow strips of steel
either flat, 1ound, or otherwise) being attached to one end of the leg of the
flyer c, and at the other to the tube of the presser a. The peculiar formation
of these springs is seen best in Figure 3. The inner spring *f may be eitheı
loose at one end, as shewn in the Drawing, or fast at both ends.
Ilaving now particularly described the nature of my Invention, and the
mannci in which the same is to be performed, I desue it to be understood that
I claim only as my Invention the peculiar form, class, or description of spring

page_text: or springs usually called the C spring, and its application to "presser flyers"
(being single or double), whether such spring or springs be made of flat, or
round, or other shaped metal or material
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Jones, havo hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of December, One thousand eight
hundred and forty-six.