AN IMPROVEMENT IN FLYING OR ROVING FRAMES
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Tomlinson Bousfield, of Sussex Place,
Loughborough Road, Brixton, in the County of Surrey, for the Invention
of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN FLYING OR ROVING FRAMES."-A communication.
Sealed the 6th March 1857, and dated the 9th September 1856.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said George Tomlinson Bousfield
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 9th September 1856, pursuant to the 9th Section
of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
TOMLINSON BOUSFIELD, of Sussex Place, Loughborough Road, Brixton, in the
County of Surrey, do hereby declare that the nature of the Invention of "AN
IMPROVEMENT IN FLYING OR ROVING FRAMES," and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say :-
I have provided that the bobbin spindle shall have no connection with the
flyer, and shall be of no greater length than is necessary to fulfil its purpose as
an axis for the bobbin to revolve upon. This is accomplished by making the
neck of the flyer of sufficient length to receive bearings in the upper and lower
sides of a box running lengthwise of the frame, through which passes a shaft

page_text: communicating motion by bavil gears to a spur gear working upon a stud,
centred upon the middle point of the diagonal line passing through the
bearings of two nearest opposite flyers, and meshing into pinions upon the necks
of the flyers. Both front and back lines of flyers are thus driven by one and
the same shaft, instead of two shafts, which are now generally used for this
purpose. The bobbin spindle may be fixed in the lower rail, and be stationary.
The bobbins resting upon the bevil gears worked by the present bobbin driving
shaft, and revolving about the bobbin spindle as an axis.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a cross section of that portion of the fly or roving frame in
which the flyers and bobbins are introduced; Figure 2 a longitudinal section
of the same, shewing gearing in elevation. The same letters in the different
Figures refer to like parts. P, P, represents the bobbin spindle affixed to the
lower rail R. 6, 6, the bobbins resting upon the bevil gears 9, 9, worked by
the shaft H, and attached to these gears by small pins x, x, fitting into slots
in the lower end of the bobbin case. B, B, the box enclosing the shaft L,
driving by bevil gears the spur gear A upon the stud s, centred upon the
middle point of the line passing through the bearings of two nearest opposite
flyers, and meshing into the pinions a, a, upon the necks of the flyers F, F.
The upper box or rail B is made stationary, and the lower rail R is made to
traverse by the same or similar contrivances and connections with the other
parts of the frame as are now in use for this special purpose. The necks
N, N, of the flyers are made tubular to allow the yarn y, y, to pass down
through and around one arm of the flyer.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Tomlinson Bousfield, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty six.
GEO. T. BOUSFIELD. (L.S.)
Witness,
W. S. HANISON,
2, New Court, St. Swithin's Lane,
London.