IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SPOOLS OR REELS FOR THE WINDING ON OF COTTON, LINEN, THREAD, SILK, OR OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Pretty Clarke, of King Street Mills, Leicester,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SPOOLS OR
REELS FOR THE WINDING ON OF COTTON, LINEN, THREAD, SILK, OR OTHER
FIBROUS MATERIALS."
Sealed the 22nd November 1859, and dated the 15th September 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Pretty Clarke at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 15th
September 1859.
I, JOHN PRETTY CLARKE, of King Street Mills, Leicester, do hereby declare
the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
SPOOLS OR REELS FOR THE WINDING ON OF COTTON, LINEN, THREAD, SILK, OR OTHER
FIBROUS MATERIALS," to be as follows:-
My first improvement consists in making spools or reels of wood or metal,
or wood and metal combined, and covering the end or ends of the said spools
or reels, either wholly or partially, with a flat disc or discs of bone, wood,
pearl, vegetable ivory, ivory, horn, hoof, tortoiseshell, glass, or porcelain, the
said disc or discs being fastened by the use of a metallic tube or cylinder

page_text: passing through the spool or reel and the disc or discs, and turned over or
spread out beyond so as securely to hold the said disc or dises on to the end
or ends of the spool or reel.
My second improvement consists in covering the end or ends of spools or
reels with a disc or ring of fancy or plain wood, hoof, horn, tortoiseshell,
or glass, such disc or ring, which may be termed a cap, having a flange leading
downwards so as to cover wholly or partly the ends and edges of the spools or
reels; these discs or rings are secured by means of a metal tube as above
described, or by glue, cement, or in other suitable manner.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Pretty Clarke in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
15th March 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
PRETTY CLARKE, of King Street Mills, Leicester, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said John Pretty Clarke, Her special licence that I, the said John Pretty
Clarke, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said John Pretty Clarke, 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 Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SPOOLS OR REELS FOR THE WINDING ON OF
COTTON, LINEN, THREAD, SILK, OR OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said John Pretty Clarke, my executors or adminis-
trators, 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Pretty Clarke, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be

page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the fol-
lowing statement thereof, that is to say:-
My first improvement consists in making spools or reels of wood or metal
or wood and metal combined, and covering the end or ends of the said spools
or reels, either wholly or partially, with a flat disc or discs of bone, wood,
pearl, vegetable ivory, ivory, horn, hoof, tortoiseshell, glass, or porcelain, the
said disc or discs being fastened by the use of a metallic tube or cylinder
passing through the spool or reel and the disc or discs, and turned over or
spread out beyond so as securely to hold the said disc or discs on to the end
or ends of the spool or reel.
Figure 1 is a section, and Figure 2 an end view, of a wooden spool or reel,
the ends of which are covered with flat discs fastened on by a metallic tube or
cylinder as above described. a is the spool or reel; b, a flat disc of bone, wood,
pearl, vegetable ivory, ivory, horn, tortoiseshell, glass, or porcelain; c is the
metal tube or cylinder. Figure 3 is a section, and Figure 4 an end view, of
a metal spool or reel, the ends of which are similarly covered with flat discs
secured by a metal tube or cylinder turned over or spread out at the ends.
a, a, are the two ends of the spool or reel; b, the flat covering discs of one or
other of the materials before mentioned; c is the metal tube or cylinder. In
this spool or reel the two ends a, a, are not connected the one with the other,
except by the tube c, and are kept in their places only by the thread or yarn
wound on the reel; the ends a, a, may be of wood in place of metal. A tube
of wood or other material may, if preferred, be placed over the metal tube c,
to keep the ends a, a, in their places before the yarn or thread is wound on.
My second improvement consists in covering the end or ends of spools or
reels with a disc or ring of fancy or plain wood, hoof, horn, tortoiseshell, or
glass, such disc or ring, which may be termed a cap, having a flange leading
downwards so as to cover wholly or partly the ends and edges of the spools or
reels; these discs or rings are secured by means of a metal tube as above
described, or by glue, cement, or in other suitable manner.
Figure 5 is a section, and Figure 6 is a side view, of a spool or reel, the
ends of which are covered with flanged discs or rings as above described,
which are attached thereto by cement; such discs or rings may, however, be
attached in other convenient manner as by a metal tube, and this method of
fastening is shown and described in the Specification of a former Patent
granted to me, No. 598 (1859), as applied to flanged discs or rings made of
other materials. In order to secure discs or rings of wood to the ends of spools
or reels, I commonly employ glue as a cement, and ends of hoof, horn, and

page_text: tortoiseshe
employ metal tubes.
De Simary c
Attack CHUS
In witness whereof, I, the said John Pretty Clarke, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Third day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
J. P. CLARKE. (L.S.)