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

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Pretty Clarke, of King's Street Mills, Leicester,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF REELS FOR
THE WINDING ON COTTON, LINEN, THREAD, SILK, OR OTHER FIBROUS
MATERIALS."
Sealed the 16th August 1859, and dated the 7th March 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Pretty Clarke at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
7th March 1859.
I, JOHN PRETTY CLARKE, of King's Street Mills, Leicester, do hereby declare
the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF REELS
FOR THE WINDING ON COTTON, LINEN, THREAD, SILK, OR OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS,"
to be as follows:-
My first improvement consists of inlaying discs or rings of bone, ivory, or
vegetable ivory, into the end or ends of blocks or wooden reels in a partly
finished state. The blocks or reels are then placed into a lathe, the spindle
or mandril passing entirely through; they are then finished in the ordinary.
manner.
My second improvement consists in covering the end or ends of wooden
reels or partly so with a disc or ring of bone, pearl, ivory, vegetable ivory, or
porcelain, the outer edge of the disc or ring having a flange leading downwards
to cover entirely or partly so the edge of the reel, which flanged disc or ring
may be termed a "cap." The end of the wooden reel is placed within the
projecting edge or flange, and the wooden reel may or may not bo mado

page_text: with a projecting centre to pass through, and be finished off in the ordinary
manner.
My third improvement consists in forming holes or openings in the cylinders
of wooden reels, which holes, slots, or openings will when the reel is filled
with either of the before-mentioned materials show the extent of cotton or
other material the reel contains.
My fourth improvement consists in making a reel of metal, wood, pearl,
bone, ivory, vegetable ivory, or any other suitable material with one or morc
compartments, and the reel may be made entirely of one material or it may
be made of a combination of any of the abovo materials, the object being to
have one or more sizes of cotton, linen, thread, silk, or other fibrous materials,
or of different colors wound upon the same reel.
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
7th September 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
PRETTY CLARKE, of King's Street Mills, Leicester, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second 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 tho United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF REELS FOR THE WINDING ON COTTON,
LINEN, THREAD, SILK, OR OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS;" upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said John Pretty Clarke, 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
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: 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 performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
My first improvement consists of inlaying discs or rings of bone, ivory, or
vegetable ivory into the end or ends of blocks or wooden reels in a partly
finished state. The blocks or reels are then placed into a lathe, the spindle or
mandril passing entirely through; they are then, finished in the ordinary
manner. Figure 1 is a longitudinal section; and Figure 2 is an end view of
a reel, with a disc or ring of bone, ivory, or vegetable ivory inlayed into its
end as above described. a is the reel, and 6 a disc or ring of bone, ivory, or
vegetable ivory. In constructing the reel, the partly finished reel, or it may
be the block to form a reel, is placed on a mandril, which passes through it
from end to end; and a groove of suitable size to receive the ring b is turned
in the end of the reel or block; the disc or ring is then fitted into the groove,
and is fixed by glue, cement, or by a metal tube passed through the reel or
block and disc projecting sufficiently to turn over and secure the disc, as
shown in longitudinal section at Figure 3, or in other convenient manner;
the whole is then finished in the lathe as heretofore.
My second improvement consists in covering the end or ends of wooden
reels, or partly so, with a disc or ring of bone, pearl, ivory, vegetable ivory, or
porcelain, the outer edge of the disc or ring having a flange leading down-
wards, to cover entirely, or partly so, the edge of the reel, which flanged disc
or ring may be termed a "cap." The end of the wooden reel is placed within
the projecting edge or flange, and the wooden reel may or may not be made
with a projecting centre to pass through and be finished off. Figure 4 is a
longitudinal section, and Figure 5 is an end view of a reel, the ends of which
are covered with caps as above described. a is the wooden reel; b and c are
the caps of bone or other material; and they are in the reel here shown
attached by glue or other cement; it will be seen that the centre portion of the
reel projects through the cap b, while the cap c is made entirely to cover the
end of the reel; either the one or other of these arrangements may be adopted
as is preferred. Figure 6 is a longitudinal section of a reel, on which the caps,
in place of being fastened by cement, are secured by a metal tube passing
through the reel and opened out at the ends beyond the caps. Figure 7 is a
longitudinal section of a reel, constructed partly of wood and partly of metal,
and having caps or discs of bone, or other material, applied to its ends,
according to my Invention. a, a, is the stem of the reel, its cuds form
shoulders for the metal ends b, b, to rest on; c, c, are the caps, and d is a

page_text: metal tube passing through the reel and opened out at its ends beyond the
caps; the tube serves both to hold the ends b, b, in their places on the stem
of the reel and also to secure the caps c, c, to them..
My third improvement consists in forming holes or openings in the cylinders
of wooden reels used for winding on cotton, linen, thread, silk, or other fibrous
material, which holes, slots, or openings, will, when the reel is filled with
either of the before-mentioned materials, show the extent of cotton or other
material the reel contains. Figures 8 and 9 are longitudinal sections of a
reel constructed in this manner. a, a, are the holes, slots, or openings,
through which the thickness of the layer of cotton or other thread may be
readily seen.
My fourth improvement consists in, making a reel of metal, wood, pearl,
bone, ivory, vegetable ivory, or any other suitable material, with two or more
compartments, and the reel may be made entirely of one material, or it
may be made of a combination of any of the above materials, the object
being to have two or more sizes of cotton, linen, thread, silk, or other fibrous
materials, or of different colors wound upon the same reel. Figure 10 is
a longitudinal section of a reel constructed according to this part of my
Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Pretty Clarke, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
JOHN PRETTY CLARKE. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
above-named John Pretty Clarke,
in the presence of
JOSEPH HARVEY, Solicitor,
Leicester,
EDWIN ROBERTS, his Clerk.