IMPROVEMENTS IN CERTAIN SELF-ACTING MULES FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Mallinson, of the Firm of Fleming, Mallin-
son, and Company, of the Globe Works, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Machine Makers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CERTAIN SELF-ACTING MULES FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER
FIBROUS MATERIALS."
Sealed the 23rd May 1864, and dated the 1st December 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Mallinson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
1st December 1863.
I, THOMAS MALLINSON, of the Firm of Fleming, Mallinson, and Company,
of the Globe Works, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Machine
Makers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN CERTAIN SELF-ACTING MULES FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING COTTON AND
OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to that class of self-acting mules commonly, termed
"double-deckers," where the carriages of the mule are placed parallel to
each other, the headstock being attached to or connected with one mule or
carriage, and the movements of the mechanism of this single headstock are
conveyed by suitable means to the carriage, which is without headstock. The
formation of the cops in the detached carriage of "double-deckers" is seldom

page_text: satisfactory, and if made right for a time soon gets out of order again, and
this arises from the difficulty of conveying with exactness the movements of
the cop shaper or builder, or fallers from the headstock carriage to the
detached carriage,
My Invention consists in applying in double-decker self-acting mules or 5
twiners a separate and independent copping rail or shaper to regulate the
formation of the cops in the detached carriage, so that in a double-decker
mule two shapers will be used, one for each carriage instead of one only, as
hitherto. Any ordinary or well-known shaper may be used.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Mallinson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
30th May 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
MALLINSON, of the Firm of Fleming, Mallinson, and Company, of the Globe
Works, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Makers, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Thomas Mallinson, Her special license that I, the said Thomas Mallinson,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas
Mallinson, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN CERTAIN
SELF-ACTING MULES FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS
MATERIALS." upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas
Mallinson, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should par-
ticularly 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 Thomas Mallinson, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-

page_text: formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say :-
My Invention relates to that class of self-acting mules commonly termed
"double-deckers," where the carriages of the mule are placed parallel to
each other, the headstock being attached to or connected with one carriage,
and the movements of the mechanism of this single headstock are conveyed
by suitable means to the carriage or carriages which are without "head-
stocks." The formation of the cops in the detached carriage or carriages of
"double deckers" or other mules, having two or more carriages arranged in
like manner is seldom satisfactory, and if made right for a time soon gets out
of order again, and this arises partly, if not wholly, from the difficulty of con-
veying with exactness the movements of the cop shaper, builders, or fallers
from the headstock carriage to the detached carriage or carriages.
My Invention consists in applying to the detached carriage or carriages of
the "double-decker" class of self-acting mules or twiners, or in combining
therewith a separate and independent "copping rail" or "shaper" to regulate
the formation of the cops in such detached carriage or carriages, so that
instead of using only one "shaper" in the beadstock carriage of this class of
mules, as hitherto, one shaper is employed for each carriage of the mule.
Any ordinary and well-known shaper may be used, arranged, and actuated in
the usual manner. When shapers are used which are attached to the carriage
of the mule they may have the necessary reciprocating motion imparted to
them in the usual manner, or the reciprocating motion given to the shaper in
the headstock carriage may be conveyed to the shaper or shapers combined
with the other carriages of the mule by means of rods or other suitable trans-
mitting mechanism. The motion of the screw for changing the position of
the "shaper" in the headstock carriage may also be conveyed by a shaft or by
shafts to the screws for this purpose of the shapers attached to and combined
with the other carriage or carriages of the mule. When shapers are used
which are attached to the floor of the room, then a separate shaper may be
used for each carriage, and all the shapers may be connected together, so as
to be simultaneously adjusted after each stretch, each shaper being arranged
so that it can be separately adjusted for its own carriage when required. By
means of my improvements the objections herein-before mentioned are
obviated, and the spinner is enabled to modify and to adapt and adjust to a
certain extent the shape of the cop to the peculiarities of the " winding-on"
in each carriage, which cannot be accomplished in this class of self-acting
mules, as hitherto arranged.
I have now particularly described the nature of my Invention, and the

page_text: manner of carrying the same into effect, and claim as my Invention the appli-
cation of a separate copping shaper to and its combination with each detached
carriage of that class of self-acting mules or "turners," having their carriages
parallel to each other, and known as "double-deckers," as herein-before
.described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Mallinson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
THOS. MALLINSON. (L.S.)