IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF ROPES, CORDS, AND WIRE ROPES, THE COVERING FOR TELEGRAPH WIRES OR CABLES, AND THE TUBES OR HOLLOW SPINDLES TO BE USED THEREWITH.
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Guest, of No. 83, Great Saffron Hill,
Farringdon Road, Machinist, and Edward Craddock, of No. 18,
Huntingdon Street, Barnsbury, Civil Engineer, both in the County
of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF ROPES, CORDS, AND WIRE ROPES, THE
COVERING FOR TELEGRAPH WIRES OR CABLES, AND THE TUBES OR HOLLOW
SPINDLES TO BE USED THEREWITH.
"
Sealed the 18th July 1871, and dated the 20th January 1871..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Guest and
Edward Craddock at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 20th January 1871.
We, WILLIAM GUEST, of No. 83, Great Saffron Hill, Farringdon Road,
Machinist, and EDWARD CRADDOCK, of No. 18, Huntingdon Street,
Barnsbury, Civil Engineer, both in the County of Middlesex, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS. IN MACHINERY
OR APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF ROPES, CORUS, AND WIRE. ROPES, THE

page_text: COVERING FOR TELEGRAPH WIRES OR CABLES, AND THE TUBES OR HOLLOW SPINDLES
TO BE USED THEREWITH," to be as follows:-
Four or more plates, discs, or frames, each revolving on its own axis
and having notches or openings at the edges to receive tubes or hollow
spindles, are arranged around a common central point or fixed pillar.
The tubes or hollow spindles are supplied with strands of the material
to be formed into rope, or cord, or covering for telegraph wires or cables.
The plates, discs, or frames revolve in alternate directions to each other,
that is to say, each plate, disc, or frame revolves in an opposite direction
to the next. On the central pillar is a conductor to which is applied
a tapet motion or movement to reverse, alter, or change the action of
the said conductor as occasion or necessity may require according to
the pattern or description of rope, or cord, or covering for telegraph wire
or cables required or intended to be produced or made. The spindles
work against the conductors regulated by the tapet motion. The con-
ductors regulated by the tapet motion or movement work partially
round in both directions alternately. Two opposite plates, discs, or
frames overlap the next two plates, discs, or frames, the thickness of a
spindle. The revolving frames are made thus:-Four or more upper
horizontal plates or discs are connected by vertical ties and by an axis
with four or more correspondingly shaped and notched lower horizontal
plates or discs parallel to the upper plates or discs, and thus form four
or more revolving frames. The tubes or hollow spindles are placed in
the notches of both the upper and lower plates or discs, and there are
two conductors of corresponding shape to each other with the tapet
motion or movement applied as above described, one working against
the upper portions and the other against the lower portions of the tubes
or hollow spindles. When the machine is in motion the tubes or hollow
spindles fed with the strands so arranged that the weight acting upon
each strand is applied in such a manner as to give the necessary strain
or tension upon the said strands with about one half the weight required
to be used with existing machines, are carried round with the revolving
plates, discs, or frames, and by the conductors governed by the tapet
motion or movement they are delivered from one plate or disc to the
next plate or disc, and thence to the opposite plate or disc, being carried
round or partially round by the opposite plate or disc, and thence
delivered by the next adjacent plate or disc to its original plate or disc,

page_text: and so on. The strands are led from the tubes or hollow spindles and
meet at the top in a common point of union or connection and are led
upwards united in the form of rope, or cord, or covering for telegraph
wires or cables.
SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said William
Guest and Edward Craddock in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th July 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
GUEST, of No. 83, Great Saffron Hill, Farringdon Road, Machinist, and
EDWARD CRADDOCK, of No. 18, Huntingdon Street, Barnsbury, Civil
Engineer, both in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said William Guest and Edward Craddock
Her special licence that we, the said William Guest and Edward
Craddock, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as we, the said William Guest and Edward Craddock, our 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
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF ROPES, CORDS, AND WIRE
ROPES, THE COVERING FOR TELEGRAPH WIRES OR CABLES, AND THE TUBES OR
HOLLOW SPINDLES TO BE USED THEREWITH," upon the condition (amongst
others) that, we, the said William Guest and Edward Craddock, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing undĕr our, 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: Craddock, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had
to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, like figures and letters indicating the same parts throughout
the Drawings.
Four or more frames, each formed of two or more plates or discs of
equal diametre, revolve each on its own axis in an outside frame which
has fixed guides. At the edges of the discs or plates are notches or
openings to receive tubes or hollow spindles, inside of which are weights
or needles to keep taut or strained the strands. On the upper end of
each tube is a bobbin or reel containing the strands or material for
forming the rope or cord or covering for telegraph wires or cables. The
discs or plates when in position in the outside frames overlap each other
the depth of a spindle, and revolve in alternate directions, that is, each
frame revolves in an opposite direction to the one next to it. In the
centre of the outside frame is a fixed pillar, upon which are two
conductors of precisely the same size and shape curved in various ways
according to the pattern or description of the rope, or cord, or covering
required. To these conductors is applied a tapet motion or movement
to regulate, alter, reverse, or otherwise the said conductors. The con-
ductors work partially round in both directions of motion alternately,
and their duty is (governed by the tapet motion or movement) to direct
the tubes or spindles to the proper notches or openings on the discs or
plates of the revolving frames. When the machine is in motion the
tubes or hollow spindles fed with the strands by the bobbins or reels
are carried in the first revolution completely round, the first and third
revolving frames, and by the conductors governed by the tapet motion
are delivered from one frame to the next and thence to the frame
immediately opposite to their starting point, and from that to the next
until they are delivered to their original frame, but in the second
revolution half the number of spindles revolve round the first and the
other half round the third frame, and they thus alternate their motion
at every revolution, but they always travel in the same direction. The
weight contained in the tube or hollow spindle and acting upon each
strand is so arranged and applied that the necessary tension or strain
is obtained with about half the weight required or used by existing

page_text: machines. The strands thus paid off or worked from the bobbins or
reels through the spindles meet at the top in a common point of union
or connection and are led upward united in the required form of rope,
or cord, or covering for telegraph wires or cables..

page_text: 3rd. The tapet motion or movement as applied to the conductors.
4th. The moveable conductors on the centre pillar.
5th. The fixed guides on the top and centre plates of the outside
frames.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Guest and Edward
Craddock, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twentieth
day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-one.
Witness,
WM A. CROUCH,
18, Huntingdon St.,
Barnsbury, N.
WILLIAM GUEST. (L.S.)
(L.S.)
E. CRADDOCK.