CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS FOR MAKING ROVINGS, SPINNING AND DOUBLING COTTON, SILK FLAX, AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1834

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES JONES,
of Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twentieth day of October, in the fifth year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto the said James
Jones, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the
said James Jones, my exors, aduiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
James Jones, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS FOR MAKING ROVINGS, SPINNING AND DOUBLING
COTTON, SILK FLAX, AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said James Jones, shall cause a
particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being
thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Jones, do hereby declare the nature of my Certain Improvements for
Making Rovings, Spinning and Doubling Cotton, Silk, Flax, and other
Fibrous Substances, to consist in certain arrangements of apparatus or

page_text: machinery by which the differential motion between the bobbin and the
flyer, or between the spindle and flyer in roving, doubling, and spinning
machines, is rendered more uniform and more easily adjusted than in machines
of the ordinary construction; and the manner in which the same is to be
carried into effect or performed will be more clearly understood by the 5
following description and by reference to the annexed Drawings, in which
certain letters and figures of reference are used, the same letters and figures
of reference denoting the same parts throughout the whole of the Drawings.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 represents an elevation of a spindle of a throstle, roving, or of a
doubling frame arranged on my improved construction. A represents the
bobbin; B, B, the two arms of the flyer; and C, the spindle on which the
bobbin is placed. On this spindle C, which is shewn separate at Figure 2,
is placed the hollow tube D, a longitudinal section of which is shown at
Figure 3; this tube D, which moves freely on the spindle C and is driven at
any difference of speed from that of the spindle according to the size of the
drawing warves d or d', either of which are used according to the difference
of speed required. It will be observed, in the section shewn at Figure 3, that
this tube D is provided with an oblique slot which receives a small stud or
projection from the interior of the small tube at the lower part of the flyer,
shewn separate at Figure 4, a plan of which is placed under that Figure, so
that the rotation of the tube D is imparted to the flyer B, B; thus the
difference of speed between the flyer and the bobbin in this arrangement
of my improvement depends on the relative proportion or size between the
warve on the spindle C and the warve d or d' on the tube D, both of which
are driven from the same drum or cylinder, as will be hereafter explained.
But as the difference of speed required between the bobbin and the flyer, or
between the bobbin and the spindle, for the purpose of taking up the thread
or yarn in machines of this nature, does not remain the same throughout the
filling of the bobbin, as is well known to spinners and persons conversant
with spinning machinery, the bobbin is supported free on the spindle, and
only rests on the small shoulder or flange C2, see Figure 1 and 2, which allows
it to slip, and effects a delicate drag, which varies only in a slight degree at
any period of the filling of the bobbin. The copping rail, which, in this
arrangement of my Invention, carries the flyer up and down for the purpose
of distributing the yarn regularly over the surface of the bobbin A, is guided
by the usual movement used in machines of this nature, but being placed so
near the upper part of the spindle, and the spindle being free of the flyer, I

page_text: am enabled to run at much greater speeds and much steadier than in ordinary
throstles or doubling machines; and the circumstance of running at greater
speeds is much facilitated by the peculiar construction of flyer, which consists
not only of the usual arms of wire by which the yarn is guided from the front
roller to the surface of the bobbin, but also a circular hoop or cylinder of tin
or other metal, as shewn in the Drawings at B', which prevents the arms of
the flyer expanding by an increased velocity, at the same time that it also
prevents the centrifugal force which is inparted to the surrounding atmo-
sphere carrying off so much waste or loose cotton from the yarn, and the
steadiness of the spindle is thereby materially increased.
Figure 5 represents another modification of my Invention, in which the
bobbin A is substituted by the sheath or collet A', which rests on the flange C³,
as in the former Figure. This arrangement is for the purpose of building the
yarn into a cop shape, which shape entirely depends on the nature of the motion
applied to the copping rail, which being no part of my Invention, and too well
known to spinners and persons conversant with spinning machinery to need
description, and is introduced here only to shew the application of my Inven-
tion to spinning machinery where cops are required, the same letters, as before
stated, indicating the same parts as in the former Figures.
same.
Figure 10 represents a transverse section of the drum or cylinder F' which
drives both the spindle and flyer by means of the band ff, which, it will be
remarked, is a continuos band passing twice round the drum F' and over the
respective warves which give motion to the spindle and the flyer, so that supposing
any irregularity in the speed of the drum F or any slipping of the band f, f
to raise the variation of motion, would be common to both the spindle and
the flyer, and the relative speeds of the spindle and the flyer would remain the
In this arrangement shewn in this Figure it will also be remarked
that the flyer is placed at the top of the spindle, and although the ordinary
drag or washer may be applied, the support of, the bobbin is dependent on the
hollow tube D, which, in the former Figure, carried the flyer. This tube D is
speeded from below in the same manner as already described in the former
Figure, and the difference of motion between the fly and the bobbin, which
is required for taking up the yarn, is dependent on the size of the driving
warves, as herein-before described. The difference of speed required between
a full and an empty bobbin is provided for by the slipping at the washer
on which the bobbin is supported, the copping or up-and-down motion
being, in this instance, received from the lower rail on which the spindle C is
supported.
Figure 11 represents a similar arrangement of the driving bands f. f, and

page_text: cylinder F for the purpose of driving another modification of
in which the copping is effected by the lower rail E.
my
Invention,
Figure 6 is an arrangement of spindle and flyer in which the differential
speed is effected by the small wheels F, F, as described in my former Patent,
bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of May, One thousand eight hundred
and thirty-three, but shewn here for the purpose of introducing the cylinder
hoop B' as applied to the flyer; Figure 7 representing a plan of the lower part
which rests on the wheels F, F.
Figure 8 is another modification in which the Figures of reference will
sufficiently explain the object, but in which the copping motion is so arranged
that the yarn shall assume the form of an inverted cop, as shewn in the
Drawing.
And Figure 9 is a variation of my Invention in which the difference of
speed is also produced by the wheels F, F, but in which the flyer is carried
by the spindle.
Having described the nature of my Certain Improvements for Making
Rovings, Spinning and Doubling Cotton, Silk, Flax, and other Fibrous
Substances, and the manner in which the same may be carried into effect, I
would state that I am fully aware that the exact arrangement which I have
delineated and described in the foregoing Specification may be modified and
varied in a variety of forms, and that part of the description applies to my
former Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of May, One thousand eight
hundred and thirty-three; but what I now claim as my specific Invention is, the
arrangement and construction of spindles, with their appendages, for spinning,
doubling, and roving machines, in which the difference of speed between the
flyer and the bobbin or between the flyer and the spindle is produced or
effected by means of the difference of the size of warve by which they are
driven, in conjunction with the drag or washer for allowing that difference to
vary as the bobbin fills, together with the continuous band for driving both the
flyer and the bobbin, as already described; which combination and arrange-
of apparatus being, to the best of my knowledge and belief, new, and never
before used, I herewith deliver this as my true and faithful Specification of
the same.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Jones, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Eighth day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.
Signed, sealed, and delivered, by the
said James Jones, in the presence of
JAMES (L.S.) JONES.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighth day of December, in
the year of our Lord 1834, the aforesaid James Jones came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Tenth day of December, in the year of our Lord Onc
thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.