IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN FOLDING WORSTED OR OTHER YARNS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Illingworth and Henry Illingworth, both
of Bradford, in the County of York, Worsted Spinners, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN
FOLDING WORSTED OR OTHER YARNS."
Sealed the 2nd October 1868, and dated the 4th April 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Illingworth and
Henry Illingworth at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 4th April 1868.
We, ALFRED ILLINGWORTH and HENRY ILLINGWORTH, both of
Bradford, in the County of York, Worsted Spinners, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN, MEANS OB
APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN FOLDING WORSTED OR OTHER YARNS," to be as
follows:-
The object of the improvements is to secure a more uniform motion
to the vertical feed rollers which are at present driven by bands or tapes,
and round which the threads pass to the spindle cup or cap to be

page_text: adjustable by frictional pressure. For this purpose according to our
improvements a tooth or other wheel acts by surface friction to give
motion to another wheel applied to the axle of the feed roller, and the
extent of friction exerted is regulated by a spring and adjustable stop.
When a thread breaks and a stoppage of the feed rollers is required
this may be effected by raising them out of gear by means of the usual
lever or by the application of a stop to overcome the frictional motion.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alfred Illingworth and Henry Illingworth in the
Great Seal Patent Office' on the 3rd October 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ALFRED
ILLINGWORTH and HENRY ILLINGWORTH, both of Bradford, in the
County of York, Worsted Spinners, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Alfred Illingworth and Henry
Illingworth, Her special licence that we, the said Alfred Illingworth
and Henry Illingworth, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as we, the said Alfred Illingworth and Henry Illingworth,
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 MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN FOLDING WORSTED OR
OTHER YARNS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
Alfred Illingworth and Henry Illingworth, our executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under our or their hands and
seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or them, 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

page_text: bears against the wheel e, and the other against the stop g. This stop g
is affixed to the spindle c with capability of adjustment thereon by
means of a set screw g¹, by which. facility is obtained for varying the
power of the spring j, and consequently the extent of friction exerted
by the wheel e. The wheel e may have teeth and be driven by being
taken into by the teeth of another wheel h fixed on an axis h¹, such
axis h¹ being driven in any suitable manner, or the wheels e and h may
work together by simple surface friction.
Having thus described our Invention and means which we adopt in
carrying the same into effect, we would have it understood that we do
not confine ourselves to the precise arrangement shown and described,
as the same may be varied, but what we claim is, the giving motion to
spindles of such machinery by surface friction capable of being
regulated substantially as described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Alfred Illingworth and Henry
Illingworth, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-
fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-eight.
ALFRED ILLINGWORTH. (L.S.)
HENRY ILLINGWORTH.
(L.S.)