AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANU- FACTURE OF METALLIC REELS
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Pretty Clarke, of Leicester, Manufacturer of
Sewing Cotton, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF METALLIC REELS."
Sealed the 30th October 1855, and dated the 19th July 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Pretty Clarke at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 19th
July 1855.
I, JOHN PRETTY CLARKE, of Leicester, Manufacturer of Sewing Cotton, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC REELS" to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in the manufacture of
metallic reels, and consists of causing the metal ends (which are made with
openings through them in order to be enabled to see the quantity of thread
wound thereon) to be fixed on to metal tubes, by turning over the ends of
the metal tubes after passing them partly through the centres of the ends,
thus connecting the parts of such reels more conveniently and at less cost
than when they have been fixed by soldering.

page_text: 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
19th January 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
PRETTY CLARKE, of Leicester, Manufacturer of Sewing Cotton, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth 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 the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC REELS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said John Pretty Clarke, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under ny, 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.
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:-
The novelty of this Invention consists in the application of an end or ends
or discs of metal with holes or openings through to a hollow metallic cylinder,
to facilitate the winding of cotton, thread, silk, or other fibrous material.
MODE OF MAKING.
I take a hollow metal cylinder, plain or slit, and place at one or both ends
an end of metal with holes or openings through, allowing the ends of the
cylinder to project a space beyond the ends or discs; when, by the use of pliers
or any other suitable method of support between the two ends or discs, I
then subject the two ends of the cylinder to pressure, by means of which the

page_text: ends of the cylinder are bended over or turned back, thereby securing the ends
or discs from coming off.
I claim for an improved metallic reel with a hollow metallic cylinder,
having an end or ends of metal with holes or openings through to show the
extent of cotton each recl contains.
I claim also for the mode of making the same, by turning over or bending
back the ends of the hollow metallic cylinder by pressure, to prevent the end
or ends or discs from coming off.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Pretty Clarke, have hercunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
LEONARD ALFRED CLARKE,
of Leicester.
JOHN PRETTY CLARKE. (L.S.)