CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN AND APPLICABLE TO MACHINES FOR WINDING YARN OR THREAD CALLED WINDING MACHINES,' USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COTTON AND. OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Atherton, of Preston, Machine Maker, and
James Abbott, of Accrington, Cotton Spinner, both in the County
of Lancaster, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN AND
APPLICABLE TO MACHINES FOR WINDING YARN OR THREAD CALLED
WINDING MACHINES,' USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COTTON AND.
OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES."
Sealed the 16th February 1854, and dated the 16th August 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Atherton and
James Abbott at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,.
with their Petition, on the 16th August 1853.
We, JOHN ATHERTON and JAMES ABBOTT, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN AND AP-
PLICABLE TO MACHINES FOR WINDING YARN OR THREAD CALLED WINDING
MACHINES, USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS
SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
Firstly in the application of a cleaner or clearer fixed to or near to
the traverser, between the bobbins upon which the yarn or thread is
wound and the traverser, so as to take up the loose fibres or other
S

page_text: matters thrown off from the yarn or thread during the process of
winding, which cleaner or clearer may be made cylindrical or otherwise,
& of wood, iron, or other suitable material, and covered or not with
cloth or other suitable substance, and have a revolving or other suit-
able motion imparted to it; and also in the application of another
cleaner or clearer similar to the one above described at the opposite
side of the bobbins upon which the yarn or thread is being wound, and
near to or against a board or other suitable arrangement placed to
confine the fibres or other matters thrown off within certain limits, so
as to remove the fibres which may adhere to it. The cleaner or
clearer may have a revolving or other suitable motion, and the board
(already referred to for confining the fibres) may have a motion im-
parted to it from the traverser or otherwise so as to bring every portion
of its surface periodically in contact with the cleaner or clearer; or the
board may be without motion, and a traversing motion may be given to
the cleaner or clearer along its surface by the same means or otherwise.
Secondly, in placing a plate of iron or a board or other suitable
means under the bobbins upon which the yarn or thread is being
wound, in such manner as to prevent the fibres or other matters thrown
off during the process of winding from getting to the lower parts of
the spindles or other parts of the machine.
Thirdly, our Invention consists in the application to the top of the
traverser, in the place of the usual fixed brush, of a circular brush,
which may have imparted to it a slow continuous revolving motion or
an intermittant motion, & also in fixing a comb to the traverser which
will clean the brush from the fibrous matters which it may retain
from the threads as it revolves, by which arrangement clean portions of
the brush are constantly being brought forward to operate on the
threads, the fibrous matters retained in the comb being collected upon
the cleaner or clearer referred to in the first part of this Invention.
The object of our Invention is, in the first place, the confining
within certain limits of the fibres or other matters thrown off from the
yarn or thread during the process of winding, and, in the second place,
collecting those left in the brush, & accumulating the whole upon the

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Atherton and James Abbott in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 16th February 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, S
JOHN ATHERTON, of Preston, Machine Maker, and JAMES ABBOTT, of
Accrington, Cotton Spinner, both in the County of Lancaster, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
Seventeenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said John Atherton and James
Abbott, Her especial license that we, the said John Atherton and
James Abbott, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said John Atherton and James Abbott, 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN AND APPLICABLE TO MACHINES FOR WINDING YARN OR THREAD,
CALLED WINDING MACHINES, USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COTTON AND
OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said John Atherton and James Abbott, by an instrument in
writing under our hands and seals, should particularly describe and as-
-certain 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 we, the said John Atherton and James

page_text: Abbott, 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 and accompanying
Drawing (that is to say):
The object of our Invention is that of collecting the loose fibres and
'other matters thrown off, and those retained in the brushes or cards
during the process of winding, and accumulating them on cleaners or
clearers, from which they may be removed at convenience, and thus
dispense with the necessity for repeated cleanings.
It consists, first, in the application of a cleaner or clearer fixed to or
near to the traverser, between the bobbins upon which the yarn or thread
is wound and the traverser, so as to take up the loose fibres and other
matters, and also in the application of another cleaner or clearer on the
opposite side of the bobbins upon which the yarn or thread is wound,
and near to or against a board or other suitable arrangement placed to
.confine the loose fibres or other matters thrown off within certain limits.
The cleaners or clearers here referred to may be in form cylindrical,
and made of iron, wood, or other suitable substance, and may be
covered or not with cloth, flannel, or other material of similar nature.
The cleaner or clearer first mentioned may be fixed by suitable brackets
to the traverser, or it may be fixed on the frame just below the level of
the bobbins; the second clearer placed between the bobbins and the
board or arrangement for confining the fibres and other matters may
be fixed in a position a little below the bobbins on the frame. The
board which confines the fibres may be made to traverse up and down
so as to bring every portion of its surface in contact periodically with
the cleaner or clearer or otherwise; the board may be fixed, and the
cleaner or clearer may be made to traverse over the surface of the
board. For the purpose of gathering the fibres and other matter upon
the cleaners or clearers they may have a slow revolving motion, but it
is unimportant whether the motion be uniform, intermittant, or alter-
nately one way and then the other, provided the intervals between
motion and rest are not too great; therefore any slow motion may be
given to them, and in the manner which is most convenient. If the
cleaner or clearer is fixed to the traverser, motion may be given to it by

page_text: a toothed rack fixed on the framing, into which a pinion on the pivot
of the cleaner or clearer may take; this pinion will be revolved one way
when the traverser ascends, and the other when it descends; but where
the traverser descends by its own weight, the force required to revolve
the cleaner or clearer may obstruct its descent; in that case the pinion
may be made loose on the axis of the cleaner or clearer, and made to
carry a pawl or click on its side taking into a ratchet wheel fast on
the axis of the cleaner or clearer. The ratchet wheel and click will only
require arranging so that it will pass on the descent and hold on the
ascent of the traverser. If motion is required to be given to the
board referred to for confining the fibres and other matters to traverse
it against the surface of the cleaner or clearer, it may be done by
the same means and by the same shaft which give motion to the tra-
versers, if the cleaner or clearer is to be traversed over the surface of
the board, it may also be accomplished in the manner above re-
ferred to, and motion to revolve it may be obtained in the same
manner as that described for revolving the cleaner or clearer when
fixed to the traverser; when the cleaners or clearers are, fixed to
the framing they may have a slow revolving motion imparted to them,
obtained from the source most convenient.
The second part of our Invention consists in the placing of a plate
of iron or a board under the bobbins, having holes just sufficient to
allow the friction washers which carry round the bobbins to revolve
clear in, so as to prevent loose fibres and other matters from getting
to the lower parts of the spindles.
The third part of our Invention consists in the application of a
circular brush or card in place of the common brush or card that is
near the top of the traverser for the threads or yarn to pass over,
in which is retained loose fibres and motes. This circular brush or
card is made to revolve slowly or to advance periodically, so that
a fresh or clean surface of brush or card may be brought to act on
the thread or yarn, and that the loose fibres and motes retained in it
may be stripped from it by a comb fixed on the traverser, the teeth of
which project through a slot in the traverser, the matters stripped by
the comb being cleared from it by the clearer first referred to in the

page_text: first part of our Invention. Motion may be imparted to the circular
brush or card in the mode in which it is imparted to the cleaner or
clearer (when attached to the traverser), as herein-before explained in
the first part of our Invention, or in a manner which will be herein-
after described.
This part of our Invention also consists in forming the traverser
of a thin plate of iron, having holes or slots in it through which a
great portion of loose fibres and motes from the front (when the
common brush or card is employed) may be collected and accu-
mulated upon the cleaner or clearer at the back of it.
The improvements which we have enumerated are applicable (as
will be obvious) to machines either for winding cops or bobbins, and
to machines with either single or double rows of bobbins.
That our Invention may be more clearly understood we refer to
the annexed Drawing. Fig. 1, represents an end sectional view
of a winding machine having our improvements combined in it;
Fig. 2, represents partly a front view, Fig. 3, an enlarged frout
view, and Fig. 4, an end sectional view of one part of the third
part of our Invention; and Fig. 5, a front view, and Fig. 6, an
end sectional view of the other part of the third part of our Inven-
tion. A, is the framing of the machine; B, the tin roller which
drives the spindles D; E, an heart wheel from which motion is
derived to actuate the shaft F, which gives motion to the "traversers."
The parts just named are common to ordinary machines at present in
use.
The cleaners or clearers referred to in the first part of our
Invention are represented by the letter a; in this arrangement they are
fixed to the framing, and have a slow uniform motion, obtained, as
shewn, by bevil geer from the axis of the heart wheel E, transmitted
through the upright shaft a', and bevil geer to the horizontal shaft a²,
and from it by bevil geer to the cleaners or clearers. b, is the board or
other arrangement to confine the loose fibres and other matters. The
second part of the Invention, the board or plate under the bobbins is
represented at C; C¹, representing the friction washers which carry
round the bobbins. The circular brush or card d, referred to in the
third part of the Invention is shewn in Figs. 1, 2, and enlarged at 3,

page_text: and 4. In the front view (Fig. 2,) the brush shewn in section and
the front parts of the machine are supposed successively broken away
to shew the parts covered by them in front. d, is the comb which
strips the circular brush or card d. The method shewn in the Draw-
ings for giving the advancing motion to the brush, and herein-before
alluded to, is as follows: A ratchet wheel d², is fixed on the axis d',
of the brush or card d, and a small catch or pawl is secured to the
framing (A) at d. This catch or pawl will allow the teeth of the ratchet
wheel to pass without obstruction in one direction, but in the other
will catch the teeth, and cause the circular brush or card d, to turn.
The catch or pawl requires only to be arranged or placed so as to
catch the teeth of the ratchet wheel, say, the space of a tooth of the
ratchet, before the traverser arrives at its highest point, by which means
the brush or card d, will turn equal to one tooth of the ratchet for
every ascent of the traverser e. Fig. 5, and 6, shew enlarged the iron
plate traverser e, having the ordinary brush or card attached to it, and
slots or holes through which loose fibres, motes, and other matters may
be collected from the front of the traverser on to the cleaner or clearer
at the back. It will be seen in Fig. 1, that both the traverser repre-
sented by Fig. 4, and 5, and that represented by Figure 5, and 6,
are shewn applied one on one side, and the other on the other side.
We have now particularly described the nature of our Invention,
and the mode in which it may be carried into effect; we do not confine
ourselves to the details, but claim as our Invention, firstly, the appli-
cation to winding machines of cleaners or clearers for the purposes
herein-before stated in the first part of our Invention; and, secondly,
the use of a plate or board placed under the bobbins (described in the
second part of our Invention), and a board or other arrangement for
confining the loose fibres and other matters, that they may not get to
the lower parts of the machine; and, thirdly, the application of a
circular brush or card to the traverser, acting in the manner and for
the
purpose herein-before explained and described in the third part of
our Invention; and, fourthly, the use of an iron plate traverser having

page_text: holes or slots for the purpose explained and described in the third part
of our Invention.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Atherton and James
Abbott, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Thirteenth
day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-four.
Signed, sealed, and delivered, by
the within-named John Ather-
ton in the presence of
JOHN ATHERTON. (L.S.)
JAMES ABBOTT.
PETER WALMSLEY, of Preston,
& by the within-named James
Abbott in the presence of
HENRY WALKER,
of Accrington.
(L.S.)