IMPROVED MACHINE, ENGINE, OF APPARATUS FOR ROVING AND SPINNING OF COTTON, FLAX, HEMP, WORSTED, YARN, WOOL, &C., AND FOR: DOUBLING. AND TWISTING OF SILK, COTTON, AND THREAD
Year: 1797

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
STANSFIELD, of Stayley Bridge, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, Clock-
maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at: West-
minster, the Thirteenth day of September, in, the thirty-seventh, year of His
reign, give, and grant unto me, the said Samuel Stansfield, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the; said Samuel Stansfield, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully.
might use, exercise, and vend, within. England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my. "IMPROVED MACHINE, ENGINE, OF APPARATUS FOR
ROVING AND SPINNING OF COTTON, FLAX, HEMP, WORSTED, YARN, WOOL, &C., AND
FOR: DOUBLING. AND TWISTING OF SILK, COTTON, AND THREAD;" in. which said.
Letters Patent, there is contained' a proviso obliging me,. the said Samuel
Stansfield, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a
particular description of the nature of my. said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, in writing under my hand and seal, to
be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery, within one. calendar
month after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the
same, relation being thereunto had; may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said

page_text: Samuel Stansfield, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of
Invention in manner following, that is to say: -
my said
That my said Invention is an improvement on and an addition to the ma-
chines now commonly used for roving and spinning of cotton, &c. with a fly,
by water or steam, &c. And the improvements, additions, or new principles
consist of a warve or pulley affixed to a tube of tin, brass, or any other metal,
turned by a drum or cylinder, with washers, blanks, or blocks of a conical
form, all working loose together on spindles bearing on the traver, by which
means the motions of the bobbins are so progressively regulated that the
twists or rovings are received by the bobbins without any strain; which said
improvements and additions are particularly delineated and described in
the drawing of the spindle, with its furniture and improvements, in the
margin of these Presents, and in the. references and explanations thereof, as
follows:-
No. 1, the spindle.
No. 2, the warve or pulley which turns the spindle by means of a drum or
cilinder, in the common way.
No. 3, the traver, which has its motion by a crank or half wheel, as
usual.
No. 4, the fly, which is screw'd firm on the top of the spindle, and is turned
by the warve or pulley No. 2, together with the spindle.
No. 5, a washer, blank, or block, of a conical form, which goes loose on the
spindle and falls on the traver No. 3.
No. 6, a warve or pulley, with a tube of a variable length, which goes
loose on the spindle, bearing on the washer, blank, or block, No. 5.
No. 7, 7, are conical washers, blanks, or blocks, one or more as occasion may
require, which go loose over the above-mentioned tube, and bear upon the.
wooden part of the warve or pulley No. 6.
No. 8, the bobbin, turn'd either of a conical form at bottom, or flat; if the
former, may be used with or without the washers, blanks, or blocks; if the
latter, with as many washers, blanks, or blocks as occasion may require, and
receives its motion with the washers, blanks, or blocks, by means of the warve
or pulley No. 6, all working upon the spindle loose together.
No. 9, a girth leading from a cilinder or drum round the warve or pulley
No. 6, which gives motion to the bobbin No. 8, and to the washers, blanks,
or blocks, No. 7, 7, all working loose together upon the spindle with the
traver No. 3.
No. 10, a girth leading from another cylinder or drum round the warve or.
pulley No. 2, which gives motion to the spindle No.-1, and the fly No. 4...

page_text: 1, Toners, roug
No. 8.
rovings
conveyed the
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-
ninth day of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and ninety-seven.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stamped) in the presence of
RICHARD PANTER.
GEORGE PANTER.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-ninth day of
September, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Samuel Stansfield came
before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifi-
cation aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Second day of October, in the year above written.

page_text: 3. The Traver which has its motion by a frank or half Wheel as usual.
4. The Fly which is screw'd firm on the top of the Spindle and is turned by the Warve or pulley Nº 2
together with the Spindle.
5 A Washer Blank or Block of a conical form which goes loose on the spindle and falls on the Traver Nº3.
6 AWarve or pulley with a tube of a variable length which goes loose on the spindle bearing on the
Washer Blank or Block Nº 5.
7.7. are Conical Washers Blanks or Blocks one or more as occasion may require which go loose over the above
mentioned Tube and bear upon the Wooden part of the Warve or Pulley Nº 6.
8 The Bobbin turn'd either of a conical form at bottom or flat, if the former may be used with or without the
Washers Blanks or Blocks if the latter with as many Washers Blanks or Blocks as occasion may require,
and receives its motion with the Washers Blanks or Blocks by means of the Warve or pulley N°6 all
working upon the Spindle loose together.
9 A Girth leading from a Cilinder or Drum round the Warve or pulley No 6 which gives motion to the
Bobbin No 8 and to the Washers Blanks or Blocks Nº 7.7. all working loose together upon the Spindle
with the Traver N°3.
10 A Girth leading from another lilinder or Drum round the Warve or pulley N°2. which gives motion to
to the Spindle No 1 and the Fly Nº4.
11. Rollers through which the Rovings are conveyed to the Bobbin Nº 8.