IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN WINDING YARNS."
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edwin Heywood, of Haley Hill, Halifax, in the
County of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR
APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN WINDING YARNS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edwin Heywood at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 10th
April 1860.
I, EDWIN HEYWOOD, of Haley Hill, Halifax, in the County of York, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN WINDING YARNS," to be as follows:-
The improvements relate, first, to the employment of several conical drums
or rollers placed in an inclined direction, for the purpose of supporting the
bobbin, and giving form to the layers of thread as successively laid thereon in
a conical direction.
Secondly, the improvements relate to giving a varying speed to the main
cylinder or other driving means to the spindles, so that the laying on to the
bobbins may be at a uniform speed, by operating upon the face of a wheel in
connection with such driving means by the periphery of another wheel, which
in order to obtain the varying speeds is caused to move alternately towards and
from the axis of the face wheel.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edwin Heywood in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
10th October 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWIN
HEYWOOD, of Haley Hill, Halifax, in the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Edwin Heywood, Her special licence that I, the said Edwin Heywood,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edwin
Heywood, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR
APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN WINDING YARNS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Edwin Heywood, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edwin Heywood, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
The improvements relate, first, to the employment of several conical drums
or rollers placed in an inclined direction, for the purpose of supporting the
bobbin, and giving form to the layers of thread as successively laid thereon in
a conical direction.
Figure 1 shews a front view of the parts of a winding apparatus for winding
yarn on to cops or bobbins with a bobbin in position; Figure 2 shews a plan
of the same, sufficient to enable a person acquainted with such machinery to
understand the improvements. a is a spindle of the ordinary kind, with a
bobbin 6 thereon; and c, c, c, are three conical rollers arranged in positions at
angles to the bobbin 6 to support the bobbins, and give form to the layers of
thread wound thereon in a conical direction. By these means the frictional

page_text: action on the yarn is not only considerably reduced, but the friction exerted is
rendered uniform. And I would only further state that it is desirable that the
form or degree of cone of the rollers c correspond with that given to the thread
on the bobbin, though I do not confine myself thereto.
Secondly, the improvements relate to a mode of giving a varying speed to
the main cylinder or other driving means to the spindles, in order that the
laying on to the bobbins may be at a uniform speed. For this purpose
I
operate upon the face of a wheel in connection with such main cylinder or
driving means by the periphery of another wheel, which in order to obtain the
varying speeds is caused to move alternately towards and from the axis
of the face wheel, and I obtain the alternate motion to this wheel by means
of a connecting rod operated in the motion of the copping rail, or by other
suitable means. And to effect a better frictional holding between the surface
of this wheel and that of the face plate or wheel I apply to such surfaces
coatings or layers of paper or other suitable elastic material.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edwin Heywood, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty.
20 Witness,
GEORGE COLLIER,
Halifax.
EDWIN HEYWOOD. (L.S.)