IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING FIBRES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Ripley, of Bradford, in the County of
York, Spinner and Manufacturer, and Charles Compton Seton, of
the same Place, Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING FIBRES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Ripley and
Charles Compton Seton at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 16th May 1874.
We, FREDERICK RIPLEY, of Bradford, in the County of York, Spinner
and Manufacturer, and CHARLES COMPTON SETON, of the same Place,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING FIBRES," to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to further improvements, partly founded upon
an Invention for which Letters Patent were granted to the said Frederick
Ripley, dated November 18th 1873, No. 3740, and has for its object the.

page_text: regulation of the "drag" or tension on the yarn while being wound
during the process of spinning or doubling, and also the improvement of
the quality of the yarn produced.
We employ either an inverted flyer having its legs so constructed and
of such length that cach may be provided with two eyes, one at its outer
extremity and the other about midway between the two extremities; or
we employ a compound flyer formed of a cup and legs, each leg being
provided with two eyes, one at its outer end and one next the cup, or it
may be on the rim of the cup. The yarn while being wound during
the operation of spinning or doubling is carried by the upper eye, thence
down the leg, through the lower eye, and then delivered to the bobbin.
By this improved flyer or the compound cup and flyer or flyers similarly
constructed, and by wrapping the yarn the requisite number of times
round the portion of the leg between the eyes the above results are
attained.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Frederick Ripley and Charles Compton Seton in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 16th November 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, WC, FREDERICK
RIPLEY, of Bradford, in the County of York, Spinner and Manufacturer,
and CHARLES COMPTON SETON, of the same Place, Merchant, send
greeting.
.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-eighth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said Frederick Ripley and Charles Compton Seton,
Her special licence that we, the said Frederick Ripley and Charles
Compton Sėton, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said Frederick Ripley and Charles Compton Seton, 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 "Iм..

page_text: PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING FIBRES," upon the
condition (amongst others)' that we; the said Frederick Ripley and
Charles Compton Seton, our executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under our, 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 we, the said Frederick Ripley and Charles
Compton Seton, 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' (that is to say)':-
This Invention relates to further improvements, partly founded upon
an Invention for which Letters Patent were. granted to the said Frederick
Ripley, dated November Eighteenth, One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-three, Number 3740, and has for its object the regulation of the
drag" or tension on the yarn while being wound during the process of
spinning or doubling, and also the improvement of the quality of the
yarn produced.
"
:
We employ either an inverted flyer having its legs so constructed and of
such length that each may be provided with two eyes, one at its outer
extremity and the other about midway between the two extremities; or
we employ a compound flyer formed of a cup and legs, each leg being
provided with two eyes, one at its outer end and one next the cup, or it
may be on the rim of the cup. The yarn while being wound during the
operation of spinning or doubling is carried by the upper eye, thence
down the leg, through the lower eye, and then delivered to the bobbin:
By this improved flyer or the compound cup and flyer or flyers similarly
constructed, and by wrapping the yarn the requisite number of times
round the portion of the leg between the eyes the above results are
attained.
Such being the nature and object of this our said Invention, we will
now fully describe the same in detail, and have hereunto annexed a
'Sheet of Drawings, and marked the same with figures and letters of
reference, the same letter referring to the same part in the several views
or figures.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
. Fig. 1 shews an inverted flyer made in accordance with this
Invention; Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5 are views of compound cup and flyer
legs.
A, A, Fig. 1, are the legs of the flyer, provided with eyes B, B, in
lieu of terminating at the point B as heretofore. The legs are continued
and extended, as shown at B', and are provided with the additional
eyes C, C. At D, Fig. 2, 3, 4, 5, are cups and legs B¹ forming compound
cup and flyer having eyes B and C. The eyes B, Fig. 2, 3, 4, 5, may
be above or below the rim of the cup, as shewn by Drawings. The
legs B¹ may terminate in an eye, as at C, or they may be formed as
at E.
The flyer and the compound cup and flyer herein described may (by
means of the wharves F and cord) run or rotate on the spindle, or a
bush J may be introduced.
:
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of this our
said Invention, together with the manner in which the same is to be
performed or carried into practical effect, we would have it understood
that we claim as our Invention, flyers or compound cup and flyer,
constructed as and for the purpose herein fully described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Compton Seton, for and on
behalf of myself and the said Frederick Ripley, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventh day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
Witness,
HENRY W. RIPLEY,
Acacia,
Apperley,
CHARLES COMPTON SETON. (L.S.)
Nr. Leeds.