IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR LIFTING BOBBINS OFF SPINDLES IN SPINNING MACHINES, AND IN LUBRICATING SPINDLES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY FOR LIFTING BOBBINS OFF SPINDLES IN SPINNING MACHINES,
AND IN LUBRICATING SPINDLES."-A communication from abroad by Louis
François Filleul, and Dominique Jarriel, both of Guibray, France.
Sealed the 10th July 1863, and dated the 13th January 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald Brooman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th January 1863.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR LIFTING BOBBINS OFF SPINDLES IN SPINNING
MACHINES, AND IN LUBRICATING SPINDLES," to be as follows:-
In spinning machines of the ordinary construction each bobbin has to be
moved separately from its spindle, which entails a great loss of time where the
operation has to be repeated many times a day.
Now, the object of the first part of this Invention is to withdraw or raise a
number of the bobbins from the spindles simultaneously. There is a bar
extending along the front of the machine in which slots are formed to allow of
it working up and down the spindles. The slotted bar is attached to a rack
in gear with a pinion mounted on a shaft with a lever at one end connected to
it. By moving the lever the pinion revolves, the rack and bar move in an

page_text: upward direction, and the bar carries the bobbins with it and lifts them up the
spindles. Rotary motion may be communicated to the pinion shaft by worm
and screw.
The second part of the Invention consists in fitting a box to the front of
the machine for containing some lubricating material through which each 5
spindle passes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 13th July 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, tire
said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, 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 MACHINERY FOR LIFTING
BOBBINS OFF SPINDLES IN SPINNING MACHINES, AND IN LUBRICATING SPINDLES,"
(communicated to me from abroad by Louis François Filleul and Dominique
Jarriel, both of Guibray, France) upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument 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
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, 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

page_text: following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say:-
In spinning machines of the ordinary construction each bobbin has to be
moved separately from its spindle, which entails a great loss of time where the
operation has to be repeated many times a day.
Now, the object of the first part of this Invention is to withdraw or raise a
number of the bobbins from the spindles simultaneously. There is a bar
extending along the front of the machine in which slots are formed to allow
of its working up and down the spindles. The slotted bar is attached to a
rack in gear with a pinion mounted on a shaft with a lever at one end con-
nected to it. By moving the lever the pinion revolves, the rack and bar move
in an upward direction, and the bar carries the bobbins with it, and lifts them
up the spindles.
The second part of the Invention consists in fitting a box to the front
of the machine for containing some lubricating material through which each
spindle passes.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a front elevation, and Figure 2
a cross section of part of a spinning machine with these improvements applied
thereto. is a bar or lifter rail extending along the front of the machine in
which slots are formed to allow of its working up and down the spindles d³.
The bar c is attached to a rack o, in gear with a pinion a', on a shaft a, to
one end of which a lever a³ is connected. By moving the lever a² the pinion a¹
revolves, the rack cand bar c¹ move in an upward direction, and the bar carries
the bobbins b with it and lifts them up the spindles d'. Rotary motion may be
communicated to the shaft a, by worm and screw or otherwise instead of by
the lever a. The full lines in the Drawing indicate the position of the rack,
slotted bar, and bobbins when raised, and the dotted lines shew them
before being raised; d is a box containing oil or other suitable material
for lubricating the spindles, and common to a whole set of spindles in ono
row.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is be performed, I declare that I claim as the improve-
ments in machinery for lifting bobbins off spindles in spinning machines, and in
lubricating spindles.
First, the machinery for lifting bobbins herein-before described, whereby a
number of bobbins may be lifted simultaneously as herein-before described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
Second, fitting a box in spinning machines for containing lubricating
material common to and through which all the spindles in one row pass

page_text: substantially as herein-before described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of July, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three.
R. A. BROOMAN. (L.S.)