IMPROVEMENTS IN CERTAIN PARTS OF MACHINERY FOR PREPARING AND SPINNING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Pooley, of the City of Manchester, Cotton
Spinner, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CERTAIN PARTS OF
MACHINERY FOR PREPARING AND SPINNING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS
SUBSTANCES."
Scaled the 16th October 1863, and dated the 25th April 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Pooley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 25th
April 1863.
I, CHARLES POOLEY, of the City of Manchester. Cotton Spinner, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CERTAIN PARTS
OF MACHINERY FOR PREPARING AND SPINNING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUB-
STANCES," to be as follows:
My Invention is applicable to all machines in which drawing and calendar
rollers with top rollers are employed. and it consists in an improved mode of
constructing the weights hooks and saddles to which the ordinary weights are
suspended. It has heretofore been customary to make a hole in the weight
hooks and saddles through which the oil is poured for lubricating the top
roller. Now, my Invention consists in making the weight hooks and saddles
with recesses or chambers containing a wad of felt or other suitable material
aturated with oil or other lubricating compound, which, as the top roller
revolves, passes through small holes at the bottom of the recesses or chambers.
and thus inbricates the top roller; by this means the weight hooks and

page_text: saddles are lubricated more unitormly than heretofore with less lubricating
material, and each supply will last for several days, thus economising labor.
Another part of my Invention consists in suspending the weight hook to a
projection within the saddle. which is made broader than usual to reduce
friction.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Pooley in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
24th October 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
POOLEY, of the City of Manchester, Cotton Spinner, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. in the twenty-sixth year of Iler
reign, did. for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Charles Pooley. Her special license that I, the said Charles Pooley, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles
Pooley, 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
CERTAIN PARTS OF MACHINERY FOR PREPARING AND SPINNING COTTON AND
OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," upon the condition (amongst others) that 1,
the said Charles Pooley, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 Charles Pooley, do hereby declare the
nature of my 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 (that is to say); -
My Invention is applicable to all machines in which drawing and calender
rollers with top rollers are employed, and it consists in an improved mode of
constructing the weight hooks and saddles to which the ordinary weights are

page_text: suspended. It has heretofore been customary to make a hole in the weight
hooks and saddles through which the oil is poured for lubricating the top
roller. Now, my Invention consists in making the weight hooks and saddles
with recesses or chambers, containing a wad of felt or other suitable material,
saturated with oil or other lubricating compound, which, as the top roller
revolves, passes through small holes at the bottom of the recesses or chambers,
and thus lubricates the top rollers.
Another part of my Invention consists in suspending the weight hook to a
projection within the saddle. which is made broader than usual to reduce
friction.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily carried
into operation, I will proceed to describe the accompanying Sheet of Drawings,
reference being had to the figures and letters marked thereon.
Figure 1 is an elevation in section, Figure 2 a side view, and Figure 3 a
plan, of a weight hook constructed according to my Invention. a is the recess
or chamber, in which is placed a wad of felt or other suitable porous or fibrous
material, which is saturated with oil or other lubricating compound; b is a
diagonal hole leading from the recess a to the outside of the weight hook. As
the top roller to which the weight hook is suspended revolves, the oil or lubri-
cating compound passes through the small hole b and descends along the face
of the hook till it comes to the corner c, from which it passes to the axle
of the roller to be lubricated. The object of making the hole in the manner
described is to prevent it becoming clogged, which in weight hooks of the
usual construction often takes place.
Figure 4 is a section through a saddle for a weight hook constructed
according to my Invention; Figure 5 is an end view, and Figure 6 a plan, of
the same. In these views a, a, are two recesses for the wads, saturated with
oil or lubricating compound, which escapes to the axle of the top rollers
through the diagonal hole b, and through the vertical hole d: the lubricating
compound passes from the diagonal hole b to the corner c. and thence to one
of the axles, and from the vertical hole d to the other axie; as this latter axle
is sometimes more or less distant from the other, the hole d is not liable to get
clogged, and it may therefore advantageously be made vertical. The weight
hook is suspended to the hook e.
Figures 7 and 8 are two views of another saddle for a weight hook con-
structed according to my Invention. In these views the weight hook is
suspended to the projection . which is formed within the rectangular slot g.
The lubricating recesses and holes are similar to those shewn in Figure 4.
Figure 9 is an elevation in section of a pair of saddles for the weight hooks

page_text: of a mule: Figure 10 is a plan of the upper saddle, and Figure 11 a plan of
the lower one. In these views the recesses a, a, contain the porous or fibrous
substances, saturated with lubricating compound, which escapes to the axles
to be lubricated by the holes b and d. The weight hook is suspended through
the hole h as usual.
By means of these improvements the weight hooks and saddles are lubri-
cated more uniformly than heretofore with less lubricating material, and each
supply will last several days, thus economising labor.
I wish to observe that other modifications of my Invention might be given,
but the foregoing will be sufficient to illustrate the nature thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Pooley, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
CHAS. POOLEY. (L.S.)