CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING CITTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1852

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
DENTON, of Oldham, in the County of Lancaster, Spindle and Fly Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-ninth day of July, in the sixteenth year of Her reign, and
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, did, for
Herself, er heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said James
Denton, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege, and authority that I,
the said James Denton, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, and such others as I,
the said James Denton, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England and Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING CITTON
AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS;" in which said Letters Patents is contained
a proviso, that I, the said James Denton, shall cause a particular description
of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be enrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part :ecited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Denton, do hereby declare that the nature of the said Invention

page_text: and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described
and ascertained in and by the Drawings hereto annexed, and the following
explanation thereof, that is to say:
My Invention relates to certain improvements upon a construction of
presser flyer, for slubbing and roving frames, described in the Specification of a
Patent granted on or about Eighth December, One thousand eight hundred
and forty-three, to Joseph Lamb, for "a certain improvement or improvements
in machinery used for preparing and spinning cotton, wool, flax, silk, and
similar fibrous materials." The improvement in the flyer, therein described
and now referred to, consisted in the adaptation of a lump or weight to the
presser finger, situate at or about the opposite side of the flyer leg, but
connected immediately to the boss of the presser, and therefore situate at the
lower part of the leg; whereas, according to my improvement, I still employ
a lump or weight, but remove it to the upper part of the leg, mounting it
thereon according to two methods, hereafter to be described, and connecting
it to the boss of the presser finger by means of an intermediate rod.
Figs. 1 and 2 are views in elevation of a single presser flyer; and. Fig. 3 is
a sectional plan view. The presser finger a is mounted upon the leg 6 by means
of a boss, so as to turn as usual; at the other side of this box is a projection
to which a rod c is attached, its upper end carrying the lump d, the inward
portion whereof is formed upon or attached to a short tube, which is turned
round the leg of the flyer so as to be retained thereon, but is loose enough to
allow the lump or weight to turn. By this arrangement it will be perceived,
that as the finger moves outward, by the formation of the bobbin the weight
or lump will turn with it on the opposite side to the centre of motion, and
constitute a balance, acting at the same time with sufficient force to keep
the presser in contact with the material. Upon the leg of the flyer there is a
projecting pin c, corresponding to a slot f formed in the boss, upon which the
finger a is formed or attached, which pin, by forming a stop to the end of
the said slot, will prevent the presser from flying out beyond a certain distance.
Figs. 4 and 5 represent my second method of mounting the lump or weight.
The presser finger a is, as before described, connected to the weight d by the
rod c; in this instance, however, the weight does not encircle the leg of the.
flyer, but is guided by means of a flange g through a circular slot formed, in
which the connecting rod c passes; this flange is shewn as below the lump or
weight, but may, if desired, be placed above, a continuation of the rod c
passing through its slot.
According to the Figures above described, the motion of the lump or weight
will be concentric to the centre of the leg of the flyer; such an arrangement,

page_text: however, is not indispensable, for, if desired, a motion eccentric thereto may
be adopted.
Fig. 6 represents, in sectional plan view, a method of effecting this.
The lump or weight d is connected as before to the boss of the presser
finger by a rod c, which passes through a slot formed in a flange g attached to
the leg of the flyer; this slot, it will be observed, is excentric to the centre of
motion of the presser, and will therefore oblige the lump or weight to move in
that direction, but, as such excentric slot recedes from the centre of the flyer
leg, the weight will move outward as the finger performs a similar motion, and
the balance will in great measure be maintained.
In the accompanying Drawings, and description referring to the same, I have
alluded to single presser flyers only, but it will be obvious that double pressers
may be constructed in precisely the same manner.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in which
the same is to be performed, I desire it to be understood that I claim, as
secured to me under the above in part recited Letters Patent, the adaptation
of a lump or weight mounted at the upper part of the flyer leg or legs by the
methods above described, and connected to the presser finger so as to move
therewith.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Denton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
JAMES (L.s.) DENTON.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-seventh day of
January, in the year of our Lord 1853, the aforesaid James Denton came
before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Speci-
fication aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in
form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twenty-ninth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.