IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING FOR SPINNING WORSTED AND OTHER YARNS
Year: 1846

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
SHAW, of Bradford, in the County of York, Overlooker, send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Eleventh day of March, in the ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Benjamin Shaw, my exors,, admors,. and assigns, Her especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Benjamin
Shaw, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Benjamin
Shaw, 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, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING FOR SPINNING WORSTED AND OTHER YARNS;" in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Benjamin
Shaw, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her
said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Benjamin Shaw, do hereby declare, that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say:--
My Invention consists of combining two machines called "spiral gills " into
one machine, so that the product of the first machine may, by the working of
the machinery, be conducted into the next machine and be operated on
thereby, in place of receiving the product of the first machine in cans,
or winding it into balls, or on bobbins, and carrying it by hand to be operated
on by the second machine. And in order that my Invention may be most
fully understood and readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the
Drawing hereunto annexed.
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The Drawing represents a plan of so much of two "spiral gills," combined
according to my Invention and working together, as will enable me to describe
my Invention; and I would state, that the construction of spiral gill machinery
being well understood, it will not be necessary to describe the various parts
thereof, and a workman will readily carry my Invention into practice, by my
pointing out the manner in which I have combined two such machines.
the framing of the machine, so arranged as to receive the parts of two spiral
gill machines, and motion is communicated to the two machines by the shaft
or axis b, which by a strap receives motion from another axis, put in motion
by a steam engine or other power, such other axis giving motion to the
spindle and flyer, and also to the parts for raising and lowering the bobbin on
the spindle, as is well understood. The shaft or axis 6 by cog wheels gives
motion to the front roller shaft or axis c of the one machine, and the back
shaft or axis d of the other machine; and the other requisite motions are
communicated from those shafts or axes c and d by suitable gearing to the
rollers and to the spiral gills, as is shown, so that the motions of the two
machines separately will be the same as heretofore; but in the machine shewn,
the products e; e, e, e, of the first part of the machinery will, in place of being
received into cans, or wound on bobbins, be conducted directly to the second
part of the machine, and such second part of the machine will be constantly
fed by the first part of the machine, as is clearly indicated by the Drawing.
I have not thought it necessary to shew complete spiral gill machines, as the
same are well understood, and separately they are not claimed by me. I would
remark that, although I believe the arrangement shown for giving motion to
machinery by the shaft or axis b, and the mode shown of working the parts,
to be the best for combining the two machines, so that they may work as one
double machine, I do not confine myself thereto, as the details shown may

page_text: be varied. But what I claim is, the combining two "spiral gill" machines so
that the products from one may be received by the other, in place of being
carried from one machine to the other by hand, as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin Shaw, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Tenth day of September, One thousand eight
hundred and forty-six