IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING, DOUBLING, AND TWISTING WOOL, COTTON, Silk. OR OTHER FIBRES." PROVISIONAL SEPULTIVATION
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to. William Turner, of Bradford, in the County of
York, Spinning Overlooker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING, DOUBLING, AND TWISTING WOOL, COTTON,
Silk. OR OTHER FIBRES."
PROVISIONAL SEPULTIVATION
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
24th July 1873.
I, WILLIAM TURNER, of Bradford, in the County of York, Spinning
Overlooker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING, DOUBLING, AND TWISTING WOOL,
COTTON, SILK, OR OTHER FIBRES," to be as follows:—
I, WILLIAM TURNER, of Bradford, in the County of York, Spinning
Overlooker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING, DOUBLING, AND TWISTING WOOL,
COTTON, SILK, OR OTHER FIBRES," to be as follows:-

page_text: And, Secondly. To the iron or bottom spinning or drawing rollers so
as to produce better yarn and to prevent waste. The spindles I drive by
means of a disc mounted thereon and having milled edges (in lieu of
the grooved pulleys or wharles); a strap guided by runners so as to bear
against the periphery of the discs imparts rotation to the spindles.
The iron rollers, bosses, and arbors I construct hollow and couple
them by screwed connections or couplings, so as to admit of the said
rollers being charged with steam or hot air, and the rollers so heated do not
allow the fibres to adhere thereto as when ordinary rollers are employed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Turner in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 24th January 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
TURNER, of Bradford, in the County of York, Spinning Overlooker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Turner, Her special licence
that I, the said William Turner, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said William Turner, 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 SPINNING, DOUBLING, AND TWISTING WOOL, COTTON, SILK, OR
OTHER FIBRES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
William Turner, 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

page_text: 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 William Turner, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, and the Drawings annexed, of which Fig. 1 is a
sectional elevation of part of a spinning frame having my improvements
attached; Fig. 2 is a sectional plan of the same, Fig. 3, 4, 5, are
details.
こ
A is the main driving shaft around which the driving strap B is
passed being directed by the guide pulleys C to the front of the
spindles D, along which it passes to the pulley E returning by way of
the pulley F; on each of the said spindles is a disc H, the edge being
milled as shewn clearly at Fig. 3. The strap B¹ is directed by the
pulley C¹ along the inside of the spindles D¹, on the opposite side of the
frame imparting rotation to the spindles by bearing on and against the
discs H', the said straps B and B¹ thus driving the spindles at each side
of the frame. He is a pulley fitted with screw adjustment for tightening
or slacking the driving straps. These straps I construct double, that is
to say, two thin straps having a strip of steel secured between them by
means of revits I find best for the purpose. At J is shewn the arbour
and J¹ the bosses of the iron rollers K coupled by screwed connections L,
so as to admit of the said rollers being charged with steam or hot air
admitted by way of the steam or air pipe N which connects the front
and back rollers N³, N°; steam being supplied to the pipe N through a
stuffing box of ordinary kind and construction. Heat so applied to the
said rollers absorbs the damp from the fibre and prevents its adhering to
the rollers.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of this my
Invention, together with the manner in which the same is to be or may
be performed or carried into practical effect, I would have it understood
that I claim as my Invention.
Firstly. The discs H, H', on the spindles operated or caused to rotate
and drive the spindles by the friction of the driving straps on the

page_text: Secondly. The combination and arrangement of apparatus for
supplying steam or hot air to the rollers as above described and
illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Turner, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of January, in 5
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.
Witness,
J. W. TASKER.
WILLIAM TURNER. (L.S.)