CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SPINNING FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1827

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
CHURCH, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Thirteenth day of July, One thousand eight hundred and
twenty-seven, in the eighth year of His reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said William Church, His especial
licence that I, the said William Church, ny exors, adñiors, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said William Church, my exors, adiñors, 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 aforesaid, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR SPINNING FIBROUS SUBSTANCES;" in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso obliging me, the said William Church, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
and to cause the same to be inrolled in His 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 there-
unto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Church, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and

page_text: the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained in and by the Drawings hereunto annexed, and the following
description thereof (that is to say):
My Invention of "Certain Improvenients in Apparatus for Spinning Fibrous
Substances, consists in a peculiar adaptation of a jacket or case to the spindle
ordinarily used in--those-spinning-machines-called-billies,-jennies, or mules,
the object of which is to prevent the threads from breaking in the process of
what is technically called lapping up or winding on. The mode of constructing
this jacket or case may be that described in the accompanying Drawing
Fig. 1, a, a, a, represents a spindle of the ordinary construction, on to which
I fix a collar b, shewn also detached and in section at Fig. 2. One side of
this collar is cut nearly through longitudinally, as will be perceived by
reference to the last-mentioned Figure; and into this slit I introduce a slender
spring catch c, seen likewise in Fig. 1, which spring catch has a tendency to
exert itself outwards. Upon the fixed collar b. I place a sliding collar d, fitted
so as to allow it to slide up and down freely. When this collar is slidden
upwards, it presses against the inclined part of the spring catch c, forcing its
upper or catch end deeper into the slit, and thereby conceals the catch in the
fixed collar.
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Fig. 3 is a représentation of the jacket' or case; intended to be mounted
upon the spindle; and Fig. 4 is the same; 'shewn in section. This jacket
may be made of light wood, or of any other suitable material;--and
is to be fitted so as to turn very freely upon the spindle. ⚫ Its' .flànch
end has a bush e fitted into it, which rests on the upper end of the
fixed collar when the jacket is placed upon the spindle, the 'catch
of the spring c acting in the conical groove at the bottom of the bush e,
and thereby holding the jacket and the spindle tightly together. The
object of confining the jacket to 'the spindle is, that they inay both revolve
together during the operations of drawing and twisting; but when I wish to
lap up or wind the spun thread on to the shell or jacket; I loosen the jacket
from the spindle in the following way-By any convenient contrivance I
cause the sliding collar d, which presses the spring back into the slit of the
fixed collar, as before described, and thereby relieves the jacket from the
pressure of the spring catch, when the jacket is allowed to revolve upon
the spindle very freely.
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I have now described one mode of constructing and applying my said
Invention, which sufficiently illustrates its principles. The mechanical details
of the Invention are susceptible of numerous variations, and I do not therefore
limit my claim of Invention to the mechanism as above described, but claim

page_text: as part of and belonging to my Invention of "Improvements in the Apparatus
of Spinning Fibrous Substances" any application whatever of a shell or case to
a spindle for the purpose of preventing thread from breaking in the process of
lapping up or winding on, whether applied to mule, billy, jenny, or any other
spinning machine, by whatever name known, in or by which the operations of
drawing and lapping up are successively and not simultaneously performed.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Church, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Ninth day of January, One thousand eight hundred
Inrolled the Tenth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.