AN IMPROVEMENT APPLICABLE TO BOBBINS USED LETTERS
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Vincent Newton, of the Office for Patents,
66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughts-
man, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT APPLICABLE TO BOBBINS USED
LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Vincent Newton, of the Office for Patents,
66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughts-
man, for the Invention of “AN IMPROVEMENT APPLICABLE TO BOBBINS USED
IN PREPARING AND SPINNING MACHINERY."—A communication from abroad
by Benjamin Wilbur, of Scituate, in the State of Rhode Island, United
Sealed the 4th December 1866, and dated the 9th July 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Vincent Newton at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th July 1866.
I, ALFRED VINCENT NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane,
in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT APPLICABLE TO BOBBINS USED
IN PREPARING AND SPINNING MACHINERY," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to keep bobbins stationary and firm upon
their spindles; to this end a metallic tube, with spring prongs projecting
from one end, is inserted in the bobbin head or base of the bobbin, the prongs
or free ends of the springs having a set inwards or towards each other. The
tube is held in the bobbin head by friction only. When the bobbin is pressed
down upon the spindle the prongs press against the spindle and hold the bobbin
firmly in its position by friction only.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alfred Vincent Newton in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 9th January 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
VINCENT NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsnian, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Alfred Vincent Newton, Her special licence that I, the said Alfred Vincent
Newton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Alfred Vincent Newton, 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 "AN IMPROVE-
MENT APPLICABLE TO BOBBINS USED IN PREPARING AND SPINNING MACHINERY,
being a communication from abroad, upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, 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 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 Alfred Vincent Newton, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):-
:-
The object of this Invention is to keep bobbins stationary.and firm upon
their spindles; this end it is proposed to attain by the use of spring prongs
projecting from a metallic tube which is inserted in the bobbin head or base
of the bobbin with the prongs or free ends of the springs inclining inward and
towards each other, which tube is held in the bobbin head by friction only.
In the accompanying Drawing Fig. 1 is an external view of an ordinary
bobbin Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same shewing the Invention

page_text: applied thereto; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the metallic spring, the
application of which as indicated forms the subject of the present Invention.
When the bobbin is pressed down upon its spindle the prongs b, b, Fig. 2,
press against the spindle and hold the bobbin firmly in its position by friction
only.
Having now set forth the nature of the Invention of "An Improvement
applicable to Bobbins used in Preparing and Spinning Machinery," and
explained the manner of carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be under-
stood that under the above in part recited Letters Patent I claim, the use
of metallic springs constructed and applied to the bobbin head as above shewn
and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Ninth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
Witness,
J. W. MOFFATT,
66, Chancery Lane.
A. V. NEWTON. (L.S.)