A SPINNING MACHINE ON A NEW. CONSTRUCTION, WHEREBY THE PROCESS OF SPINNING IS MUCH FACILITATED AND EXPE- DITED
Year: 1793

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PAUL
TATE, of Manchester, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, Cotton Manu-
facturer, send grecting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date.
at Westminster, the Fifteenth day of March, in the thirty-third year of His
reign, give and grant unto me, the said Paul Tate, His especial licence that
I, the said Paul Tate, during the term of years therein mentioned, should and
lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town.
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A SPINNING MACHINE ON A NEW.
CONSTRUCTION, WHEREBY THE PROCESS OF SPINNING IS MUCH FACILITATED AND EXPE-
DITED;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me,
the said Paul Tate, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to
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 His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery, within four calendar months after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had)
may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Paul Tate, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in the
plan hereunto annexed, and the description thereof following:-
A, main drum or cylinder; B, drum or cylinder shaft; C, the shaft which
turns the small horizontal shaft D. a, a, the two wheels works the two face

page_text: wheels b, b; c, the worn which works the horizontal wheel d; e, the perpen-
dicular axle of the horizontal wheel d, and the worm f and e; f, the worm
which turns the vertical wheel g; h, the egg-shaped plate fixed on the axis of
the vertical wheel 9; i, the inclined plate, which works into a notch in the
spinning board, which it moves gently backwards and forwards betwixt the two
beams, which supports the stands. The Drawing of the spinning board is left
out, to prevent confusion. k, an end view of the long shaft which runs thro
the centre of the frame, Fig. 3; L, the lever bearing against the plate h; m, m,
the arms of the shaft h, which lifts. tho rails a, n; o, o, the pin which runs
through the beams w, w, to steady the motion of the rails n. n. G, G, the axis
of the bobbin moving through the pullies s; w, w, w, w, steps for the tubular
pullies to run in; u, v, the rollers, with threads coming from them; a, x, x, x,
two ranges of wings, with the tubular pullies fixed, as when at work; p. p. P. P,
small pullies to conduct the strap round the ends of the frame; 9, the strap as
it runs with the wings of the tubular pullics upright; r, the strap running in
its vermicular direction, with one half of the pullies inverted; ①small trucks,
bearing upon the straps at q, Fig. 4; G, the axis of the bobbin 1, with its
tin 2 and shoulder 3; F, the small tubular pully with its wing; E, the large
tubular pully with its wing; H, the tubular pully with its wing, and axis of
the bobbin with the thread coming upon it; I, stands, which the rollers run in.
Fig. 9 is thirteen feet long, and, when compleat, spins ninety-six threads o
each side of the frame. The dotted lines in the pullies shew the hollow for
the axis of the bobbin to move through. The pinions at the rollers ends,
caps, saddles, stands, creel for the rovings, hooks, weights, and levers for the
rollers, are omitted, to prevent confusion; for the same reasons, in Fig. 3 the
trucks which bear the straps against the tubular pullies are left out.
The
or new improved spinning machine is worked by one principal
drum, in the same way as what are usually called water frames. From the
drum or main cylinder A. the strap g, r, glides, which turns the tubular pullies
in Fig. 1 and 3, with their wings upright. The trucks ①have a small
pressure upon the belt at g, in order to bring it to a proper bearing to turn
the tubular pullies. ①☹ and v, in Fig. 1, are the tubular pullies, with the strap
at r, running in a vermicular direction, and by the pullies being inverted
the twist of the spun thread will be given the same way, and do away the
necessity of trucks. Yet the plan as described in TF:Rig:.: : Cat: CD①CDC) is preferable.
There are two lengths of rollers coupled together in Fig. 8, which when com-
pleat, the whole of the rollers in each side of the frame will be joined, and
are worked from the main shaft B, which turns the shaft C, and works the

page_text: small horizontal shaft D, see Fig. 1, on which the two wheels a, a, work the
two face wheels on the roller ends b, b, see Fig. 1 & 3. On the horizontal
shaft D is worm c, which works into the wheel d, on the perpendicular axle of
which the wormf turns the vertical wheel g, on whose axis is placed an egg-
shaped plate h, which in its revolutions gives an osultory vibration to the axis k,
by means of the lever I constantly bearing upon it. To the same axis are applied
the arms m, m, supporting the moveable rail n, n, which are alternately raised
each vibration of the axis ; the axis G of the bobbin in the meantime, moving
easily up and down through the tubular pullies s, gives that motion necessary
to wind the thread with exactness upon tho bobbin (which amongst spinners is
termed the copping part). In Fig. 2, the pullies belonging to the two rows of
wings turn in narrow steps w, w, w, w, and are screwed to the top and bottom
of thick beam u. The thread runs from the mouth of the rollers through
the wire 4, down the groove 5, through the notch 6, to the bobbin, see Fig. 2, 3,
& 4, at H, on a larger scale. No. 2, in Fig. 4, is a piece of tin placed upon the
bottom of the bobbin 1, so that the twist or spun thread may be slipped off
the bobbin when full; in which case a great part of the expence and trouble
will be avoided, consequent on the change and tempering of bobbins.
The first object on which this Patent is grounded is in spinning two rows of
thread on each side of the machine.
The second is, that the axis of the bobbin, when applied in either single or
double rows, has no rotary motion.
In witness whereof, I, the said Paul Tate, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eleventh day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and ninety-three
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Eleventh day of June, in
the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Paul Tate came before our Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and
all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also the
Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute
in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Twelfth day of July, in the year above written.