CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR POLISHING AND. FINISHING YARNS OR THREADS
Year: 1857

page_text: Sealed the 15th September 1857, and dated the 17th March 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Nathaniel Jones Amies
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th March 1857.
I, NATHANIEL JONES AMIES, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,.
Small Ware Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR POLISHING AND.
FINISHING YARNS OR THREADS," to be as follows:-
My Invention is designed for the purpose of dividing or separating the
yarns or threads, so as to prevent them rubbing against or overlaying each
other whilst being submitted to the process of polishing and finishing, which
operation may be effected by any of the well-known methods.
This object is attained by passing the yarn or threads in one continuous
length around ordinary distending rollers, and between the divisions formed by.
a series of eyes, pins, healds, reeds, or other equivalent separators which will.
keep the yarn apart as it passes through or between them. Motion being
imparted to the rollers, the yarn becomes worked (or screwed) or traversed off
the rollers, and delivered at one end of them on to bobbins; thus each single

page_text: thread passes in one continuous length along the rollers, and is "finished
polished as it progresses towards the bobbins. This may also be effected by
the application of a screwed rod or rods, used either with or without the
divisions, reeds, &c. &c.; again, by forming annular incisions or divisions in
the rollers for the reception & separation of the threads.
By means of this Invention the ordinary operations of winding the yarns
from the polishing or finishing machines on to bobbins or beams (detached
from such machines is entirely obviated or dispensed with.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Nathaniel Jones Amies in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 17th September 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, NATHANIEL
JONES AMIES, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Small Ware Manu-
facturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for. Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Nathaniel Jones Amies, Her especial license that I, the said Nathaniel
Jones Amies, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Nathaniel Jones Amies, 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
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR POLISHING OR
FINISHING YARNS OR THREADS," upon the condition, amongst others, that I,
the said Nathaniel Jones Amies, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, 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 Nathaniel Jones Amies, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be

page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (and accompanying Drawings), that is to say :—
My Invention is designed for the purpose of dividing or separating the
yarns or threads, so as to prevent them rubbing against or overlaying each
other whilst being submitted to the process of polishing and finishing, which
said operation may be effected by any of the well-known methods.
This object is attained by passing the yarn or threads in one continuous length
around the ordinary distending rollers, and between the divisions formed by a
series of eyes, pins, healds, reeds, or other equivalent separators which will
keep the yarn apart as it passes through or between them. Motion being
imparted to the rollers, the yarn becomes worked (or screwed, or traversed off
the rollers and delivered at one end of them on to bobbins; thus each single
thread passes in one continuous length along the rollers, and is "finished" or
polished as it progresses towards the bobbins. This may also be effected by
the application of a screwed rod or rods, used either with or without the
divisions, reeds, &c.; and again, by forming annular incisions or divisions in
the rollers for the reception and separation of the threads.
By means of this Invention, the ordinary operations of winding the yarns
from the polishing or finishing machines on to bobbins or beams (detached
from such machines) is entirely obviated or dispensed with.
In order that my Invention may be more clearly understood and explained
in detail, I have hereunto annexed a Sheet of Drawings drawn upon a scale
of about
and having similar letters of reference marked
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upon corresponding parts in both Figures.
Fig. 1 is a sectional view taken about the centre of the machine, shewing the
distended thread passing through the pins or separators, and the rotatory brush
or other polisher for acting upon the said thread as it passes round the rollers.
In Fig. 1, a, a, is the framing in which are mounted the distending rollers b, b,
one being capable of adjustment to bring the thread to a proper tension to be
submitted to the action of the brush c; the yarn or thread d is supplied to
these rollers from the bobbin e in an unpolished or unfinished state; it passes
through the separating pins or eyes f. f, as before described, and seen more
clearly in the side elevation of the machine, shewn in Fig. 2; by this traversing
movement of the yarn each thread is brought under the action of the brush or
polisher separately, and when finished, wound on to the bobbin g; if preferred,
a number of threads may be passed through the machine at the same time,
cach separate thread having its delivery and receiving bobbin. It will be
evident, that although pins are only shewn in the Drawing as separators, any
other substitute, such as those before named, are equally efficient, the object

page_text: desired being to keep each single thread distinct and separate from another
whilst undergoing the operation of polishing.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, together with the
manner of performing the same, I would remark in conclusion, that I claim
submitting yarns of threads in one continuous length, properly separated, to the
action of brushes or other suitable polishing equivalent, by means of the
machinery or apparatus, as herein-before described, set forth, and fully
exhibited in the Drawings annexed, or any other slight modification or
variation thereof which shall obtain or effect a similar result.
In witness whereof, I, the said Nathaniel Jones Amies, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
NATH JONES AMIES. (L.S.)