IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR WINDING WARPS OR THREADS OF COTTON, WOOL, OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES."
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry William Ripley, of Bradford, in the
County of York, and Thomas Shackleton, of Bradford, aforesaid,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS
FOR WINDING WARPS OR THREADS OF COTTON, WOOL, OR OTHER FIBROUS
SUBSTANCES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry William Ripley
and Thomas Shackleton at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 16th July 1868.
We, HENRY WILLIAM RIPLEY, of Bradford, in the County of York,
and THOMAS SHACKLETON, of Bradford, aforesaid, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR WINDING WARPS OR THREADS OF COTTON, WOOL, OR OTHER
FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-

page_text: This Invention consists in improvements in machinery or apparatus
for winding printed or other warps or threads of cotton, wool, or other
fibrous substances in single ends from a beam or large bobbin on to or
upon a series of small bobbins, spools, or tubes. These bobbins, spools,
or tubes are driven by frictional contact with pullies or other suitable
means. A series of guide eyes are arranged on longitudinal bars for
guiding the ends to the said bobbins, spools, or tubes in regular order,
motion being imparted to the said bars by means of a lever actuated by
a cam or other well-known means.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry William Ripley and Thomas Shackleton in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 16th January 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, HENRY
WILLIAM RIPLEY, of Bradford, in the County of York, and THOMAS
SHACKLETON, of Bradford, aforesaid, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Henry William Ripley, and Thomas
Shackleton, Iler special licence that we, the said Henry William Ripley
and Thomas Shackleton, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as we, the said Henry William Ripley and Thomas
Shackleton, our 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 OR APPARATUS FOR WINDING
WARPS OR THREADS OF COTTON, WOOL, OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Henry William
Ripley and Thomas Shackleton, our executors or administrators, by

page_text: an instrument in writing under our, 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 we, the said Henry William Ripley and
Thomas Shackleton, do hereby declare the nature of our said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained, in and by the following state-
ment and accompanying Sheets of Drawings (that is to say) :—
This Invention consists in winding printed or other warps or threads,
of cotton or wool or other fibrous substances in single or double ends
from a beam or large bobbin on to or upon a series of small bobbins,
spools, or tubes. These bobbins, spools, or tubes may be driven by
frictional contact with pullies or other suitable means, and traverse
motion may be given to a series of guide eyes for guiding the ends to
the said bobbins, spools, or tubes in regular order.
In order that this Invention may be fully understood we hiercin
give reference to the accompanying Sheets of Drawings of machinery or

page_text: bobbins are kept in position upon the rollers to be driven by the
frictional contact thereof,
I are a series of slidable rods or bars carrying twezles or guide eyes J,
and fixed to a cross bar K, which is connected by a link to a lever L
operated by a tappet M, fixed on a short shaft which receives rotary
motion by a worm and wheel N from one of the roller shafts by which
reciprocatory motion is given to the guides,
P are a series of rods (by preference made of glass to obtain a smooth
surface) supported in bearing Q; and R is a roller supported on bearings
fixed in any convenient manner at an elevation above the machine.
S is the beam or large bobbin containing the warps or threads
required to be wound, which beam is supported upon stand T or other
convenient bearings so as to be capable of rotating; and this beam is
divided into compartments by flanges, as shewn in Fig. 4, that each
may receive a certain number of ends or threads of the warp when
winding the same thereon, according to the number of pullies or rollers
contained in the machine herein-before described, and it will be readily
seen that the machine may be constructed with any convenient number
of pullics or rollers.
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It will now be seen that if the ends or threads of warp contained
in any compartment of the beam are passed over the roller R, and
thence over the rods P, and attached to the bobbins G respectively,
or a single or double end to each bobbin, and on motion being given
to the machine the said ends or threads will be wound upon the said
bobbins, which when filled can be moved from the machine to the
ordinary working creel and replaced by empty ones to be filled in like
manner.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, and shewn by
the accompanying two Sheets of Drawings how the same is to be or may
be performed or carried into practical operation, we would have it under-
stood that we do not confine ourselves to the precise details of con-
struction or arrangements of the parts of the machine or apparatus
which we have shewn and described, as various modifications may be
made therein; but what we claim as of our Invention is,-
The winding printed or other warps or threads of cotton or wool or
other fibrous substances in single or double ends from a beam or large
bobbin on to or upon a series of small bobbins, spools, or tubes, in manner

page_text: substantially as herein described and shewn in the accompanying two
Sheets of Drawings.
In witness whereof, we, the said Henry William Ripley and Thomas
Shackleton, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Four-
teenth day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-nine,
HENRY W. RIPLEY. (L.S.)
THOMAS SHACKLETON. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by
the within-named Henry William
Ripley and Thomas Shackleton,
in the presence of
J, W. TASKER,
Clerk to W. Tasker,
Patent Offices,
Halifax & Bradford,