IMPROVEMENTS IN REELING MACHINES FOR WINDING FLAX, COTTON, WOOL, AND OTHER YARNS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Lawson, of Leeds, in the County of York,
Machine Maker, and George Jennings, of Hunslet, in the Parish of
Leeds, aforesaid, Mechanic, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Lawson and
George Jennings at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 22nd January 1856.
We, EDWARD LAWSON, of Leeds, in the County of York, Machine Maker,
and GEORGE JENNINGS, of Hunslet, in the Parish of Leeds, aforesaid, Mechanic,
do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN REELING
MACHINES FOR WINDING FLAX, COTTON, WOOL, AND OTHER YARNS," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in reels of reeling machines,
to facilitate the removal of the yarns wound thereon. For this purpose, in
constructing a reel, the circular ring or frame at each end of it is composed of
two parts, which together make up a complete circle or ring, to which the
bars on which the yarn is wound are affixed. One portion of such circular ring
or frame is formed with or attached to arms or spokes, by which the reel is
fixed to its axis or shaft; and the other portion of each ring or circular framing
is at one end attached by a pin joint to the fixed portion of the same ring,
the other end of such moveable part of the ring being connected with the fixed.
portion in such manner as to admit of its being moved towards the axis..

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Lawson and George Jennings in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 21st July 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, EDWARD
LAWSON, of Leeds, in the County of York; Machine Maker, and GEORGE
JENNINGS, of Hunslet, in the Parish of Leeds, aforesaid, Mechanic, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
Edward Lawson and George Jennings, Her special licence that we, the said
Edward Lawson and George Jennings, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Edward Lawson and George Jennings,
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 REELING MACHINES FOR
WINDING FLAX, COTTON, WOOL, AND OTHER YARNS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Edward Lawson and George Jennings, our executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our or their hands and
seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or them, 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 nionths next, and immediately.after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
..NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Jennings, on behalf of myself
and the said Edward Lawson, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in, what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and, by the following statement thereof, that is
to say-
This Invention has for its object improvements in reels of reeling machines,
to facilitate the removal of the yarns wound.thereon: For this purpose, in
constructing a reel, the circular ring or frame at each end of it is, composed of s
two parts, which together make up a complete circle or ring, to which the
bars on which the yarn.is wound are affixed. One portion of such circular ring
or frame is formed with or attached to arms or spokes, by which the reel is

page_text: fixed to its axis or shaft; and the other portion of each ring or circular framing
is at one end attached by a pin joint to the fixed portion of the same ring,
the other end of such moveable part of the ring being connected with the fixed
portion in such manner as to admit of its being moved towards the axis.
Having thus stated the nature of our said Invention, we will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 represents one end of a reel constructed according to the Inven-
tion; the other end is similarly constructed. This Figure shows the reel
expanded, and in the condition in which it receives the yarn when the same is
being wound. Figure 2 shows the same end view of the reel, but part of the
circumference is brought nearer to the axis, in order more readily to admit of
the yarn wound on the reel being removed. The two ends a of the reel are
connected by rods or rails b, b. a¹ is a portion of the end frame, which moves
on a pin joint at a², so that the part of the circumference of the reel, carried
by the two end frames a¹, may be brought nearer the axis, as shown at
Figure 2. c is one of two bolts or pins which retains the reel in an expanded
state; d is a slot which guides the projection e of the moveable part of the
end framings a¹.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Jennings, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this 16th day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
GEORGE JENNINGS. (L.S.)