IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR SPINNING, TWISTING, AND DOUBLING COTTON, AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Wilson Hadwen, of Kebroyd Mills, near.
Halifax, in the County of York, Cotton Spinner and Manufacturer,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS
FOR SPINNING, TWISTING, AND DOUBLING COTTON, AND OTHER FIBROUS
MATERIALS."
Sealed the 12th June 1863, and dated the 17th December 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Wilson Hadwen
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 17th December 1862.
I, JOHN WILSON HADWEN, of Kebroyd Mills, near Halifax, in the County
of York, Cotton Spinner and Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR
SPINNING, TWISTING, AND DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS," to
be as follows:-
:
This Invention relates to mules and twiners, and consists in building
the cop or bobbin upon a tube revolving upon a stationary spindle, the
loose tube being put in motion in any desired manner..

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Wilson Hadwen in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 16th June 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
WILSON HADWEN, of Kebroyd Mills, near Halifax, in the County of York,
Cotton Spinner and Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said John Wilson Hadwen, Her special licence that I, the said John Wilson
Hadwen, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said John Wilson Hadwen, 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
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR SPINNING, TWISTING, AND
DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said John Wilson Hadwen, my executors or admin-
istrators, 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 John Wilson Hadwen, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say) :-
This Invention relates to mules and twiners, and consists in building the
cop or bobbin upon a tube revolving upon a stationary spindle, the loose tube
being put in motion in any desired manner. The stationary spindle is fixed
on the top spindle rail, and the tube is made to revolve by a band from the
ordinary tin roller or drum. The great advantage of this system consists in
being able to run the loose tube at a much greater speed, and with less
friction than the ordinary spindle as much as eight thousand to ten thousand

page_text: revolutions per minute, whereas the ordinary spindle only runs at from five
thousand to six thousand.
Having now described my Invention, and the manner in which the same
is to be performed, I desire it to be understood that I claim, the improve-
ments in machinery or apparatus for spinning, twisting, and doubling cotton,
and other fibrous materials, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Wilson Hadwen, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three..
Witness,
AUGUSTUS JENKINSON.
J. WILSON HADWEN. (L.S.)