IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR TWISTING AND LAYING FLAX, HEMP, AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Hoare, of Allington, in the County of Dorset,
Manager to William Hounsell & Co., of Bridport, Dorset, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR TWISTING AND LAYING
FLAX, HEMP, AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS."
Sealed the 16th April 1861, and dated the 19th October 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Hoare, at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 19th
October 1860.
I, CHARLES HOARE, of Allington, in the County of Dorset, Manager to
William Hounsell & Co., of Bridport, Dorset, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR TWISTING AND
LAYING FLAX, HEMP, AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to the employment of machinery in the place of hand
labour for twisting and laying flax, hemp, and other fibrous materials. For
this purpose I employ a frame which carries upon the sides of it rails laid
Flongitudinally along the walk, on which rails run a bobbin carriage and a small
carriage. At the front of the machine I fix a series of hooks or cogs, as many
in number as there are threads to be twisted, and impart to these cogs a
rotary motion by means of belts or cords passing round pulleys on the axes of
thelcogs, and also round a driving drum or cylinder placed across the lower
part of the front of the machine. One end of each thread. is attached to a'

page_text: cog, the thread itself being taken from a bobbin mounted on the bobbin
carriage. The bobbin carriage is driven in one direction by a cord extending
from the front of the machine to the back and forward again to the back of
the carriage where it is attached, and in the other direction by a cord extending
from the front of the carriage to the front of the machine, each of these cords
being wound upon a conical roller driven by a belt from the driving drum. A
self-acting contrivance is employed for changing the motion at the lower end of
the machine. When the bobbin carriage reaches the back or lower end of the
machine the threads are cut off and attached to a looper, either singly, or two or
more together, the loopers being driven either by the twist already put in the
thread or by a cord, or by a cord from a drum or cylinder. To the front of the
bobbin carriage is attached a bar carrying a series of pins which keep the threads
apart, but as the said carriage moves forward to the front of the machine, the
Joopers lay the threads together. When the forward motion of the bobbin carriage
has been completed the ends of the twines or cords are removed from the loopers
and fixed to the small carriage before referred to, which carriage is held back
by a weighted cord passing over a pulley. The motion of the cogs is then
reversed in order to harden the twines or cords, after which their ends are
removed from the cogs to bobbins driven by the driving drum upon which
bobbins they are wound for use, the small carriage advancing to the front of
the machine as the winding on proceeds. On this carriage reaching the front
of the machine a self-acting apparatus releases the twines or cords from the
carriage. Self-acting contrivances are also employed for stopping the bobbin
carriage, and by means of it the machine itself, when that carriage reaches
either end of the machine. The threads are kept down in their places by
means of a transverse bar which is lowered automatically when the bobbin
carriage reaches the lower end of the machine.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Hoare in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
19th April 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
HOARE, of Allington, in the County of Dorset, Manager to William Hounsell
& Co., of Bridport, Dorset, send greeting..
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her reign,