IMPROVEMENTS IN BALLING COTTON AND THREAD
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Lawson, one of the Partners in the Firm of
Samuel Lawson & Sons, of the Hope Foundry, Leeds, in the County of
York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BALLING COTTON AND
THREAD." A communication from abroad by Adolphe Alphonse Poullier,
residing at Lille, in the Empire of France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Lawson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th April 1862.
I, JOHN LAWSON, one of the Partners in the Firm of Samuel Lawson &
Sons, of the Hope Foundry, Leeds, in the County of York, do hereby declare
the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BALLING COTTON AND
THREAD," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in balling cotton and thread.
For this purpose the cotton or thread having been wound into a ball in the
manner heretofore practised, I proceed to secure it first by means of a strip of
gummed paper or fabric, which is made to encircle. the ball, and further, by
means of another strip of gummed paper or fabric, which is also made to
encircle the ball, and to cross the first strip at right angles, this second strip is
made to close the ends of the hole in the ball left by the spindle on which

page_text: the cotton or thread was wound, the parts of the strip which come over the
ends of the hole being made sufficiently broad for the purpose. A perforation
is made through the part of the strip which closes the end of the hole at the
top of the ball, and the end of the cotton or thread from the interior of the
ball is led out through this perforation, and it is this end which is to be drawn
out for use. Cotton or thread balled in this manner is much more secure
than when balled as heretofore, and in use it is much less likely to become
entangled.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Lawson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th October 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
LAWSON, one of the Partners in the Firm of Samuel Lawson & Sons, of the
Hope Foundry, Leeds, in the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of April, in the year of 'our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Lawson, Her spécial licence that I, the said John Lawson,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
John Lawson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN BALLING COTTON AND THREAD," a communication to me from abroad
by Adolphe Alphonse Poullier, a person resident at Lille, in the Empire of
France, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Lawson,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their
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 Lawson, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-

page_text: formed, 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 balling cotton and thread.
For this purpose the cotton or thread having been wound into a ball in the
manner heretofore practised and as is shewn at Figures 1, I proceed to
secure it, first by means of a strip of gummed paper or fabric represented at
Figure 2, which is made to encircle the ball, as is shown at Figure 8, and I
then further secure the ball by means of another strip of gummed paper or
fabric represented at Figure 4, which is also made to encircle the ball, and to
cross the first strip at right angles, as is shown at Figure 5.
This second strip is made to close the ends of the hole in the ball left by
the spindle on which the cotton or thread was wound, the parts of the strip
which come over the ends of the hole being made sufficiently broad for the
purpose. A perforation a, is made through that part of the strip which closes
the end of the hole at the top of the ball, and the end of the cotton or thread b
from the interior of the ball is led out through this perforation, and it is this
end which is to be drawn out for use.
Cotton or thread balled in this manner is much more secure than when
balled as heretofore, and in use it is much less likely to become entangled.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Lawson, have hereunto set my hand
and seal this Fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
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