CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN SPINNING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES, AND IN PREPARING AND DRESSING YARN FOR WEAVING
Year: 1843

page_text: CHALL
WILLIAM
GARNETT TAYLOR, of Halliwell, Lancashire, Cotton Spinner, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Fifteenth day of July, in the Seventh year of Ier reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Garnett Taylor, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said William Garnett Taylor, my exors, admors, and
assigns, and such others as I, the said William Garnett Taylor, my exors,
adiiors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England
and Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN SPINNING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES, AND IN
PREPARING AND DRESSING YARN FOR WEAVING;" in which said Letters Patent
is contained a proviso that I, the said William Garnett Taylor, shall cause a
particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be enrolled in Her Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Garnett Taylor, do hereby declare the nature of my Certain
Improvements in Spinning Cotton and other Fibrous Substances, and in
Preparing and Dressing Yarn for Weaving to consist,-

page_text: to the part d is produced by an excentric or crank d (moved from any conve-
nient part of the machine, (see Figure 1 & 2), and connected with a small
lever d on the end of the shaft on which the part d is supported. The pro-
jection à is a flat surface. parrallel to part d, for the purpose of agitating the
liquid in which it is immersed. In this arrangement either size or coloring
matter may be used, according to the purpose for which the yarn or thread
is designated; with size, the fibres are incorporated and the stiffening process
goes on at the same time, and with coloring matter or dye (which forms my
second improvement), the fibre is equally incorporated and the staining or
dyeing process is performed at the same time. It is obvious that in dyeing
some colors where various immersions are required, and other preparations of
the yarn for weaving, successive troughs and agitators may
be necessary,
which
can be arranged according to the nature of the work to be performed. The
application of this part of my Invention to the mule or other spinning machine
is so similar to the application I have described to the throstle, that the
Figures 10 and 11 are sufficient to explain it in the Drawings.
I shall now proceed to describe certain modifications in the arrangement
of the trough C and its appendages, which are of importance in applying this
part of my improvements.
Figure 6 represents a section, and Figure 7 an elevation of the trough C.
placed to be near the drawing rollers A, in which the part d is provided with
a hollow trough d' attached to the edge, so that it lifts and carries up a portion
of the liquid in the trough C at each vibration of the part d, and thereby more
completely saturates the upper surface of the woollen cloth, leather, or other
material with which the part d is covered. In this arrangement for mule
spinning the metallic piece F (or glass pegs) attached to the edge of trough
C passes the whole length of the mule, and is formed with a series of small
slits or openings through which each separate thread or end of yarn is
passed, and G is a continuous glass rod on which the end of
yarn rests
as they proceed to the spindles, B representing the position of the
bobbin or cops and spindle. By this arrangement the tremulous motion of
the yarn during the spinning action of the mule is arrested at the point F, so
that the fibres are more completely incorporated. and the sprinkling or
throwing off the liquid iucident to this process is prevented from injuring the
metallic delivering rollers. In using dyeing or staining liquid or size, where
heat is required. the trough C is provided with steam passages, as seen in
section at Figure 4 & 6 (or by steam pipes placed in the angles of the trough
C, as seen at Figure 9). and where the vibrating motion of the parts d is

page_text: effected along with the small trough d', as seen at Figure 6. Leather may be
applied as a covering, as the motion and trough & obviate the necessity of so
great an amount of the capillary action.
Figure 9 is another modification of this part of my improvements, in which
the part d is stationary, and the agitation of the liquid depends on the vibration
of the part do to which the alternating motion is transferred, and the moisture
on the part d depends entirely on capillary attraction. I would here remark,
that the effect produced by the continuous rotation of the part d has been
found in practice prejudicial, in consequence of the lapping which takes place
on any revolving surface when an end breaks down in spinning or preparing,
and which requires to be removed by hand; and the operative, having the
same duty to perform at the drawing rollers, his wet fingers spoil the machinery,
which objection is not presented by my improved arrangement.
Figure 12 represents front views and transverse section of my third improve-
ment, which consists in the application of the trough C adapted with revolving
rollers d (which in this machine answer as well as my former arrangement),
to a preparing and dressing machine. In this Figure B represents the cop
of yarn as it is received in the ordinary condition from the mule or similar
spinning machine. The course of the yarn is tinted red, as in the former
Figures, and proceeds over the trough great C in the direction of the small
arrow. D is the bobbin or spool on to which the yarn is wound; and it will be
observed that unlike ordinary winding machines, this bobbin is provided with
a flyer which imparts a small amount of twist to the yarn during the winding
process. The spindles on which the cop B and the bobbin D are respectively
supported partake of reverse rotations governed by the cross band e, so that
the amount of twist imparted to the yarn to be wound is produced by the
combined rotation of the two spindles, which twist is divided between each
of them. By this application of the trough C and its appendages, along with
the slight twist given as already described, the ouse or fibre of the yarn is
more completely incorporated and an increased strength given to yarn than
heretofore has been attained; while the other advantages already described
of dyeing or of introducing stiffening material are equally applicable as in the
former machine, in addition to which the amount of twist put into the yarn
in this process renders less twist necessary at the former spinning frame, which
produces a greater quantity.
Figure 13 represents front view and transverse section of the same machine
as Figure 12, in which the cop B is placed in an oblique position, resting
against a small presser . which prevents smarls in the yarn, while the position

page_text: of the spindle allows it to come off more freely. The guide pulley serves to
conduct the band accurately to each warve round which it passes.
Having now described the nature of my various improvements, together
with the manner in which the same may be performed or carried into effect.
I claim,-
Firstly, the arrangement and application of a vibrating or reciprocating
surface (in a trough supplied with liquid), over which the yarn is carried
during the process of spinning, preparing, and dressing the liquid in such
trough, being carried on to such surface by the vibrating or reciprocating
motion, combined with the capillary attraction of the covering material of
such surface, the liquid being agitated as herein-before described.
And I also claim the application to the aforesaid purposes of a stationary
surface similarly arranged, which acts by the capillary attraction alone, as seen
at Figure 9, together with the modifications and appendages as set forth and
described at Figures 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.
Secondly, I claim the combination and application of the staining or dyeing
process with the process of spiming and preparing yarn for weaving.
Thirdly, I claim the construction and arrangement of the preparing and
dressing machine, described at Figure 12, the characteristics of which are,
twisting and sizing or dyeing at the same time that the winding proceeds; all
which being, to the best of my knowledge and belief, new, and never before
used in that part of Her Majesty's Dominion called England. I deliver this as
my true and faithful Specification of the same.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Garnett Taylor, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-four.