CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MA- CHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR SPINNING COTTON, WOOL, FLAX, SILK, AND OTHER
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Maden, of Bacup, in the County of Lancaster,
Cotton Spinner and Manufacturer, and James Wheater, of the same
Place, Mechanic, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MA-
CHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR SPINNING COTTON, WOOL, FLAX, SILK, AND OTHER
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Sealed the 10th October 1861, and dated the 13th April 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Maden and James
Wheater at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 18th April 1861.
We, HENRY MADEN, of Bacup, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton Spinner
and Manufacturer, and JAMES WHEATER, of the same Place, Mechanic, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS. POR SPINNING COTTON, WOOL, FLAX, SILK, AND OTHER
FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
Our Invention relates principally to that description of machinery employed.
in spinning called "throstles," and consists in a novel and peculiar arrange-:
ment of the spindle and flyer in combination with the method of producing
the required "drag" upon the yarn. In our improvements a tube, bush, or
collar is secured in the "top rail," and extends to about the upper end of the:
spindle which passes. through the said "bush;" upon this collar a second.
collar works, to which the flyer is attached, and in an inverted position to that:
generally adopted. The spindle is driven in the ordinary manner, and has a
slot in the top so that the bobbin may be secured thereupon by means of a
pin, and be driven with the spindle, the flyer and loose collar being pulled
round by the yarn, and by this means the drag upon the yarn is effected..

page_text: The flyer is also provided with a " copping motion," so that the yarn may be
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Maden and James Wheater in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 12th October 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, HENRY
MADEN, of Bacup, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton Spinner and Manu-
facturer, and JANES WHEATER, of the same Place, Mechanic, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Henry Maden and James Wheater, Her especial license that we, the
said Henry Maden and James Wheater, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Henry Maden and James Wheater,
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 "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR SPINNING COTTON, WOOL, FLAX, SILK, AND OTHER
FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," upon the condition, amongst others, that we, the said
Henry Maden and James Wheater, by an instrument in writing under our
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of our
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and
caused 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 we, the said Henry Maden and James Wheater,
do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to
say):
Our Invention relates principally to that description of machinery employed
in spinning called "throstles," and consists in a novel and peculiar arrange-
ment of the spindle and flyer in combination with the method of producing the
required "drag." In our improvements a tube, bush, or collar is secured in

page_text: the "top rail," and extends to about the upper end of the spindle which
passes through the said "bush" or collar; upon this collar a second collar
works, to which the flyer is attached, and in an inverted position to that
generally adopted. The spindle is driven in the ordinary manner, and has a
slot in the top, so that the bobbin may be secured thereupon by means of a
pin, and be driven with the spindle, the flyer and loose collar being pulled
round by the yarn, and by this means the drag upon the yarn is effected. The
flyer is also provided with copping motion," so that the yarn may be
equally wound upon the bobbin.
In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained in
detail, we have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawing, made upon a scale of
about nine inches to the foot, and having similar letters of reference marked
upon corresponding parts of the apparatus.
Fig. 1 is a front view of a portion of a "throstle," shewing our Invention
applied; and Fig. 2 is an end sectional view, shewing more clearly the two
"bushes" encircling the spindle. In Figs. 1 and 2, a, a, is the framing of the
machine, and b, b, the spindles, the "steadying bush" c being secured upon
the lower rail d, and the bush and flyer e being mounted upon the copping
rail f. The bobbin g is secured upon the spindle by means of a pin entering
a slot in the top of the spindle, and is driven with it, and the flyer is furnished
(as seen in Fig. 1) with a double eye or loop to obtain sufficient friction or
hold upon the yarn whilst the bobbin revolves, the flyer thereby imparting the
required "drag" to the yarn.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, we wish it to be distinctly
understood that we claim the novel arrangement of the spindle, flyer, and
bush as employed for producing the required drag upon the yarn in spinning
cotton, wool, flax, silk, and other fibrous substances, as herein-before described,
set forth, and fully exhibited in the Drawing attached.
In witness whereof, we, the said Henry Maden and James Wheater,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Eleventh day of October,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
one
HENRY MADEN. (L.S.)
JAMES WHEATER. (L.B.)