AN IMPROVED WINDING MACHINE
Year: 1826

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
RICHARDSON FANSHAWE, of Addle Street, in the City of London, Silk Embosser,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Thirteenth day of June, in the seventh year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Henry Richardson Fanshawe, His especial licence that I, the said Henry
Richardson Fanshawe, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Henry Richardson Fanshawe, executors, administrators,
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 law-
fully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED WINDING
MACHINE;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, obliging me,
the said Henry Richardson Fanshawe, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the
same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto bad, will
more fully and at large appear.

page_text: pulley C, C, which causes the bobbin B and the conductor F to be put in motion;
the conductor moves round the swift, detaching the thread from the rest of the
skein or hank, while the bobbin winds it up with a corresponding movement.
And it should be stated that the conductor should be made of wire or some
springy material, so that the action of the machinery may cause it to vibrate
with a tremulous motion as it passes round the swift, and thus greatly assists
the disengaging of the thread. If the thread catches, or is so entangled that
the conductor cannot separate if from the skein, the swift will be carried round
with the conductor, which the person attending the machine will instantly
perceive, and relieve the from the difficulty; or if the thread be so weak as to
break with the entanglement, the conductor will continue to pass round the
swift harmlessly, while the swift being stationary at the place where the thread
broke, the end will be found without difficulty and pieced, having been passed
through the eyes in manner before stated, and the machine will continue its
work as before.
Now, whereas the foregoing description comprises the main principle of my
said Invention, namely, the conductor separating the thread from the skein or
band, and raising it from or taking it off the swift, for the purpose of being
more easily wound on to the bobbin; but it will readily occur to those
acquainted with silk winding, that to wind the large reeled silk, such as brutia
and the like, a different arrangement must be pursued, in consequence of the
difficulty of getting at the central eye J, and also the eyes G and R, when
required to piece a broken end, and where there is a number or series of such
large swifts at work in a row; to obviate these difficulties I have invented two
other improvements, which, as they do not effect the main principle of my
Invention, I have shewn in a separate Drawing, and shall now proceed to
describe by referring to the Drawing marked B.
And first, of the mode of getting at the central eye J. Fig. 1 in this
Drawing represents a machine for winding large reeled silk. J is the said
central eye, and instead of being fixed into the upright of the frame, as
in the Drawing last described, it is fixed to the end of a rod L. This rod
turns on an axis at P, and is moved on this axis by means of the slide rod M,
which is fastened to the lower end of the rod L. Now, it will be seen that
the lever at P is so short that a small movement there produces a great
change in the position of the eye J; in fact, when the rod M is slid by the
handle through the guides e, e, to the position shewn by the dotted line H,
the rod L drops into the position shewn by the dotted lines at y, which, it will
be observed, is a convenient situation for the operator to reach it when
required to pass the end of the thread through the eye J after piecing the

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When the end is pieced, if the handle t be again drawn to its former
position, the eye J will again be brought to its central working position.
This part of my Invention is coloured blue, for the purpose of better illus-
trating it. Figure 2 is a view of this part of my said Invention, as it appears
on the inside of the frame. The parts coloured blue represent the improvement
in its working position, and the dotted lines shew its position when the eye J
is let down to piece an end.
I will now proceed to describe the manner of getting at the eyes G and R
by stopping the conductor F when it is required to piece an end, as aforesaid.
Figure 3 is drawn to explain this, and the parts coloured brown represent the
conductor and the movement connected with it. E is the pulley, to which the
conductor F is fixed; and C is a driving pulley which turns it, by means of
the band D, D. It will be seen that there is a small stop or tooth V on the
outer edge of the pulley E; this stop acts against the paul W when the paul
is lowered, as shewn by the dotted lines; but when the paul is up, as shewn
in this Figure, the pulley E revolves uninterruptedly, but when the paul is
lowered, and the stop or tooth comes round to it, the pulley E, and consequently
the conductor F, cease to revolve, and the conductor F will be brought into
the position shewn at Fig. 4, where the thread may be conveniently passed
through the eyes G and R, and the end pieced by the operator.
Fig. 4 shews more clearly the manner in which this movement is to be per-
formed, and I will therefore proceed to describe it. E is the conductor pulley,
and F is the conductor; Z is a small crank fixed to the side of the framework;
I is a string connecting one end of this crank with the paul W; and O is
another string connecting the other end of the crank with the lever r, by which
the crank is moved. When the lever r is in the position shewn in the Drawing
the paul W drops, the stop or tooth V catches against it, and the conductor I
is stopped at the most convenient place for the operator to piece the broken
end; but when the lever is dropped to the position shewn by the dotted lines
at X the paul W is raised, and the conductor F continues to move round by
itself, when the thread winds clear, but carrying the swift round with it, in the
event of any entanglement or other impediment in the skein or hank. Fig. 5
is a front elevation of part of a machine for winding large reeled silk, where a
series of swifts are employed, and put in motion at the same time. This
Figure shews one swift and its appurtenances complete according to my
improved plans. The parts coloured pink denote the silk to be wound, those
coloured blue the central eye and the movement connected with it, and the
parts coloured brown denote the conductor and the parts connected with its
movement.

page_text: It should be also here observed, that where the same letters are used
similar parts are intended to be denoted in all the Figures and in both Draw-
ings. Figure 6 is a full-sized representation of the eyes G and R at the end
of the conductor.
Now, whereas I claim as my Invention, first, the conductor which takes the
thread off the swift while the swift itself remains at rest on its axis.
Secondly, the apparatus for stopping the said conductor when it is required
to wind from large reels or swifts.
And lastly, the apparatus for moving the central eye J to and from the
operator, all which constitute my said improved winding machine.
And such my Invention being, to the best of my knowledge and belief,
entirely new, and never before used in that part of His said Majesty's United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, His said Dominion of
Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare this to be my
Specification of the same, and that I do verily believe this my said Specifica-
tion doth comply in all respects fully and without reserve or disguise with the
proviso in the said herein-before in part recited Letters Patent contained;
wherefore I do hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to my
said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Richardson Fanshawe, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.
Inrolled the same Twelfth day of December, in the year above written.