A CERTAIN IMPROVE- MENT IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN PREPARING COTTON, WOOL, FLAX, AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES FOR SPINNING
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Settle, of Bolton, in the County of Lan-
caster, Spindle Manufacturer, for the Invention of "A CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENT IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN PREPARING COTTON, WOOL,
FLAX, AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES FOR SPINNING."
Sealed the 12th November 1861, and dated the 17th August 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Settle at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 17th
August 1861.
I, THOMAS SETTLE, of Bolton, in the County of Lancaster, Spindle Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN PREPARING COTTON,
WOOL, FLAX, AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES FOR SPINNING," to be as follows:-
My Invention applies to such descriptions of machinery as are employed for
preparing, roving, and slubbing cotton and other fibrous substances previously
to spinning, wherein the apparatus known as the "presser flyer" is used, the
present improvement relating to such apparatus termed "presser flyer." The
portion of the "flyer" called the "presser," and used to conduct the cotton

page_text: on to the bobbin or spool has hitherto been furnished with an eyelet, through
which the roving, cotton, or other fibrous substance is passed, and which by
constant friction becomes filled with loose filaments of cotton impeding the
free delivery thereof and materially injuring the yarn. My improvement
consists in forming a groove or channel in the "presser," the yarn being passed
once or twice round the "presser arm" and into the groove, which will be
found sufficient to guide it in the required direction, and instead of through
the eyelet, as usual.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Settle in the Great. Seal Patent Office on the 15th
February 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
SETTLE, of Bolton, in the County of Lancaster, Spindle Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of August, 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 me, the
said Thomas Settle, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Thomas Settle, my 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 "A CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN PRE-
PARING COTTON, WOOL, FLAX, AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES FOR SPINNING," upon
the condition, amongst others, that I, the said Thomas Settle, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, 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 Thomas Settle, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be

page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the fol-
lowing statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say):
My Invention applies to such descriptions of machinery as are employed for
preparing, roving, and slubbing cotton, flax, and other fibrous substances pre-
viously to spinning, wherein the apparatus known as the "presser flyer" is
used, the present improvement relating to such apparatus termed the " presser
flyer." The portion of the flyer called the "presser," and used to conduct the
cotton or flax on to the bobbin or "spoil" has hitherto been furnished with
an eyelet, through which the roving of cotton, flax, or other fibrous substances
is passed, and which by constant friction becomes filled with loose filaments of
cotton or flax impeding the free delivery thereof and materially injuring the
yarn." My improvement consists in forming a groove or channel in the
presser," the yarn being passed once or twice round the "
presser arm and
into the groové, which will be found sufficient to guide it in the required
direction and instead of through the eyelet, as usual.
In order that the Invention may be clearly understood and explained more
fully, I have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings made about full size, and
illustrative of a "presser flyer," having my improvement embodied therein.
Fig. 1 shews the bobbin and flyer, with the roving passing around the arm
of the presser, by which it is conducted on to the bobbin by means of a
groove instead of the ordinary eyelet; Fig. 2 represents the "presser flyer"
alone, shewing the form and direction of the groove; Fig. 3 exhibits the utilty
of the narrow "presser," enabling the roving to be laid close beneath the
bobbin flange or head; and Fig. 4 shews a novel construction of flyer, par-
ticularly applicable to flax, and shewing the method of converting the ordinary
flyer used for flax into a presser flyer of my improved description.
In Figs. 1 and 2, a, a, is the flyer, and 6, the presser, for conducting and
laying the roving or slubbing on the bobbin or "spool," which is effected by
means of the channel or groove c formed therein, whereby the friction and
detrimental effects of the eyelet through which the sliver ordinarily passes are
removed, the groove or channel being sufficient for the purpose. I would
here remark that from the use of this groove I am enabled to diminish the
width of the "presser," if required, and so bring it closer to the shoulder of
the bobbin in winding cotton or flax on bobbins.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of performing the same, I wish it to be distinctly understood that I
claim the employment and use of a groove or channel formed in the "1 presser
of "presser flyers" in contradistinction to the use of an eyelet, as hitherto
"

page_text: employed in pressers to guide the fibrous material on to the bobbin or "spool,"
as herein-before described, set forth, and fully illustrated in the Drawings
annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Settle, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Settle, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
THOMAS SETTLE, + his mark. (L.S.)
Signed and delivered as his act and deed
in the presence of
JNO. L. DAVIES, Patent Agent,
Manchester.