IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TUBES AND BOBBINS USED FOR PREPARING AND SPINNING COTTON, WOOL, AND OTHER FIBRES
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joshua Henry Wilson, of Todmorden, and Lawrence
"
Wilson, of the City of Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster, for the
Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TUBES AND BOBBINS
USED FOR PREPARING AND SPINNING COTTON, WOOL, AND OTHER FIBRES."
Sealed the 15th April 1879, and dated the 16th October 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joshua Henry Wilson and
Lawrence Wilson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th
October 1878.
JOSHUA HENRY WILSON, of Todmorden, and LAWRENCE WILSON, of the City of
Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF TUBES AND BOBBINS USED FOR PREPARING AND SPINNING COTTON,
WOOL, AND OTHER FIBRES."
Our Invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of tubes and bobbins
used for preparing and spinning cotton, wool, and other fibres, and consists in
applying to one or both ends of the wooden portion of such tubes and bobbins a hoop,
band, head, or cap made from a homogeneous mass composed of vegetable fibres,
and resinous, glutinous, or other adhesive substances, and formed or pressed or
otherwise consolidated by suitable apparatus into the required pattern or shape;
or it may be by forming such hoops, bands, heads, or caps from buffalo hide or other
animal substances or fibres, by which means the tubes and bobbins thus provided
with one or more hoops, bands, heads, or caps composed of such materials as above
mentioned, and firmly fitted thereto by any suitable means, are less liable to
breakage or damage, and are thereby rendered more durable and consequently more
economical in use. Where extra strength is required we embed within the mass of
[Price 4d1

page_text: fibre compressed into the required form of band, hoop, head, or cap, one or more
rings of wire or thin metal, either round or flat, or it may be that in place of wire
or thin metal we substitute one or more folds of string or twine, either within the
nass composing the hoop, band, head, or cap, or compressed upon the outer or inner
circumference of the same. We are aware that metallic hoops or caps for tubes or
bobbins have been used, but these are quite different and distinct froin this our
present Invention, which we would have it understood may be considerably varied,
both in form and substance, without departing from its peculiar character.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Joshua Henry Wilson and Lawrence Wilson in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 16th April 1879.
JOSHUA HENRY WILSON, of Todmorden, and LAWRENCE WILSON, of the City of
Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF TUBES AND BOBBINS USED FOR PREPARING AND SPINNING COTTON,
WOOL, AND OTHER FIBRES."
Our Invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of tubes and bobbins
used for preparing and spinning cotton, wool, and other fibres, and consists in
applying to one or both ends of the wooden portion of such tubes and bobbins a
hoop, band, head, or cap, made from a homogeneous mass comprised of vegetable
fibres and resinous, glutinous, or other adhesive substances, and formed or pressed
or otherwise consolidated by suitable apparatus into the required pattern or shape,
or it may be by forming such hoops, bands, heads, or caps from buffalo hide or other
animal substances or fibres, or a mixture of vegetable and animal substances or
fibres, by which means the tubes and bobbins thus provided with one or more hoops,
bands, heads, or caps composed of such material as before mentioned, and firmly fitted
thereto by any suitable means, are less liable to breakage or damage, and are thereby
rendered more durable and consequently more economical in use. Where extra
strength is required we embed within the mass of fibre compressed into the required
form of band, hoop, head, or cap, one or more rings of wire or thin metal, either
round or flat, or it may be that in place of wire or thin metal we substitute one or
more folds of string or twine, either within the mass composing the hoop, band,
head, or cap, or compressed upon the outer or inner circumference of the same.
We are aware that metallic hoops or caps for tubes or bobbins have been used,
and that various kinds of papier maché bobbins have been made, but these are
quite different and distinct from this our present Invention.
Having thus described our improvements, and means we adopt in carrying the
same into effect, we would have it understood that we do not confine ourselves to
the precise details described, as these may be varied without departing from the
peculiar character of our Invention, but what we do claim is, the construction of hoops,

page_text: bands, heads, or caps composed of compressed or otherwise consolidated vegetable
or animal fibres, or a mixture of both, and affixing such formed hoops, bands, heads,
or caps to one or both ends of suitably formed wooden tubes or bobbins, to be used
for preparing or spinning cotton, wool, or other fibres, substantially as described;
and also the embedding within or compressing upon either the outer or inner cir-
cumference of such formed hoops, bands, heads, or caps one or more rings of metal,
or one or more folds of string or twine, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Joshua Henry Wilson and Lawrence Wilson,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fifteenth day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.
Witness,
WILLIAM GADD,
64, Barton Arcade,
Manchester,
Agent to the Patentees.
JOSHUA HENRY WILSON, (L.S.)
LAWRENCE WILSON.
(L.B.)