AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND MACHINERY FOR PREPARING ROVINGS FROM WASTE AND OTHER INFERIOR FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1868

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Barnes at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
12th March 1868.
I, THOMAS BARNES, of How Gill, near Gisburne, in the County of
York, Cotton Waste Spinner and Manufacturer, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND MACHINERY
FOR PREPARING ROVINGS FROM WASTE AND OTHER INFERIOR FIBROUS MATERIALS,"
to be as follows:-
"
This Invention has for its object the preparing of "rovings" for
spinning from cotton, waste cop bottoms, woollen, woollen waste, and
other low class of fibrous materials which I effect as follows:-I pass
such materials through an ordinary carding engine, from whence they
are delivered as endway "cardings" and wound on bobbins, the bobbins
are conveyed to a roving frame and are supported thereon by brackets
5 attached to the said frame and by a number of drums on a shaft under

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rotary motion to the bobbins the material on which is received by the
the said bobbins, the friction of the periphery of the drums imparting
draw rollers on the frame (which rollers have a slow or decreased
draught) and from thence to the flyers, and wound on the bobbins on
the spindles thereof rovings ready for spinning on the mule or other
ordinary spinning machinery.
It will be seen that by the use of the roving frame instead of the
ordinary "billy" I am enabled to prepare rovings on a machine
occuping much less space than heretofore employed for this purpose,
and of a much less costly construction, and rovings prepared from
materials above mentioned are more uniform than those prepared
on the "billy." Although I name the roving frame for this purpose
the intermediate and slubbing frames are applicable, but I prefer
the moving frame.
1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
BARNES, of How Gill, near Gisburne, in the County of York, Cotton 20
Waste Spinner and Manufacturer, send greeting.
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of
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of March, in the
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Barnes, Her special licence
that I, the said Thomas Barnes, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas Barnes, my executors, ad-
ministrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time, and at all times thereafter during the term therein a
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 "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND
MACHINERY FOR PREPARING ROVINGS FROM WASTE AND OTHER INFERIOR FIBROUS
MATERIALS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas

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Barnes, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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
5 in the Great Seal Patent Office on or before the Eighteenth day of
September One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Barnes, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
0 following statement:-
I
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This Invention has for its object the preparing of "rovings" for
spinning from cotton hard waste, cop bottoms, woollen, woollen waste,
and other low class of fibrous materials, which I effect as follows:-
such materials through an ordinary carding engine from whence
they are delivered as "endway cardings" and wound on bobbins; the
bobbins are conveyed to a roving frame and are supported thereon by
brackets attached to the said frame, and by a number of drums on a
shaft under the said bobbins, the friction of the periphery of the drums
imparting rotary motion to the bobbins, the material on which is received
by the draw rollers on the frame (which rollers have a slow or decreased
draught, and from thence to the flyers and wound on the bobbins on
the spindles thereof rovings ready for spinning on the mule or other
ordinary spinning machinery.
It will be seen that by the use of the roving frame instead of the
ordinary "billy" I am enabled to prepare rovings on a machine
occupying much less space than heretofore employed for this purpose,
and of a much less costly construction, and rovings prepared from
materials above mentioned by this method are more uniform than those
prepared on the "billy." Although I name the roving frame for this
purpose the intermediate and slubbing frame are applicable, but I prefer
the roving frame.
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Such being the nature and object of my said Invention I will now
proceed to describe the same in detail, and in order that the same may
be clearly understood I have hereunto annexed a Sheet of Drawings
llustrative thereof, and have marked the same with figures and letters
of reference.
Fig. 1 is a view of end of frame; Fig. 2 is a plan; and Fig. 3 is a
ack clevation

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the same.
"
The material is passed through an ordinary carding engine, and by
means of the rubbers (one or more pairs may be used) is delivered as
on bobbins provided for the reception of
The bobbins A are conveyed from the carding engine to the
roving frame (shewn at Fig. 1) and are supported thereon by the arm
or bracket B and by the drum C, the friction of the periphery of the
drum imparts rotary motion to the bobbins, the material E from thence
passes to the "draw rollers" F, which rollers have as slow or decreased
draught, and to the flyers and bobbin G rovings ready for spinning on
the mule or other spinning machinery. Motion is imparted to the
drums C by means of a pinion H on the back roller shaft gearing with
the carrier wheel H', the latter gearing with carrier H2, and this with
the wheel H³ on drum shaft. The fork on the upper part of the arm B
serves as bearing for other bobbins ready to replace the bobbins at A as
emptied.
In the Drawings, to save repetition, I have shewn but one drum
bobbin and set of draw rollers, the others are arranged in precisely the
same manner according to the number the frame will permit. It will
be evident that instead of the bobbins cans be employed, but I prefer
the bobbins because less space is required.
Having thus fully described the nature and object of this my said
Invention, together with the manner in which the same is to be or may
be performed, I would have it distinctly understood that I claim as my
Invention, the method of combined with the machinery for preparing
rovings from hard waste and other inferior fibrous material, as herein
described and shewn in the Drawings, or any mere modification of the
same.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Barnes, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Tenth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
THOMAS BARNES. (L.S.)
Witness,
JOHN BAILEY.