IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING AND DOURLING FIRRES" IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING FIRRES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Ripley, of Bradford, in the County
of York, Spinner and Manufacturer, and Charles C. Seton, of
Bradford aforesaid, Merchant, for the Invention of “IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING AND DOURLING FIRRES"
IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING FIRRES"
Sealed the 22nd January 1875, and dated the 24th October 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Ripley and
Charles C. Seton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 24th October 1874.
WC, FREDERICK RIPLEY, of Bradford, in the County of York,
Spinner and Manufacturer, and CHARLES C. SETON, of Bradford aforc-
said, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING FIBRES," to be as
follows:-

page_text: which Letters Patent were granted to the said Frederick Ripley, dated
the Eighteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-three, Number 3740, and is specially
applicable to spinning frames in which the spinning process is carried
on by what is technically called the "throstle."
According to this Invention we employ a tube or hollow spindle,
having by preference at one end thereof a flange, boss, or wharl, forming
a base or platform for the bobbin or spool to rest upon. The said tube
and its flange, boss, or wharl is mounted or placed loosely on the ordinary
spindle or rod of the throstle or flyer, and rests upon the bolster or
lifting rail. Motion is imparted to the said tube or hollow spindle by a
band or cord separate and distinct from that imparted to the throstle
or flyer. By the combined means aforesaid the process of spinning or
doubling is facilitated.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 1
filed by the said Frederick Ripley and Oharles O. Seton in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 24th April 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, FREDERICK
RIPLEY, of Bradford, in the County of York, Spinner and Manu-
facturer, and CHARLES C. SETON, of Bradford aforesaid, Merchant, send 20
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in
the thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and 2
successors, give and grant unto us, the said Frederick Ripley and
Charles C. Seton, Her special licence that we, the said Frederick
Ripley and Charles C. Seton, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Frederick Ripley and Charles
C. Seton, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time 3
agree with and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter

page_text: 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
**IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING FIBRES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that wc, the said Frederick Ripley and
Charles C. Scton, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, 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 aftor the date of the said
Letters Patent.
•
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Frederick Ripley and Charles
C. Seton, 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, that is to
say:―
This Invention relates to further improvements in machinery for
which Letters Patent were granted to the said Frederick Ripley, dated
the Eighteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand
cight hundred and seventy-three, and is specially applicable to spinning
frames in which the spinning process is carried on by what is technically
called the throstle.
According to this Invention we employ a tube or hollow spindle,
having at one end thereof a flange, boss, or wharl, forming a base or
platform for the bobbin or spool to rest upon. The said tube and its
flange, boss, or wharl is mounted or placed loosely on the ordinary
spindle or rod of the throstle or flyer, and rests upon the bolster or lifting
rail. Motion is imparted to the said tube or hollow spindle by a band
or cord separate and distinct from that imparted to the throstlc or flyer.
By the combined means aforesaid the process of spinning or doubling is
facilitated.
Such being the nature and object of this our said Invention, we will

page_text: wharl B in combination, in the manner and for the purpose substantially
as herein described and shewn.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles C. Seton, for and on behalf
of myself and the said Frederick Ripley, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
Witness,
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Patent Agent,
Halifax & Blackburn.
CHARLES C. SETON. (L.S.)