IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS AND MACHINERY FOR WARPING WORSTED, COTTON, AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1850

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, RICHARD
HOLDSWORTH, of Burnley, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, and
WILLIAM HOLGATE, of the same place, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster,
the Eleventh day of March, One thousand eight hundred and fifty, in the
thirteenth year of Her reign, did give and grant unto us, the said Richard
Holdsworth and William Holgate, our exors, adññiors, and assigns, Her especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that we, the said Richard
Holdsworth and William Holgate, our exors, adñññors, and assigns, and such
others as we, the said Richard Holdsworth and William Holgate, our exors,
adñiors, and 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
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of Great Britain
and Ireland called England, Her Dominion of Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, our Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS AND
MACHINERY FOR WARPING WORSTED, COTTON, AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS;".
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that we, the said Richard
Holdsworth and William Holgate, or one of us, shall cause a particular
description of the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under the hand and
seal of one or both of us, to be enrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of

page_text: the said in part recited Letters Patent, as, reference being thereunto had,
will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
Richard Holdsworth and William Holgate; do hereby declare that the nature
of our said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed
and carried into practical effect, is particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following description, reference being had to the Drawings thereto
annexed.
The novelty of our said Invention consists. particularly in. apparatus or im-
provements in apparatus for warping fibrous materials, and in the construction
and arrangement of two or more friction surface plates or couplings, which are
employed to give motion to the warping or turning mill to reverse the said
motion when necessary, and to throw the said mill in or out of gear, and other
apparatus or contrivance by which the said mill or machine may be worked
either by steam or other power. This peculiar construction or arrangement is
for the purpose of economizing space and labour, for simplifying the method
of applying the necessary power to turn or work such mills or machines, 'to
obtain a steadier motion than is gained by, the ordinary methods, to, increase
the quantity of work produced by or turned off the said machines, and thus
effect a considerable saving of labour and expence,
Having pointed out the novelty of sour said Invention, "we will proceed to
show the manner of carrying the same into practical effect, which will be found
to be fully explained by the following description and reference to the
Drawings.
.
Fig. 1 represents a front elevation of the apparatus or machine. Fig: 2 a
side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 a front view of the same, showing a plan by
which the friction plates are worked by. a rod or lever instead of a chain, as in
Fig. 2. Fig. 4 a section of the same, with an additional apparatus: or extra
motion to work by hand power. Similar letters of reference are marked upon
and denote corresponding parts in each of the. Figures. a is a vertical standard
frame bolted to the floor. b, a hand wheel keyed to the intermediate chain
wheel shaft c, or the rod or lever n. d, chain and spur wheels mounted on
suitable bearings. e; friction driving bowl fixed on the horizontal shaft i. f; à
vertical shaft. 9, friction surface plates fixed horizontally on the shaft f. h, a
pulley fixed either under the floor or over the 'niill, as most convenient, by
which is obtained the first, motion or power for working the said friction sur-
face plates. k, bevil wheels, fixed on the horizontal shaft i and vertical shaft ?,
for the purpose of giving motion or power to the warping mill when worked
by hand, by turning the handle m.in, a perpendicular rod or shaft, with a boss

page_text: on the lower end bored out to receive the shaft i; which answers the purpose of
a moving pedestal. The same rod or shaft is continued below the boss to work
into a footstep or guide to keep the shaft i in a proper line of direction. This
rod or shaft n is enclosed in a frame and attached to the hand wheel b by a
socket and screw o, which, by turning the hand wheel b, raises or lowers the
friction bowl e, bringing it into contact with the higher or lower friction
plates g, by which the motion is reversed; and when the said friction bowl is
so adjusted by the rod or shaft n as not to touch or come into contact with
either of the said friction surface plates, the motion or power of the said mill
or machine is stopped. The said apparatus or machine, and all its different
parts, may be made of iron or any other suitable metal or material.
Having fully described the nature of our Invention, and the arrangements
for carrying the same into practical effect, we desire it to be distinctly under-
stood that we do not confine ourselves to the precise details herein mentioned
and illustrated in the Drawings, as such may be varied without departing from
the peculiar character of our Invention; nor do we claim the exclusive use of
any of the several parts above mentioned and referred to, except in so far as
the same may be employed in combination for the purposes of our said Inven-
tion; but we declare our Invention to consist in, and we claim, the application
and arrangement in combination of the several parts of the machine or appa-
ratus constructed as herein-before set forth, described, and illustrated.
In witness whereof, we, the said Richard Holdsworth and William
Holgate, or one of us, have hereunto set our hands and seals, or hand
and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty.