IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING, SPINNING, DOUBLING, AND WINDING WOOL, MORAID ATDAGA STE LA CONTON OR OTHER THANG SUDSMANADE
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jabez Bunting Farrar, of Halifax, in the County of
York, Machine Maker, and John Hirst, of Elstead, in the County of
Surrey, Worsted Spinning Manager, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING, SPINNING, DOUBLING, AND WINDING WOOL,
MORAID ATDAGA STE LA CONTON OR OTHER THANG SUDSMANADE"
VADO
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jabez Bunting Farrar
and John Hirst at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 16th January 1865.
We, JABEZ BUNTING FARRAR, of Halifax, in the County of York, Machine
Maker, and JOHN HIRST, of Elstead, in the County of Surrey, Worsted
Spinning Manager, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING, SPINNING, DOUBLING, AND WINDING
WOOL, MOHAIR, ALPACA, SILK, FLAX, COTTON, OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," to
be as follows:-
This Invention consists, firstly, in the employment of warles, wharves, or
pulleys, or grooved rollers as rotating guides for guiding and conducting slivers,
rovings, or yarns, instead of fixed guides or tweezles which are now employed
for such purposes.

page_text: spinning frames of brushes for broken ends to catch on, so as to prevent
making "double" yarn instead of the guard plates now in use for that
purpose.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Jabez Bunting Farrar and John Hirst in the Great Scal
Patent Office on the 14th July 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JABEZ
BUNTING FARRAR, of Halifax, in the County of York, Machine Maker, and
JOHN HIRST, of Elstead, in the County of Surrey, Worsted Spinning Manager,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Jabez Bunting Farrar and John Hirst, Her special licence that we,
the said Jabez Bunting Farrar and John Hirst, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Jabez Bunting Farrar and John
Hirst, our 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY FOR PREPARING, SPINNING, DOUBLING, AND WINDING WOOL, MOHAIR,
ALPACA, SILK, FLAX, COTTON, OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Jabez Bunting Farrar and John Hirst,
our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or
their, or one of our or 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 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 we, the said Jabez Bunting Farrar and John
Hirst, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to bo particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement and accompanying Sheet of Drawings (that
is to say):

page_text: This Invention consists, firstly, in the employment of warles, wharves, or
pullies, or grooved rollers as rotating guides for guiding and conducting
slivers, rovings, or yarns instead of fixed guides or tweezles which are now
employed for such purposes.
Secondly, in the application to "guide boards" or "lap boards" of spinning
frames of brushes for broken ends to catch on, so as to prevent making
"double" yarn instead of the guard plates now in use for that purpose.
"The nature and particulars of this Invention will be readily understood by
reference to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, where Fig. 1 is a cross
section of a portion of a spinning frame with our improvements applied
thereto. The several parts of a spinning frame being so well known and
understood it is unnecessary to describe them in detail. A shews one of the
warles, wharves, or pullies or rotary guides which is mounted on a bracket or
stand fixed to the ordinary slide bar B, in substitution of the usual tweezle or
fixed guide, so that the thread will run freely over it without friction thereon.
Fig. 2 represents a full sized view of one of these pullies fixed to a portion of
the slide bar. It will be seen that this rotary guide may be applied to various
kinds of machinery now employed for preparing, spinning, doubling, or
twisting, and winding wool, mohair, alpaca, silk, flax, cotton, or other fibrous
substances; also that instead of having single pullies and stands fixed to the
slide bar as shewn, grooved rollers may be employed in a similar way, the
object of this part of our Invention being to prevent friction or chafing of the
yarn or threads when passing through the various processes berein-before
enumerated, which is now the case by the use of tweezles or fixed guides.
The second part of this Invention is shewn at C in Fig. 1, which is the
ordinary guide board or lap board, to the under side of which brushes D are
applied or attached, and on the top side tufts of bristles E are fixed. This
improvement is shewn full size at Figs. 3, 4, and 5. It will be readily seen
that when ends break in passing from the drawing rollers G to the fly H, they
will catch on the bristles either above or below the guide board according as
to which side they break on, the bristles thus preventing the broken ends
from catching on the next or adjoining ends or threads, and thereby pre-
venting or avoiding the making of "double yarn" which has been bitherto
frequently the case.
Having described the nature of our Invention and herewith shewn what we
have found to be the best means and method of carrying the same into
practical operation, yet would observe that various modifications thereof may
be adopted without departing from the principle of the Invention i we there-
fcre wish it to be distinctly understood that we do not confine ourselves to the

page_text: precise details shewn and described, but what we claim as of our Invention,
-believing the same to be new is,-
Firstly, the application and use of warles, wharves, or pullies, or grooved
rollers as rotating guides for guiding or conducting slivers, rovings, or yarns,
instead of tweezles or fixed guides, in machinery for preparing, spinning,
doubling, and winding wool, mohair, alpaca, silk, flax, cotton, of other fibrous
substances.
Secondly, the application of brushes or bristles to the guide boards or lap
boards of spinning frames for purposes as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Hirst for and on behalf of myself
and the said Jabez Bunting Farrar, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Thirteenth day of July One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-five.
TOWN TIDOM
מחזה זוחת'
JOHN HINDI.
(L.B.)