CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY POR PREPARING LINEN YARN
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Murland, of Castlewellan, County
Down, Ireland, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY POR PREPARING LINEN YARN."
Sealed the 25th March 1854, and dated the 1st October 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Murland at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 1st October 1853.
I, SAMUEL MURLAND, of Castlewellan, County Down, Ireland, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING LINEN YARN " to be as follows:-
Heretofore the yarn was reeled from the spinning bobbin, then dried
in the hank, rewound, and taken to the warping and weft winding
machine. Now the object of my Invention is to arrange or combine
machinery and apparatus in such manner that the yarn may be
unwound from the spinning bobbin, pass around or in contact with a
steam cylinder, and then be wound on bobbins from which the yarn
may be wound by the warping and weft winding machinery. For
this purpose the spinning bobbins are placed on a creel or frame, the
yarns are passed round a steam cylinder, and then the yarns are con-

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Samuel Murland in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 30th March 1854.
.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
SAMUEL MURLAND, of Castlewellan, County Down, Ireland, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the seven-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Murland, Her special licence
that I, the said Samuel Murland, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel Murland, my 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING LINEN YARN," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Samuel Murland, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, 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 I, the said Samuel Murland, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof (that is to say):
Heretofore the yarn was reeled from the spinning bobbin, then dried
in the hank, rewound, and taken to the warping and weft winding

page_text: machine. Now the object of my Invention is to arrange or combine
machinery and apparatus in such manner that the yarn may be
unwound from the spinning bobbin, pass around or in contact with a
steam cylinder, and then to be wound on bobbins, from which the yarn
may be wound by the warping and weft winding machinery. For this
purpose the spinning bobbins are placed on a creel or frame, the yarns
are passed round a steam cylinder, and then the yarns are conducted to
and wound on bobbins which are carried to the warping and weft
winding machinery.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed
to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
The Drawing shows two end views and a front view of a machine
suitably arranged for carrying out my said Invention. a, is the main
or driving shaft or axis, which receives motion from a steam engine or
other power by means of the endless strap b, acting on the drum c,
fixed on the main shaft or axis a; and motion is communicated to the
parts of the machine from the main or driving "shaft by the train of
wheels indicated by the red circles. The bobbins d, d, of wet yarn
from the spinning machine are placed on the creel or frame e; and the
yarns in passing from the bobbins d, d, pass around the cylinder f,
which is heated by steam, and then the yarns are guided by the
guides g, g, and they are wound on to the bobbins H, H, as is well
understood in winding machinery. And it may be stated that this
Invention consists of causing wet linen yarn to be wound on to fresh
bobbins from the spinning bobbins, by so arranging winding machinery
in combination with a drying cylinder, that the wet yarns may be
caused, in passing from the spinning, bobbins to fresh bobbins, to come
in contact with and be dried by a drying cylinder, as above explained.
The nature of winding machinery being well understood, a workman,
from the above description, aided by the Drawing, will readily carry my
Invention into practice.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner of performing the same, I would have it understood that I

page_text: make no claim to the parts separately; but what I claim is, the
combination of machinery herein described for preparing linen yarn..
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Murland, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Witness,
WILLIAM MC CLEAN,
of Castleweller.
SAM MURLAND. (L.S.)