CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN DIFFERENT STAGES OF ROPE MAKING, AND IN MACHINERY ADAPTED FOR SUCH IMPROVEMENTS
Year: 1813

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
BOUNSALL, of Plymouth Dock, in the County of Devon, Taylor, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Sixteenth day of
November, in the fifty-fourth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the
said James Bounsall, my exors, alñiors, and assigns, His especial licence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said James Bounsall, my
exors, adñiors, and assigns, should and lawfully might, during the term of
years therein mentioned, make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN DIFFERENT STAGES OF ROPE MAKING, AND IN MACHINERY ADAPTED
FOR SUCH IMPROVEMENTS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso that if I, the said James Bounsall, shall not particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advan-
tages whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and become
void, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and
at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Bounsall, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and

page_text: the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained by the Drawings hereunto annexed, and the following
description thereof (that is to, say) :-
:-
At the end of a rope ground I erect a machine in the following manner :-
I make four or more suitable number of uprights, six feet more or less in
length, and five feet more or less distant from each other. These uprights
support breastworks made of any fit material, five feet long and two feet wide,
or thereabouts, but depend entirely on the size of the machine intended to be
made. In each breastwork are three or any convenient number number of
circles; in the centre of each circle is fixed a regulating spindle, with a bar to
each, six feet more or less in length, to prevent them from moving. The
spindle projects about fourteen inches in front of the first breastwork for
the yarns to work on, and its utility is to regulate and divide the yarns,
and to prevent any yarn taking its place in the centre of the lissem, and to
cause every yarn to bear an equal strain in every size lissem, also to
conduct the yarns through the spindle tops, which are made of metal, through
which the lissem is formed. The spindle tops are fixed in the breast work,
and are supported by uprights in the front of the spindles, and their utility is
to compress the yarns on the body of the spindles to prevent them from taking
any turn until they bear on the end and pass through the centre of the tops.
The yarns after they are tarred are wound on reels in sufficient quantities for
working. The reels are then fixed in a frame or groove that is made for that
purpose.
The yarns are conducted from the reels in a regular circulating
form through the circles that are made in the breastworks, and bearing on
the body of the spindles, they pass through the tops and immediately receive
their hard. When the lissems are formed in the manner described, they are
drawn out by an equallizing machine, which is constructed for the purpose with
a perpendicular wheel, which turns a shaft with pinions fixed on it, and the
pinions on the shaft turn the pinions of the hooks and causes the yarn to be of
one quantity in each lissem, and when the lissems are drawn out a sufficient
length, they are given their proper hard and laid together. A, A, the reels,
fixed in any suitable frame; B, B, B, B, the uprights; C, C, are the breast-
works which are portable; D, the breastwork which supports the spindle
caps, which has holes made of any form or shape that will prevent them from
turning E, E, the regulating spindles or conductors fixed in the breast-
work C, C; F, the spindle cap which compresses the yarn on the body of the
spindle; G, the centre of the spindle cap, made of any suitable form or shape,
according to any sized lisṣem required; H, the equallizing machine, which
may be drawn out by any convenient and sufficient purchase; I, the perpen-
;

page_text: dicular wheel; K, the pinion of the shaft; L, the pinions of the shaft which
turn the pinions of the hooks; M, the hooks; N, the lissems forming through
the breastworks.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Bounsall, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fourteen.
Inrolled the Tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and fourteen.