CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN COP TUBES, AND IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE THEREOF
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Bayley, of Staleybridge, in the County of
Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, John Quarmby, of the same Place, Manager,
and Edward Burns, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Machinist, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN COP
TUBES, AND IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE
THEREOF."
Sealed the 22nd August 1861, and dated the 28th February 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Bayley, John
Quarmby, and Edward Burns at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 28th February 1861.
We, JOSEPH BAYLEY, of Staleybridge, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton
Spinner, JOHN QUARMBY, of the same Place, Manager, and EDWARD BURNS, of
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Machinist, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN COP-TUBES, AND IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE THEREOF," to be as
follows:-
The Invention relates to the tubes upon which yarn is wound to form cops,
now well known as cop tubes, and further to a peculiar manufacture of such
tubes in metal. The improvement consists in forming the said tubes from

page_text: strips of thin metal in a spiral shape, and producing or screwing upon the
exterior surface thereof a screw or thread, of any degree of fineness required,
for the purposes of retaining the yarn upon the tube, and of adding to its
strength. This is to be effected by means of an external die and internal
"stock" or "tap," the metallic tube being placed between them, and ordinary
mechanical means being applied to produce the screwed or corrugated surface
upon the metal.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Bayley, John Quarmby, and Edward Burns in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 28th August 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSEPH.
BAYLEY, of Staleybridge, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, JOHN
QUARMBY, of the same Place, Manager, and EDWARD BURNS, of. Manchester,
in the County of Lancaster, Mechanist, send greeting.
.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her. Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day: of February,. in the year. of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one,. in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said Joseph Bayley, John Quarmby, and. Edward Burns, Her special
license that we, the said Joseph Bayley, John Quarmby, and Edward Burns,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Joseph Bayley, John Quarmby, and Edward Burns, our executors, adminis-
trators, 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 IMPROVEMENTS IN COP TUBES, AND IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE THEREOF," upon the
condition, amongst others, that we, the said Joseph Bayley, John Quarmby,
and Edward Burns, by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals;
or under the hand and seal of one of us, 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.
;

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Quarmby, 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 and accompanying Drawings (that is to say):-
The Invention relates to the tubes upon which yarn is wound to form cops,
now well known as cop tubes, and further to a peculiar manufacture of such
tubes in metal. The improvement consists in forming the said tubes from
strips of thin metal in a spiral shape, or other suitably formed pieces, and
producing or screwing upon the internal and external surfaces thereof a screw
or thread of any degree of fineness or coarseness required, for the purpose of
retaining the yarn upon the tube, and of adding to its strength. This is to
be effected by means of an external die and internal "stock" or "tap," the
metallic tube being placed between them, and ordinary mechanical means
being applied to produce the screwed or corrugated surface upon the metal.
We also place a plug or washer inside the end of the tube.
In order that the Invention may be better understood, and explained in
detail, we have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings, made upon a scale of
about three inches to the foot, and having similar letters of reference marked
upon corresponding parts of the apparatus throughout the Figures.
Fig. 1 represents a side view of the machine for producing the screwing or
corrugation upon the surface of the metal blank to form the cop tube; Fig. 2
is a plan view of the same; and Figs. 3 and 4 are respectively side and
sectional views of the tube as completed by the machine.
In Figs. 1 and 2, a, a, is the framing of the machine; b, the main driving
shaft, giving motion to the bevil wheels c, c, which cause the revolution of the
screwing "tap or "stock" d; e, e, are the "dies," supported in the die
carriage ff, which is governed by the screw g. A blank tube having been
placed in the dies, and the machine set in motion, the die carriage is brought
up to the revolving "tap" by means of the screw 9 and the spur gearing h, h,
and the tap enters the tube, and forms the screwed surface thereupon, when
the advance of the die carriage causes the sliding weights i, i, to overbalance
one end of the bar k, and thus to change the "catch boxes" 1, 1, and cause the
return of the die carriage for the removal of the completed "cop tube," and
replacement of another blank.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, we would remark, in
conclusion, that we claim,-
First, the novel and peculiar formation of "cop tubes," by corrugating them

page_text: in a transverse direction to the length of such tubes, and either with a screwed
or annular corrugation, for the purpose of obtaining strength combined with
lightness in the manufacture of cop tubes, and also for the purpose of retaining
the yarn upon the tube.
Secondly, we claim the use of a plug or washer inserted in the wider ends
of "cop tubes."
In witness whereof, I, the said John Quarmby, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
JOHN QUARMBY. (L.B.)