CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR ROVING, SPINNING. AND DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES. PROAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Tysoe, of Salford, in the County of Lancaster,
and Charles Tysoe, of the same Place, Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers,
and Peter Foxcroft, of the same Place, Manager, for the Invention of
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR ROVING, SPINNING.
AND DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Tysoe, Charles Tysoe,
and Peter Foxcroft at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 24th March 1856.
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We, JOHN TYSOE, of Salford, in the County of Lancaster, and CHarles
TYSOE, of the saine Place, Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers, and PETER
FOXCROFT, of the same Place, Manager, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Tuvention for CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR
ROVING, SPINNING, AND DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," to be
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as follows:-
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First, our Invention applies to the method of driving the spindles (as com-
monly used) in roving, spinning, and doubling machines, or driving the flyers
inspinning and doubling machines, when constructed as herein-after described..
Aud, secondly, our Invention applies to those parts usually called the
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page_text: spindle and flyer" of machines for spinning and doubling, called "throstles
and "doubling frames," and which for the sake of convenience we will first
describe.
This part of our Invention consists in the substitution of a stationary and
fixed stud or pin, in place of the running spindle, as commonly used, and also
a new description of flyer to be employed therewith in spinning and doubling.
The fixed studs or pins (to be employed in place of the common spindles)
may be made of cast iron, wrought iron, steel, or any other suitable material,
and are furnished at a point about the middle of their length with a disc, to
support the ordinary bobbins upon which the yarn is to be spun or wound.
The studs are fixed in the bottom rail" of the machine, and to this rail the
"copping" motion is to be attached, instead of to the" top rail," as usual.
The flyer is as it were inverted, and consists of a wharve or pulley, in which
the arms and curved ends of the flyer are fixed. The bobbins are supported
by the discs on the fixed studs, and by bearing thereon receive the necessary
"drag," the wharved flyer revolving around the studs, which are alter-
nately raised and lowered by the copping rail.
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'The other part of our Invention consists in a new mode of driving, as
follows: An endless band or strap, made of leather, gutta percha, cotton
banding, or any other suitable material, is first driven by a pulley commu-
nicating with the main driving part of the machine, which endless band is
guided around the spindles or wharved flyers by other small pullies or drums,
and is also carried from one side of the machine to the other (to drive the
opposite row of spindles or flyers) by means of another guide pulley at the end
of the machine, this pulley being adjustable in its bearings, in order to tighten
up the band, and impart an uniform and requisite degree of tension to enable
it to drive the spindles, &c. The mode of application of the driving strap or
band may be slightly modified or varied to suit the circumstances and con-
struction of the machines in which it may be employed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Tysoe, Charles Tysoe, and Peter Foxcroft in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 24th September 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
TYSOE, of Salford, in the County of Lancaster, and CHARLES TYSOE, of the
same Place, Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers, and PETER FOXCROFT, of the
same Place, Manager, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us; the said
John Tysoe, Charles Tysce, and Peter Foxcroft, Her especial license that we,
the said John Tysoe, Charles Tysoe, and Peter Foxcroft, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Johu Tysoe, Charles
Tysoe, and Peter Foxcroft, our executors, administrators, aud 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 MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR ROVING, SPINNING, AND DOUBLING
COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," upon the condition, amongst others,
that we, the said John Tysoe, Charles Tysoe, and Peter Foxcroft, by an
instrument in writing under our 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 John Tysoe, Charles Tysoe, and Peter
Foxcroft, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement and accompanying Drawings (that
is to say):
First, our Invention applies to the method of driving the spindles (as com-
monly used) in roving, spinning, and doubling machines, and driving the flyers
in spinning and doubling machines, when constructed as hereafter described.
And, secondly, our Invention applies to those parts usually called the
"spindle and flyer" of machines for spinning and doubling, called "throstles"
and "doubling frames," and which for the sake of convenience will be first
described.
This part of our Invention consists in the substitution of a stationary and
fixed stud or piu in place of the running spindle, as commonly used, and also a
new description of flyer to be employed therewith in spinning and doubling.
The fixed studs or pins(to be employed in place of the common spindles) may
be made of cast iron, wrought iron, steel, or any other suitable material, and
are furnished at a point about the middle of their length with a disc or collar
to support the ordinary bobbins upon which the yarn is to be spun or wound.

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The stnds are fixed in the "bottom rail" of the machine, and to this rail the
copping motion" is to be applied instead of to the top rail," as usual. The
flyer is as it were inverted, and consists of a wharve or pulley, in which the
arms and curved ends of the flyer are fixed. The bobbins are supported by
the discs or collars on the fixed studs, and by bearing thereon receive the
necessary drag," the wharved flyer revolving around the studs, which are
alternately raised and lowered by the "copping rail."
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The other part of our Invention consists in a new mode of driving, as
follows: An endless band or strap, made of leather, gutta percha, cotton
banding, or any other suitable material, is first driven by a pulley communi-
cating with the main driving part of the machine, which endless band is
guided around the spindles or wharved flyers by other small pulleys or drums,
and is also carried from one side of the machine to the other (to drive the
opposite row of spindles DI flyers), by means of another guide pulley at the end
of the machine, this pulley being adjustable in its bearings in order to tighten
up the band, and impart an uniformn and requisite degree of tension to enable
it to drive the spindles, &c. The mode of application of the driving strap or
band may be slightly modified or varied to suit the circumstances and con-
struction of the machines in which it may be employed.
In order that this Invention may be more readily understood and explained
in detail, we have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings, made upon a scale
of about two inches to a foot, the spindles audflyers represented in detail being
about full size, as used in that class of machine known as the "throstle" or
doubling frame," "ud to which our improvements are shewn attached, and
having similar letters of reference marked upon corresponding parts of the
machinery throughout all the Figs.
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Fig. is an end view of one side of a doubling frame, shewn in section,
illustrating the position of the stud or spindle in the moveable "
cop rail,"
together with the mechanism for raising or lowering the said rail; Fig. 2 is a
detached sectional view of the spindle or pin, shewing the wharve or pulley
(supporting the flyer arms), and also the "bush" upon which it revolves;
Fig. 3 is an elevation of a spindle or pin of similar construction, but having
the "flyer arms or curls fixed on a circular casing within which the bobbin
revolves; Fig. 4 is a sectional view of a kind of spindle in which the wharve
revolves directly upon the spindle or pin in lieu of upon the intermediate
"bush;" Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation of the stationary rail, upon which is
cast or otherwise affixed a cylinder or bush, through which the spindle and
bobbin pass, and around which the wharve revolves; Fig. 6 is a plan view of
the spindles, showing one method of driving the same by means of the endless

page_text: band. The operations of the various parts will be more easily comprehended
by referring to the Drawings, and the following lettered description thereof.
In Fig. 1, a, a, is the framing of an ordinary doubling frame; and b the
driving cylinder or drum, for imparting motion to the wharve c, carrying the
flyer arms c', which revolves around the spindles or pin d, upon which the
bobbin is placed, the wharved flyerc, carrying the cotton, &c.on to such bobbin,
as in the ordinary method of "doubling." The lower rail or bar e receives
the copping motion " from the vertical shaft f, to which is also attached the
thread board or "guide eye." through which the cotton or other material
passes on to the bobbiu, and which arrangement ensures an uniform distance
between the bobbins and thread board and guide eye. The shaft is actuated
by a mangle wheel or other analagous geering; the top rail (may form a
steadying "bush" or bearing for the spindle or stud as it rises or falls, or it
may be left free. In Fig. 2, is the intermediate "bush," used to give greater
steadiness to the spindle or stud d supporting the bobbin; Fig. 3 is also
arranged for this purpose, as by enclosing or encircling the flyer arms c¹ with
a complete or part of a cylindrical casing k, more evenness and steadiness in
the rotation of the wharve is obtained; or instead oftheflyerarms, simple curls
may be attached to the casing, as shewn in the Figure. In Fig. 5 the cylin-
drical casing/runs on the bush, which is secured to the top rail h, and having
the wharve and flyer arm revolving upon it, by which means the centrifugal
force usually exerted upon the flyer arms c¹ is overcome, and greater compact-
ness and strength obtained. In Fig. 6, m is the endless band, which may be
passed round the spindles and drums o, either in the manner shewn, or in
any other more approved form, always providing that the band employed be
united at its ends, so as to form an endless strap, cord, or band. p is a driving
drum or pulley, giving motion to the endless band, by the friction of which the
spindles are driven; and q is an adjustable roller, pulley, or drum, for keeping
the said band of an uniform tension, and which is adjusted by means of a
weight and chain and springs; the cotton or other material being brought
down in the ordinary manner from the "creels," through the "guide eye,"
thence to the flyer arms c', by which it is wound on to the bobbin, which rises
and falls within the flyer arms by means of the copping motion imparted to
the lower rail" e.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention, together with some
of the various methods of performing the same, we wish it to be distinctly
understood that we claim,
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First, the novel employment or use of a wharved flyer revolving around and
in combination with a spindle, stud, or pin, which spindle is fixed in and

page_text: receives its rising and falling motion from the "copping rail", or revolving
around a bush through which the fixed spindle passes, as seen in Fig. 2.
Secondly, the application of the circular casing to the flyer arms, or the
application of the "curls" to the circular casing, as shewn in Figs. 3 and 4.
Thirdly, the application or use of a coveable" thread board," so arranged
that the distance between the guide eyes and the head of the bobbin shall
always be the same.
Fourthly, the novel employment of an endless band or strap for driving the
spindles combined with the adjustable and driving pulleys, as shewn.
And, lastly, we claim the general arrangement and combination of the
various parts illustrated. without confining ourselves to the precise details,
as herein-before described, fully set forth, and exhibited in the Drawings
attached.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Tysoe, Charles Tysoc, and Peter
Foxcrott, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-third
day of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-six.
JOHN TYSOE.
(L.S.)
CHA TYSOE.
(L.S.)
PETER FOXCROFT. (L.S.)
JOHN TYSOE.
CHA TYSOE.
(L.S.)
(L.S.)
PETER FOXCROFT. (L.S.)