IMPROVEMENTS IN FLYERS USED IN ROVING AND SLUBBING FRAMES
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Cooke, of Kersley, in the County of Lancaster,
Spindle Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FLYERS USED IN
ROVING AND SLUBBING FRAMES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Cooke at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 12th
November 1855.
I, GEORGE COOKE, of Kersley, in the County of Lancaster, Spindle Maker,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN'
FLYERS USED IN ROVING AND SLUBBING FRAMES" to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to roving and slubbing frame flyers of that description
in which the presser is attached to or made with a piece of metal turning upon
the leg of the flyer, or in bearings attached thereto, and which piece acquires,
from the rapid revolution of the flyer when in action, a centrifugal force, which
causes it to turn in such manner as to force the presser against the roving as
it is wound on the barrel.
My Invention consists in forming the top part of the said piece of metal
with a nib or projection, by which it is suspended from or supported on the
bearing at the upper part of the flyer leg, whereby the weight of the piece of

page_text: metal is thrown more froin the centre, on which it turns, and thereby the
centrifugal force acts so as to produce a more uniform action of the presser
during the winding of the roving upon the barrel from its commencement
to its completion.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Cooke in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
12th May 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
COOKE, of Kersley, in the County of Lancaster, Spindle Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of November, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself.
Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said George Cooke,
Her especial licence that I, the said George Cooke, my executors, adminis
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George Cooke, 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 of years 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 FLYERS USED IN ROVING
AND SLUBBING FRAMES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
George Cooke, 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
George Cooke, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement and description, reference
being had to the Drawings on one Sheet hereunto annexed, and in which
description and Drawings the same letters and numbers of reference are used
to indicate the same parts in all the Figures in which they occur.
Figures are drawn of the full size.
The
My Invention relates to roving and slubbing frame flyers of that description
in which the presser is attached to or made with a piece of metal turning upon

page_text: the leg of the flyer, or in a bearing attached thereto, and which piece acquires,
from the rapid revolution of the flyer when in action, a centrifugal force, which
causes it to turn in such manner as to force the presser against the roving as it
is wound on the barrel; and consists in forming the top part of the said piece
of metal with a nib or projection, by which it is suspended from or supported
on the bearing at the upper part of the flyer leg, whereby the weight of the
piece of metal is thrown more from the centre, on which it turns, and thereby
the centrifugal force acts so as to produce a more uniform action of the presser
during the winding of the roving upon the barrel from its commencement to
of metal with a nib or projection, by which it is suspended from or supported
on the bearing at the upper part of the flyer leg, whereby the weight of the
piece of metal is thrown more from the centre, on which it turns, and thereby
the centrifugal force acts so as to produce a more uniform action of the presser
during the winding of the roving upon the barrel from its commencement to
its completion.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Figures 1 and 2 are elevations of a roving frame flyer with my improve-
ments applied; Figure 3 is a plan of the top part of the piece of metal a; and
Figure 4, a section of the same at the line c.
In the flyer represented in Figure 1 it will be seen that the piece a is sus-
pended from the bearing d by the screw e, which passes through the bearing,
and through the nib or projecting part of the piece a, at the under side of
which it is rivetted to prevent its coming out in working.
In Figure 2, I show another mode of suspending the piece a, in which I
form the projecting part with a piece which rises from it and passes into the
bearing d, which bearing is formed with a slot in it, in which rests loosely the
pin i, fixed into that part of the piece a which passes into the bearing d.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Tenth
day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-six.
GEORGE COOKE. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the said George
Cooke, in the presence of
CHARLES ASTON, Attorney-at-Law,
Manchester.