CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR MILL SPINNING FOR THE SPINNING OF COTTON, WOOL, SILK, HEMP, FLAX, SUBSTITUTES FOR HEMP AND FLAX, AND FOR THE LAYING OR TWISTING CORD, LINES, TWINE, AND THREAD
Year: 1804

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HEPPENSTALL, of Doncaster, in the County of York, Machine Maker and
Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
in and by His Letters Patent under His Great Seal of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Second day
of June, in the forty-fourth year of His reign, for Himself, His heirs and
successors, did give and grant unto me, the said John Heppenstall, my execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge,
and authority, that I, the said John Heppenstall, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their
deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said John
Heppenstall, my executors, administrators, or 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 that part of His said Majesty's United Kingdom
called England, His Dominion of Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR MILL
SPINNING FOR THE SPINNING OF COTTON, WOOL, SILK, HEMP, FLAX, SUBSTITUTES
FOR HEMP AND FLAX, AND FOR THE LAYING OR TWISTING CORD, LINES, TWINE, AND
THREAD;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging

page_text: me, the said John Heppenstall, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same
to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and inmediately after the date of the said recited Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, will more fully
and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said John
Heppenstall, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, as follows, that is
to say:-
My improvements consist in an alteration in the construction of the spindle
and bobbin, and in a different method of giving them motion. According to
the method hitherto practised, the band, strap, or listing turns the spindle,
which last gives motion to the bobbin, and the bobbin is made to traverse up
and down on the spindle for the purpose of making the thread or yarn lay
regularly on it. Now, my improvement consists in reversing the principle of
spinning; I make the band, strap, or listing to turn the bobbin, it or they
passing over a worrell which is fastened to and makes a part of the lower end
of the bobbin. The motion from the bobbin is communicated to the spindle
and flyer by the means of the yarn or thread which carries them round the
spindle, is made to traverse up and down, or backwards or forwards, through
the bobbin, instead of the bobbin traversing on the spindle. It is unnecessary
to describe the manner of making the spindle traverse; it is done by what is
called the heart motion, well known by mechanical persons. The spindles
may be placed either horizontally, perpendicularly, or inclined. Spindles and
bobbins constructed as has been described may be applied not only to spin all
kinds of yarn, whether of cotton, wool, silk, flax, hemp, and substitutes for flax
and hemp, but likewise for twisting or laying all kinds of thread, twine, line,
and cord or cordage, only by making the spindle and bobbin proportionably
larger, and by turning the bobbin by means of a chain or by tooth and pinion.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Heppenstall, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Sixth day of October, in the forty-fourth year of
the reign of our said Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the Grace
of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King,
Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and four.
JOHN (L.B.) HEPPENSTALL.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Sixth day of October,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid John Heppenstall came before
our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written.
5 And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Ninth day of October, in the year above written.