CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1844

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JEAN
BAPTISTE PAUL CHAPPE, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Spinner
and Doubler, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Wet-
minster, the Seventeenth day of October, in the eighth year of Her reign,
and in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-four, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Jean
Baptiste Paul Chappé, Her especial license, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Jean Baptiste Paul Chappé, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, and such others as I, the said Jean Baptiste Paul
Chappe, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within England and Wales and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR
SPINNING AND DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES;" in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Jean Baptiste
Paul Chappe, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be enrolled
in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters

page_text: Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully
and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Jean Baptiste Paul Chappé, do hereby declare that the nature of my Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described
and ascertained in and by the Drawing hereto annexed, and the following
explanation thereof, that is to say :-
My Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for Spinning and Doubling
Cotton and other Fibrous Substances, consist in a novel arrangement of
mechanism for spinning or doubling direct from the delivering rollers to
the spindle point, without the necessity of a thread board, guide, or any other
contrivance, and also in winding the yarn on the bobbins without the friction
on the thread of the bobbin caused by the ordinary flyer at present used for
such purposes.
I effect this by having a curl at the top and bend of the
flyer forming a direct line to the drawing or delivering rollers (the spindles
being sufficiently raised to prevent the yarn-dragging on the delivering roller),
being the only mechanical contrivance required, which a reference to the
annexed Drawing will fully explain...
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a spinning "throstle," and Figure 2 a
similar view of a doubling machine. The spindles are shewn at a, a, with my
improved flyer applied thereto. b, b, is the flyer, with its guides c, c, c, which
peculiar arrangement (in place of the common guide board) constitutes my
improvement, and is also shewn at full size at Figure 3.
The object of this improvement is to bring the twist or turns direct
from the spindles to the bite of the delivering rollers, removing the inter-
ruption caused by the friction and angle formed by the thread board in
the throstles generally used, and on the top of the bobbin, giving the
turns immediately at the delivering part to the rollers, thereby removing the
difficulty for spinning fine counts or numbers, and soft yarn, on throstles.
It is equally advantageously applicable to doubling frames. The only me-
chanical contrivance required, as before stated, and shewn in the Drawing,
is a small curl on the top of the flyers, about half an inch high, and one on the
bend, the spindles being raised sufficiently to give an easy inclination to the
spinning or doubling threads from the rollers to the top of the spindles. I do
not confine myself to curls, because I can effect the same object by an eye,
hook, or other similar contrivance. "I have represented the curls in the
Drawing as being the easiest contrivance, though I could effect the same in
many different ways. The Invention I claim is spinning or doubling direct
from the drawing or delivering rollers to the spindle," as in the mule, and
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page_text: winding the yarn or double thread on the bobbins with less friction, and
thereby enabling fine counts or numbers, and soft yarn, to be spun upon
"throstles."
Having particularly described my Invention of improvements in machinery
for spinning and doubling, I desire it to be understood that, as I have before
stated, I do not confine myself to the curls on the top and on the bend of the
flyers as the only contrivance by which this object can be effected, namely,
spinning or doubling direct from the delivering or drawing rollers to the
spindle.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jean Baptiste Paul Chappé, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-five.
JEAN BAPTISTE PAUL (L.S.) CHAPPE.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Fifteenth day of April,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Jean Baptiste Paul Chappé
came before our Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Seventeenth day of April, in the year above written.