IMPROVEMENTS IN SPINNING THROSTLES
Year: 1845

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HERBERT BLAKEY, of Dundee, in the County of Forfar, in Scotland, Flax
Spinner, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-ninth day of
April, in the eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said John Herbert Blakey, Her
especial licence, full power, sole privilege and and authority, that I, the said John
Herbert Blakey, my exors; admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
John Herbert Blakey, my exors, adññiors, or assigns, should a 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN SPINNING THROSTLES;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said John Herbert Blakey, to
cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of
Chancellary within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said in part recited Letters 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
John Herbert Blakey, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,

page_text: describe the Drawing hereunto annexed, in the various Figures of which the
same letters of reference are used to indicate similar parts:
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shews a throstle spindle, with bobbin and other apparatus con-
structed and arranged according to my Invention.
Figure 2 is a section of a spindle, in like manner constructed, bobbin and
apparatus connected therewith.
Figure 3 shews the loose tube separately, on which the bobbin is placed;
and
Figure 4 shews the tubular collar separately, within which the spindle
turns; and this tubular collar may be so formed as to fit the spindle from end
to end, as shewn, or be bushed or constructed so as to fit the spindle at top
and bottom or top only the tube. a, a, are the spindles; F, F, copping or
traverse rails; E, E, bobbins; b, b, tubular collars affixed to the copping or
traverse rail F, within which tubular collars the spindles turn, and, by their
descending below the copping or traverse rail, as well as their rising above it,
they give great steadiness to the spindles. On the tubular collars bare formed
or fixed flanges or plates c, on which the flanges of the tubes d are supported.
The tubes d are placed on the upper ends of the tubular collars b, which rise
above the copping or traverse rail. On the tubes d, d, are placed the
bobbins E, E, which are made longer than either the tubes d'or the parts of
the tubular collars b, b,. above the copping or traverse rail; and are bushed,
bored, or so constructed, that whilst the upper part of the barrel fits the
spindle the lower part fits the tube d, d. These improvements, will be found
particularly useful in flax and cotton spinning, and also applicable in spinning
other fibrous material."
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, I would remark, that I
do not confine myself to the precise details, so long as the pecular character of
my Invention be retained. But what I claim is, the application of the tubes d
in combination with the bobbins E, E, and the tubular collars b,, within which
the spindles turn, as herein described. And I also claim, the forming and

page_text: xing the tubes 6 to the copping or traverse rail in such manner that they
escend below the copping or traverse rail, and ascend above it, as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Herbert Blakey, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-five.