IMPROVE- MENTS IN SPINNING AND TWISTING COTTON, FLAX, SILK, AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1845

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MICHAEL
PERRIER, of Lymington, in the County of Hampshire, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twenty-first day of July, in the ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Michael Perrier, my exors, admors, and assigns, Her especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Michael Perrier, my
exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Michael Perrier, my
exors, admors, or 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,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN SPINNING AND TWISTING COTTON, FLAX, SILK, AND OTHER FIBROUS
SUBSTANCES;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the
said Michael Perrier, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery 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
Michael Perrier, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and

page_text: The Invention consists of a modo of arranging machinery for giving motion
to the bobbin and to the flyer of the spindle, as will be more particularly
described in the Drawings. The same Letters are used to indicate similar
parts.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows parts of à front view of a machine for. spinning, with the
bobbins and spindles, according to my Invention, applied thereto.
Figures 2 and 2+ show a spindle separately, with and without the bobbin o;
and Figure 8 is a plan of the under side of the bobbin. A is a spindle
having the flyer B attached to it at the upper part, as shown. This spindle
passes through a tube C, which is affixed to the cross bar or rail D; beneath
this rail D is another rail E, by which rail E the spindles A, A, are supported;
this rail E is capable of movement up and down, according to the ordinary
plan. H, H, are sockets, in which the spindles D revolve; these sockets
may be adjusted to regulate the height of the flyer by means of the screw I,
which is for the purpose of fixing the sockets H, H, in the required position.
At each end of the rail È there is an upright rod J, J, which is fixed to the
rail E. These upright rods pass through, and are guided by the bar D and
the brackets Q, Q, and at their upper ends are connected together by a cross
bar L, which is over the top of each of the spindles A, A. M are guides for
the thread to the spindles. N, are the hinges of the guide M, which are
capable of movement when it is required to remove the bobbin and spindles;
'the guide above the first spindle in the Drawing is shown closed, and that
'of the second is shown open. The guide carriers are raised or lowered
according to the movement that is given to the rail E. Around the tube C
is a loose pulley R, having a small hook S, seen in Figure 2, affixed thereto.
This pulley around this tube C also turns the bobbin O, at the lower end of
which there is a step 2, seen in Figure 3, and when the pulley R is in motion,
the stop catches in the hooks of the pulley R, by which means a rotary
movement is given to the bobbin. Motion is given to the pulley R by a
strap or band placed around it and the large cylinder of the machine; thus
the pulley, hooking into the catch of the bobbin, communicates movement to
it, and the bobbin turns the spindle by means of the yarn which comes from
the drawing rollers to the bobbin through the guides M in the flyer, and the
yarn becomes twisted for the rotary movement of the bobbin on which it

page_text: MICHEL (L.S.) PERRIER.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixteenth day of January, in
the year of our Lord 1846, the aforesaid Michael Perrier came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification. aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twenty-first day of January, in the year of our Lord Ono
thousand eight hundred and forty-six.