IMPROVE- MENTS APPLICABLE TO MACHINERY FOR PREPARING, SPINNING, AND Doubling MANISATO
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Albert Ratcliffe Worth, of Rochdale, in the
County of Lancaster, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS APPLICABLE TO MACHINERY FOR PREPARING, SPINNING, AND Doubling
MANISATO "
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Albert Ratcliffe Worth
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 16th January 1872.
I, ALBERT RATCLIFFE WORTH, of Rochdale, in the County of
Lancaster, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO MACHINERY FOR PREPARING,
SPINNING, AND DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS," to be as
follows:-
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My improvements relate to that apparatus which is commonly called
the guide wire or plate for conducting the material to the rollers, and
has for its object the gaining of a greater wearing surface upon the
leather and cloth. To effect this I propose to use "curls" or other such
apparatus as now employed, but I dispose the orifices thereof in a line or
nearly so with the passage of the material. This arrangement affords a
double bearing, and when the usual traversing motion takes place it is
effected without that loss due to the orifice of the "curl" under the old
arrangement. When plates are used instead of the "curl" as in the

page_text: “mule,” I slit and bend downward the parts thereof for separating the
threads, and I thus obtain the same effect.
Secondly. My Invention refers to the aforesaid traversing motion, and
is designed to prevent the defect arising from the wear of the excentric
or other such part now employed for effecting the said traverse. For
this purpose I use a spring or weight bearing against the rod and
keeping it continually against the said excentric or its equivalent.
Thirdly. My Invention consists in an improvement upon the washer,
for which Letters Patent were granted to Messrs. Worth and Spencer,
dated August 13th, 1858, No. 1851. According to the method of using
those washers, the holes for the spindles to pass through were stamped
out by a punch.
By my improvement I omit in weaving the fabric a certain number
of warp threads, thereby leaving a comparatively loose or open part
which may be placed upon the spindles and thrust down, thus avoiding 1
the necessity of the said punching.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Albert Ratcliffe Worth in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 16th July 1872.
· TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALBERT
RATCLIFFE WORTH, of Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster, Manu-
acturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Albert Ratcliffe Worth, Her special
licence that I, the said Albert Ratcliffe Worth, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Albert Ratcliffe Worth,
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 therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and

page_text: Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO MACHINERY FOR PREPARING, SPINNING, AND DOUBLING
COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Albert Ratcliffe Worth, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, 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 immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Albert Ratcliffe Worth, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:
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The nature and objects of my said Invention relate, firstly, to the
apparatus which is commonly called the guide wire or plate for con-
ducting the material to the rollers, which I arrange, as hereafter
explained, so as to gain a greater wearing surface upon the leather and
cloth. To effect this I use "curls" or other such apparatus as now
employed, but I dispose the orifices thereof in a line or nearly so with
the passage of the material. This arrangement affords a double bearing,
and when the usual traversing motion takes place it is effected without a
loss due to the orifice of the curl under the old arrangement. When
plates are used instead of the curl, as in the mule, I slit and bend
downward the parts thereof for separating the threads, and thus obtain
the same effect.
My Invention refers, secondly, to the traversing motion above men-
tioned, and is designed to prevent the defect arising from the wear of
the eccentric or other such part as now employed for effecting the
said traverse. For this purpose I use a spring or weight bearing
against the rod and keeping it constantly against the said eccentric or
its equivalent.
My Invention consists, thirdly, in an improvement upon the washer,
for which Letters Patent were granted to Worth and Spencer, dated
August 13th, 1858, No. 1851. According to the method of using those
washers, under the said Letters Patent, the holes for the spindles to pass
through are stamped out by a punch.
By my improvement I omit in weaving the fabric such a number of

page_text: warp threads as will leave a comparatively loose or open part at such a
point that it may be placed upon the spindles and thrust down, thus
avoiding the necessity of the said punching.
Having in the foregoing general explanation of my said Invention
particularly described and ascertained the nature thereof, I will now in
further compliance with the said condition in the before-mentioned
Letters Patent granted to me as aforesaid, particularly describe and
ascertain in what manner the same is to be performed or put in practice,
by referring to the Drawings accompanying these presents, which
together with the foregoing explanations will be found to fully describe
and ascertain the same.
Witness,
JAMES TAYLOR,
61, Henry Street,
Rochdale.
ALBERT RATCLIFFE WORTH. (L.S.)