CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRAIDS AND Lancaster, WERCH 101 CHO ALLY CHICIONA MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRAIDS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Ashton, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Machinist, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRAIDS AND
Lancaster, WERCH
101
CHO ALLY CHICIONA
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRAIDS AND
SIMILAR ARTICLES."
Sealed the 25th July 1862, and dated the 22nd February 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Ashton, at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
22nd February 1862.
I, WILLIAM ASHTON, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Machinist,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRAIDS AND SIMILAR
ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
The Invention is designed for the purpose of enabling the spindles in braiding
machines to be employed in a more lengthened form than has been hitherto
practical by reason of the position of the bolster plate, which is used as a
support for the carriers. My improvements consist in the novel employment
and use of a long tubular bush or bearing to support the carriers extending
from the "bolster plate" upwards to any length required, whereby I am
enabled to lower the bolster plate and consequently to increase the length of
the braiding spindle. The use of the long steadying tube also allows of an increase
of the speed of the machine, and considerable smoothness in the action
thereof.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Ashton, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 30th
July 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
ASHTON, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Machinist, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of February, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said William Ashton, Her special license that I, the said
William Ashton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said William Ashton, 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, excrcise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for " CERTAIN IM-
PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRAIDS
AND SIMILAR ARTICLES," upon the condition, amongst others, that I, the said
William Ashton, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
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 William Ashton, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say) :-
The Invention is designed for the purpose of enabling the spindles in braiding
machines, to be employed in a more lengthened form than has been hitherto
practical by reason of the position of the bolster plate, which is used as a
support for the carriers. My improvements consist in the novel employment
and use of a long tubular bush or bearing to support the carriers extending
from the "bolster plate" upwards to any length required, whereby I am
enabled to lower the bolster plate and consequently to increase the length of
the braiding spindle. The use of the long steadying tube also allows of an
increase of the speed of the machine, and considerable smoothness in the action
thereof.

page_text: In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained in
detail, I have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings made upon a scale of
about four inches to a foot, and having similar letters of reference marked
upon corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is a side view of the braiding machine shewing the positions of the
elongated steadying tubes therein, and Fig. 2 is a detached view about full
size of a portion of the braiding spindles, and steadying tubes extending
upwards from the bolster rail both being shewn in section. In Fig. 1, a, a, is
the framing of a braiding machine, and b, b, the "bolster plate" in which are
secured in any convenient manner the steadying tubes c, c, and which extend
upwards to any required length to form an efficient support to the braiding
spindles.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be distinctly
understood, that I claim the novel employment and use of an elongated form
of bush or bearing extending from the bolster plate to any length required to
form a support for the spindles employed in braiding machines as herein-before
described, set forth, and fully illustrated in the Drawings attached.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Ashton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
WILLIAM ASHTON. (L.S.)