CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR ROVING, SLUBBING, SPINNING, AND DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1859

page_text: Sealed the 12th June 1860, and dated the 14th December 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Bolton, John
Bertenshaw, and James McConnell at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 14th December 1859.
We, THOMAS BOLTON, of Bolton-le-Moors, in the County of Lancaster,
Cotton Doubler, and JOHN BERTENSHAW, of the same Place, Cotton Doubler,
and JAMES MCCONNELL, of the same Place, Manager, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR ROVING, SLUBBING, SPINNING, AND DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER
FIBROUS MATERIALS," to be as follows:-
The Invention relates to all such machines wherein spindles are employed
for roving, slubbing, spinning, or doubling cotton and other fibrous materials,
and consists in the novel application or adaptation of pieces of metal or other
material placed vertically between the spindles, so as to form slight partitions
between the spindles. By this improvement, if the thread or sliver breaks, the
loose end thereof is confined to its particular spindle by these partitions or
guards, instead of being allowed to come in contact with and wrap around the

page_text: next or adjoing spindle, whereby much waste of material is at present caused,
or a pin or stud may be placed upon the shoulder of the "flyer" for a similar
purpose.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Bolton, John Bertenshaw, and James McConnell
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 14th June 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
BOLTON, of Bolton-le-Moors, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton Doubler, and
JOHN BERTENSHAW, of the same Place, Cotton Doubler, and JAMES MCCONNELL,
of the same Place, Manager, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of
Her reign, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Thomas Bolton; John Bertinshaw, and James McConnell, Her special
licence that we, the said Thomas Bolton, John Bertinshaw, and James
McConnell, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we,
the said Thomas Bolton, John Bertinshaw, and James McConnell, our 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 Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR ROVING, SLUBBING, SPINNING, AND DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER
FIBROUS MATERIALS," upon the condition, amongst others, that we, the said
Thomas Bolton, John Bertinshaw, and James McConnell, or one of us, by an
instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand and seal
of one of us, 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 Thomas Bolton, do hereby declare the
name of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly and ascertained in and by the following statement and
accompanying Drawings, that is to say:-
The Invention relates to all such machines wherein spindles and flyers are

page_text: employed for roving, slubbing, or doubling cotton and other fibrous materials
or substances, and consists in the novel application or adaptation of pieces of
metal or other material placed vertically between the spindles, so as to form
slight partitions between the spindles. By this improvement, if the thread or
sliver breaks the loose end thereof is confined to its particular spindle by these
partitions or guards, instead of being allowed to come into contact with, and run
double or wrap around the next or adjoining spindle, whereby much waste of
material is at present caused, or a pin or stud may be placed upon the shoulder
of the "flyer" for the same or a similar purpose.
In order that the Invention may be better understood, and explained in detail,
I have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings made about half the size, and
having similar letters of reference marked upon corresponding parts of the
apparatus.
Fig. 1 is a front view of a doubling frame; and Fig. 2 is an end view of the
same, shewn partly in section. In Figs. 1 and 2, a, a, is the framing of the
machine; and b, b, are the spindles between which the partitions c, c, are placed
to prevent any broken sliver from becoming entangled with the next spindle. In
Fig. 1, two spindles are shewn, having a pin or stud & upon one shoulder for a
similar purpose.
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 application and use of vertical partitions or
guards between the spindles in machines employed for roving, slubbing, spinning,
or doubling.
And, secondly, the application of a pin or stud to one shoulder of the "flyer,"
both such improvements being contrived or intended to prevent the loose end
of a broken sliver or thread becoming entangled or interfering with the adjoin-
ing spindle, as herein-before described, set forth, and fully illustrated in the
Drawings attached.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Bolton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
THOMAS BOLTON. (L.S.)