CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS."
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Newhouse, of Farnworth, near Bolton-le-
Moors, in the County of Lancaster, Manager, for the Invention of
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING COTTON
AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Newhouse at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
2nd July 1860.
I, JAMES NEWHOUSE, of Farnworth, near Bolton-le-Moors, in the County
of Lancaster, Manager, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING AND' DOUBLING COTTON
AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS," to be as follows:-
My Invention is applicable to the spindles of machinery for spinning and
doubling cotton and other fibrous materials, and it consists in making the
wharves by which such spindles are driven of an improved shape or shapes.
The ordinary wharves now in use have a groove, into which the band from the
driving cylinder enters; the band in entering and leaving this groove rubs on
the edges or sides and is liable to be soon worn away, or injured by the fric-
tion, and at the same time more power is absorbed than is necessary for
driving the spindles. My Invention consists in making the wharves with a
cylindrical portion on which the band acts, and a flange to prevent the band
dropping off. I also make the wharve conical above the cylindrical part to
facilitate the removal and replacing of the band when it is requisite to stop
and again start the spindle. My improved wharves may also be made by con-
tinuing the conical part to the flange, and dispensing with the cylindrical part
above referred to.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Newhouse in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
1st January 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
NEWHOUSE, of Farnworth, near Bolton-le-Moors, in the County of Lancaster,
Manager, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
James Newhouse, Her special licence that I, the said James Newhouse,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
James Newhouse, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER
FIBROUS MATERIALS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
James Newhouse, 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 James Newhouse, 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 follow-
ing statement (that is to say) :-
My Invention is applicable to the spindles of machines for spinning and
doubling cotton and other fibrous materials, and it consists in making the
wharves by which such spindles are driven of an improved shape or shapes.
The ordinary wharves now in use have a groove into which the band from the
driving cylinder enters; the band in entering and leaving this groove rubs on
the edges or sides and is liable to be soon worn away or injured by the friction,
and at the same time more power is absorbed than is necessary for driving the
spindles. My Invention conisists in making the wharves with a cylindrical
portion on which the band acts, and a flange to prevent the band dropping off.

page_text: I also make the wharve conical above the cylindrical part to facilitate the
removal and replacing of the band when it is requisite to stop and again start
the spindle; my improved wharves may also be made by continuing the conical
part to the flange, and dispensing with the cylindrical part above referred to.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily carried
into effect, I will proceed to describe the accompanying Sheet of Drawings,
reference being had to the figures and letters marked thereon.
Fig. 1 represents an ordinary throstle spindle, to which my improved
wharve is applied. My improved wharves are intended to be driven by bands
or cords, as now customary, in driving the usual V-grooved wharves. Tho
wharve consists of a cylindrical portion a, on which the band or cord acts
when the spindle is revolving; the flange 6 retains the cord or band on the
cylindrical portion a, above which is the conical part c; the object of this
conical part is to facilitate the removal of the cord or band from the cylin-
drical part a when it is requisite to stop the spindle for piecing or doffing;
this conical part also assists in replacing the cord or band on to the cylindrical
portion for again starting the spindle.
Fig. 2 represents another of my improved-shaped wharves; in this caso the
cylindrical portion marked a, in Fig. 1, is dispensed with, and the conical part
c is continued to the flange b; in this case the cord or band, when the spindle
is revolving, will remain in the position immediately above the flange b; that
is to say, on the largest diameter of the cone, but when it is requisite to stop
the spindle the attendant slips the cord or band upwards, as above described.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I declare that I claim, the improved wharves shewn and
described when applied to machines for spinning and doubling cotton and other
fibrous materials.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Newhouse, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
JAMES NEWHOUSE. (L.S.)