IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY EMPLOYED IN THe Spinning, Twisting, and Winding or Woollen, COTTON, OR OTHER YARNS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis Edwin Broadbent, of Dewsbury, in the
County of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
EMPLOYED IN THe Spinning, Twisting, and Winding or Woollen, COTTON,
OR OTHER YARNS."
Scaled the 6th April 1875, and dated the 10th October 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Edwin Broadbent
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 10th October 1874.
I, LOUIS EDWIN BROADBENT, of Dewsbury, in the County of York, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY EMPLOYED IN THE SPINNING, TWISTING, AND WINDING OF WOOLLEN,
COTTON, OR OTHER YARNS," to be as follows:-
-
My Invention has reference to mules and other spinning, twisting,
and vinding machinery, by which improvements I produce a much
larger amount of yarn and at a less cost than from machines of ordinary

page_text: construction. For this purpose I provide one row of spindles arranged
in the ordinary way, and behind each of these I provide an intermediate
spindle, that is to say, I place between the ordinary spindles, and in rear
of them, other spindles, and conduct the material on to the intermediate
spindles by a suitable guide or guides. By this arrangement a much 5
greater number of spindles can be applied without increasing the length
of the mule or other spinning machine.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Louis Edwin Broadbent in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 9th April 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LOUIS
EDWIN BROADBENT, of Dowsbury, in the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Louis Edwin Broadbent, Her
special licence that I, the said Louis Edwin Broadbent, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Louis Edwin
Broadbent, 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 Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY EMPLOYED IN THE SPINNING, TWISTING,
AND WINDING WOOLLEN, COTTON, OR OTHER YARNS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Louis Edwin Broadbent, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Louis Edwin Broadbent, 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, reference being had to the accom-
panying Dawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, that is
to say:-
My Invention has reference to mules and other spinning, twisting,
and winding machinery, by which improvements I produce a much
larger amount of yarn and at a loss cost than from machines of ordinary
construction. For this purpose I provide one row of spindles arranged
in the ordinary way, and behind each of these I provide an intermediate
spindle, that is to say, I place between the ordinary spindles, and in rear
of them, other spindles, and conduct the material on to the intermediate
spindles by a suitable guide or guides. By this arrangement a much
greater number of spindles can be applied without increasing the length
of the mule or other spinning machinc.
In the Drawings hereunto annexed I have shown a mule constructed
according to my Invention, in which Fig. 1 represents an end elevation,
Fig. 2 a portion of a back elevation, and Fig. 3 a portion of a plan of
same.
I provide one row of spindles a arranged in the ordinary way as
shown, and behind cach of these spindles a I provide an intermediate
spindle b, that is to say, I place between the ordinary spindles a, and in
rear of them, other spindles b, and conduct the material on to the inter-
mediate spindles 6 by a suitable guide or guides c. All the spindles are
driven from the same cylinder d and in the same manner as here-
tofore.
It will be found necessary either to make the spindle rails e and ƒ
wider for the second row of spindles b, or when applied to machines now
in use to attach to the existing spindle rail or rails suitable brackets for
carrying the second row of spindles b.
The other parts of the machine not explained or shown may be of
ordinary construction.
I would here remark that the same arrangement of spindles may be
applied to other spinning, twisting, and winding machines, and driven
in the same manner as herein explained, or by other equivalent means.

page_text: Having now described the nature of my said Invention and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, I do not limit myself to
the exact limits, details, or configuration of parts I have explained and
shown, as the same may be varied or modified without departing from my
Invention, but what I do claim and desire to be secured to me by Letters
Patent is, the arrangement and application of two rows of spindles a and b,
and parts connected therewith, forming my improvements as aforesaid,
substantially as and for purposes herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Edwin Broadbent, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
LOUIS EDWIN BROADBENT. (L.S.)