IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR TWISTING AND DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS, APPLICABLE for the OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS, APPLICABLE TO THE MANOKAOTURE OF OF BRIDING BANDS, AND OTHER Picenovs.
Year: 1864

page_text: Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, and John Holt. of the same Place Spinner
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR
TWISTING AND DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS, APPLICABLE
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR
TWISTING AND DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS, APPLICABLE
TO THE MANOKAOTURE OF
OF BRIDING BANDS, AND OTHER Picenovs.
Scaled the 17th January 1865, and dated the 21st July 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Topp and John
Holt at the Ollice of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 21st July 1864.
We, ALFRED Topp, of Farnworth, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton
Spinner, and JOHN HOLT, of the same Place, Spinner, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS
FOR TWISTING AND DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS, APPLICABLE
TO THE MANUFACTURE OF DRIVING BANDS, AND OTHER PURPOSES," to be as
follows:-
Our Invention relates to a construction of twisting or doubling apparatus
in which the flyer is provided with two necks or eyes through which the
material passes, and consists in adapting the creek from which the material is
drawn between the said two necks or eyes, the strand or strands passing first
through one and then through the other. The creel we mount upon the
centre of motion of the flyer.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alfred Topp and John Holt in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 21st January 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ALFRED
TOPP, of Farnworth, in the County of Lancaster. Cotton Spinner, and JOHN
HOLT, of the same Place, Spinner, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria. by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of July. in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself. Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Alfred Topp and John Holt, Her special license that we, the said Alfred
Topp and John Holt, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said Alfred Topp and John Holt, our executors. adminis-
trators, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR TWISTING AND
DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS, APPLICABLE TO THE MANUFACTURE
OF DRIVING BANDS, AND OTHER PURPOSES," upon the condition, amongst others,
that we, the said Alfred Topp and John Holt, 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 Alfred Topp. do hereby declare -the
nature of our 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):-
.
Our Invention relates to twisting or doubling machinery in which flyers are]
employed with two necks or eyes through which the material passes, and
consists in adapting the creel between the said necks or eyes, whereby the
flyer is caused to revolve around it. The material passing from the creel is
conducted through one of the necks or eyes, and from thence along a leg of
the flyer to the other neck or eye. The creel we mount loosely upon the
centre of motion of the flyer.

page_text: In the accompanying Drawing Fig. 1 represents the arrangement we
employ in plan view, and Fig. 2 is an elevation thereof.
At a is the stationary framework, formed with a recess, within which is
mounted the flyer b. This flyer is rectangular in form, provided with
necks c, d, which run in bearings e carried by the stationary framework a.
At is a table, provided with brackets extending upwards, and mounted at
their ends loosely upon the necks c, d, by which necks therefore the table is
suspended. At h, h, h, are brackets also formed upon the table f, and pro-
vided with slots, within which are situate the spindles i, i, i, for carrying the
bobbins from which the material to be twisted or doubled is drawn, the said
table and brackets constituting therefore a creel. Within the slots are
also rods, . 2, capable of moving upward and downward therein. In the
Drawing one bobbin only is shewn, it being supposed that the operation of
twisting several ends is to be performed preparatory to that of doubling for
the manufacture of driving bands, as is well understood. The ends to be
twisted are conducted from the bobbin over and under the guide rods k, k', k,
as shewn by the red line, and from thence through a hole formed in a guide
piece m aflixed to the table . after this they pass through the neck c along
one side of the flyer b, and then through the neck d to a bobbin or other
usual apparatus on which they are to be wound, such bobbin being driven by
a surface drum, or by any other usual arrangement. Motion is communicated
to the flyer b by means of a pulley a, and the said flyer being thus caused to
revolve will twist the material which is taken up as before mentioned. It has
been observed that the operation supposed is that for preparing the material
for the after process of twisting in the manufacture of driving bands, but the
twisting thus effected may be for any other desired purpose. It will be
perceived that as the creel is mounted loosely upon the centre of motion of
the flyer the said flyer will be at liberty to revolve around it, the bobbins
remaining stationary, or nearly so. To effect a doubling operation a bobbin
is placed upon each of the spindles i, and the ends are conducted under and
oyer the guide rods, as may be found desirable, and from thence to the
guide plate m, in which there are as many apertures as there are creel bobbins,
cach-strand passing through a separate hole, after which the combined threads
enter the neck c and flyer leg b, as before mentioned.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of our said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed. I desire it to be
understood that we claim as secured to us under the above in part recited
Letters Patent, in reference to such flyers as aforesaid, placing the material to
be twisted or doubled between the necks of the flyers, and mounting the

page_text: creet which carries such material loosely upon the centre of motion
the flyer.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Topp. have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of January, in the year of ou
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
ALFRED TOPP. (t.s.)