IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR PREPARING, SPINNING, AND DOUBLING FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Anderton, of Cleckheaton, near Leeds, in
the County of York, Worsted Spinner, for the Invention of "IMPROVED
MACHINERY FOR PREPARING, SPINNING, AND DOUBLING FIBROUS SUBSTANCES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Anderton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
29th July 1864.
I, WILLIAM ANDERTON, of Cleckheaton, near Leeds, in the County of
York, Worsted Spinner, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR PREPARING, SPINNING, AND DOUBLING FIBROUS
SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to an improvement in machinery for spinning and
doubling fibrous substances, which admits of the drag of the bobbins being
regulated with greater precision, and also permits of the flyers being run at a
greater speed than usual. I use a spindle which runs on a foot, as is usual,
and is supported by a hollow stud or collar fixed on the top of the rail
called the collar rail. To this spindle I attach a disc or circular plate for sup-
porting the bobbin. On this plate I usually place a washer, so that the bobbin
may drag on it. Near to the foot of the spindle I place a wharl, which
receives a weighted cord that acts as a drag on the spindle. The spindle
thus provided is driven by the friction of the bobbin (when dragged by its
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page_text: thread) against the spindle and the disc or plate which carries the bobbin.
The flyer runs on the outside of the hollow stud that supports the spindle. I
lay the thread on the bobbin by traversing the spindle with the bobbin, pass
the guides or twizzles on the flyer legs; or I use a slide, which moves up and
down the legs. By this improvement 1 render the spindle and flyer inde-
pendent of each other, and am thus enabled to drag the bobbin with great
regularity and run at a high speed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Anderton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th January 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
ANDERTON, of Cleckheaton, near Leeds, in the County of York, Worsted
Spinner, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth 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
me, the said William Anderton, Her special license that I, the said William
Anderton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said William Anderton, 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 Invention for
** IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR PREPARING, SPINNING, AND DOUBLING FIBROUS SUB-
STANCES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William
Anderton, 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 Anderton, 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 fol-
lowing statement, reference being being had to the Drawing hereunto
annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say) -

page_text: This Invention consists in a novel arrangement of parts whereby I am
enabled to regulate the drag of the several bobbins of spinning and doubling
machinery to great nicety, and thus to adapt the machinery to the spinning
and doubling of hard or soft twisted yarn, and at the same time to run the
flyers at a greater speed than usual without risk of any undue vibration being
thereby created.
In the accompanying Drawing Fig. 1 shews the improved arrangement
of spiudle and flyer in side elevation, and Fig. 2 is a vertical section slewing
the mode of mounting the flyer.
a is the spindle mounted on the footstep 6, carried by the rail c. This rail
receives an up-and-down motion for the purpose of traversing the bobbin d
up and down past the twizzle or eye of the flyer. The bobbin d is carried
by a circular plate or disc a' affixed to the loose spindle, and a cloth or other
suitable washer is interposed between the disc and the bobbin to produce
friction of contact between them. The spindle a passes through and is sup-
ported by a hollow stud or collare let into and firmnly secured by a clamping-
nut to the collar railf. On this collar a cup is formed for retaining oil and
forming a support for the inverted flyer g. This flyer is dropped over the
collar e and driven by a band passed round the wharve or pulley g', forming
part of the hollow boss or stem of the flyer. Near the foot of the loose
spindle a is a pulley a², which receives a weighted cord a³ for the purpose of
imparting the required amount of drag to the spindle. In the plan view
Fig. 3, the mode of applying the drag is clearly shewn. A knot is made on
one end of the cord which is caught by a notch in one edge of the rail c.
The cord is then lapped round one side of the pulley, and dropped into one
of a series of notches on the other edge of the rail. These notches allow of
the cord being lapped more or less round the pulley, and whereby a greater or
less drag is put on the loose spindle. It will now be understood that as the
flyer rotates on a fixed support firmly secured to the collar rail it will have no
tendency to vibrate, and consequently it may be driven at very great speed.
In its rotation the flyer will, as is well understood, deliver to the bobbin the
yarn as it is spun; the bobbin, by reason of the drag of the yarn upon it,
following the course of the flyer. If, however, the bobbin should overrun the
formation of a snarl or entanglement of yarn would ensue. To prevent this,
therefore, a drag is employed, and to give this drag the greatest delicacy or
to adapt it to varying circumstances, I mount the bobbin on the loose spindle
as described, and provide a means of dragging or retarding the revolution of
the spindle. This bobbin resting upon the disc al will, by friction of contact,
impart rotary motion to the spindle, and any retardation put on the spindle

page_text: will consequently re-act on the bobbin. No such nicety of action could, how-
ever, be obtained either by the use of a fixed or a driven spindle, or of a
loose spindle coupled rigidly to the bobbin.
Having now set forth the nature of my Invention of improved machinery
for preparing, spinning, and doubling fibrous substances, and explained the
manner of carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that
under the above in part recited Letters Patent I claim, the means above
described, whereby I am enabled to adjust the drag of the bobbin to the
requirements of the work in hand.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Anderton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-fifth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
W. ANDERTON. (L.S.)