IMPROVEMENTS IN SPINNING
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Heginbottom and Joseph Heginbottom,
of Ovenden, in the Parish of Halifax, in the County of York,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Heginbottom
and Joseph Heginbottom at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with his Petition, on the 18th June 1853.
We, JAMES HEGINBOTTOM and JOSEPH HEGINBOTTOM, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
SPINNING" to be as follows:-
It relates to certain arrangements of mechanism or apparatus,
herein-after explained, to be applied to the spinning mule to increase
gradually the speed of the spindles whilst the rollers and carriage are
in motion, giving more twist to the yarn as the carriage draws out,
whereby the yarn is made more even, much stronger, and more free
from soft places, lumps, and snarls, than at present. In the accompany-
ing sketch, Figure 1, is a plan; Figure 2, a cross section of part of an

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the arm f, acting against the diagonal rail g. The same apparatus is
also applicable to the drum mules, with slight alteration in the arrange-
ment, the concs being fixed on the head stock instead of the carriage.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Heginbottom and Joseph Heginbottom in
the Great Seal Patent Office, on the 17th December 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
JAMES HEGINBOTTOM and JOSEPH HEGINBOTTOM, of Ovenden, in the
Parish of Halifax, in the County of York, Cotton Spinners, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of June, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Ierself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said James Heginbottom and Josephi
Heginbottom, Her especial license that we, the said James Hegin-
bottom and Joseph Heginbottom, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said James Heginbottom and
Joseph Heginbottom, our executors, administrators, or 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 law-
fully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man,
an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SPINNING," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said James Heginbottom and Joseph

page_text: Heginbottom, 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Royal Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said James Ieginbottom and
Joseph Heginbottom, do hereby declare the nature of our said In-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment (that is to say):
Our Invention relates to improvements in the arrangement and con-
struction of the machine or apparatus generally called the spinning
mule, which is used for spinning cotton, wool, or other fibrous materials
into yarn, by which improvements we obtain a gradual increase in the
speed of the spindles whilst the rollers and carriage are in motion,
giving more twist to the yarn as the carriage draws out, whereby the
yarn is made more even, much stronger, and more free from soft places,
lumps, and snarls, than by the machines at present in use, which we
accomplish by using two cone pullies, one giving motion to the other,
which is driven by the driving pulley, with slide bar, strap guides, &c.
This simple though efficient motion will be clearly understood by
reference to the accompanying sheet of Drawings, in which the same
letters of reference are used to represent similar parts where different
views or diagrams are shown. Fig. 1, is a side elevation of a mule,
shewing our said improvements; Fig. 2, a view of the two cone
pullies; Fig. 3, a plan thereof. a, represents a cone pulley, which is
driven by the cone pulley b, to the shaft of which the driving pulley c,
is attached; d, is a slide bar carrying the strap guides e, with the
arm f, on the under side; g, is a diagonal rail fixed to the floor or frame
end, so that as the carriage is drawn out the said slide bar d, will slide
towards h, traversing the strap i, towards the other end of the conc
pullies, whereby the speed of the tin roller will be accelerated. The
arm f. acts against the diagonal rail g. The same motion or apparatus
is also applicable to the drum mules, with very slight alteration in the

page_text: arrangement, the cones being fixed on the head stock instead of the
carriage.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of our said
Invention, we desire it to be distinctly understood that we do not
confine ourselves to the exact details herein described, as such may
be varied or modified without departing from the principle of the same.
But we claim as of our Invention, and which, to the best of our
knowledge and belief, has not been hitherto used within this realm,-
The method of communicating a gradual increased speed to the
spindles of the spinning mule whilst the carriage and rollers are in
motion, as herein described and illustrated in the accompanying sheet
of Drawings, or any modification thereof.
In witness whereof, we, the said James Heginbottom and Joseph
Heginbottom, have hereunto set our hands and seals this
Fifteenth day of December One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-three.
JAMES HEGINBOTTOM,
JOSEPH HEGINBOTTOM.
Signed, sealed, and delivered, by the
within-named James Heginbot-
tom and Joseph Heginbottoni, in
the presence of
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