IMPROVEMENTS IN COP TUBES USED IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Christopher Maniece, of the City of Man-
chester, in the County of Lancaster, Salesman, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN COP TUBES USED IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING FIBROUS
SUBSTANCES."
Sealed the 22nd May 1860, and dated the 24th November 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Christopher
Maniece at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 24th November 1859.
I, WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER MANIECE, of the City of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Salesman, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN COP TUBES USED IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING
FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in constructing cop tubes of strips of prepared woven
fabric. That fabric which I have found so far to be best adapted for the
purpose being composed entirely of cotton woven close and prepared and
finished by the application of a composition of flour, starch, china clay or
gypsum, and gelatine, and the callendering and beetling process to give stiff-.
ness and body to the fabric. I take such woven and prepared fabric and cut
it up either into segmental or straight taper strips, each of which will form &
conical tube more or less taper when rolled up, suitable paste or cement being
applied to secure the folds together in the form required, which operation may
be performed either by hand or a similar machine to that employed for the
manufacture of cop tubes from strips of paper. In addition to the use of the

page_text: paste or cement, and still further to secure the strips forming the tube, I place
one or more metallic rivets in each tube passing through the folds forming the
side of the tube. Tubes made according to my Invention, while being of little
cost, are calculated to stand the usage to which they have to be subjected much
better and longer than those made of any other material hitherto used for the
purpose.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Christopher Maniece in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 24th May 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
CHRISTOPHER MANIECE, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Salesman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Qween Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said William Christopher Maniece, Her special license that I, the said
William Christopher Maniece, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said William Christopher Maniece, my executors, admi-
nistrators, 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 COP TUBES USED IN MACHINERY FOR
SPINNING FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," upon the condition, amongst others, that I,
the said William Christopher Maniece, 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 Christopher Meniece 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 (that is to say) :-
My Invention consists in constructing cop tubes of strips of prepared woven
fabric. The fabric which I have found hitherto to be the best adapted for the

page_text: purpose being composed entirely of cotton woven close and prepared and
finished by the application of a composition of flour, starch, china clay, or
gypsum, and gelatine, such composition being thoroughly incorporated in
the body of the fabric by a subsequent process of calendering and beetling to
give stiffness and body to the fabric. I take such woven fabric and cut it into
segmental or straight taper strips, each of which will form a conical tube more
or less taper when rolled up, suitable paste or cement being supplied to secure
the folds together in the form required, which operation may be performed
either by hand or by a similar machine to that usually employed to roll up
strips of paper into cop tubes. In addition to the use of the paste or cement,
and still further to secure the strips forming the tube, I place one or more
metallic rivets in each tube passing through the folds forming the side of the
tube. Tubes made according to or after the manner of my Invention, are cal-
culated to endure the usage to which cop tubes are subjected for a longer
period than cop tubes formed of paper or other similar material.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be distinctly
understood that I claim constructing or forming "cop tubes" of strips of
woven fabric prepared with a composition of flour, starch, china clay or
gypsum, and gelatine, being subsequently finished by beetling or calendering,
and rolled up into the form required either by hand or by any suitable and
ordinary machinery.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Christopher Maniece, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of May, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER MANIECE. L.S.)