IMPROVE-. MENTS IN, MACHINERY, OR APPARATUS FOR TWISTING AND WINDING SPUN YARNS OR THREADS
Year: 1855

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Spencer at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
1st June 1855.
I, the said HENRY SPENCER, of Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster,
Manager, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-.
MENTS IN, MACHINERY, OR APPARATUS FOR TWISTING AND WINDING SPUN YARNS OR
THREADS " to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to a method of operating upon yarns or threads which.
have been spun by ordinary machinery. For this purpose I employ a machine
similar to an ordinary doubling frame or a throstle without drawing rollers.
Upon the spindles provided with flyers I place the yarn already spun, which,
is then unwound and twisted by the revolution of the flyers, and is conducted
to the back of the machine by rollers. Here it is wound upon a series of

page_text: vertical bobbins of large diameter, or upon surfaces constructed upon the
principle of swifts, which bobbins or swifts are driven by friction discs, cups,
or other such apparatus, so as to take up the material as delivered.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Spencer in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
30th November 1855.
time
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
SPENCER, of Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster, Manager, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Hér heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Henry Spencer,, Her. especial license that I, the. said Henry. Spencer,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry
Spencer, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any 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 WINDING SPUN YARNS OR THREADS OF COTTON AND
OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS," upon the condition, amongst others, that I, .the
said Henry Spencer, 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 Henry Spencer, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and accompanying Drawing (that is to say):-
My Invention relates to a method of operating upon yarns or threads which
have been spun by ordinary machinery. For this purpose I employ a machine
similar to an ordinary doubling frame or a throstle without drawing rollers.
Upon the spindle provided with flyers I place the yarn already spun, which is

page_text: "
then unwound and twisted by the revolution of the flyers, and is conducted to
the back of the machine by rollers. Here it is wound upon a series or, vertical,
bobbins of large diameter, or upon surfaces constructed upon the principle of
swifts, which bobbins or swifts are driven by friction-discs, cups, or other such
apparatus, so as to take up the material as delivered.
In order that my improvements may be fully understood, I will now proceed
to describe the arrangements shewn in the Sheet of illustrative Drawing,
which represents a transverse section of the machine, one end framing being:
shewn at a, a, to which the longitudinal rails b, b, are attached, carrying a
series of spindles,c, c, mounted in suitable bearings. The spindles c, c, are
driven by means of the wharves d, d, and bands e, e, through the revolution
of the drum f, f, which extends from one end of the machine to the other.
Upon the upper end of the spindles c, c, the flyers g, g, are attached, and the
bobbins i, i, having the yarn or thread upon them, are also placed thereon.
Two bobbins may be used on each spindle if required for doubling; those
shewn in the Drawing are ordinary throstle bobbins, but it will be evident that
others may also be used. The threads or yarns s, after passing through the
eye of the flyer 9, are conducted by means of guides k, k, to the rollers 1, 1,
which revolve in suitable bearings attached to the framework, after passing
between which they are wound on to the series of bobbins shewn at m, m, the
same being driven by the friction of contact with the wharves n, n, upon the
spindles or studs o, o, mounted in bearings formed in the rails p, p, the spindles
or studs o, o, being caused to revolve by the band q, q, and drum r, r, which
also extends from one end of the machine to the other. Instead of the yarns
or threads (shewn by the line s, s,) being wound on to the bobbins, as above
mentioned, they may be wound on to the swift t, t, which may also be caused
to revolve by any suitable arrangements of friction surfaces or other such
apparatus, which will not be required to be shewn in the Drawings. I have
shewn the bobbins on one side of the machine only and a swift on the other;
but it will be readily understood that the bobbins or swifts may be used on
both sides of the machine, as desired, or one set of spindles and bobbins only
may be used.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of my Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be under-
stood that I claim, as secured to me under the above in partly recited Letters
Patent,―
Firstly, placing cops or bobbins of yarn or thread upon spindles for the
purpose of imparting additional twists by means of flyers.

page_text: Secondly, winding the yarn or thread after it is twisted on to vertical bobbins,
or swifts, the same being driven by friction surfaces. ! ....
"In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Spencer, have hereunto set "myi
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of November, in the year. of our:
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.

page_text: then unwound and twisted by the revolution of the flyers, and is conducted to
the back of the machine by rollers. Here it is wound upon a series or vertical,
bobbins of large diameter, or upon surfaces constructed upon. the principle of
swifts, which bobbins or swifts are driven by friction discs, cups, or other such
apparatus, so as to take up the material as delivered.
In order that my improvements may be fully understood, I will now proceed
to describe the arrangements shewn in the Sheet of illustrative Drawing,
which represents a transverse section of the machine, one end framing-being:
shewn at a, a, to which the longitudinal rails 6, 6, are attached, carrying a
series of spindles,c, c, mounted in suitable bearings. The spindles c, c, are
driven by means of the wharves d, d, and bands e, e, through the revolution
of the drum ff, which extends from one end of the machine to the other.
Upon the upper end of the spindles c, c, the flyers g, g, are attached, and the
bobbins i, i, having the yarn or thread upon them, are also placed thereon.
Two bobbins may be used on each spindle if required for doubling; those
shewn in the Drawing are ordinary throstle bobbins, but it will be evident that
others may also be used. The threads or yarns s, after passing through the
eye of the flyer g, are conducted by means of guides k, k, to the rollers 1, 1,
which revolve in suitable bearings attached to the framework, after passing
between which they are wound on to the series of bobbins shewn at m, m, the
the
same being driven by the friction of contact with the wharves n, n, upon
spindles or studs o, o, mounted in bearings formed in the rails p, p, the spindles
or studs o, o, being caused to revolve by the band q, q, and drum r, r, which
also extends from one end of the machine to the other. Instead of the yarns
or threads (shewn by the line s, s,) being wound on to the bobbins, as above
mentioned, they may be wound on to the swift t, t, which may also be caused
to revolve by any suitable arrangements of friction surfaces or other such
apparatus, which will not be required to be shewn in the Drawings. I have
shewn the bobbins on one side of the machine only and a swift on the other;
but it will be readily understood that the bobbins or swifts may be used on
both sides of the machine, as desired, or one set of spindles and bobbins only
may be used.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of my Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be under-
stood that I claim, as secured to me under the above in partly recited Letters
Patent,―
Firstly, placing cops or bobbins of yarn or thread upon spindles for the
purpose of imparting additional twists by means of flyers.

page_text: Secondly, winding the yarn or thread after it is twisted on to-vertical bobbins
swifts, the same being driven by friction surfaces.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Spencer, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth-day of November, in the year. of our
Lord One thousand 'eight hundred and fifty-five.