IMPROVEMENTS IN SPINNING FRAMES
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Walker, of Belfast, in the County of Antrim,
Spinner, and James Scrimgeour, of the same Place, Machinist, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SPINNING FRAMES."
Sealed the 30th January 1857, and dated the 4th August 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Walker and
James Scrimgeour at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 4th August 1856.
We, GEORGE WALKER, of Belfast, in the County of Antrim, Spinner, and
JAMES SCRIMGEOUR, of the same Place, Machinist, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SPINNING FRAMES," to
be as follows:-
Our Invention consists in lowering and raising spinning frame beams by
means of brackets and slots, with binding and setting screws; in altering the
angle of the beam by means of screws; and in regulating the angle of the
thread plate and brackets also by means of screws.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George -Walker and James Scrimgeour, in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 4th February 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
WALKER, of Belfast, in the County of Antrim, Spinner, and JAMES SCRIMGEOUR,
of the same Place, Machinist, send greeting...
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
George Walker_and_James_Scrimgeour, Her-special-licence-that-we,-the-
said George Walker and James Scrimgeour, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said George Walker and James Scrimgeour,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and
nó 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 SPINNING FRAMES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that we, the said George Walker and James
Scrimgeour, or one of us, our executors or administators, by an instrument in
writing under our, or their, or one of our or their hands and seals, 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 we, the said George Walker and James Scrimgeour,
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, reference being had to the Drawings. hereunto
annexed, that is to say) :-
Our Invention consists in lowering and raising spinning frame beams by
means of brackets and slots, with binding and setting screws; in altering the
angle of the beam by means of screws; and in regulating. the angle of the
thread plate and brackets also by means of screws.
Figure 1 is an end elevation, partly in section, of that part of a spinning
frame to which our Invention-refers; Figure 2 is a front view of part of the
same; and Figures 3 and 4, plan views of the portable thread plate brackets
detached. B is the beam of the spinning frame, which supports the rollers

page_text: and other apparatus; A is a tongue, inserted in and screwed or fixed to the
beam B. Through this tongue a hole is drilled, bored, or formed, which is
tapped to receive the screw C. The point of the screw C rests at bottom in a
centre formed in the ledge D cast on the sliding bracket E. a is an enlarge-
ment, nut-shaped, formed on the screw, to be laid hold of by a spanner; F, F,
are the spinning frame rollers, supported on the bracket and bearings G, G;
I, I, is the spindle rail, and K one of the spindles; M is a portable thread plate
bracket, sliding in a groove formed in the beam B, and there secured by
a screw or screws, or otherwise. This thread plate bracket M is jointed at O
to a second bracket L. N is the thread plate, which is free to slide in a slot
formed in the stud P fixed to the bracket L.
It will be seen that the beam B can be moved into any desired position by
turning the screw C, which, working through the tongue A and resting on the
bracket D, either raises or lowers, as the case may be, the beam B and
the apparatus connected to it. The thread plate bracket L can be altered to
suit any angle by means of the joint O.
And having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim,-
First, the raising and lowering of spinning frame beams by means of
brackets and slots, as herein-before described with reference to the Drawings
annexed.
And, second, the jointing of the thread plate brackets, altering the angle
of the beam, and regulating the angle of the thread plate and brackets, in the
manner herein-before described, and represented in the Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Walker, for myself and on behalf
of the said James Scrimgeour, have hereunto set my hand and seal,
this Second day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-seven.
GEO. WALKER. (L.B.)