Im- PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR MAKING BANDING." PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR MAKING BANDING
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Unsworth, of Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Banding Manufacturer, and Edward Walley, of
Preston, in the same County, Machinist, for the Invention of “Im-
PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR MAKING BANDING."
PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR MAKING BANDING."
Sealed the 1st November 1870, and dated the 13th August 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Unsworth
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and Edward Walley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 13th August 1870.
We, THOMAS UNSWORTH, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Banding Manufacturer, and EDWARD WALLEY, of Preston, in the
same County, Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR MAKING BANDING," to be as
follows:-
Our Invention relates to machinery for making banding from any
fibrous material at one operation, this we effect as follows:-In a frame
of suitable shape and size we place in the lower part and across such
frame a drum or a series of wheel gearing on a shaft from which we get

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our several motions. In the front of such frame we place any number
of spindles according to the required production of such machine. We
fix at the top of each spindle a flyer specialy made with solid legs and
eyelet ends with a guide loop in each shoulder, these spindles and flyers
get their motion from the aforesaid drum or geared wheels. On each
of these spindles we place a bobbin of the usual kind, under the bottom
of each of these bobbins is a plate and a drag motion resting on the lifting
rail, which rail raises and falls by the action of a cam motion. In the
back of the frame aforesaid we place double the number of similar
spindles as in front, with similar flyers placed upside down on the lower
part of the spindles, thus reversing the twist in the yarn. In a con-
venient position we place a board or creel to carry the cops or bobbins,
the ends of the yarn from which pass over guides and through plain
rollers through the flyer and on to the bobbin, thus the strands are made.
We remove the bobbins of strands to the extra spindles on the back part
of the frame, passing the ends of such through guide bars round a series
of grooved rollers for stretching, one of which rollers running a little
quicker than the other stretches the yarn, it passes thence through the
front flyer on to a bobbin and the band is complete.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Unsworth and Edward Walley in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 8th February 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
UNSWORTH, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Banding
Manufacturer, and EDWARD WALLEY, of Preston, in the same County,
Machinist, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Thomas Unsworth and Edward
Walley, Her special licence that we, the said Thomas Unsworth and
Edward Walley, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said Thomas Unsworth and Edward Walley, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,

page_text: 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 FOR MAKING BANDING," upon the condition (amongst others)
that we, the said Thomas Unsworth and Edward Walley, our executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their,
or one 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 KNÓW YE, that we, the said Thomas Unsworth and Edward
Walley, 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 :-
Our Invention relates to an arrangement of machinery for twisting
into bands or cords sewing cotton or thread from or out of cotton,
woollen, hemp or linen, silk, or wire, or of any other pliable material,
mixed or seperate, and so arranged that strands and bands are made on
the same machine and at the same time. The strands being made and
wound on to the bobbins, and without removing such bobbins from the
machine, the strands are passed across, doubled, and twisted into banding
cords, sewing cotton, or thread, or any such like article, or of metallic
mixture.
We have hereunto annexed a Sheet of Drawings in which the same
parts in several Figures are marked by similar letters of reference.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of our machine shewing the arrangement
for winding the strands. a is the frame; b, the driving drum supported
in fram; c, are spindles on which are keyed band speed pullies d, on
these spindles above guide bar al of frame are fixed flyers e which being
reversed on the spindles or placed upside down to what they usually are
unwinds the yarn or other material off the bobbins f, giving such a left
hand twist on leaving the bobbins ƒ. These spindles are driven from
drum b by bands on to band pullies d.
Fig. 2 is the other side elevation shewing the arrangement for both
making strands and bands. a is the frame; b, the driving drum;, g, the
pullies by which such is driven; h, pully from which band i drives

page_text: pully j, giving motion by wheel k (in Fig. 4) to wheel 7 by which
shaft m is driven; n is a similar shaft; on these two shafts are keyed four
or more grooved rollers sl and sll to carry the strands, such strands are
stretched between these rollers by making the wheel o one or more teeth
less than wheel 7 (in Figure 4). The shaft n in Figs. 2 and 5, gives motion
through wheel p in Fig. 3 and 5 to wheel on shaft q in the latter
Figure. On such shaft the rollers s, s, are keyed, there are two top
rollers t, t, which are driven from the friction of rollers s s, at the end
of shaft m. In Figs. 2, 3, and 5 is a mitre wheel u, working into
another mitre wheel v, giving motion to vertical shaft w, on which is a
screw worm x, which slowly turns wheel y in Figs. 3 and 5. On the
other end of spindle carrying wheel y is a cam of any convenient shape
which gives motion to connecting rod all (in Fig. 3); in same Figure vl
is a lever, one end of which communicates with connecting rod all, and
the other to bobbin winding rail cl. There is another lever at the
other end of the bobbin winding rail c2, these two levers work on a
fulcrum shaft c3. The spindles c4 are driven by bands from drum 6 to the
several pullies marked 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, and 66. On the spindles c4
are bobbins f1 and flyers ƒ2; al is a guide bar same as in Fig. 1; a2
are screws with spiral or other springs acting on a break or friction pully
at the bottom ends of bobbins f1, this effectually winds the strands and
bands firmly on the bobbins. Fig. 3 is an end view on line C, D, of plan
Fig. 5; Fig. 4, end view on line E, F, of same; Fig. 5, plan at line A, B,
in Fig. 2.
In Figs. 1, 2, and 3 are shewn the cop or other board a7, on which we
have shewn by preference ranges of cops a8, the threads from which are
carried to guide bars a9, over, down, and through another guide bar c6
at the back of rollers & and t, in Figs. 2 and 5, from thence through and
round before mentioned rollers to flyers in front of such rollers marked f2
to bobbins f1; c7 is a guide bar through which the strands pass from
bobbins f.
In making strands by our improved machine we take as many threads
as we desire, or that may be necessary for any required size strand,
we pass them over guide bar a9 to the rollers s and round such top
roller in order to stretch or lay the threads; they then pass from
rollers s and t to the eye of the flyer f2, thence down the leg to the end,
and so on to the bobbin, thus the strands are made. When the strand
bobbins are full, they are removed to the opposite side of the machine
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page_text: to spindles c. The ends of as many strands as may be required in the
band to be made are then carried through holes provided in guide
bars c7 or c6, (or both), as required, to the grooved rollers sl and s11,
round both of which they pass. The rollers sll revolve slightly quicker
than sl which brings it up tight to flyers a2, which twist the strands
into banding or other article required. The flyers for twisting strands
run in an opposite direction to those for bands, the strands being twisted
left hand and bands right (or vice versa) thus having the usual effect of
locking each twist.
Having fully described our Invention and the way it is worked, we
wish it to be understood that we do not confine ourselves to the precise
details we have had occasion to refer to, as many variations may be made
in detail without deviating from the principle, but what we claim as
novel, and secured to us herein are, the general arrangement of machinery
for making banding, thread, cords, sewing cotton, fishing lines of fibre
or of a mixture of wire and fibre, or woollen, hemp, silk, or cotton;
substantially as herein-before described and illustated.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Unsworth and Edward
Walley, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Sixth
day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight.
hundred and seventy-one.
Witness,
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JOHN LEWIS,
Engineer & Patent Agent,
Preston.
THOMAS UNSWORTH. (L.S.)
EDWARD WALLEY.
(L.S.).