IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR MAKING WHIPS, PARTS OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO D Name
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Guest, of Lion Square, Sneinton, in the
County of Nottingham, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
FOR MAKING WHIPS, PARTS OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO
D
Name
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Sealed the 14th July 1854, and dated the 1st February 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Guest at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 1st
February 1854.
I, WILLIAM GUEST, of Lion Square, Sneinton, in the County of Notting-
ham, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY FOR MAKING WHIPS, PARTS OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLI-
CABLE TO THE MANUFACTURE OF BRAIDS AND WIRE NETS," to be as follows:-
My improvements in machinery for making whips consist, first, in an
improved spindle and arrangement of the spindle used in braiding machinery
for making whips. This improvement consists in reducing the number of holes
requiring to be threaded, and in simplifying the act of threading; in arranging
the bobbins and weights to rise and fall together, instead of the weight rising
and falling by itself; in adding extra pairs of spindles, so arranged as to be
brought into and out of action as required by the description of work to be
produced, without the necessity of altering the circle of the machine, as is now

page_text: done, whereby a considerable saving of time is effected; in arranging the
spindles with the bobbins to turn without rising and falling, and in causing the
weight (in consequence of reducing the number of boles to be threaded) to
work outside instead of inside the spindle.
My improvements in machinery applicable to the manufacture of braids
consist in the employment in braiding machinery of the improvements in the
spindles, as herein-before referred to.
My improvements in machinery applicable to the manufacture of wire nets
consist in the application of the improved spindles herein-before partly described
in machinery for making wire nets.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Guest in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st
August 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
GUEST, of Lion Square, Sneinton, in the County of Nottingham, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William Guest, Her special licence that I, the said William Guest,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Guest, my executors, administrators, 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 MACHINERY FOR
MAKING WHIPS, PARTS OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO THE MANU-
FACTURE OF BRAIDS AND WIRE NETS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said William Guest, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, 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 Guest, 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

page_text: thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, that is to
say:-
My improvements in machinery for making whips have reference to an
improved spindle and arrangement of the spindle used in braiding machinery
for making whips, and consist,-
First, in reducing the number of holes required to be threaded, and in
simplifying the act of threading.
Second, in arranging the bobbins and weights to rise and fall together,
instead of the weight rising and falling by itself.
Third, in adding extra pairs of spindles so arranged as to be brought into
and out of action as required by the description of work made, thus obviating
the necessity of altering the circle of the machine, as is now done, and by
means of which a considerable saving of time is effected.
Fourth, in arranging the spindle with the bobbin stationary, and at the
same time being able to arrange the weights or threads (in consequence of
reducing the number of holes to be threaded) to work outside instead of
inside the spindle.
My improvement, as applicable to the manufacture of braids, consists in the
use in braiding machinery of the improvements of the spindle herein-before
described.
My improvement in machinery applicable to the manufacture of wire nets
consists in the application of the improved spindle herein-before described,
which, when combined with braiding machinery, enables me to make wire
net on such machinery.
Figures 1, 2, and 3, are different views of my improved spindle. A is a
tube, having a bracket a 2 at top, and to which the spindle a 3 is attached.
a 4 is a hook, forming a guide for the material used. a 5 is a stud fastened
on the spindle a 3. B is a sliding bracket, moving on the spindle a 3.
62 is a rod attached to the bracket B, and sliding inside the tube A,
forming at the same time a guide and a weight. 63 is a stud for carrying
such additional weight as may be required by the nature of the work; 64
is a lever or pall moving on a hinge at one end, as shewn, and in a slot
65 at the other end; b6 is a spring holding up the lever 4. C is a
bobbin for holding the material to be worked; c 2 an axle fastened on the
bracket B, and on which the bobbin C revolves; c 3, is a ratchet wheel,
forming at the same time one flange of the bobbin C. Any intelligent work-
man will understand that the length of the spindle a 3 and the sizes of the
other parts are made to suit the size of the machine, and the particular work
required. It will be seen that when the bobbin is drawn up until the lever

page_text: comes in contact with the stud, the bobbin is at liberty to turn. The method
I adopt for adding extra pairs of spindles is shewn in Figure 4. a¹ to a³ are
driving spindles, as ordinarily arranged in the old whip machinery; b¹ to 68 are
eight additional spindles, any one pair of which, by means of the dogs, can be
made to work with the other, or not, as is desired; this is accomplished by
means of the dogs or guides C, which can be placed so as to bring the bobbin
spindles into or out of action as required. The red lines shew the dogs in the
position in which the two outside bobbin spindles would be thrown in amongst
the eight spindles a¹ to a³, and the dotted lines shew the position in which
the dogs are to be placed when it is desired to keep the outside pairs or
spindles out of work. D and E are moveable cams or dogs made into one
piece for the convenience of working, instead of separate pieces, as is generally
done, movement to the dog D being given in the same way as to the dog E.
From this description and Drawing any workman accustomed to make whip
machinery of this class will at once understand how these additional pairs or
spindles are added and worked, and it will also be evident that a greater or
less number of spindles than the sixteen shewn can be used, if desired. Only
one dog C is shewn in the Drawing, but it will be understood that one
to each extra pair of spindles is required. Figures 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are
different views of my improvements, enabling me to employ my Invention in
the manufacture of wire nets. Figure 5 is a plan of the machine; Figure 6, a
sectional elevation; Figure 7, one of the spindles; Figure 8, top view of the
spindles; & Figure 9, one of the weights. In the machine shewn in Figures
5 and 6, the driving spindles a 1 to a 18 are arranged somewhat similar to the
arrangement of driving spindles used in a braiding machine, but the driving
spindles a 19 and a 20 are made larger and with a number of holes to suit the
number of twists to be given to the wire net. The Drawing shews 5 such
holes, which would make 2 twists in the wire; a greater number may be
used, if desired. The driving spindles are moved in the same manner as the
driving spindles used in braid machinery, and it will be understood by any
person conversant with braid machinery, that to give the twist to the wire the
dogs must be arranged to stand still while the two spindles a 19 and a 20 make
one complete revolution, which in this case gives 2½ twists to the wires on the
traversing bobbin spindles, in consequence of the traversing bobbin spindles
moving 2 times round to one round of the spindles a 19 and a 20. The
spindle in Figure 7 has the improvements embodied in it, described in reference
to Figures 1, 2, and 3, but for wire it will generally be found more convenient
for the bobbin to be arranged in a vertical, instead of a horizontal position..
A is a round bar, with a collar and pin at the bottom to prevent its being lifted

page_text: out of its place, and has a bracket a 2, to which the spindle a 3 is attached; the
upper portion of the bar A carries the bobbin C. C is the bobbin, the portion
c2 of which has the wire wound on it, and the lower portion c 3 is left
for adding loose weights as they may be required; the pins c3*, at the top of
the bobbin, act instead of the ratchet wheel before described.
B is the sliding
bracket moving on the spindle a 3; it has at top a double ended lever b 4, which
is lifted out of gear with the pins c3, when it comes in contact with the stud
a 5. m, m, are projections on the bracket B, holding the bobbin in its place
on the bracket. D is a plate connecting the upper portion of A, and the
upright spindle a 3; there are guides for guiding the wire at a 6 and a 7.
Figure 6 shews part of the machine in sectional elevation; in this view only
one bobbin spindle is shewn, and that without the separate parts described in
reference to Figure 7. D & E are the dogs, the construction of which is
well known. As the wire work comes off the machine, it is taken up by a
roller R, fixed above the machine, having rows of short studs fixed on its
periphery.. Motion is given to this roller to take up the work as it proceeds,
from which it is taken up by a suitable beam. The shape of the hole may, if
desired, be more completely regulated after coming off the machine, by placing
the wire net on a stretching frame. Figure 10 shews another arrangement of
my improvement in spindles for braiding machinery, the object of which is to
obtain the advantages before mentioned when only light weights are required
for the work. C is the bobbin turning on the spindle c'. d is a weight
which, when lifted up in work above the guide e, lifts the guide, and the
lever e¹, to which it is attached, and so sets the bobbin at liberty to turn.
This description, along with those already given, will fully explain this part of
my Invention.
Having thus described the nature and particulars of my said Invention, I
desire it to be distinctly understood that I do not confine myself to the exact
details herein particularised, as such may be varied or modified without
departing from the principle thereof. But what I claim is,-
First, the use in braiding and whip machinery of the improved spindle
herein-before described in reference to Figures 1, 7, and 10, in so far as regards,
first, the reduced number of eyes to be threaded; second, the arrangement of
the eye, by which the threading is simplified; third, the improved method of
weighting the material to be worked; fourth, the working of the material
without passing through the tube; and, lastly, the improved spindle in its
general arrrangement, as adapted to the aforesaid machinery.
Second, I claim the use of the machinery herein-before described in reference
to Figure 4, for braiding whips and other braidings, in so far as regards the

page_text: means by which I am enabled to add to or reduce the number of pairs in such
machines.
Third, I claim the improved spindle and manner of arranging the same
in combination with machinery for the purpose of making wire net, as
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Guest, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of July, One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-four.
WILLIAM GUEST. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the within-
named William Guest in the presence of
ALEXANDER ALLIOTT.