AN IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR SPINNING
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Kelley, of the Firm of Fairfax, Kelley,
and Sons, of Heckmondwike, in the County of York, Woollen
Manufacturers, and Ben Senior, of the same Place, Manager, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR SPINNING
Sealed the 17th April 1874, and dated the 20th October 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Kelley and Ben
Senior at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 20th October 1873.
We, GEORGE KELLEY, of the Firm of Fairfax, Kelley, and Sons, of
Heckmondwike, in the County of York, Woollen Manufacturers, and
BEN SENIOR, of the same Place, Manager, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR
SPINNING WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
The chief object of this Invention is to spin wool or other fibrous
substances direct from the condenser carding engine, but it is also
annlicable to ordinemu oninning fromas

page_text: The improvement consists in constructing and applying solid pointed
perforated hollow spindles capable of rotating betwixt the rubbers of the
condenser and ordinary flyer spindles for the slubbin or condenser
threads to pass through, so as to obtain an amount of twist of the said
slubbin to enable the same to be drawn by rollers or by the flyers.
These spindles are formed somewhat like ordinary spinning caps, that is,
solid at the top end, but open at the bottom, with a perforation or hole
through the side or laterally, having a neck to run in a suitable bearing,
and a wharle by which rotary motion is given thereto.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Kelley and Ben Senior in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 20th April 1874.
GEORGE
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
KELLEY, of the Firm of Fairfax, Kelley, and Sons, of Heckmondwike, in
the County of York, Woollen Manufacturers, and BEN SENIOR, of the
same Place, Manager, send greeting.
year
of
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of October, in the
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said George Kelley and Ben Senior,
Her special licence that we, the said George Kelley and Ben Senior,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the
'said George Kelley and Ben Senior, our 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINERY
OR APPARATUS FOR SPINNING WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said George Kelley and Ben
Senior, our executors or administrators, 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

page_text: manner the same was to be performed, and cause the samo 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 Kelley and Ben Senior,
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, that is to say:-
The chief object of this Invention is to be enabled to spin wool or
other fibrous substances direct from the condenser carding engine, but it
is also applicable to ordinary spinning frames.
The improvements consist in constructing and applying solid pointed
perforated hollow spindles capable of rotating betwixt the rubbers of the
condenser and ordinary flyer spindles for the slubbin or condenser
threads to pass through, so as to obtain an amount of twist of the said
slubbin to enable the same to be drawn by rollers or by the flyers.
These spindles are formed somewhat like ordinary spinning caps, solid at
the top end but open at the bottom, with a perforation or hole through
the side or laterally, having a neck to run in a suitable bearing, and a
wharle by which rotary motion is given to it.
Such being the nature and object of this our said Invention, we will
now proceed to describe the same in detail, and in order that the
Invention may be fully understood we have hereunto annexed two
Sheets of Drawings, and have marked the same with figures and letters
of reference, the same letter referring to the same part in the several
view or Figures of Drawings.

page_text: or hole F, thence to the draw rollers G, the rotation of the spindle B
putting in the requisite twist to the slubbin between the spindle and the
draw rollers. At H is an ordinary spindle and flyer, which puts in the
requisite twist after the slubbin is by the action of the draw rollers G
prepared for spinning.
In witness whereof, I, the said Ben Senior, for. and on behalf of
myself and the said George Kelley, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eighteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
Witness,
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Tasker & Brierley,
.
Patent Agents,
BEN SENIOR.
(L.S.) ·
Halifax, Bradford, & Blackburn.