CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR SLUBBING, ROVING, SPINNING, AND DOUBLING WooK AND AREND TOBAGO MANODIATO "
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Kaye, of Beeston, near Leeds, in the County
of York, Spinner, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR SLUBBING, ROVING, SPINNING, AND DOUBLING
WooK AND AREND TOBAGO MANODIATO "
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Kaye at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 8th
June 1854.
I, JOSEPH KAYE, of Beeston, near Leeds, in the County of York, Spinner,
do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR SLUBBING, ROVING, SPINNING, AND
DOUBLING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS," to be as follows:-
My improvements relate to that particular class of machinery commonly
employed for performing the above-named operations called "mules," "billies,"
"jennies," or any such or similar machines, in which a travelling or "drawing"
spindle carriage is used.
My Invention consists of an appendant apparatus (or self-acting "setter-
on"), which may be applied to all kinds of such machines as are worked with a
drawing carriage. This apparatus entirely dispenses with the "setting-on rod"
that hitherto has so very much encumbered spinners, by its standing in front
of the creels, and which, with the machine in the old form, required to be used
every time the machine made its revolution.

page_text: EXPLANATION OF THE ANNEXED-SKETCH.
The letters A, A, represent the head stock of a mule or jenney, to which
the appendant apparatus is attached; B, B, represent the slide, which works
in two brackets attached to the side of the head stock, as at a, a; C represents
the drawing or spindle carriage, the head of which, moving along the dotted
line of direction, is immediately in collision with the catch 6 at the point d,
carrying the slide B, B, and the catch 6 to the point e, where, the slide working
in an inclined direction, the catch 6 slips off the head of the carriage, and the
slide dwells on the catch D, in the notch f, in the slide B, B. On the return
of the carriage, the point d comes in contact with the declining arm of the
catch D, which it raises from the notch f, and allows the slide to return to the
point d, as before. The pulley E is fixed at right angles to the line of direction,
and has three cords attached to it; on one of these cords hangs the setting-on
weight, as at G; another is connected with tho pulley at h, and the end of the
slide at 9; and the other is attached to the pulley and the end of the reversing
lever of the power strap at the point i. From the slide B, B, being connected
by the cord to the pulley E and the weight.G, it gives an horizontal motion to
the revorsing lever H, HI, which gives the machine the original motion at the
end of every revolution. Should the operator require to stop the machine, it
is done by the catch m, which is allowed to fall into the notch n, by slipping
off the cord from the button I. This will stop the machine until the catch be
raised again, which can be done at leisure."
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Kaye in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 8th
December 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
KAYE, of Beeston, near Leeds, in the County of York, Spinner, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her
reigu, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Joseph Kaye, Her especial license that I, the said Joseph Kaye,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph
Kaye, 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

page_text: term therein expressed, should and lawfully might. make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
[slands, and. Isle of Man, an Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN.
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR SLUBBING, ROVING, SPINNING, AND DOUBLING WOOL
AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Joseph Kaye, 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. Joseph. Kaye,. 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
and accompanying Drawing (that is to say):-
My improvements relate to that particular class of machinery called "mules,"
"billies," "jennies," or any other such or similar machines, in which a travel-
ling or "drawing" spindle carriage is used and employed for slubbing, roving,
spinning, and doubling wool and other fibrous materials.
My Invention consists of an appendant apparatus (or self-acting "setter-on."),.
which may be applied to all kinds of such machines as are worked with a
"drawing" carriage. This apparatus entirely dispenses with the " "setting-on
rod," that hitherto has so very much encumbered. spinners, by its standing in
front of the creel, and which, with the machine in the old form, required to be
used every time the machine completed its revolution. But in order that my
Invention may be better understood and explained in detail, I have hereunto
attached a. Sheet of Drawing, made upon a scale of about an inch and a half
to a foot, and having the same letters of reference marked upon similar parts
of the apparatus in the two Figures shewn. Fig. 1 represents a side elevation
of a, mule, headstock, by way of illustration, with the spindle carriage a
"run in," and the improved. apparatus attached to the framing of the mule.
Along the entire length or front of the mule carriage a longitudinal. bar,. rod,
or wire b.extends, being furnished at its middle or under the upper part of the
framing of the headstock with a piece of metal c, the upper side of which forms
an inclined plane, or tapers off; it is by this longitudinal. rod. or bar and in-
clined plane that the machine is first started, as well as prevented from starting,
when required, whilst the spindle carriage is in or at rest, the method of starting
the machine being by the attendant or operative shifting the bar or rod laterally,
so that the highest portion of the inclined plane and piece of metal c. may be
presented to and act against a pendant.lever. (to be hereafter described), by the

page_text: aid of which, and apparatus in conjunction with it, the driving strap or band
is by such self-acting means thrown on to the fast pulley and the machine put
in motion; but should it be desirous to prevent the machine or apparatus from
"setting-on," either in consequence of the breakage of yarns, or from any
other cause, the lateral motion (previously spoken of) given to the longitudinal
bar and inclined plane has simply to be reversed, which can be readily accom-
plished at any part of the machine; the pendant lever is then not operated or
acted upon, so that the machine will remain at rest when the spindle carriage
is "run in."
I will now describe the remaining parts of the apparatus which "put on "
alternately the band or helt to the driving pulley. d is a weight, secured to two
chains or ropes, e and f; e passes over the small pulley g, and is fastened to the
strap, band, or belt lever h, which guides the driving strap on and off from the
fast to the loose driving pullies; the other chain f ascends, and, passing over
the small pulley j, is secured to the end, which is furnished with catch or click
teeth, of the slide rod or bar ; this slide rod or bar k works in two guides,
land ; to is secured a loose click m, to which is attached the pendant lever
n, bent at its lower end nearer the guide ; and secured to the slide rod k is
a small stop o, which is alternately opposed to the curved fitting p, secured to
the spindle carriage. In the Drawing shown, the machine is represented out
of action. To put it in motion, the longitudinal rod must be slightly shifted
laterally, the effect of which will be to bring the inclined plane into action,
and consequently elevate the bent pendant lever n; the elevation of the lever
n causes the click m to release the slide bar or rod k, and so allow the weight
d through the chain or rope e to fall, and operate or act upon the strap lever h,
and by its aid place the driving strap upon the fast pulley, and consequently put
the machine in motion; this part of the action is momentary, and is followed by
the advance of the spindle carriage. When the slido rod or bark was released,
allowing the weight d to be brought into action, the slide rod k was brought
down the length of its traverse simultaneously with the shifting of the strap
or band lever, the stop o having followed, and resting now, opposed to the
curved fitting p, secured on the spindle carriage; as the carriage advances
the stop o is forced or pressed back by the curved fitting p, until, by rising
diagonally, the stop releases itself, though not before having brought the slide
rod or bar to its original position, and the click m having secured it; the appa-
ratus is now prepared, by the re-traverse of the spindle carriage, to be acted
upon, (provided the longitudinal rod is not reversed,) and the driving strap put
on as required.
Having now particularly described the nature of my Invention, and the

page_text: manner in which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be distinctly under-
stood that I claim the employment, application, and use of the self-acting
apparatus or machinery, as herein particularly described and set forth, and
fully illustrated in the accompanying Drawings, (or any other modification or
variation of such arrangement of mechanism as shall be substantially the
same in its practical effect), for the purpose of accomplishing a self-acting
'setting-on " motion, adapted to all machines employed in the above-named
processes in which a travelling or "drawing" spindle carriage is used or
employed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Kaye, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
JOSEPH KATE.
(L.S.)