IMPROVEMENTS IN REELS OR BOBBING
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Henry Johnson, of 47, Lincoln's Inn
..Fields, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN REELS OR BOBBING" A communication from abroad
Sealed the 16th April 1869, and dated the 21st October 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Henry Johnson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 21st October 1868.
I, JOHN HENRY JOHNSON, of 47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the County
of Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS. IN REELS OB BOBBINS," a communication to me
from abroad by Francois Patureau, of Paris, in the Empire of France, to
be as follows:-
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This Invention relates to improvenients in reels or bobbins whereby
the ordinary wooden reels or bobbins at present in use and which
possess the disadvantage of unnecessary weight are replaced by lighter
ones, which the Inventor distinguishes by the name of the "Patureau
bobbin." This improved bobbin is composed entirely of cardboard,

page_text: pasteboard, or other fabric capable of being shaped by dies and matrices
in a stamping press.
According to one mode of construction the improved bobbin is
composed of three cylindrical pieces of cardboard shaped in any suitable
stamping press by the aid of dies and matrices. Two of these shells
have flanges formed on them to represent the ordinary flanges of wooden
bobbins, and the third piece is made of rather smaller diameter so as to
fit inside and form a support to the cylindrical surfaces of the two
external pieces, which form when brought together end to end the
complete bobbin. The internal shell is secured in its place by glue or
other suitable cement.
Another form of bobbin consists of a plain cylinder without flanges,
and is also composed of three pieces, viz., a hollow cylinder of the
desired dimensions of the bobbin and two end pieces, which are glued
or otherwise cemented inside each end of the said hollow cylinder so as
to impart strength thereto. In all cases the three stamped pieces or
shells are perforated centrally for the reception of a spindle when
winding.
In some cases the improved bobbin may be elongated by fitting a
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Henry Johnson in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 21st April 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HENRY JOHNSON, of 47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date thé Twenty-first-day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Henry Johnson, Her special
license that I, the said John Henry Johnson, my executors, adminis
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Jolin Henry Johnson,.
my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree

page_text: with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might nake,
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 REELS OR BOBBINS," a communication from abroad by
Francois Patureau, of Paris, in the Empire of France, upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said John Henry Johnson, my
executors or administrators, 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 John Henry Johnson, do hereby
declare the nature of the 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 accom-
panying Drawings and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is
to say :-
The said Invention relates to improvements in reels or bobbins
whereby the ordinary wooden reels or bobbins at present in use and
which possess the disadvantage of unnecessary weight are replaced
by lighter ones, which the Inventor distinguishes by the name of the
"Patureau bobbin." This improved bobbin is composed of cardboard,
pasteboard, or other fabric capable of being shaped by dies and matrices
in a stamping press.
The improvements which have been introduced in the manufacture of
pasteboard by machinery admit of the manufacture by the aid of dies
and matrices or moulds of shells suitable for making bobbins stamped
out of pasteboard, and with or without a flange, presenting the appear-
ance as they are delivered from the stamping machine of a base or
bottom with an elongated tube. The improved bobbins are constructed
according to one method of two of such shells only, provided with
elongated tubes fitting the one into the other.
According to another mode of manufacturing pasteboard bobbins it
is proposed to place over the tube of the bobbin, which is cylindrical
and without a flange, two of the improved stamped out shells, above
described, which fit over the plain cylinder at each end and meet in

page_text: the centre thereof, thereby producing a complete bobbin, which is equal
in strength to that obtained by the first mode of manufacture herein-
before described.
This second type of bobbin is specially applicable to reels or bobbins
of large diameter which require to be of great length.
And in order that the said Invention may be fully understood, I
shall now proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that
purpose shall refer to the several Figures on the annexed Sheet of
Drawings, the same letters of reference indicating corresponding parts in
all the Figures.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings shews the two stamped out
shells a, a', of a bobbin of the first type separate or before being united
together. Figure 2 shews the bobbin complete, that is to say, with the
shells fitting the one over the other, the dotted lines showing the inner
shell; b, b', represent the flanges. Figure 3 shews the three parts com-
posing the second type of bobbin in detail or separate, such parts
consisting of a plain cylinder or tube c closed or open at the end, and
two stamped out shells both of equal size a, a, with flanges b, b, formed
thereon. Figure 4 shews the same parts united together and forming
a complete bobbin of the second type, the dotted lines representing the
internal tube or cylinder c, and the line d indicating the junction
between the two ends of the shells a. Gum or other suitable cement
may be used for securing the parts together after they have been united.
Another form of bobbin consists of a plain cylinder without flanges,
which is also composed of three pieces, videlicit, a hollow cylinder of the
desired dimensions of the bobbin and two end pieces, which are glued
or otherwise cemented inside each end of the said hollow cylinder so as
to impart strength thereto. When desired the stamped pieces or shells
are perforated centrally, as shown in the Drawing, and bushed with
any suitable material for the reception of a spindle when winding.
In some cases the improved bobbin may be elongated by fitting a
sliding tube or ring of cardboard thereon.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of the
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used
or carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider
to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to
me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,-

page_text: First. The construction of reels or bobbins from pasteboard, cardboard,
or other similar fabric capable of being shaped by dies and matrices or
moulds in a stamping press, substantially as herein-before described.
Second. The peculiar construction of reels or bobbins, as herein-before
described and illustrated by the Drawings hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Henry Johnson, have to
this my Specification set my hand, this Twentieth day of April
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
J. HENRY JOHNSON. (L.s.)