IMPROVE- MENTS IN TREATING, SPINNING, AND DOUBLING YARNS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Cunliffe Lister and James Warburton,
Spinners, of Bradford, County of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN TREATING, SPINNING, AND DOUBLING YARNS."
Sealed the 19th November 1861, and dated the 6th June 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Cunliffe Lister
and James Warburton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 6th June 1861.
We, SAMUEL CUNLIFFE LISTER and JAMES WARBURTON, Spinners, of
Bradford, County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING, SPINNING, AND DOUBLING YARNS," to be as
follows:-
Our improvements in treating, spinning, and doubling yarns, consist in
combining a suitable water trough filled with size or water with the cap
frame, so that the roving or yarn is first passed through the water or size, and
then spun or twisted upon what is known as the cap frame, or a frame acting in
a like manner. This process we find to be specially adapted to spinning flax
wet, and also to doubling cotton and other yarns. We also find it a great
advantage to make the caps of brass or galvanized iron or other material that
will resist the action of the water.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Cunliffe Lister and James Warburton in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 6th December 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, SAMUEL
CUNLIFFE LISTER and JAMES WARBURTON, Spinners, of Bradford, County of
York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight bundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Samuel Cunliffe Lister and James Warburton, Her special licence
that we, the said Samuel Cunliffe Lister and James Warburton, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Samuel
Cunliffe Lister and James Warburton, 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 -law-
fully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING, SPINNING, AND DOUBLING YARNS," upon
condition (amongst others) that we, the said Samuel Cunliffe Lister and James
Warburton, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing.
under our or their hands-and-scals, or under the hand and seal of one of us
or them should particularly describe and ascertain the nature, of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and causo
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.
the
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Warburton, on behalf of
myself and the said Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 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,
thereof, that is to say:-
Our improvements in treating, spinning, and doubling yarns, consist in
combining a suitable water trough filled with size or water. with the cop
frame, so that the roving or yarn is first passed through the water or size, and
then spun or twisted upon what is known as the cop frame, or a frame acting
in a like manner. This process we find to be specially adapted to.spinning
flax wet, and also to doubling cotton and other yarns. We also find it a great

page_text: advantage to make the cops of brass or galvanized iron or other material that
will resist the action of the water.
Having explained the nature of our Invention we will now proceed to
describe the manner in which we accomplish the same.
Figure 1 is a side view of part of a cop doubling frame. 0, 0, 0, are the
bobbins carrying the yarn to be doubled, which passes into the water trough H
at M', under the guide L, and out at M, and to the rollers A, A, round the
guide L to the guide hole C, and over the cop D to the bobbin E. We
would remark that it is of great importance that the cop D should be made
of brass or galvanized iron or other material that will resist the action of the
water as the ordinary iron cops when the frame stands become rusty,
which marks and stains the yarn, and soon spoils the cops by making them
rough.
Figure 2 is a side view of part of a cop spinning frame. O is the bobbin
carrying the roving, which passes into the water trough H at M', under the
guide L, and out at M2, and through the drawing rollers A, A, and B, B, and
through the guide hole C, and over the cop D on to the bobbin E.
What we claim as of our Invention is combining a water trough with a cop
spinning frame, so as to enable us to double and spin wet as described.
We also claim the use of cops made of such materials as will not rust when
spinning and doubling wet.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Warburton, have hereunto set my
hand and scal, this Third day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
Witness,
EDWARD GREAVES.
JAMES WARBURTON. (L.s.)