CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS ON MACHINES OR MACHINERY USED FOR WINDING COTTON
Year: 1818

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDMUND
NAISH, of Bristol, in the County of Gloucester, Hosier, one of the People
called Quakers, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Third day of February, in the fifty-eighth year of
His reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Edmund Naish, my exors,
adiñiors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and autho-
rity, that I, the said Edmund Naish, my exors, adññors, and assigns, during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS ON MACHINES OR MACHINERY
USED FOR WINDING COTTON;" in which Letters Patent there is contained 'a
proviso obliging me, the said Edmund Naish, under my hand and seal, to
cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Edmund Naish, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
improvements in manner following (that is to say) :-

page_text: My said improvements in the manner of winding cotton thread or threads,
and in the machinery used for that purpose, do consist in a disposition of
cotton threads in one cylindrical reel, from which the balls are wound
instead of from bobbins, or from two reels placed one above the other in
the usual mode, with the skein passing over both. The more perfectly
cylindrical the reel is made the more exactly alike will be the weight and
size of the balls wound from it. By this arrangement more than one ball
may be wound at the same time and with the same machine, which balls
so wound will be more nearly of the same size, and which will contain
more nearly the same quantity of cotton, one as the other, than by any
mode of winding many balls at the same time, and by the same machine
hitherto known; for several threads being reeled upon a perfectly cylindrical
reel at the same time, it will be found that the threads will be of the same
length one as the other, or very nearly so, and being unreeled in like
manner all at the same time, it stands to reason that the balls, the winding of
which cause the said threads to unreel, must contain very nearly the same
quantity of cotton, and, consequently, be nearly of the same size and weight one
as the other, while the winding of each ball is compleated at the same moment.
And moreover, my said improvements do consist in such an arrangement of two
or more, but I prefer two, of the said cylindrical reels that a continued supply
of reeled cotton is procured, one reel receiving the thread, and nearly as fast as
the other discharges it. And moreover, my said improvements do consist in
varying the speed of a certain part or certain parts of the machinery when
in motion, without stopping the progress of the winding, and without any
alteration in the movement of the large band wheel by the winder, and by
which said variation in the speed, patterns or ornamental appearances are pro-
duced. There are various ways of effecting this said variation of the speed,
either by an arrangement of cogged or spur wheels, or by bands, or otherwise;
and this aforesaid variation in the speed, together with the other before-men-
tioned improvements, being entirely new, and Inventions of my own, I am
desirous to maintain this my exclusive right and privilege to the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Fig. 1 represents a frame supporting the three reels A, B, C. A is a
common expanding reel; B, C, are two reels of a regularly cylindrical form, and
of equal length one with the other, so that the cheeks of the upper reel B may
rest on those of the lower reel C when placed in the frame. By this disposition
of the reels B, C, it will be seen that when C (the axles of which rest in semi-
circular dents at a, a,) is turned round, the reel B resting upon the. cheeks of

page_text: the reel C, and the axles of which move in the perpendicular grooves at 0, 0, 0, 0,
is turned also; cotton having been reeled upon C, the balls are wound from it;
this puts C in motion, which turns B, and B thus reels upon itself the cotton
which has been previously put in the rough skein on the reel A. In this
manner, by the time the cotton on C has been unreeled and wound into balls,
B (having reeled itself from A) is ready to be put in its place, while C is
moved to the upper situation, thus procuring a continued succession of reeled
cotton without any loss of time.
Fig. II. A, A, A, A, represents the frame of a common winding machine;
0, 0, 0, 0, is the axis of the flyer X, on which the band wheels C, G, slide
together with the two cheeks or nuts B, B; H represents a rochet wheel
attached to the axis; the wheel G contains two or more band grooves on it of
different diameters, and has a tooth e on its side, which tooth being pressed
into the rochet wheel by the spring S, moves with the axis while the wheel C
is at rest, the wheel G being withdrawn, as described in Fig. 5, and the
tooth a on wheel C being pressed into the rochet wheel, of course C turns
with the axis while G is at rest, and thus the change in the speed is
produced. This Figure represents a machine for winding one ball only.
Fig. III. A represents the large band wheel; B, the change wheel, or
wheel by which the change in the speed is produced; C, C, C, the three bands.
Fig. IV. represents the manner in which the sliding wheels C, G, and their
cheeks B, B, are moved to and from the rochet wheel H. A is a guide sliding
on the rods b, b, which are fastened by a screw at their end into the frame
D, D; the ends of this guides at 9, 9, catch the cheeks B, B, and the guide
itself is moved by a chord passing through a pulley O, and thence leading to
a treadle. When the treadle is pressed upon by the foot of the winder, the
wheel G is drawn from the rochet wheel, the guide acting against the
spring S, Fig. 2, while the tooth on the wheel C is pressed into the rochet
The converse of this of course takes place when the pressure is
wheel.
removed from the treadle.
Fig. V. represents the method by which more balls than one are to be
wound at the same time by the same machine, spur wheels being added to
each additional flyer.
In witness whereof,
the said Edmund Naish, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Second day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
EDMUND (L.S.) NAISH.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Second day of June, in the
year of our Lord 1818, the aforesaid Edmund Naish came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Second day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighteen.