IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING. SPINNING, AND DOUBLING COTTON, AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS." SPATION
Year: 1860

page_text: Place, Manager, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR PREPARING. SPINNING, AND DOUBLING COTTON, AND OTHER
FIBROUS MATERIALS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Higgins and
Thomas Schofield Whitworth at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 13th October 1860.
We, JAMES HIGGINS, of Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Machine
Maker, and THOMAS SCHOFIELD WHITWORTH, of the same Place, Manager, do
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING, SPINNING, AND DOUBLING COTTON. AND
OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS," to be as follows:---
Our Invention refers to a method of mounting the spindles of preparing,
spinning, and doubling machines. We propose two features of improvement,
one of these consists in supporting a tube which carries the spindle by the
copping rail or part connected therewith, and the other consists in providing for
a movement of the spindle from its normal central line in order to prevent a
binding with the copping rail or other apparatus which traverses it. An
arrangement combining these improvements is as follows:-The spindle passes
through a tube mounted at bottom upon a universal joint, which joint carries
the footstep on which the spindle rests. The tube passes through the copping
rail, which thus supports it; but should any binding of the parts take place,
then the tube and spindle turn slightly upon the universal joint. The bobbin
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Higgins and Thomas Schofield Whitworth in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 13th April 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JAMES
HIGGINS, of Salford, in the County of Lalfcaster, Machine Maker, and THOMAS
SCOFIELD WHITWORTH, of the same Place, Manager, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said James Higgins, and Thomas Scofield Whitworth, Her special license
that we, the said James Higgins and Thomas Scofield Whitworth, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said James
Higgins and Thomas Scofield Whitworth, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING
SPINNING, AND DOUBLING COTTON, AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS," upon the condi-
tion (amongst others) that we, the said James Higgins and Thomas Schofield
Whitworth, or one of us, by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals,
or under the hand and seal of one of us, 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 months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Scofield Whitworth do hereby
declare the nature of our 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 Drawings, that is to say:-
Our Invention relates to a method of mounting and supporting the spindles
of slubbing and roving frames and throstles, whereby a greater degree of
steadiness is secured, so as to enable us to run the spindles at a higher speed
than is usual.

page_text: In the accompanying Drawing the spindle is at a mounted within a tube b,
which passes through and is supported laterally towards its upper end by the
copping rail c, and at its lower end is carried by a footstep d. This step and
the tube bare connected together by a frame e, one for each spindle, and these
parts are mounted by means of hinge joints o upon studs, one of which is
shewn at f. The studs are carried by the lower or spindle rail g. and are so
adapted as to be capable of turning therein. The line shaft for the spindles is
shewn at h, and one of the pinions at i. The line shaft for the bobbins is at l
and one of the bobbin pinions at m, mounted upon the tube b, and resting
upon the copping rail c. The bobbin is shewn at n, bearing, as usual, at its
lower end upon the bobbin pinion, and bored at its upper end, so as to run in
contact with the spindle.
The other parts of the machine are of the usual construction, and motion
being communicated thereto the copping rail will be caused to rise and fall,
supporting the tube b laterally during that movement; but should any tendency
to a binding action take place, then the tube b, the spindle a, and the frame c
will all turn together outward or inward upon the hinge joint o, or sideways
upon the stud f.
We have above shewn our Invention in reference to the form of spindle and
flyer employed in roving and slubbing frames, but it will be obvious that it is
equally applicable to throstles for spinning and doubling.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of our said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, we desire it to be under-
stood that we claim as secured to us under the above in part recited Letters
Patent,-
Firstly, supporting stationary tubes or bolsters through which the spindles
pass by bearings carried by the copping rail, and in combination therewith we
claim so arranging the spindles that they may oscillate separately upon joints.
Also, we claim connecting the said tubes to the spindle footsteps, and so
mounting them that they may oscillate together.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Scofield Whitworth, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, the Twelfth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
THOMAS SCHOFIELD WHITWORTH. (L.S.)