AN IM- PROVEMENT IN SPINNING MULES, APPLICABLE ALSO TO THE MACHINES CALLED TWINERS
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Harrison, of Glossop, in the County of
Derby, Overlooker of Spinners, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT
Sealed the 13th March 1860, and dated the 21st September 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Harrison at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st September 1859.
I, JOSEPH HARRISON, of Glossop, in the County of Derby, Overlooker of
Spinners, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IM-
PROVEMENT IN SPINNING MULES, APPLICABLE ALSO TO THE MACHINES CALLED
TWINERS," to be as follows:-
This improvement consists in improved means of connecting the faller and
counterfaller of the mule or of the twiner in such manner that they may act
freely and independently of each other whilst the yarn is being wound on the
spindles. Attached to the faller is a wheel or segment of a wheel, which
drives a wheel mounted on a bracket fixed to the carriage. On the side of
this wheel is a stud, against which a suitable catch connected with the counter-
faller acts. By this mechanism the faller and counterfaller are retained in
a constant position during the run out of the carriage, but are left free to act
independently of each other during the run in of the carriage and the winding
of the yarn on the spindles. The same means may also be applied, when
desirable, for stripping off the coils of yarn between the summit of the cop
and the point of the spindles.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Harrison in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 20th March 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
HARRISON, of Glossop, in the County of Derby, Overlooker of Spinners, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of September, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of Her reign, did, for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Joseph
Harrison, my executors, administrators, and assigns, Her especial license that
I, the said Joseph Harrison, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Joseph Harrison, my executors, administrators, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man,
an Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN SPINNING MULES, APPLICABLE ALSO TO
THE MACHINES CALLED TWINERS," upon the condition (amongst others), that I,
the said Joseph Harrison, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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, in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joseph Harrison, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly
described and ascertained in and the following statement and description,
reference being had to the Drawings on one Sheet hereunto annexed:-
In these Drawings (which are drawn to a scale of one-half the full size)
Figure 1 represents a front elevation, and Figure 2 a side elevation of parts
of a mule, with my improvement attached.
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My said Invention consists in improved means of connecting the faller
and counterfaller of the mule or of the twiner, in such a manner that they
be retained in a constant position during the run out of the carriage,
but may act freely and independently of each other whilst the carriage is
running in and the yarn is being wound on the spindles. The faller A,
counterfaller B, faller stand C, are those generally used. The faller stand is

page_text: fixed to the carriage. Attached to the counterfaller B is the toothed seg-
ment D, which geers with the toothed segment E; or wheels may be used
in place of the segments. The segment E is mounted on the stud F fastened
to the faller stand C, but which may be fastened to a separate bracket fixed
to the carriage. On one side of the segment E is the stud G. To the
faller A is attached the lever H, the lower end of which, during the run out
of the carriage of the mule or twiner, is in contact with the stud G. By this
mechanism the faller and counterfaller are retained in a constant position
during the run out of the carriage. At the completion of the outward run
the backing-off takes place, and the faller is partially turned by the ordinary
movements of the machine, and with it the lever H, which then ceases to act
on the stud G, leaving the faller and counterfaller free to act independently
of each other during the run in of the carriage and the winding of the yarn
on the spindles, at the completion of which the faller and counterfaller will
have returned into the position shewn in the Drawing, and in which they
remain during the run out of the carriage. It will be evident, that by varying
the form of the end of the lever, the time during which the stud is in contact
with it can be varied also. The same means are applicable when the coils of
the yarn between the summit of the cop and the point of the spindles are
stripped off instead of being backed off.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Harrison, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the said
Joseph Harrison, in the presence of
CHARLES ASTON, Attorney,
Manchester.
JOSEPH HARRISON. (L.S.)