IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR DOUBLING, TWISTING, AND SPOOLING WOOLLEN, COTTON, AND OTHER YARNS
Year: 1853

page_text: Sealed the 22nd February 1854, and dated the 24th November 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Hugh Mason and
John Jones at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 24th November 1853.
We, HUGH MASON and JOHN JONES, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR
DOUBLING, TWISTING, AND SPOOLING WOOLLEN, COTTON, AND OTHER YARNS,"
to be as follows:-
Our improvements consist of doubling and twisting two or more
threads, and winding them so doubled and twisted on a plain spool in
the form of a pin cop, and ready for the weaver; the said operation
being performed in one process, thereby saving capital by requiring less

page_text: machinery and room or space in the mill, effecting also a saving of
wages and waste of material. Heretofore, in order to get the material
into a fit state for the weaver (when doubled and twisted), the process
required three different machines, and consequently three different
operations; whereas we place in a crcel, in any convenient position,
two or more cops or bobbins of single yarn (for every spindle and
machine contains), which are thence drawn together through a guide
to rollers to answer an equal degree of twist per inch of yarn; from
thence the united yarns are delivered to an inverted flyer which gives
the required twist, from which it is wound on a plain spool, which spool
is placed upon a fixed immoveable spindle of any required size or form.
The spool being fitted with yarn is then. taken off, and without any
further process is ready for the weaver,. avoiding, as already mentioned
and as hitherto practised, the winding first of two single yarns without
twist, and then twisting them upon another machine, and spooling them
on a third machine, afterwards.....
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Hugh Mason and John Jones in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 23rd May 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
HUGH MASON, of Ashton-under-Lyne, Manufacturer, and JOHN JONES,
of Manchester, Machine Maker, both in the County of Lancaster; send
greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent, bearing date the "Twenty-fourth day of Novemn-
ber, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
three, in the seventeenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her
heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said Hugh, Mason
and John Jones, Her special licence that we, the said Hugh Mason and
John Jones, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
ase, the said Hugh Mason and John Jones, our executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,

page_text: 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 MACHI-
NERY, OR APPARATUS FOR DOUBLING, TWISTING, AND SPOOLING WOOLLEN,
COTTON, AND OTHER YARNS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said Hugh Mason and John Jones, by an instrument in writing
under our hands and seals, or under the hand and scal of one of us,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said, Inven-
tion, 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.calen-
dar months next and immediately after the date of the said Royal.
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Hugh Máson and John Jones,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner.
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement (that is to say):
Our Invention relates to improvemerits in machinery or apparatus
for doubling and twisting two or more threads, and winding them.so
doubled and twisted on a plain spool in the form of a pin cop, ready for
the weaver, in one process, which has hitherto required three different.
machines to accomplish. We place in a creel, in any convenient posi-.
tion, two or more cops or bobbins of single yarn for every spindle each
machine contains, which are thence drawn together through a guide to.
rollers to ensure an equal degree of twist of yarn. From thence the
united yarns are delivered to an inverted: flyer to give it the required
twist, from which it is wound on a plain spool, placed upon a dead.
spindle of any required size or form; this spindle has no revolving.
motion, but it has an up and down motion for the purpose of laying on.
the yarn. The spool being filled with yarn is, then taken off, and
without any further process is ready for, the weaver. These improve-
ments will be clearly; understood by reference to the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, in which the same letters of reference are used to.
represent similar parts where different views or diagrams are shewn."...
Fig. 1, is a front elevation of the machine or apparatus, shewing our

page_text: said improvements; Fig. 2, is an end 'elevation of the same; and
Figure 3, is an end view thereof in detail: a, represents the frame-
work; b, the main shaft; c, the driving pullies; d, the band drunis
for working the flyers e; f, the bolster rail; g, the traverse rail; h, the
chain for lifting the said rail; i, à chain cam; j, a cam shaft; k, a
chain pully; l, a ratchet wheel; m, a catch; n, the traverse lever;
o, the regulating cam; p, a worm wheel shaft; q, the worm wheel;"
r, two mitre bevil wheels; s, a ratchet wheel; t, a catch; u, a tappet
roller; v, traverse cams; w, a regulating cam chain; a, an adjusting
link; y, a balance weight; z, a rope or chain for the balance weight.
a', set screws; and m', adjusting screws. The main shaft also drives
the traverse cains v (one of which is shewn in the Fig. 2) by means of
spur wheels of suitable diameters, represented by dotted circles. The
tappet-roller i, is made fast to the traverse lever n, by the small set
screws a', and which vibrates through the action of the cam v; a stud
is fixed upon the said lever, with the ratchet wheel 7 upon it, and the
catch m, which is fastened to the frame a, in connection with the two-
small bevil wheels i, one of which is fastened to the said ratchet wheel
7, and the other is keyed on the small shaft p, which has also a small
worm keyed upon it, so that at every down motion of the lever n,
the teeth of the ratchet wheel 1, comes in contact with the catch m,
and causes the worm g, to work round a part of its revolution. In
Fig. 3, which is an enlarged view in detail, another cam is shewn upon
the end of the shaft j, which is connected to the smaller cam by means
of the chain w, and adjusting link a, for the purpose of lengthening or
shortening it as may be required. Upon this shaft j, which is the whole
length of the machine, are keyed the large cams i, 'at distances from
each other, varying according to the length of the frame. . To each of
these cams are fastened chains which pass over their corresponding
pullies k, and made fast to the traverse rail g, by means of the adjusting
screws m¹. The traverse lever n, is kept in contact with the cam v, by
a pully and weight, as already described. Fig. 1, is a front view of
the said machine, shewing the balance weight y, in connection with the
pullies and the flyers, and wharves upon the top rail, with the spindles
connected to the traverse rail.

page_text: Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of our said
Invention, we desire it to be distinctly understood that we do not
confine ourselves to the exact details herein set forth, as such may be
varied or modified without departing from the principle thereof. But
we claim as of our Invention, and which to the best of our knowledge
and belief has not been hitherto used within this realm, the arrange-
ment and construction of the machine or apparatus for doubling,
twisting, and spooling yarns, as herein described and illustrated in the
accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, we, the said Hugh Mason and John Jones,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Nineteenth day
of May, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named Hugh Mason and
John Jones, in the presence of
E. J. HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
HUGH MASON. (L.S.)
JOHN JONES. (L.S.)
Manchester.