A CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MACHINERY USED IN PREPARING COTTON, WOOL, SILK, FLAX, AND SIMILAR FIBROUS MATERIALS FOR SPINNING
Year: 1842

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JAMES
HYDE and JOHN HYDE, of Duckinfield, Cheshire, Mechanic and Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by
the Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twenty-ninth day of September, in the sixth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said James Hyde and John Hyde, Her especial license, full power,
sole privilege and authority, that we, the said James Hyde and John Hyde,
our exors, admors, and assigns, and such others as we, the said James Hyde
and John Hyde, our exors, adññors, or assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years
therein expressed, should and might lawfully make, use, exercise, and vend,
within England and Wales and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, our
Invention of "A CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MACHINERY
USED IN PREPARING COTTON, WOOL, SILK, FLAX, AND SIMILAR FIBROUS MATERIALS
FOR SPINNING;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that
we, the said James Hyde and John Hyde, shall cause a particular description
of the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be enrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had,
will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
James Hyde and John Hyde, do hereby declare the nature of our Inven-
tion of a certain Improvement or Improvements in the Machinery used
in Preparing Cotton, Wool, Silk, Flax, and similar Fibrous Materials for
Spinning, to consist in the arrangement and application of certain machinery
to the ordinary carding engine, drawing frame, or such other preparation
machines as are or may be constructed to deliver the sliver or roving of
fibrous material into a can or open receptacle, by which arrangement and
application the roving or sliver is deposited in the can or receptacle in a more
perfect state and in a greater quantity than heretofore; and the manner in
which the same is to be performed and carried into effect will be seen by
reference to the annexed Drawings, and the following description thereof :-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
The scale to which the Drawings are made is marked thereon, and the
same letter or figure of reference is used to indicate the same part in the
various views represented.
Fig. 1 represents a side, Fig. 2 a front view, and Fig. 3 a plan of a carding
engine, to which part of our improvement or improvements are [applied,
which we shall first proceed to explain. In these Figures 1, 2, and 3,
A represents the main cylinder of the carding engine, and B the doffing
cylinder, from which the carded cotton or other fibrous material is removed by
the doffer comb, and passed through the drawing rollers at C in the usual
manner. From this point the sliver of cotton or other fibrous material proceeds
through a pair of calendar or conducting rollers at D, which are placed in an
elevated position, for the purpose of allowing the varying position of the can or
receptacle E, as hereafter explained.. The can or receptacle E is of an oblong
form, as best seen tinted at Fig. 1, and in dotted lines at Figs. 2 and 3.
This can E is placed on a small carriage H, supported on four wheels e, e, e, e,
which move freely on the stationary rails f,f,f,f. Parallel with the rails ff.f‚ƒ,
is placed the shaft G, which receives an uniform rotation by means of the strap
g, passing round a waive or pulley h, placed at one end, and receiving motion
from a similar pulley or waive i (see Fig. 2). This revolving shaft G is
formed with two spiral grooves, intersecting each other, and passing from end
to end in opposite directions, but joining at each extremity so as to make one
continuous groove, as seen at Figs. 2 and 3. Proceeding from the carriage H
is a small arm n, seen in dotted lines at Figs. 1, 3, the extremity of which is
connected with a circular ring or clip, moving freely on the shaft G, and pro-
vided with a projecting stud or piece of metal, which enters into the spiral

page_text: groove on the surface of the shaft G, so that the rotation of the shaft traverses
the carriage H alternately in opposite directions on the rails f,f,f, f, accord-
ing to the directions of the spiral groove in which the stud or projection
connected with the arm n is placed. Thus an alternating traverse is imparted
to the can or receptacle E at a regular and uniform speed, and the sliver of
cotton or similar fibrous material is received and deposited in uniform and succes-
sive layers over ever part of the oblong can or receptacle from the beginning to
the termination of the process of filling. During the filling process the sliver
may be occasionally compressed in the can or receptacle E by hand, for which
purpose we use a board, as represented in elevation and plan at Fig. 5. This
board is perforated to allow the escape of air, and should be carefully used, so
as to avoid disturbing the uniformity of the sliver; but, with moderate
pressure, a can or receptacle of the dimensions represented will contain about
fourteen pounds of cotton sliver. When a sufficient number of cans or
receptacles are filled they are removed to the drawing frame, where their width
takes up no more room than an ordinary can, while the quantity they contain
obviates much of the labour and expence of replacing a smaller quantity, which
is the main advantage presented by this part of our Invention.
From the foregoing description of the way in which we apply part of our
improvement or improvements to the carding engine, there will need no
particular description of the manner in which it may be applied to the drawing
frame or other preparation machine where the sliver is delivered into a can or
open receptacle, to all which class of machinery it is equally applicable. It
will also be obvious that in a range of carding engines or other preparation
machinery where the receiving cans or open receptacles are in the same line,
the traversing carriages H on which they are placed may be coupled or con-
nected to each other by rods; so that this part of our improvement or improve-
ments, being applied to one machine, would govern the movement of the
whole. But the extent to which such coupling of the carriages H may be
carried, together with their exact arrangement in other respects, must depend
on the work to be performed, and the nature of the preparation machinery to
which this part of our improvement or improvements are to be applied, and
may be readily arranged by any person conversant with machinery of this
nature.
We would also remark, that although we have described only one arrange-
ment of machinery for producing the alternating traverse of the carriage H,
which we have found to answer, we are aware that the same may be effected
by various other combinations of machinery, which, being well known and in
common use, it is not necessary for us to add any further description.

page_text: We shall now proceed to describe our further improvement or improvements
as applied to the roving or slubbing frame in conjunction with the traversing
can or receptacle, which we have already explained. This further improve-
ment or improvements consists in condensing or compressing the sliver of
cotton or similar fibrous material as it proceeds from the front or delivering
roller, so that it be received without injury into the succeeding can or
receptacle, instead of being placed on a spool or bobbin, as heretofore prac-
tised; by the application of which improvement or improvements the roving or
slubbing frame is much simplified in its construction, while the labour of
attendance is decreased, inasmuch as the can or receptacle contains a much
larger quantity than can be placed on a spool or bobbin.
Fig. 4 represents an end view of a roving or slubbing frame, in which E is
the can or receptacle with sliver as received from the drawing frame, and E' is
a divided can or receptacle, the plan of which is seen at Fig. 6. The drawing
rollers C and the calender rollers D are as before explained. The direction in
which the sliver of cotton or other fibrous material passes through the
machine is indicated by arrows, and the compression required for condensing
the sliver previous to passing the D rollers is effected by passing it through
a small aperture or smooth opening in a metallic plate d, immediately before
the fibre is seized by these rollers D. The form of this part of our improve-
ment or improvements will be seen in section on an enlarged scale at Fig. 7,
where it will be observed that the nip or point of compression of the drawing
rollers D is so near to the smooth opening in the plate d, through which the
sliver passes, that the whole of it is brought forward without the risk of any
ratching or elongation of the sliver. In this Fig. 4 it will be observed that
the traversing can or receptacle E¹ moves in a different direction to those
already described, to admit of the greater number of ends of sliver which are
delivered from the front roller of a machine of this description falling into the
separate divisions in the can or receptacle E.
Fig. 8 and 9 are sections of two modifications of this part of our improve-
ment or improvements, in which an endless strap, or the twisting tube used in
the well-known dyers' frame, is introduced, for the purpose of holding the sliver
together in its passage from the front roller to the callender rollers D,
which may be applied or not, according to the nature of the material to be
operated on.
Having now described the nature of our Invention, together with the
manner in which the same may be performed and carried into effect, we do
not claim as our Invention any separate or distinct part of the machinery set
forth and described. But we do claim the combination of machinery as herein-

page_text: before described, together with all modifications of the same, for the purpose of
effecting an alternate traverse of the can or receptacle in the machinery used
in preparing cotton, wool, silk, flax, and similar fibrous material for spinning,
together with the combination of machinery for the purpose of condensing and
compressing the sliver in preparation machinery, as described, all which
improvement or improvements being, to the best of our knowledge, new, and
never before practised in that part of Her Majesty's Dominions called England,
we deliver this as our true and faithful Specification.
In witness whereof, we, the said James Hyde and John Hyde, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, the Twenty-seventh day of
March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
forty-three.