AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE PROCESS OF DRAWING, ROVING, SPINNING, AND DOUBLING WOOL, COTTON, AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1826

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
FREDERICK SMITH, of Dunston Hall, Chesterfield, in the County of Derby,
Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Nineteenth day of January, in the sixth year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
John Frederick Smith, His especial licence that I, the said John Frederick
Smith, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, or such others as I the said John
Frederick Smith, my exors, adñiors, 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 lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE PROCESS OF DRAWING, ROVING, SPINNING, AND
DOUBLING WOOL, COTTON, AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said John Frederick Smith,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe
and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said 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, I, the said John
Frederick Smith, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention to consist
in always passing the fibrous substance, whatever it may be, in the same
direction, or with the same end foremost, through the various machines re-
quired to perform the several operations aforesaid, for the purpose of more
completely laying and straigtening the fibre. And in further compliance
with the said proviso, 1, the said John Frederick Smith, do hereby describe
the manner in which my said Invention is to be performed, by the following
description (that is to say):-
I observe which end of the roving was first formed into a roving from the
sliver, and I take care that the same end shall always be brought to the
machine first in all the processes, and in every stage of the processes before
mentioned. In the process of roving, if cans are used, as in the ordinary
method, then they should be such as are open at both ends; and I prefer those
for which a certain Patent was granted to me, bearing date the Twenty-first
day of June, One thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, and a Specification
of which was inrolled in His Majesty's said High Court of Chancery on the
Sixth day of December, One thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, because,
when the roving has been received into such cans, the first end that entered
the roving machine may easily be found by reversing the can end for end, when
the end of the roving that was first formed may be again presented to enter
the next machine first also. This mode may be adopted through all the stages
of roving. When bobbins are used in any of the several processes of roving,
drawing, spinning, and doubling, the following directions must be attended to,
that is to say the roving or thread must be taken on to bobbins of the kind
described in my said last-mentioned Patent, or of such other kind as will
enable the operator to find the end which first went on to the bobbin, and to
present that end to the second and every successive roving, drawing, spinning,
and doubling machine. Where the roving or thread is wound on to spindles,
the spindle need only be much thicker than the ordinary spindle, and then,
when the cop is taken off, the end of the roving or thread which first went on
the spindle will be easily found inside the cop, and must again be the first end
presented to the next and every other machine it has to pass through. As the
drawing process may be considered part of the roving process, and as the
directions given for the spinuing process are applicable equally to the doubling
process, I have not thought it necessary to give any specific directions for them,
since by adopting those already given the operator cannot fail to succeed in
producing a much more smooth and even thread than by the ordinary method
of performing the aforesaid operations.

page_text: And whereas I do not claim as my Invention under the Patent of which
this is the Specification any of the machinery by which my said improvement
is effected.
And whereas I do only hereby claim as my Invention the improvement of
always passing that end the first through every machine used in the processes
of drawing, roving, spinning, and doubling, which was first made into a roving
from the sliver; or, in other words, the improvement of always passing the
roving and thread in the same direction and from the same end, through all
the machines used in the aforesaid processes, that it passes through the first
machine.
And this improvement being, to the best of my knowledge and belief,
entirely new, and never before used within that part of His said Majesty's
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, His Dominion
of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare this to be
my Specification of the same, and that I do verily believe this my said Specifi-
cation doth comply, in all respects, fully and without reserve or disguise, with
the proviso in the said herein-before in part recited Letters Patent contained;
wherefore I hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to my
said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Frederick Smith, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.