CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR LUBRICATING THE SPINDLES EMPLOYED IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING, DOUBLING, OR TWISTING FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Eli Stott, Machinist, William Cookson Stafford,
Foreman of,Mechanics, and Timothy Taylor, Mill Manager, all
of Ashton-under-Lyne, in County of Lancaster, for the Invention
of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR LUBRICATING THE SPINDLES
EMPLOYED IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING, DOUBLING, OR TWISTING FIBROUS
MATERIALS."
Sealed the 11th June 1875, and dated the 12th December 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Eli Stott, William
.
Cookson Stafford, and Timothy Taylor at the Office of the Com-
missioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 12th December
1874.
We, ELI STOTT, Machinist, WILLIAM COOKSON STAFFORD, Foreman
of Mechanics, and TIMOTHY TAYLOR, Mill Manager, all of Ashton-
under-Lyne, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR LUBRI-
CATING THE SPINDLES EMPOYED IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING, DOUBLING, OR
TWISTING FIBROUS MATERIALS," to be as follows:-
.
Our Invention relates to apparatus for lubricating or supplying with

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for the purpose of spinning, doubling, or twisting fibrous materials. It
consists in the application of an elongated channel or trough formed of
metal, in the bottom of which we make a number of holes or cylindrical
recesses which constitute the footsteps, in which turn or rotate the feet
of the spindles. These troughs are made of such a length as may be
sufficient to contain the footsteps of any number of spindles which may
be found convenient.
When fixed for use the troughs are placed as far as regards their
lengths in an horizontal position, or nearly so, but as regards their
breadths they may be inclined so as to suit the inclination of the spindles 1
in case the latter are not used in a vertical position when arranged for
work.
When the lubrication is required it is simply performed by pouring
into the troughs such a quantity of oil as 'may be judged convenient to
last a certain period of time, at the expiration of which the oil will 1
require to be renewed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Eli Stott, William Cookson Stafford, and Timothy
Taylor in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 12th June 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ELI
STOTT, Machinist, WILLIAM COOKSON STAFFORD, Foreman of Mechanics,
and TIMOTHY TAYLOR, Mill Manager, all of Ashton-under-Lyne, in the
County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs, and successors;
give and grant unto us, the said Eli Stott, William Cookson Stafford,
and Timothy Taylor, Her special license that we, the said Eli Stott,
William Cookson Stafford, and Timothy Taylor, our executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Eli Stott, William
Cookson Stafford, and Timothy Taylor, 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,

page_text: 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 “CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR LUBRICATING THE SPINDLES EMPLOYED IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING, DOUBLING,
OR TWISTING FIBROUS MATERIALS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that we, the said Eli Stott, William Cookson Stafford, and Timothy
Taylor, by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Scal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that wc, the said Eli Stott, William Cookson
Stafford, and Timothy Taylor, do hereby declare the nature of our
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and the accompanying Drawing (that is to say) :—
Our Invention relates to apparatus for lubricating or supplying with
oil the footsteps in which the spindles are supported, which are employed
for the purpose of spinning, doubling, or twisting fibrous materials. It'
consists in the application of an elongated channel or trough formed of
metal, in the bottom of which we make a number of holes or cylindrical
recesses, which constitute the footsteps, in which turn or rotate the feet
of the spindles. These troughs we make of such a length as may be
sufficient to contain the footsteps of any number of spindles which may -
be found convenient.
In order to make our Invention more clearly understood we have
hereunto annexed a Sheet of Drawings, in which Figures 1, 2, and 3
represent the application of our Invention to mules in which the spindles
are set at a distance from each other usually called the twist guage, and
Figures 4, 5, and 6, represent the application of our Invention to mules,
in which the spindles are set at a closer distance from each other, usually
called the narrow or weft guage; and Figure 7 a cross section through
one of the footsteps as at 8, t, or x, y. In all the Figures the same letters
of reference indicate the same or similar parts.
A, A, (Figures 1 and 4), a front or edge view of an clongated trough
made according to our Invention, and Figures 2 and 5 plans of the same
with the cover B, B, removed to shew the form of the interior of the

page_text: rail, and the footsteps are placed in the rail in the usual manner, with
the recesses for the spindle feet level with the bottom of the trough.
Our Invention is applicable to all machines used for spinning, doubling,
or twisting fibrous materials in which these operations are performed
either from the point of the spindle or by means of a bobbin and flyer,
and also to such winding machines in which the material is or may be
twisted during the process of winding.
When the lubrication is required it is simply performed by pouring
into the troughs such a quantity of oil as may be judged convenient to
last a certain period of time, at the expiration of which it will require
to be renewed.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, we hereby declare that what we
claim as new and of our Invention is the application and construction
of elongated troughs with covers in which are contained or combined
with which are the footsteps of spindles used for the purpose of
spinning, doubling, or twisting fibrous materials, as herein set forth and
described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Eli Stott, William Cookson Stafford,
and Timothy Taylor, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Eleventh day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-five.
TT T SHOTTVT
TIMOTHY TAYLOR.
Signed, sealed, and delivered
by the respective parties
hereto in the presence of
JOHN POTTER, C.E.,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.
(L.S.)