CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING AND TWISTING WORSTED, YARN, AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES,
Year: 1828

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
RHODES the younger, of Alverthorpe, in the Parish of Wakefield, in the County
of York, Worsted Spinner, send greeting.
WHEREAS by His Majesty's Royal Letters Patent, under the Great
Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Eighteenth day of
September last past, after reciting that the said Joseph Rhodes had by his
petition humbly represented unto His Majesty that he, the said Joseph Rhodes,
had invented "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING AND TWISTING
WORSTED, YARN, AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," His Majesty, of His especial
grace, did thereby give and grant unto the said Joseph Rhodes, his exors,
admors, and assigns, and every of them, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term of fourteen years from the date thereof, the full
benefit, solo use, and exercise of the said Invention; in which said Royal
Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that if the said Joseph Rhodes shall not
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of his said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under
his hand and seal, and 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 those His Majesty's Royal Letters Patent, that then those His Majesty's
Royal Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby
granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joseph Rhodes the younger, hereby declare that my said Invention is fully
described and ascertained by the Drawings hereunto annexed, and the following
description thereof, that is to say:-
Fig. 1 exhibits a view of the spindle used by me. a, a, are the necks of the

page_text: spindle, which necks are fitted into and run in the rails A, A, in Fig. 3; bis
the whirl; c is the flyer; d is the part of the spindle on which the bobbin
traverses or works. The upper part of the spindle is bored or perforated from
e to c, e, for the thread to pass through. Fig. 2 exhibits a section of the end
view of the frame in which the spindles run or work. A is the roving; B is
the spindle, which may be fixed in the frame either in a pendant or inclined
position, and is turned by a band from the cylinder C in the usual way; Dis a
wheel which turns the heart E; F is a lever fixed on the bar G with a pin at
a, projecting about an inch on the inside of the lever, against which pin the
edge of the heart E works, to move or traverse the bobbin rail H by means of
two or more levers similar to I, fixed at proper distances on the bar G. The
top part of the lever F is a handle, and the broad part at the bottom of the
lever is a spring, so that when the bobbins on the spindles in the frame are to
be doffed, the lever may be drawn from the face of the heart until the pin a be
disengaged from the edge of the heart, and shifted, together with the lever I
and bobbin rail H, to the places represented by dotted lines, where the bobbin
rail is held by catches or props until the bobbins be doffed; b is a peg fixed to
the front of the bobbin rail to be used in doffing; its use is more fully shewn
in Fig. 3. Fig. 3 exhibits a section of the front view of the frame, showing
the different stages of the operation of doffing the bobbins. A, A, aro the rails
or framework into which the necks of the spindles are fitted; a, a, are two
spindles with full bobbins thereon, empty bobbins f, f, being placed on pegs at
the front of the bobbin rail, which pegs are similar to the peg 6 in Fig. 2;
b, b, are two spindles, with a fragment of the bobbin rail II represented as
lowered to the place to which the whole bobbin rail II is to be lowered for
dofling, after which the full bobbins g, g, having been shifted from the spindles
b, b, to the pegs in front of the bobbin rail, and the empty bobbins c, e, having
been placed under the spindles b, b, the points of which are a little within the
apertures of the bobbins to keep them in their places; the bobbin rail is then
again raised to its working place c, c, exhibiting two spindles with the bobbin
rail II represented as so raised to its working place, after which the cylinder
is turned round once or twice to wind a few rounds of the thread on the empty
bobbins h, h; the threads are then broken off close to the empty bobbins, when
the frame may be put in motion, and the full bobbins on the pegs taken away
at leisure; and d, d, are two spindles represented as working after the frame
has been so put in motion, and the full bobbins taken away from the pegs i, i
The bobbin rail H is bored opposite the points of the spindles, so that the
traverse or bobbin parts of the spindles may be as near as possible in the
centres of the holes, and which holes must be large enough for the bobbin rail

page_text: to traverse up and down the spindles without touching them. When washers
are used for the bobbins to lay on, the washers may be retained in their places
by sockets of tin or of any other suitable material, which sockets are put
through the holes of the washers and fit into the holes of the bobbin rail; the
top edges of the sockets are bent out a little to keep the washers on, the holes
in the bobbin rail being countersunk a little, to let the sockets and middle
parts of the washers sink below the rest of the surface of the washers. The
ends of the threads, when broken, may be taken up by a small pliable wire,
hooked at the end, which is put down the perforated part of the spindle for that
purpose. The spindle for twisting two or more threads together is the same in
formation as the spinning spindle; the method of doffing is also the same.
I do not claim, as being my Invention, any part of the machinery for
traversing the bobbin rail I herein-before described, nor any part of the
machinery for working or turning the said spindles, nor the framework into
which they are fitted, nor the manner of retaining the washers in their places,
nor the method of taking up the ends of the broken threads by a wire, nor the
perforation in, nor any particular or individual part of, the said spindle
separately; but I claim as my Invention the said spindle as adapted by me
in manner hercin-before described, to the processes of spinning and twisting
worsted, yarn, and other fibrous substances, as a combined whole. And I also
claim as my Invention the peculiar adaptation of the bobbin rail to the
working of and doffing the bobbins from my said spindles.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Rhodes the younger, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.
JOSEPH (L.S.) RHODES TILE YOUNGER.