IMPROVEMENTS IN SICKLES AND WIRES CONNECTED WITH MULES FOR SPINNING
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Smith, of Preston, in the County of Lancaster,
Cotton Spinner, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SICKLES AND WIRES
CONNECTED WITH MULES FOR SPINNING."
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Joseph Smith at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 31st August 1876.
"IM-
JOSEPH SMITH, of Preston, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton Spinner.
PROVEMENTS IN SICKLES AND WIRES CONNECTED WITH MULES FOR SPINNING."
On the 3rd day of January 1870 Her most Gracious Majesty was pleased to
grant unto me Her Royal Letters Patent for "Improvements in Sickles and Wires
Connected with Mules for Spinning"
This Invention has for its object the continuance of those improvements, with
further and additional methods of applying the same, very much simplefying its
application without deterioration to its efficiency.
Fig. 1 of my Drawings represent one method of applying my Invention as
secured to me by the before-mentioned Letters Patent, where I apply a small
arm F, secured as shown to carry my extra under faller wire or its equivalent.
Fig 2 shows another modification of arm, having holes in a radial arc from
shaft G. The series of holes enables the wires to be considerably varied, so as to
vary the angles of the yarn or thread (if required) in passing from drawing rollers
to spindle or cop. This is also embodied in my before-mentioned Patent.
Fig 3 is a further improvement in my before-mentioned Invention, as in this
case I merely drill the sickles and pass another wire through the holes from end
to end, and securing as before, shown at a, b being the ordinary wire. If it be
necessary I bend the sickle, as shown at c, to give the yarn a more accute angle.
Fig. 4 shows another new method of applying the second wire to the under
faller, still simpler of application. I file or cut a small half round groove in each
sickle at any required distance up the sickle, as shown by letter d, e being the
original wire. When I have laid the wire along the sickles after being grooved
I then take for each sickle a piece of binding wire (by preference copper), wrap it

page_text: once or twice round the wire and sickle, and secure it underneath sickle, as shown
at f. This I find a very simple and efficient method of securing the wire without
necessarily removing the sickles to do so.
Having described my additional improvement in comparison with my before-
mentioned Patent I wish it to be distinctly understood that I still claim in com-
bination with this further improvement or additional methods all that was then
secured to me, namely,-
The arrangement of two or more under faller or sickle wires, or other surfaces, as
herein-before described.
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The arms F for regulating the angles of such wires or other surfaces, as herein-
before described.
And in addition I claim the methods of securing the wires, as shown in Figures
8 and 4, substantialy as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Smith, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
TASEPET (7.0) SMITH