IMPROVEMENTS IN, MACHINERY FOR SPINNING COTTON
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Taylor, of Stacksteads, in the County of
Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN,
MACHINERY FOR SPINNING COTTON."
Sealed the 20th October 1864, and dated the 26th April 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Taylor at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on tho
26th April 1864.
I, WILLIAM TAYLOR, of Stacksteads, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton
Spinner, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING COTTON," to be as follows:-
I place a small rod or a small roller between the front and back rollers, or
between the front and middle rollers, or between the middle and back rollers
of spinning machines known as slubbing frames, roving frames, throstles, and
mules. The thread to be drawn during its passage between the back and
front rollers passes over or under the small rod or small roller first mentioned,
the object being to cause a drag on the fibre during its passage from one of
the ordinary rollers to the other, and thereby enable me to spin threads from
short fibred cotton in a more efficient manner than can be accomplished
without the small rod or small roller before named.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Taylor in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
22nd October 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
TAYLOR, of Stacksteads, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eigth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said William Taylor, Her special licence that I, the said William
Taylor, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said William Taylor, my 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, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY FOR SPINNING COTTON," upon the condition (amongst others) that I;
the said William Taylor, my executors or admistrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Taylor, do hereby declare
the nature of my 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 accompanying Drawings (that is to say) :-
I place a small rod or a small roller between the front and back rollers, or
between the front and middle rollers, or between the middle and back rollers
of spinning machines known as slubbing frames, roving frames, throstles, and
mules. The thread to be drawn during its passage between the back and
front rollers passes over or under the small rod or small roller first mentioned,
the object being to cause a drag on the fibre during its passage from one of
the ordinary rollers to the other, and thereby enable me to spin threads from
short fibred cotton in a more efficient manner than can be accomplished
without the small rod or small roller before named..
Fig. 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents a cross section of the

page_text: rollers of a throstle where a, a, are the front rollers; b, b,, the middle rollers;
c, c₁, the back rollers, and d the small roller or rod I place between them;
e being the thread to be drawn, and e, the thread after it has been drawn.
The said rods or rollers d are in lengths on the brackets that support the
ordinary rollers or attached to the cap bar, as may be desired.
Fig. 2 shows a cross section of the rollers of a mule a, a,, being the front
rollers; b, b, the middle rollers; c, c₁, the back rollers, and d the small roller
or rod before named; e the thread before being drawn, and e, the thread after
being drawn. The section of the small rod may be either a circle, a portion
of a circle, a triangle, or any other shape that may be desired. When the
tbread e enters between the rollers c, c₁, it then passes to the rollers b, b₁, and
then to the rollers a, a,, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and when the fibre of the
cotton is short the roller or rod d is introduced, so that it may support the
cotton thread and allow it to be more evenly drawn, or by the cotton sliding
upon it. A drag or friction is produced on the thread, so that it draws the
fibres more evenly, and thereby produces a more uniform thread than can be
produced without the application of the said rod or roller. A rod or roller d
may of course be placed between the rollers b, b₁, and c, c₁, if required.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which the said Invention is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that
what I claim as new and of my Invention is, the rod or roller placed between
the ordinary rollers of spinning machinery, as herein set forth and for the
purpose herein named.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Taylor, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
Witness,
THOMAS BALDWIN,
Corn Market Buildings,
Bury, near Manchester.
WILLIAM TAYLOR. (L.S.)