1838 Howarth and Jones's Patent Model of a Cotton Flyer
date: label: model constructed
content: before 1838-12-28
label: patent date
content: 1838-12-28
name: label: inventor
content: Howarth, John
label: inventor
content: Jones, Nathan F.
notes: label: Description
content: Spindle and Flyer Patent Model
label: Description
content: Patent No. 1,043, issued December 28, 1838
label: Description
content: John Howarth and Nathan F. Jones
label: Description
content: Howarth’s and Jones’s patent covered certain improvements on flyers and spindles attached to machinery (such as throstles or spinning frames) where a twisting apparatus was needed. The improvements were useful for roving and spinning cotton or other fibers.
label: Description
content: They experienced some delay in obtaining a patent and hired R. H. Eddy of Boston, a patent attorney, to represent them. Their original claims were abridged and condensed. In the last letter (December 1, 1836) from Eddy to Commissioner of Patents Henry Ellsworth, Eddy returned the amended specification without any other essential changes in it and said “. . . leaving it to your discretion to reject or admit the claim. . . . But I supposed that the arrangement and combination of these different parts with each other might show sufficient novelty to constitute and claim to a patent.” Presumably with Eddy’s help, Howarth and Jones were able to receive their patent.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: classified
content: Patent Models
label: classified
content: Invention
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Patent Models, Textile Machinery
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content: Textiles
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content: Patent Models
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Janssen, Barbara Suit. Patent Models Index
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T11421.069
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: catalog number
content: T11421.069
label: patent number
content: 001043
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cotton flyer patent model
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)