Patent Model - Improvement in Spindles for Mules and Jacks
Maker and role
Jacob Sawyer (b.1837, d.1913), Patentee
Production date
Dec 05 1876
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Iron, wood
Measurements
16 x 13 x 11 1/2" (40.6 x 33 x 29.2cm)
Description
Sawyer's patent "relates to mules or jacks for spinning. In mules and jacks, as now constructed, a portion of each spindle, for a short space above the bolster-rail, is used during the operation of doffing as a means for holding the end of the yarn, which yarn is afterward led from that point to, and is wound upon, the cop-tube, or cop-base, or bobbin; and when the cop-tube or base and spindle, or the bobbin, if one is used, has received its yarn-load, then the thread is wound again below the base of the yarn-load and onto the spindle..." (Patent Number 184,986)
Object number
2016.13.83a-d
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