Object Details
- inventor
- Howarth, John
- Jones, Nathan F.
- Description
- Spindle and Flyer Patent Model
- Patent No. 1,043, issued December 28, 1838
- John Howarth and Nathan F. Jones
- 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.
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- model constructed
- before 1838-12-28
- patent date
- 1838-12-28
- ID Number
- TE.T11421.069
- accession number
- 89797
- catalog number
- T11421.069
- patent number
- 001043
- Object Name
- cotton flyer patent model
- Object Type
- Patent Model
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Related Publication
- Janssen, Barbara Suit. Patent Models Index
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Patent Models, Textile Machinery
- Textiles
- Patent Models
- National Museum of American History
- classified
- Patent Models
- Invention
- Record ID
- nmah_1070978
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-26c5-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
