US Patent No. 1,202,766, granted 31 October 1916 to Charles Scott Althouse of Reading, Pennsylvania, for an apparatus that makes threads from cellulose solution (artificial silk or rayon type filaments). It describes a centrifugal separator that cleans the solution without changing the pressure at the spinning nozzle. It also describes a two-funnel system in which a setting liquid draws the thread to the desired fineness before it reaches the winding reel. The patent has a drawing sheet, a specification and four claims.