Improvements connected with the Lubrication of the Spindles of Spinning and, similar Machines.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Dec., 1893-Accepted, 10th Feb., 1894
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by JULES BOUCHERON, of 6, Rue Mirabeau Lille
(Nord), France, Mechanical Engineer, and L. MAHIEN AND FILS, of 75, Rue
Pellart Roubaix (Nord), France, Manufacturers.]
Improvements connected with the Lubrication of the Spindles of
Spinning and, similar Machines.
I, RIDLEY JAMES URQUHART of 57 Barton Arcade Manchester in the
County of Lancaster, Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
This invention relates to the lubrication of the spindles of spinning and preparing
machines for textile fibres and of similar machines containing rows of spindles and
consists in improved arrangements of conduits or pipes for lubricating said spindles
with lubricants fed thereto by means of compressing or forcing lubricators, the
object of the invention being chiefly to render possible or facilitate the use of
consistent greases or solidified oils for lubricating spindles instead of liquid oils
and to obtain the advantage of the economy resulting from their use.
On the drawing appended hereunto a spindle rail with the improvement applied
thereto is shown.
Fig. 1. showing the front part thereof as seen from the inside of the machine.
Fig. 2. the back part.
Fig. 3. the rail as seen from the front.
Fig. 4 an end view of the same.
Fig. 5 a modification of the same.
In carrying the invention into effect one or more tubes or tubular cavities are
used preferably formed in the spindle rail itself which communicate with the collars
or bolsters for the different spindles. For this purpose the spindle rail may be
formed with collars or bolsters c for the spindles b and composed of two
parts p and p fixed together by screws or in any other convenient manner.
In one or both parts of the rail a groover is formed extending along the rail and
in such a manner that the lubricant can pass round or past the spindles b. Or the
rail with collars
may be solid with a groove planed in the top as shown by Fig. 5
or the groove may be at the side or other convenient part and closed by a cover A.
fixed thereto. The collars or bolsters c may be bushed with brass or the rail may
be formed without collars and separate collars or bolsters fixed thereto in the
usual way said collars or bolsters being cut out where required to allow a free
passage of the lubricant along the tubular cavity r. The rail may be made of more
pieces than two joined together.
One or more lubricators with pistons operated by screws similar to Möllemp's
(as described in Specification No. 2165 A.D. 1881) or equivalent compressing or
forcing lubricators are placed at convenient parts of the rail in communication with
the tubular cavity by means of which lubricators the lubricant is forced along the
tubular cavity and to the spindles so that the lubricant contained in the cavity r
which forms a reservoir is replaced at the same rate as it is consumed by the
spindles. Preferably lubricators operated from the moving parts of the machines
are used but forcing or compressing lubricators operated by hand may also be
employed.
The apparatus or arrangement is chiefly intended for use with consistent greases
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page_text: Instead of forming a tubular groove or cavity in the rail a tube may be arranged
along the same with branch pipes connecting it to the spindle bolsters or collars
which may be made with grooves in the usual way for conducting the lubricant
along them, lubricators being arranged at convenient positions for forcing the
lubricant along said tube.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The arrangement of apparatus or means for lubricating the spindles of
spinning and similar machines consisting of a rail with spindle -bolsters and
containing one or more tubular cavities communicating with the bore off said
bolsters in combination with one or more compressing or forcing lubricators
connected to said tubular cavity or cavities substantially as herein before
described.
2. In spinning and similar machines the formation of the spindle rail of two or
more parts formed with one or more grooves so arranged that when the parts are
fixed together one or more longitudinal tubular cavities in communication with
the spindle bolsters are formed substantially as herein before described and
illustrated and for the purpose set forth.
3. In spinning and similar machines the formation of the spindle rail with one
dr more grooves in the top or side of the rail closed by covers fixed thereto and
communicating with the spindle bolsters substantially as described and illustrated
and for the purpose set forth.
4. In spinning and similar machines the arrangement of tubes extending along
the spindle rails and provided with branch pipes communicating with the spindle
bolsters, and compressing or forcing lubricators connected to said tubes substantially
as herein before described.
5. The method of lubricating spindles of spinning and similar machines with
consistent grease or solidified oil substantially as herein before described.
Dated the 20th day of December 1893.
R. J. URQUHART,
57, Barton Arcade, Manchester, and 5, Clayton Square, Liverpool,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent.