Improvements in Driving Spindles of Spinning and Twisting Machines.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Apr., 1888
Specification Accepted, 11th May, 1888
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Driving Spindles of Spinning and Twisting
Machines.
I LEEDHAM BINNS of No. 2428 North 6th Street in the City and County of
Philadelphia State of Pennsylvania, United States of America, Manufacturer,
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 has for its object the driving by one and the same band, of two
spindles on opposite sides of a spinning or spinning and twisting frame or on opposite
sides of the drum which drives the spindles; and the invention consists in a novel
method of doing the same, and in the combination with the driving drum and with
said spindles or their whirls of the band by which said spindles are driven, substantially
as hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this
specification, in which figure 1 represents a view in perspective of the driving drum
in part and a pair of spindles in part, on opposite sides of said drum and band
connecting the whirls on said spindles with said driving drum, or cylinder. Figure 2
is an elevation of a spindle in part, with a double V-shaped whirl (in place of an open
or single grooved whirl as shewn in figure 1) attached.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.
It is immaterial, so far as the invention is concerned, whether an open whirl such as
shewn in figure 1, be used on the spindles, or the double ▼ shaped whirl shewn in
figure 2.
A' A' indicate two spindles of a spinning or spinning and twisting frame arranged
upon opposite sides of their driving drum B; and C is the single band which drives
said spindles through the whirls a' a secured upon them.
Supposing it be required to drive these spindles A¹ A2 in the directions indicated by
the arrows and the driving drum B rotates as indicated by the arrow y, I start or
pass one end or portion marked b¹ of the band commencing at a point markeds from
or round the one side of the whirl a' and continue it as shewn by the arrow applied
to said portion across over the top of the drum B but not round the latter, to and
round in front of the second whirl a² of the spindle A² from whence the band as

page_text: marked 62 is passed under and over the drum B back again as indicated by the
portion 63 to and round the spindle whirl a² then as marked 4 across and under the
drum to the first spindle whirl a¹. From this point, the band is continued around
the front of the first spindle whirl a' then as shown for the portion of it marked b³ is
continued and passed across to and over and round the drum B and from under it back
as indicated by 6 to and in front of the first spindle whirl a¹ to the point s from which
the portion started the two ends of the band being secured by any suitable fastening.
The several arrows applied to the portions ¹³4 65 and 6 of the band indicate
the respective directions in travel of said portions to drive the spindles A' A² as
indicated by the respective arrows a.
By thus banding the two spindles A¹ A² or their whirls on opposite sides of the
drum B, I get a substantial and firm hold of each spindle whirl with an increased
length of band for the two spindles, each spindle whirl being firmly secured and
driven direct from the drum by the one band. A band, too, less than one-half the
size of separate bands used to drive the two spindles will drive both spindles more
perfectly, thereby ensuring a more perfect twist with less power, and at a reduced cost
of the band.
Where double grooved whirls are used, such as shewn in figure 2, different
portions of the band will run in different grooves. Duplicate whirls arranged one
above the other on each spindle, practically forming but a single whirl and being
the equivalent of such, may be used if desired.
The spindles may be run in the opposite direction to that here shewn if required,
without changing the invention for banding the two spindles on opposite sides of
the drum by a single band, the directions in travel of the several portions of the
band being, of course, correspondingly changed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is ;-
1. In spinning and twisting frames or machines, the method herein described of
banding spindles on opposite sides of and with their operating drum by one and
the same band, as set forth.
2. The combination with the driving drum or cylinder and the two spindles with
their whirls on opposite sides respectively of said drum, of the band passing from
the whirl of one of said spindles across and over the drum but not around it, to
and round in front of the whirl of the opposite spindle, from thence around the
drum back to the whirl of the last named spindle, then across and under the drum
but not around it, to the whirl of the first named spindle, and from thence around
this last named whirl in front, then back and around the drum to the point on
said last named whirl from which the band started, substantially as shewn and
described.
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L. BINNS.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.