Doubling Fibrous Material.
Year: 1886

page_text: Doubling Fibrous Material.
We JAMES MONKS, Manager, and WILLIAM JAMES REDMAN, Mechanic, of
Throstle Mill, Bacup, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature
of said invention, to be as follows:-.
Our invention relates to combinations and arrangements of mechanism, whereby
a conical clearer can be made to rotate upon and travel along and between the two
top front rollers of spinning and doubling machines from end to end of the frame
or machine and then be reversed and allowed to travel backwards and so on.
Such conical clearers are now in use in some spinning machines where there is
no obstruction above the upper surfaces of the two upper top front rollers to
prevent the clearer from travelling endways and where the plane of the drawing
rollers is not tilted so much forward as to cause the conical clearer to roll off the
two top front rollers.
Our invention consists in combinations and arrangements whereby the travelling
conical clearer is or may be used, where the ordinary clearer would fall off the
rollers and also in combinations and arrangements having the object of removing
obstructions which would prevent the conical clearer from travelling end ways.
We use a conical clearer with a pivot at each end, and allow each pivot to rotate
in one end of a link the other ends of each link being jointed to a plate having its
two edges bent to an angle-The links are adjustable in length to allow the conical
clearer to come upon and between the two upper front rollers.
The said angle plate is long enough to extend over more than the length of one
top roller and it rests or may rest across and upon two or more cap bars upon
each of which a hook projection is formed or fixed-Thus arranged the angle
plate holds and prevents the conical clearer from falling off the rollers while the
hook projections on the cap bars allow the travelling plate to pass from one set of
projections on the cap bars to the adjoining ones, as the conical clearer is propelled
along.
Our invention further consists in combinations and arrangements for weighting
or applying pressure to the three top rollers in such way that there will be no
obstruction to the travelling conical clearer,

page_text: We form a saddle to extent between the journals of the middle and back top
rollers and connect this saddle by a stirrup or other connection with one end of a
supplementary lever below the rollers.
We use one end of a hook to put pressure on the journal of the front top roller
and connect its other end to the same supplementary lever, one connection being on
one, the other on the other side of its fulcrum.
The fulcrum of the supplementary lever is jointed with one end of a link the
other end of which is jointed with a lever, which corresponds in arrangement and
position to the ordinary weight lever, which is hooked on a projection upon the
roller stand.
It will thus be seen that the ordinary weight lever puts weight upon the
supplementary lever which distributes the weight or pressure between the front,
top and middle and back rollers while the saddles and hooks are thus made to
come below the upper lever of the top rollers.
By pressing upon the supplementary lever the pressure may be taken off the
front roller so that it may be readily removed and replaced when desired.
The mode of carrying out our invention may be varied without departing from
its essential features, for instance the pivots of the conical clearer may be connected
with the angle, plate by rigid arms, having a slot for the pivot at one end, and a
swivel bearing at the other end.
Dated this eighteenth day of February 1886.

page_text: Doubling Fibrous Material.
We JAMES MONKS, Manager, and WILLIAM JAMES REDMAN, Mechanic, of
Throstle Mill, Bacup, in the County of Lancaster do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:
Our invention relates to combinations and arrangements of mechanism, whereby
a conical clearer can be made to rotate upon and travel along and between the two
top front rollers of spinning and doubling machines from end to end of the frame
or machine, and then be reversed and allowed to travel backwards and so on.
Such conical clearers are now in use in some spinning machines where there is
no obstruction above the upper surfaces of the two upper top front rollers to
prevent the clearer from travelling end ways and where the plane of the drawing
rollers is not tilted so much forward as to cause the conical clearer to roll off the
two top front rollers.
Our invention consists in combinations and arrangements whereby the travelling
conical clearer is or may be used, where the ordinary clearer would fall off the
rollers and also in combinations and arrangements having the object of removing
obstructions which would prevent the conical clearer from travelling end ways.
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We use a conical clearer with a pivot at each end, and allow each pivot to
rotate in one end of a link the other end of each link being jointed to a plate
having each of its two edges bent to an angle-The links are adjustable in length
to allow the conical clearer to come upon and between the two upper front rollers.
The said angle plate is long enough to extend over more than the length of one
top roller, and it rests or may rest across and upon two or more cap bars upon each
of which (or upon the saddle for weighting the top rollers) a hook projection is
formed or fixed. Thus arranged the angle plate holds and prevents the conical
clearer from falling off the rollers while the hook projections on the cap bars or
saddles allow the travelling plate to pass from one set of projections on the cap
bars to the adjoining ones, as the conical clearer is propelled along.
:
Our invention further consists in combinations and arrangements for weighting
or applying pressure to the three top rollers in such way that there will be no
obstruction to the travelling conical clearer.
We form a saddle to extend between the journals of the middle and back
top rollers and connect this saddle by a stirrup or other connection with one end of
a supplementary lever below the rollers.
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We use one end of a book to put pressure on the journal of the front top roller
and connect its other end to the same supplementary lever one connection being on
one the other on the other side of its fulcrum.
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The fulcrum of the supplementary lever is jointed with one end of a link the
other end of which is jointed with a lever, which corresponds in arrangement and
position to the ordinary weight lever, which is hooked on a projection upon the
roller stand.
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It will thus be seen that the ordinary weight lever puts weight upon the
supplementary lever which distributes the weight or preseure hetween the ton front

page_text: and middle and back rollers while the saddles and hooks are thus made to come
below the upper level or surface of the top rollers.
By pressing upon the supplementary lever, the pressure may be taken off the
front roller so that it may be readily removed and replaced when desired.
The mode of carrying out our invention may be varied without departing from
its essential features, for instance the pivots of the conical clearer may be connected
with the angle plate by rigid arms, having a slot for the pivot at one end and a
swivel bearing at the other end.
Fig. 1 is a side sectional elevation of a roller stand fig. 2 is a side view of the
mechanism for weighting the top rollers detached, fig. 3 is a front view of the
hook for the front top roller.
Fig. 4 is an end view of the saddle.
Fig. 5 is a plan view of the cone clearer with the parts to which it is connected,
and fig. 6 is a plan of a modified arrangement of the clearer, the middle part of
the clearer being supposed broken away to make room for the two end elevations
figs. 7 and 8.
Fig. 9 is a side elevation showing the application of our invention, to machines
where the back top or back and middle top rollers are self weighting rollers.
a is a stand for spinning rollers where the plane of the rollers is at an angle.
b, c and d are respectively the back, middle and front bottom fluted rollers, and b², c¹
and dare their respective top rollers, e is the cap bar.
The parts above referred to by letters are ordinary parts.
To weight the top rollers against the bottom ones, by arrangements which do
not project above the upper surfaces of the top rollers, a saddle f is used, the side
view of which is seen best in fig. 2, and an end view in fig. 4.
One end has a downward projection f¹ which rests against the back side of the
pivot of the top back roller 62 and prevents the saddle f from sliding downwards
out of its place.
The under side of the saddle f rests at each end upon the top of the pivots for
the back and middle top roller.
The bent or ring end of a wire f' is inserted in a hole in a projection from the
saddle which wire f' at its lower end has a loop that comes under a lever g. and
takes hold of a notch upon its under side.
The top front roller dis weighted by a hook h front view of which is shown by
fig. 3 and there is a hole in this hook at its lower end for the hook end of the
lever g.
This book h instead of passing from the pivot of the top front roller & between
it and the middle roller as shown in fig. 1 is sometimes made to pass in front of
the bottom front roller the hook being reversed to that shown in figs. 1 and 2.
The lever g has a fulcrum at g¹ and it is connected by a link or links g' (one on
each side of the levers) jointed with it to a bent lever i which is similar to the
ordinary weighting lever the hook end of which hooks upon a staple ¹ secured in
the roller beam is the wire upon the lever i upon which the weight is
suspended.
One combination of the parts shown by fig. 2 is used for each end of each set of
top rollers. By pressing the long end of the lever g towards the lever i the hook
for the front top roller d can be released.
The saddle has a projection f which acts to hold the cone clearer k upon and
between the two top rollers c and d as shown.
Each end of the cone clearer k has a pivot k¹ which can freely rotate in one end
of an arm or link the other end of which is jointed at ³ with an oblong thin
metal plate k having each edge bent at a right angle as shown.
By this means the clearer k and plate are connected so that as thej clearer k
passes along, the plate k moves with it.
The links are or may be made adjustable in their length by forming them in
two parts one to overlap the other connected together by a screw or screws passing
through a slot in one part-This allows the links k³ to be adjusted so that when

page_text: the plate k hooks upon the projections f* the axis of the cone clearer will come
between the middle and front top rollers the surface of the cone clearer k touching
the surfaces of both top rollers c¹ and d¹.
The plate is long enough to always have hold of two projections f³ from the
Baddles fat least and the plate k slides along the rollers as the clearer k travels,
until the clearer arrives at one end when it is reversed and it then travels back to
the other end and so on.
The joint in the links allows the lower side of the clearer k to rest upon the
rollers on either side while the plate / acts with the projections f³ to keep the
clearer from rolling off.
In the modification shown by figs. 6, 7 and 8 the pivot at the large end of the
clearer k is secured to a bearing in which it can rotate freely the bearing
swivelling on a pink in a hole in the bent end of an arm k' from the plate -
The other pivot for the small end of the clearer has its bearings in a slot in a
T part k from the plate k so that the clearer k can move to either end of the slot,
being at one end when the plate is in one position and at the other end of the
slot when the clearer k is reversed.
The parts and if desired may be made adjustable in length from the
plate
The plate is made wide enough to be about equal to the diameter of the
clearer k at its largest end, when the part against which it slides is in about the
same plane as the tops of the middle and front rollers.
Instead of the projection f upon the saddle f a bracket or part e¹ is or may be
secured by a screw to the cap bar (e) the screw passing through a slot so as to be able
to adjust the part e¹ up and down the cap bars in a line to and from the top rollers.
This modification is shown by fig. 9, in which the back roller or back and
middle rollers are selfweighting rollers tilted out of the horizontal plane,
6, represents the cap bar, b, c and d the top rollers, 6' or both b¹ and c¹ being
self weighting rollers, e¹ the bracket secured to the cap bar, & the cone clearer
combined with a plate k as shown by figs. 6, 7 and 8.
We wish it to be understood that the details may be modified without departing
from our invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is,
1. The combination of the saddle (f), hook (h), stirrup ƒ³, lever (g), link or
links (g) and lever (i) for weighting the top rollers, substantially as herein before
described and illustrated by the drawings.
2. The combination and arrangement of cone clearers and mechanism to adapt
them for use with tilted or inclined rollers, substantially as and for the purpose
hereinbefore described and illustrated by the drawings.
3. The combination of cone clearers and mechanism to adapt them for tilted or
inclined rollers having arrangements for weighting the same substantially as and
for the purpose hereinbefore described and illustrated by figs. 1 and 2 of the
drawings.