IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR LUBRICATING THE SPINDLES EMPLOYED IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING, SPINNING, AND DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUB- STANCES
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Marsh, of Ashton-under-Lyne, in the
County of Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR LUBRICATING THE SPINDLES EMPLOYED IN MACHINERY FOR
PREPARING, SPINNING, AND DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUB-
STANCES."
Sealed the 17th January 1873, and dated the 15th November 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Marsh at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
15th November 1872.
I, THOMAS MARSH, of Ashton-under-Lyne, in the County of Lancaster,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS FOR LUBRICATING THE SPINDLES EMPLOYED IN MACHINERY FOR PRE-
PARING, SPINNING, AND DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," to
be as follows :-
This Invention relates to lubricating the collars and footsteps used for
supporting the spindles employed in such machinery, and consists
principally in combining a cup or recess for receiving the oil, with an
annular recess or chamber formed round the spindle in the solid part of
the collar or footstep beneath the said cup.

page_text: Holes are drilled through the bottom of the cup communicating with
the recess or chamber beneath, which latter is open to the spindle,
and an annular washer of cloth or felt is laid in the bottom of the cup
to prevent dirt from passing into the recess or chamber with the oil.
The cups may be provided with a cover or not as may be preferred.
In some cases I make the collar or footstep of cast iron and line it
with a bush or tube of brass. In these cases I drill holes through the
said bush or tube communicating with the annular recess or chamber,
so as to allow the oil free access therefrom to the spindle.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Marsh in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 15th May 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
MARSH, of Ashton-under-Lyne, in the County of Lancaster, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Marsh, Her special license
that I, the said Thomas Marsh, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas Marsh, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR LUBRICATING THE SPINDLES EMPLOYED IN MACHINERY FOR PRE-
PARING, SPINNING, AND DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Marsh, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great

page_text: Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Marsh, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say) :-
This Invention relates to lubricating the collars and footsteps used for
supporting the spindles employed in such machinery, and consists
principally in combining a cup or recess for receiving the oil, with an
annular recess or chamber formed round the spindle in the solid part of
the collar or footstep beneath the said cup.
Holes are drilled through the bottom of the cup communicating with
the recess or chamber beneath, which latter is open to the spindle, and
an annular washer of cloth or felt is laid in the bottom of the cup to
prevent dirt from passing into the recess or chamber with the oil. The
cups may be provided with a cover or not as may be preferred.
In some cases I make the collar or footstep of cast iron and line it
with a bush or tube of brass. In these cases I drill holes through the
said bush or tube communicating with the annular recess or chamber so
as to allow the oil free access therefrom to the spindle.
Such being the nature and object of my said Invention I will now
proceed to describe more in detail the manner in which the same is to
be or may be performed or carried into practical effect, and in order that
the same may be clearly understood I have annexed hereunto a Sheet of
Drawings illustrative thereof, and have marked the same with figures
and letters of reference corresponding with those in the following
explanation thereof :-
:-
.In the annexed Drawings Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4 represent my Invention
as applied to spindle bolsters of slubbing, intermediate, roving, and jack
frames; and Figs. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, as applied to the footsteps of such
frames.
In Fig. 1 the bolster a, a, with its oil cup b, b, is cast in one piece,
and the annular recess or chamber c, c, is cut or turned out of the solid
part below the cup by means of a cranked tool; holes d, d, are drilled
through to allow the oil to flow from the cup b, b, into the lubricating

page_text: recess c, c; e, e, are washers of cloth or felt to prevent dirt from passing
into the recess or chamber c, c.
In Fig. 2 the oil cup b, b, is formed in the upper part of the boss or
sleeve ff, of the bevil pinion, the annular recess or chamber c, c, being
formed between the top of the bolster a, a, and the boss or sleeve ƒ, ƒ, 5
an additional lubricating recess being formed by drilling a hole g, g,
through the side of the bolster to which the oil finds it way between the
sleeve and the bolster.
In Fig. 3 the upper part of the bolster a, a, is cast thicker, and both
the oil cup b, b, and the lubricating recess c, c, are made therein.
Fig. 4 shows a method of adapting my Invention to old bolsters. The
oil cup b, b, is formed in the collar a*, a*, of the bolster a, a, and the
lubricating recess c, c, is formed by screwing on a cap h, h, holes d, d,
being drilled through to form a communication between the two. Fig. 4*
is a modification of the same wherein both the cup 6, b, and chamber c, c, 1
are formed in the cap h, h.
In Fig. 5 the footstep a, a, is cast in one piece, the oil cup b, b, having
fixed therein a cover i, i, embracing the foot of the spindle, and the
communication between the recess c, c, and the spindle foot being made
by cutting through at the bottom from the interior by means of a 2
cranked tool.
Fig. 6 is similar to the above, excepting that the cover i, i, embraces
the stem of the spindle above the foot.
Fig. 7 is a footstep made by casting in a cylindrical form with two
flanges X, X, and after drilling the holes d, d, forcing on a cylinder k, k,
of brass so as to enclose the two flanges and form the recess c, c.
Fig. 8 is a similar footstep, but the body a, a, is cast, as shown at
Fig. 9, the two flanges x, x, being joined by webs 1, 1, and the communi-
cation between the chamber c, c, and the spindle foot being made by
cutting recesses m, m, through from the interior by means of a cranked
tool.
Fig. 10 shows a modification wherein the oil cup b, b, is bushed into
the footstep a, a, holes d, d, being drilled through the lower part of the
oil cup, and the passage from the recess chamber c, c, being drilled
through from the outside and the opening closed by a plug n.

page_text: Figs. 11, 12, 13, and 14 show my Invention as adapted to spindle
bolsters suitable for throstles and doubling frames, and Figs. 15, 16, 17,
and 18 show the adaptation of the same to the footsteps of such
machines.
Figs. 11 and 12 represent the bolster as cast in one piece, the recess c, c,
being cut out from the interior by a cranked tool.
In Fig. 13 the footstep a, a, is chambered out so as to form both the
oil cup b, b, and the lubricating chamber or recess c, c, the division being
made by the insertion of a bush o, o, having a flange near the top which
forms the division between the two, and as the diameter of the flange is
rather less than the interior of the cup the oil can flow into the
chamber c, c, small holes being drilled through the bush o, o, below the
flange to allow the oil access to the spindle.
Fig. 14 shows a method of altering an old footstep by screwing on a
cap h, h, as previously described with reference to Fig. 4.
Fig. 15 is a footstep made on the same principle as the bolster Fig. 11.
Fig. 16 is a modification made so as to embrace the stem of the
spindle above the foot as well as the latter, and provided with a loose
cover P, p.
Figs. 17 and 18 show throstle footsteps made with internal bushes q, q,
the former having a loose flat cover r, r, which embraces the spindle
foot, and the latter a loose cover 8, 8, which fits on the stem of the
spindle above the foot.
Figs. 19 and 20 represent my Invention as applied to the spindle.
bolster of a mule or twiner, and Figs. 21 and 22 show the same as
applied to the footstep of a mule or twiner, the two former showing the
bolster as cast in one piece, and the recess c, c, formed by cutting out
with a cranked tool, and the two latter showing the application of an
internal bush t, t, with a flange at the top.
In Fig. 21 the flange is shown as rather smaller in diameter than the
interior of the cup so as to leave a small space all round for the oil, to
flow into the annular recess c, c, and in Fig. 22 the flange fits tight, but
has two openings u, u, made therein, as seen in the plan view.
Figs. 23 to 27 illustrates a method of casting several mule footsteps
together. The footsteps a, a, are cast solid in a kind of long trough v, v,

page_text: the sides of the trough being higher than the top of the footstep, as scen
in the transverse sections (Fig. 25, which is a section through the
line 1-2; and Fig. 26, which is a section through the line 3-4). A
strip w, w, of tin or other metal, Fig. 24, having perforations corre-
sponding with the position of the footsteps, being placed in the trough
resting on the top of the footsteps,) divides the same into the oil receiver
or cup b, b, and the lubricating chamber c, c, holes d, d, (see Fig. 26)
being drilled through the footsteps horizontally to form a communication
between the chamber c, c; and the spindle foot Fig. 27 shows the same
in longitudinal section.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention,
together with the manner in which the same is to be or may be carried
into practical effect, I would remark in conclusion that although for the
sake of illustration I have shown and described various forms and
modifications of my Invention as applied to particular classes of pre-
paring, spinning, and doubling machinery, yet I do not intend to confine
myself to the particular forms, dimensions, or other details represented.
in the annexed Drawings, but what I claim as my Invention and desire
to secure by the Letters Patent above mentioned is lubricating the
spindle, bolsters, and footsteps of such machinery by combining an oil
cup with an annular recess or chamber formed round the spindle in the
part of the bolster or footstep beneath the said cup, substantially in the
manner illustrated by the Drawings and herein-before more particularly
set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Marsh, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
Witnessed by,
GEORGE DAVIES, C.E.,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.
THOMAS MARSH. (L.S.)