AN IMPROVED FLYER FOR SPINNING MACHINERY
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the Firm of Haseltine,
Lake, & Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, for
the Invention of "AN IMPROVED FLYER FOR SPINNING MACHINERY."-A
communication from abroad by Thomas Mayor and George Chatterton,
both of Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America.
Sealed the 31st March 1871, and dated the 14th February 1871.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said William Robert Lake
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition
and Declaration, on the 14th February 1871, pursuant to the 9th
Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "AN IMPROVED
FLYER FOR SPINNING MACHINERY," and have petitioned Her Majesty to
grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal
Letters Patent for the same, and have made solemn Declaration that it

page_text: has been communicated to me from abroad by Thomas Mayor and
George Chatterton, both of Providence, Rhode Island, United States of
America.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Robert Lake, do hereby
declare that the following Complete Specification under my hand and
seal fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawing forming a
part of this Specification :-
This Invention relates to an improvement in the devices for holding
the roving or yarn by friction at some point before the yarn enters the
orifice of the side tube of the flyer to enable the yarn lying between
the point where it is so held and the delivery rollers to receive a uniform
twist.
The said Invention consists in extending the neck of the flyer by
means of a tube or equivalent device below the neck proper or point of
junction with the bows, and furnishing such extended neck with a
lateral orifice to allow the yarn to be conducted partially around the
outside of such tube before being conducted into the side delivery tube.
The most convenient way of employing this Invention is exhibited in
the Drawing, especially in case flyers of old construction are to be
supplied with this improvement.
Figure 1 is a view of the flyer with the said improvement; Figure 2 is
a view of the device used with the flyer, which constitutes the said
improvement; Figure 3 is an end view of the same.
A, Figure 2, is a tube which may be of metal, glass, or other preferred
material, and is to be inserted in the usual orifice in the axis of the neck
of the flyer, as seen in Figure 1. Near the lower end of this tube an
orifice a is made in its side, the location of which should be in nearly
the same plane as the mouth 6 of the side tube, and upon that side of
the tube which will give the requisite amount of friction to the yarn
in
its passage to the side delivery tube. For convenience in piecing up a
slit c should be cut from the bottom edge of the tube A to the orifice a;
B, B, are the bows.

page_text: Those practically acquainted with operating machinery for spinning
yarn will understand the advantages of the improvement described. The
yarn that is being twisted, on account of the small diameter of the
tube A, describes the figure of a cone with a much smaller base than if
the yarn was wound partially around the outside neck of the flyer, while
all the advantage of the application of friction to prevent untwisting is
secured. Besides this the operation is no more embarassed in mending
broken ends than in the use of flyers of old construction not having the
frictional application.
It is quite obvious that devices which will perform all the functions of
the extended tube described can be used as a substitute therefor. As,
for example, a wire with a hooked end or split leading eye can be
attached to the under side of the neck of the flyer and effect sub-
stantially the same result when the yarn is made to drag over its surface
in being led to the delivery tube. Some advantage would exist in this
device over the tube described from the fact that the wire could be so
shaped as to cause the yarn while twisting to stand in a line almost
coincident with the axis of the neck of the flyer.
Having thus fully described the said Invention as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondents, I wish it understood that I claim the
improvement in flyers, which consists in extending the neck downward
below the junction with the bows B, B, by means of the tube A con-
structed as described, or the equivalent thereof, substantially as herein
specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Robert Lake, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand night hundred and savanto
Witness,
W. J. LOWE.
WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE. (L.S.)