Improvements in or connected with Driving Wheels for Wood Spools or Bobbins Used in Cotton Manufacture.
Year: 1895

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Driving Wheels for Wood Spools
or Bobbins Used in Cotton Manufacture.
I, HENRY HASLAM, of Edenfield, near Bury in the County of Lancaster,
Mechanic, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to the driving wheels carrying the wood spools or bobbins
used in cotton manufacture, and my object is to avoid waste of oil which at present
occurs in such wheels, and also to avoid the objectionable saturating of the ends
of the wood spools or bobbins with oil, which occurs with the wheels at present in
use. Such wetting with oil causes the cotton filling the spool to become stained
when the spools are placed in a skip or box. Such stains are very objectionable.
My invention consists in a method of arranging the bobbin or spool driving
wheel, so as to prevent waste of oil, while at the same time keeping the end of the
bobbin or spool quite dry and clean, and free from contact with oil.
arrangements at present in use the bobbin is slipped over a projecting sleeve,
projecting from the driving wheel, which driving wheel rotates upon a stud. The
end of the bobbin slips over the neck or sleeve of the wheel, and rests upon a
flange. The oil poured down the stud passes outside the neck of the wheel on to
the flange, and from the flange it runs in through a hole, to oil the interior
surfaces of the wheel. As the bobbin end rests upon the collar, it becomes
saturated with oil.
In the
In accordance with my invention, I arrange the neck or sleeve of the wheel to
be slightly larger in diameter than usual, and I turn a recess in its end to leave
an annular space between the upper edge of the neck or sleeve and the stud upon
which the wheel rotates. By this device the oil applied at the top flows down
the stud, and instead of passing outside of the neck or sleeve on to the flange, it
passes inside the said neck or sleeve, and does not reach the flange at all. By this
arrangement the stud is well oiled, and no oil reaches the flange of the wheel.
The end of the wood spool or bobbin thus remains quite dry, and staining of the
cotton by oil is entirely obviated.
My invention is intended for application to wheels of whatever size or con-
struction, which are used for driving the spools or bobbins on frames known as
slubbing, intermediate, or roving frames, such as are used in the preparation of
cotton fibre, and my invention consists in the arrangement of the recess I have
described, which saves oil and prevents soiling.
Daind this 04th dow of Tul. 1905
MARKS & CLERK,
18 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in or connected with Driving Wheels for Wood Spools
or Bobbins Used in Cotton Manufacture.
I, HENRY HASLAM of Edenfield, near Bury, in the County of Lancaster,
Mechanic, 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 driving wheels carrying the wooden spools or
bobbins used in cotton manufacture and the object is to avoid waste of oil, which
at present occurs in such wheels and also to avoid the objectionable saturating of
the ends of the wooden spools or bobbins with oil, which occurs with the wheels
at present in use. Such wetting with oil causes the cotton slubbing or other fibre
filling the spool, to become stained when the spools are placed in a skep or box.
Such stains are very objectionable.
Such being the nature and object of my said invention, the following is a
complete description of same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, in
which-
Fig. 1 is an elevation of the driving collar, which carries the wood spool or
bobbin, and its driving wheel in position on the ordinary and stationary long
collar.
Fig. 2 is a section of part of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a plan view of Fig. 2.
At 1 is the driving collar forming part of which is the driving wheel 2, and 3 is
the flange on which the base of the bobbin or spool rests.
Heretofore for purpose of admitting oil to the interior of the said driving
collar 1, a hole was bored obliquely through the said collar, as shewn at a, and
when the bobbin or spool was "doffed" or removed, oil was poured in at the hole a,
and through oversight, usually more or less onto the upper face of the flange 3, and
as the base of the bobbins or spools rested on this flange, the bobbins in time,
and through frequent usage, became saturated with oil, and the latter eventually
came into contact with the slubbing cotton or other fibre on the bobbin, and
further contact between the spools when in the skep, resulted in further soiling
of the slubbings or fibres, one soiling another.
On reference to Figs. 2 and 3 it will be seen that the upper part of the driving
collar 1 is recessed at 6, forming an annular or concentric chamber, convenient
for the application of oil thereto (the oil hole a being abolished), the oil is thus
kept entirely clear of the flange and exterior of the driving collar, and so the
waste and damage arising from superfluous oil are avoided, and the oil receiver 6
answers a further purpose of utility as follows:-
:-
When applying oil to the interior of the stationary long collar 7 for purpose of
lubricating the flier spindle c, which spindle rotates inside the long collar 7, driven
by bevel wheels at the foot of the spindle c, as is well understood; the practise
is to pour oil in at the top of the long collar at b, and commonly oil is, through
want of care, or by reason of too liberal application, spilt or overflows down the
outside of the long collar 7, and the chamber 6 serves as a receiver for any such
suplus, instead of permitting it to pass to the outside of the driving collar 1 and
onto the flange 3 as heretofore, such waste and the damage resulting therefrom as
heretofore are obviated, through the application and use of the annular or concentric
oil chamber as described.
The invention is intended for application in or connected with driving wheels of
whatever size or construction, which are used for driving the spools or bobbins
on frames known as slubbing intermediate or roving frames, such as are used in the
preparation of cotton fibre.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
A concentric recessed driving collar adapted and designed to provide a lubricant
chamber forming a part of and combined with the said collar, flange, and driving
wheel, as herein described, and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
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HENRY HASLAM,
By his Agents, Brierley & Howard,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax.