CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-ACTING MULES
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Oddy, of the Firm of Samuel Oddy and
Sons, of Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Maker, for
the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-ACTING MULES."
Scaled the 16th June 1871, and dated the 21st December 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Oddy at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st December 1870.
I, SAMUEL ODDY, of the Firm of Samuel Oddy and Sons, of Salford,
5 in the County of Lancaster, Machine Maker, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-ACTING
MULES," to be as follows:-
:-
My Invention is applicable to the winding-on motion of self-acting
mules, and it consists of an improved combination of machinery for giving
Omotion to the spindles at the same moment that the carriage commences
running in, by which means snarls are avoided.

page_text: In performing my Invention I connect a rod to the faller leg or to
any other part of the mule that is put in motion previous to the running
in of the carriage, and in this rod is an inclined slot or other equivalent
which acts on the spring connected to the catch of the winding-on
ratchet wheel, so that when the fallers are locked the catch instantly
drops in gear with the said ratchet wheel, thereby starting the spindles
at the same moment as the carriage begins to run in, and preventing
the over-running of the backing off.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Samuel Oddy in the Great Scal Patent Office on
the 20th June 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
ODDY, of the Firm of Samuel Oddy and Sons, of Salford, in the County
of Lancaster, Machine Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Samuel Oddy, Her special licence that I,
the said Samuel Oddy, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Samuel Oddy, 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, excrcise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-ACTING
MULES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Samuel
Oddy, 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 Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Oddy, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (that is to say) :-
:―
My Invention is applicable to the winding-on motion of self-acting
mules, and it consists of an improved combination of machinery for
giving motion to the spindles at the same moment that the carriage
commences running in, by which means snarls are avoided.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily
carried into operation, I will proceed to describe the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, which represents a convenient arrangement of
machinery for putting the catch of the winding-on ratchet wheel into
gear at the same moment that the fallers are locked; but I wish it to be
understood that I do not limit myself to the precise arrangement shewn
as the machinery must be adapted to the peculiar construction of the
self-acting mule to which my Invention is applied.
Fig. 1 represents part of the carriage of a self-acting mule to which
my improved machinery is applied, and Fig. 2 is a plan of the same.
a is a section of the carriage square; b, the faller shaft; c, the
counterfaller shaft; d, a curved lever fixed to the faller shaft to which
the faller leg e is suspended; f is the shaft of the tin drum by which
the spindles are driven, on this shaft is keyed the disc g to which the
catch his jointed; this catch takes into the teeth of the winding-on
ratchet wheel i which is loose on the shaft f. All the parts above
enumerated are made in the ordinary manner. My improved machinery
consists of the lever j which is loose on the shaft f, and on the boss of
which is mounted the spring k; one end of this spring enters between
the studs projecting from the catch h, as usual. The lever ; is made
with a slot, in which is fixed the adjustable stud 1, which takes into
the inclined slot m¹ in the flat end of the rod m, thre other end of the
rod m is provided with a stud fitting in the slot e¹ in the faller leg c.
The flattened end of the rod m is guided in a bracket n fixed to the
carriage.
The mode of operation is as follows, and the full lines in the Drawings
represent the parts in the positions they occupy when the carriage is
going out, or when the twisting at the head is taking place, but as soon
as the faller shaft is moved to lock the fallers the faller leg e assumes
the position shewn in dotted lines, thereby moving the rod nt in the

page_text: direction of the arrow, and causing the inclined slot m¹ to depress
slightly the stud 7 and lever j, thereby causing the end of the spring /
to bring the catch into gear with the teeth of the winding on ratchet
wheel; by this means the spindles are started at the same moment as
the carriage begins to run in, consequently the over-running of the
backing off is prevented. In some cases the lever j hangs down from
the shaft f, and is connected by a rod without an inclined slot to the
faller leg, or to any other convenient part of the locking motion.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, and described a
convenient mode of performing the same, I wish it to be understood
that I do not limit myself to the details given, but that I claim as
my Invention, the parts for connecting the faller leg or any other
part of the mule that is put in motion previous to the running in of
the carriage to the catch of the winding-on ratchet wheel for the
purposes described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Oddy, have hereto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of June One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-one