Improvements in Traverse Guides for Ring and other Spinning Frames.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Feb., 1895-Accepted, 23rd Mar., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Traverse Guides for Ring and other Spinning
Frames.
I, JAMES BURTINSHAW, of Lever Street Tin Works, Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Metal Worker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the construction of traverse guides
such as are described in the Specification of any former Patent No. 16230 of 1892
in which the guide eye is in the form of an enclosed slot with the top end of one of
the uprights or sides bent over against the other.
This invention is designed to provide for the formation of these traverse guides
from material which it is not practical to bend to the desired shape and to render it
practicable.
It consists essentially in stamping the guide out of sheet metal of V shape one
side of which is straight and the other provided with a projecting piece projecting
therefrom at any desired angle to form the top of or enclose the loop and then
pressing the two parts together or drawing one of them down until the projecting
part of the one side overlaps the upright end of the other side.
In carrying out the invention I stamp the blanks out of sheet metal iron, steel,
brass or the like of the desired thickness or quality. The blank thus formed
presents a shape with one top end projecting towards the other the sides are then
compressed together-the metal bending at the base-until they are approximately
parallel and the projecting end or nose of end overlaps the other forming an
enclosed slot. The base is then twisted or bent to the desired angle.
The stamping may also be performed by making the side with the projection
somewhat longer than the other and then bending or drawing down the base of the
longer side until the projecting upper part overlaps the other side.
Dated this 25th day of April 1894.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Traverse Guides for Ring and other Spinning
Frames.
1,JAMES BURTINSHAW, of Lever Street Tin Works, Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Metal Worker, 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 improvements in the construction of traverse guides
such as are described in the Specification of my former Patent No. 16230 of 1892
in which the guide eye is in the form of an enclosed slot with the top end of one of
the uprights or sides bent over against the other.
This invention is designed to provide for the formation of these traverse guides
from material which it is not practical to bend to the desired shape.

page_text: It consists essentially in stamping the guide out of sheet metal of V shape one
side of which is straight and the other provided with a projecting piece projecting
therefrom at any desired angle to form the top of or enclose the loop and then
pressing the two parts towards each other or drawing one of them down until the
projecting part of the one side overlaps the upright end of the other side.
The invention will be fully described with reference to the accompanying
drawings in which a short length of the traverse rod is shown sufficient to
illustrate it.
It consists essentially in stamping the guide out of sheet metal of V shape one
side of which is straight and the other provided with a projecting piece projecting
therefrom at any desired angle to form the top of or enclose the loop and then
pressing the two parts towards each other or drawing one of them down until the
projecting part of the one side overlaps the upright end of the other side.
The invention will be fully described with reference to the accompanying
drawings in which a short length of the traverse rod is shown sufficient to
illustrate it.
Fig. 1. front elevation.
Figs. 2 and 5. end elevations.
Fig. 3. plan.
Fig. 4. extended view of blank when stamped.
Fig 6. front elevation of modified form.
Figs. 7 and 8. end elevations of same.
Fig. 9. extended blank of same.
The blanks A (Fig. 4) are stamped out of sheet metal-iron steel brass or the
like of the desired thickness and quality and the blanks thus formed present
a V shape with two sides a and b inclined to each other and springing from a base c.
The upper end of the side is formed with a piece a' projecting towards the other.
side b. To complete the thread guide the two sides a and b of the blank A are
compressed or drawn towards each other-the metal bending sufficiently at the
base c-until they are approximately parallel and the projecting end or piece a¹ of
the side a overlaps the upper end of the other side b forming an enclosed slot d with
a space between the projecting end a' and the side for the yarn or thread to pass
into it. The base is then by means of suitable dies or tools twisted or bent to the
required degree to bring the inner edges of the sides a and b nearly into line when
in position on the traverse rod B.
The blank A may also be stamped as shown in Fig. 9 with the projecting piece a¹
above the end of the side b and the side a considerably longer than the side b. The
top of the slot d is then formed by drawing or bending down the longer side a at all
until the projecting part a' overlaps the end of the side b (see Figs. 6-8). The
base e as before is then bent to the desired angle.
The base c is affixed to the traverse rod B by solder, rivets, bolts or screws or
otherwise as found most convenient.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A traverse guide formed by stamping the blank out of sheet metal of
approximately V shape with a piece on the end of one side projecting towards the
other side and then compressing or drawing the two sides towards each other until
they are parallel and the projecting piece on the end of one overlaps the end of the
other to form an enclosed slot substantially as described.
2. A traverse guide constructed by being stamped out of sheet metal substantially
as described and shown.
Dated this 21st day of February 1805
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Manchester, Liverpool, and London, Patent Agents.