IMPROVEMENTS IN MULES AND TWINERS FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edwin Lowe, of Oldham, in the County of Lancaster,
Machine Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MULES AND TWINERS
FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES."
Sealed the 25th May 1880, and dated the 27th November 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edwin Lowe at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th November 1879.
EDWIN LOWE, of Oldham, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Maker.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MULES AND TWINERS FOR SPINNING and DouBLING COTTON
AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES."
The object of this Invention is to prevent the torsion or twisting of the faller-
sbaft employed for forming cops in this class of machinery. In consequence of the
extreme length of these shafts, they are twisted when "falling" or turning round
in forming or shaping the cop upon the spindles. My Invention is intended to
prevent this torsional straining of the faller-shafts; and the improvements consist
in placing upon each end of these shafts a pulley or pullies connected together by a
chain or rod passing around guide or friction pullies, in such manner that when the
faller shaft is turned at the head-stock end, the motion will be communicated
without torsion or twisting to the "off-end" of the said faller shaft, whereby the
evil effects which were produced by the torsional strain of the shafts are avoided,
and the cops are formed and shaped with a regularity not hitherto obtained.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Edwin Lowe in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 27th May
1880.
EDWIN LOWE, of Oldham, in the County of Lancaster, Machino Maker.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MULES AND TWINERS FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING COTTON
AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES."
The object of this Invention is to prevent the torsion or twisting of the faller-
shaft employed for forming cops in this class of machinery. In consequence of the
extreme length of these shafts they are twisted when "falling" or turning round
in forming or shaping the cop upon the spindles. My Invention is intended to
prevent this torsional straining of the faller-shafts, and the improvements consist
in placing upon each end of these shafts or pullies connected together by a chain or
rod passing around guide or friction pullies, in such manner that when the faller
shaft is turned at the head-stock end, the motion will be communicated without
torsion or twisting to the "off-end" of the said faller shaft, whereby the evil effects
which are produced by the torsional strain of the shafts are avoided.
In order that this Invention may be more fully understood, I herein give
reference to the accompanying sheet of Drawings, wherein Fig. 1 is end view and
Fig. 2 front view of so much of a mule or twiner as is necessary to illustrate my
improvements. A is the faller shaft and on each end or other part is fixed pulloys
B and C to which are attached one end of the chains, fixed to the pullies on
opposite sides of the axis of the faller shaft. The chains D pass under friction
pullies E, and are connected by adjusting screws F to the wire G. It is evident
that when the faller-shaft is turned at the head-stock end H the motion of the
pulley B will be communicated to the other pulley C through the medium of the
chain and wire, by which means both ends of the shaft moves or revolves in the
same degree, consequently the cops are shaped with that uniformity not hitherto
obtained.
Having thus described the nature of iny Invention and shewn by Drawings how
the same is to be carried into practical effect, I would have it understood that I do
not confine myself to the preciso details herein shewn and described, as some of
them can be modified without departing from the main features thereof, but what
I consider to be new within the realm, and claim as my Invention is,-
The means of communicating revolving notion froin one end of a shaft to the
other in the manner and for the purpose substantially as berein shewn and
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edwin Lowe, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Twenty second day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty.