Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 20th July, 1887
Complete Left. 20th Apr., 1888
Complete Accepted, 25th May, 1888,
I, PAUL WALLACE, of the firm of Wallace, Vautrey and Co. of Neiley Mills, Honley,
and Bottom Hall Shed Milnsbridge, near Huddersfield, Yorkshire, Worsted Spinners,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My present invention relates to a prior Patent granted to me on the 28th day of
June A.D. 1884 No. 9515, and the object of my present improvements is to simplify
some of the parts and make the apparatus more effective. In the Specification above
referred to, a cup is mentioned, in which the nose of the cop was built, necessitating
the building up of the cop, bottom upwards, which is the reverse way to the usual
method of building cops. The said cup was fastened to a spindle by means of a key
or wing for the purpose of driving such spindle, and a slotted sleeve or tube was
employed, and made to pass through an annular space between the cup and the spindle,
the key or wing entering between the slot so as to carry the said sleeve around
with the cup and spindle. It is now my intention to form on the bottom of the
said tube or sleeve projecting needles or forks, which enter grooves or key beds
formed in the spindle, and as the forks fit closely into the grooves of the said
spindle, they will not open out by the centrifugal force of the spindle, but the
lower portion of the said needles or forks is also secured by a clip or collar
placed on the lifting rail of the machine, the said forks being long enough to
allow the building of the bobbin or cop before the bottom part of the forks reach
the bottom of the cup or wharle when the sleeve is at its highest point. The
yarn is wound upon the sleeve, and the cop or bobbin formed thereon, and in order
that the cop may be easily removed from the said sleeve, the outside of the said sleeve

page_text: is made taper. According to this arrangement of building up a cop, the bottom of
the cop is built upon the top part of the sleeve, which will be made parallel so
as to build up a firm cop, whilst the other portion of the sleeve is made taper, and
upon this taper part the nose of the cop is built.
The construction of spindle, sleeve, and cup are so formed and arranged that the sleeve
can work freely up and down between the annular spaces lying between the cup and the
spindle, and I dispense with the wing of the spindle as set forth in my prior Patent, as the
cup is now secured to the bottom part of the spindle, the grooved part therein being
thicker than the top part, which has two diameters. The cup is made secure to the
thick part of the spindle and allows the sleeve a passage between the cup until it gets
to the shoulder on the bottom part of the spindle.
Dated this 19th day of July 1987

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus Employed for Spinning, Doubling, and
Roving Wool, Cotton, and other Fibrous Substances.
I, PAUL WALLACE, of the firm of Wallace, Vautrey and Co. of Neiley Mills, Honley,
and Bottom Hall Shed, Milnsbridge, near Huddersfield, Yorkshire, Worsted Spinners,
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:-
My present invention relates to a prior patent granted to me on the 28th day of
June A.D. 1884, No. 9515, and the object of my present improvements is to simplify
some of the parts and make the apparatus more effective. In the Specification above
referred to, a cup is mentioned, in which the nose of the cop was built, necessitating
the building up of the cop bottom upwards, which is the reverse way to the usual
method of building cops. The said cup was fastened to a spindle by means of a
key or wing for the purpose of driving such spindle, and a slotted sleeve or tube was
employed and made to pass through an annular space between the cup and the spindle,
the key or wing entering between the slot so as to carry the said sleeve around with
the cup and the spindle. It is now my intention to form on the bottom of the said
tube or sleeve projecting needles or forks which enter grooves or keybeds formed in
the spindle, and as the forks fit closely into the grooves of the said spindle they will
not open out by the centrifugal force of the spindle, but the lower portion of the said
needles or forks is also secured by a clip or collar resting on the lifting rail of the
machine the said forks being long enough to allow the building of the bobbins or cops
before the bottom part of the forks reach the bottom of the cup or wharle when the
sleeve is at its highest point. The yarn is wound upon the sleeve, and the cop or
bobbin formed thereon, and in order that the cop may be easily removed from the said
sleeve, the outside of the said sleeve is made taper.
In order that my invention may be more fully understood, I herein make reference
to the accompanying sheet of Drawings wherein Fig. 1 is elevation of my improved
spindle and parts connected therewith and Fig. 2 is vertical section of same. In the
accompanying Drawings A represents the spindle, which is made of two diameters.
Upon the larger diameter I fasten a flanged conical cup B below the bottom of
which is a neck or bearing terminating in the driving wharle C employed to drive
the spindle and cup by tape, cord, or other suitable means. I place upon the upper
part of the spindle a sleeve D from the bottom of which sleeve are two long forks a
fitting into keybeds or slots 6 cut or formed in the spindle (see Fig. 4, which is
enlarged plan of spindle) by which means the sleeve is taken around or caused to
revolve with the spindle, whilst at the same time the sleeve is capable of rising and
falling upon the said spindle, for the purpose of building up the cop. This method of
securing the wharle and cup onto the spindle allows the forks a to pass freely between
the wharle and spindle. The bottom of the forks are made secure in the boss or collar E,

page_text: such collar resting upon the ordinary lifting rail of the machine, which is employed to
lift the sleeve, as the yarn is being wound thereon, by means of the traveller c working
on the top of the conical cup B.
It will therefore be seen that when commencing to wind yarn upon the top of the
sleeve the parts occupy the positions shewn in Fig. 1, and when the cop is completed,
the parts are in the position shewn in Fig. 3. The upper part of the sleeve D or that
part thereof where the foundation of the cop is built is made parallel, so as to ensure a
proper foundation for the cop or bobbin ; and in order to facilitate the removal of the
cop from the sleeve, the lower part of such said sleeve is made slightly conical or taper
as shewn more clearly in Figs. 5 and 6 which are elevation and section respectively of
the sleeve D.
The construction of spindle together with the sleeve having the long forks projecting
therefrom working in keybeds in the spindle permits the said sleeve to work freely up
and down on the spindle and yet at the same time revolve with it, this construction
being both more simple and more effective in its operation than the one set forth in the
Specification of my prior Patent and also enabling me to dispense with the wing of the
spindle specified in such said Patent.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
Firstly. In a spindle employed in doubling fibres, the combination therewith of the
sleeve D and forks a, the latter working within keybeds or slots in the spindle, for
purposes and in manner substantially as shewn and described.
Secondly. In a spindle for spinning and doubling yarns of fibre, the combination of
the slotted spindle A, made with two diameters, conical cup B, conical sleeve D) and
forks a, all arranged and operated in the manner substantially as herein shewn and
described.
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