Attaching Gills thereto.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Apr., 1887.
Specification Accepted, 27th May, 1887.
Attaching Gills thereto.
I, JOHN COUSIN HORSFALL, of Hayfield Mills, Cross Hills, in the County of York,
Worsted Spinner, 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 has for its object the construction of fallers and the securing of gills
thereto in such a manner that, the strength of the fallers is not reduced by drilling
for the reception of rivets required for securing the gills; also to dispenso with
soldering the gills to the fallers, an operation now required in addition to the rivets
for securing the gills in position: and consists in forming one end of the plate of the
gill, with a V or other shaped groove, the opposite end of the plate being cut at an
angle;
and the faller bar I prepare in a similar manner for the reception of the gills,
each of which is held in its position by a screw passing through the faller into one
end of the gill.
In order that my invention may be better understood, I will further describe the
same by referring to the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 represents the
elevation of such portions of a faller as are necessary to illustrate my invention.
Fig. 2 is a sectional plan through line a. b. the gill being removed from the faller, and
Fig. 3 is a plan of a gill.
The gill is indicated by the letter A. having the end at B recessed with a V shaped
or other groove, the opposite end at being cut to an angle somewhat as shewn.
The faller bar DI prepare with overhanging pieces D', and the vertical ends 12
between the body of the faller bar and the said overhanging pieces, I cut to correspond
with the two ends B and C of the gill, which is made to fit tight under the said over-
hanging pieces D', and is further secured therein by passing a screw G through one
of the said overhanging pieces; the screw being of such length that, the end enters
into a hole formed for the purpose in one end of the gill.
The fallers are placed in the preparing or other machine in which they are used so
that, as the fibre is being drawn through the gills, it has a tendency to press the latter
in the direction of the arrow, therefore to tighten and further secure them in the

page_text: faller bars; and by securing them in the manner described, I dispense with the usual
soldering and the drilling of holes for the reception of rivets through the body of the
faller bars at H, which so reduces the strength that, the bars frequiently break through
the portion where the rivet holes are bored.
By securing gills to the faller bars in the manner described, the former can be
readily changed whenever required for replacement or repair of damaged pins.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
The hereinbefore method of securing gills to faller bars, the essential novelty of
such method consisting in placing the gills between the vertical ends D2 and the
overhanging pieces D and body of faller bars, substantially in the manner shewn and
described.