IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR SPINNING, DOUBLING, REELING, AND WING COMMON AD MAMERTAT
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Birkby Arundel, of Cheetham, Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Machine Maker, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR SPINNING, DOUBLING, REELING, AND
WING COMMON AD
MAMERTAT "
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Birkby Arundel at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st December 1880.
HENRY BIRKBY ARUNDEL, of Cheetham, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Machine Maker. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR
SPINNING, DOUBLING, REELING, AND WINDING COTTON OR OTHER MATERIAL."
This Invention has for its object improvements in machinery or apparatus for
spinning, doubling, reeling, and winding cotton or other material.
I provide the spindles in spinning and doubling machines with anti-friction
bearings composed of wheels or rollers. These wheels or rollers I arrange around
the spindles, three being sufficient to form a complete independent bearing for
each spindle; or I make the wheels or rollers of such diameters that one may be
arranged to act for two adjacent spindles, in which case two wheels or rollers per
spindle suffice to form a complete bearing. These anti-friction wheels or rollers
may be adjustable in position so that the spindle may be accurately levelled! by
them, and the effects of wear compensated for. Some of the wheels or rollers
(i.e., those on the side of least friction) may be made to press against the spindle
by a spring. Where the wheels or rollers only form a partial bearing I apply them
to support the spindle where the principal pressure is, and on the opposite side the
spindle may be supported by a fixed surface. When two bearings of each spindle
are formed by anti-friction wheels or rollers the top and bottom arrangement of
wheels or rollers may be independent of each other, or a double arrangement of
wheels or rollers may be adopted, each anti-friction-wheel-shaft having a wheel (or
roller) at each of its ends. The spindles may be tubular. I also mount the axles

page_text: of the tin cylinders in spinning and doubling machines upon anti-friction wheels
or rollers.
My improvements in swifts or flies for reels consist as follow:-
1. In bracing together the fixed staves by diagonal tie-rods, and making the
frames to which the staves are fixed, and which are placed at suitable distances
apart, so as to form efficient struts between each pair of staves. The swift thus
becomes a series of connected lattice girders arranged round its centre. Great
stiffness is thus obtained without the aid of the central shaft or pipe, which may
therefore be dispensed with, short shafts only being required at each end to form
the bearings and to carry the driving gear.
2. In forming the swift as a hollow polygonal wooden box, of which the corners
or corners prolonged form the fixed staves, and to the sides of which the jointed
staves are suitably hinged.
3. In the method of connecting the moveable or jointed staves. In the first
case the staves are made to turn on an axis parallel to the centre of swift, and
situated near the inside edge of the moveable stave.
Sectors of wheels are attached to each stave opposite to each other, and each
gearing into a wheel loose upon the axis of the swift. To this wheel a handle is
attached, which fits in a notch in a part of the swift when the jointed staves are
fully extended in working position.
Before doffing, the handle is pulled out of the notch, and by turning it through a
small arc the jointed staves are all simultaneously moved from their radial to a
flat position, thus releasing the hanks for doffing. After doffing, a reverse turn of
the handle or a pull at one of the jointed staves moves them all simultaneously
into working position, and the handle springing into the notch secures them there;
or instead of the sectors studs may be attached to each of the jointed staves, taking
into slots in a plate loose on the axis of the swift. By turning this plate round
the slots acting on the studs turn the staves flat; the plate like the wheel must be
locked by a catch in working position.
4. In connecting the staves with the framework of the swift by short links
similar to those used for the ordinary "drop-fly," which recede bodily towards the
centre of the swift with a motion similar to that of a parallel ruler. Each of these
staves I connect by a connecting rod to a slide on the axis of the swift, which
slide is held in working position by a catch or lever that can be raised to allow the
slide to pass when the staves are dropped for doffing. The catch or lever falls into
position again when the staves are again extended and a spring catch holds it
there.
Lastly. My Invention has reference to the guides for upright spindle winding
frames, in which the yarn is wound on tubes without ends in the form of a
cylindrical or conical bobbin, and consists in the application of a plate of metal or
other equivalent hinged to the guide rail, and extending past the position at which
the yarn is delivered on to the bobbin. This small plate, of which there is one for
each bobbin, has a slit in it which forms the guide for the thread, the direction of
the slit being across the bobbin, and the plate is so formed and placed that either
by its own weight, or by means of a spring, or by the action (tension) of the yarn
itself, it is always kept in close contact with the bobbin at all diameters, and thus
completely controls the disposition of the yarn on the bobbin.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Henry Birkby Arundel in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
31st May 1881.
HENRY BIRKBY ARUNDEL, of Cheetham, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Machine Maker. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR
SPINNING, DOUBLING, REELING, AND WINDING COTTON OR OTHER MATERIAL."
This Invention has for its object improvements in machinery or apparatus for
winding cotton or other material.
It has reference to the guides for upright spindle winding frames, in which the
yarn is wound on tubes without ends in the form of cylindrical, or conical, or other
shaped bobbins, or rolls, or coils, and consists in the application of a plate of metal
or other equivalent, hinged to the guide rail, and extending past the position at
which the yarn is delivered on to the bobbin, or roll, or coil. This small plate, of
which there is one for each bobbin, or roll, or coil, has a slit in it which forms the
guide for the thread, the direction of the slit being across the bobbin, or roll, or
coil, and the plate is so formed and placed that either by gravity, or by means of a
spring, or by the action (tension) of the yarn itself, it is always kept in close
contact with the bobbin at all diameters, and thus completely controls the
disposition of the yarn on the bobbin.
Referring to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings Fig. 1 is a side elevation,
partly in section, and Fig. 2 is a plan of part of an upright spindle winding frame
according to my Invention, in which the yarn is wound on tubes without ends in
the form of a bobbin, or roll, or coil. A is the guide, pivotted or hinged at B to
the plate C, screwed or otherwise fixed to the guide rail D. E represents a roll or
coil of yarn, built upon a paper tube slipped on to the metal tube or cylinder G.
This tube runs loose on the spindle F, and is driven by the friction between its
braid or washer H and the braid or washer I fixed to the spindle and rotating with
it, or the tube may be driven positively by a pin in spindle braid taking into a slot
in the underside of tube. K is a spring catch, which engages with and retains the
guide A when the latter is turned back during the operations of doffing or piecing.
The guide has two slots or gates L, M, in it, one of which, viz., M, is designed to
conduct the yarn to the bobbin, and the other, L, to increase the drag or tension of
the yarn.
In operation a paper tube is first slipped on the cylinder G, which is then placed
upon the spindle. The end or yarn is then drawn over the guide rail, dropped or
threaded through the nicks or gates L and M, and lashed on to the paper tube.
The tension or drag of the yarn immediately draws the guide towards the spindle,
and keeps it during the whole time that the yarn is being wound in contact with
the roll or coil so that the end is always delivered upon the exact spot upon which
it is to be.
Fig. 3 is an elevation and Fig. 4 a plan of a modification of my Invention as
applied to an upright spindle winding frame, in which the yarn is wound on tubes
without ends in the form of a bobbin, or roll, or coil.
In this arrangement the guide rail D is placed behind the bobbin, and the guide A
is kept in contact with the coil by means of the spring catch K, which serves both
to keep the guide in contact with the roll or coil of yarn and to retain the guide
when it is turned back for doffing or piecing.!
It will be evident that if the axis or pin on which the guide is pivotted or
hinged be inclined in a suitable direction the guide will be drawn towards the
spindle by its weight.
Figs. 5 and 6 are respectively edge and side elevations illustrating an eccentric
lifting apparatus, which may be used in connection with an upright spindle

page_text: winding frame according to my Invention. The eccentric plate N is pivotted at O
to the bolster rail and lies under the projecting edge of the braid. It has two
stops, P and Q, which serve to maintain it in either of its extreme positions. When
it is required to arrest the tube on which the roll or coil of yarn is built, the plate
is turned from the position shewn in full lines to that shewn in dotted lines, when
by reason of the eccentricity of the contour of its edge it comes in contact with
and raises the braid H from the braid I.
In my Provisional Specification I proposed to provide the spindles in spinning
and doubling machines with antifriction bearings, composed of wheels or rollers;
also to support the axles of the cylinders in spinning and doubling machinery upon
antifriction wheels or rollers; also to brace together the fixed staves of swifts or
flys for reels by diagonal tie rods, and to provide the said swifts or flys with
special means for doffing; also to connect the staves of swifts by connecting rods
to a slide held in position by a catch.
As, however, I do not now attach importance to these several matters I lay no
claim to any of them; but what I do claim as secured to me under the Letters
Patent hereinbefore in part recited is,―
In an upright spindle winding frame in which the yarn is wound on tubes with-
out ends in the form of rolls or coils the use of a guide, such as above specified,
kept in contact with the roll or coil of yarn, substantially as and by the means
hereinabove described.
Also the arrangements of yarn guiding apparatus for upright spindle winding
frames, shewn respectively in Figs. 1 and 2 and in Figs. 3 and 4 of the Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Birkby Arundel, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
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