Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Feb., 1886.
Complete Left, 18th Nov., 1886.
Complete Accepted, 18th Jan., 1887.
We GEORGE PICKFORD of 245 Lee Street Oldham in the County of Lancaster,
Mule Overlooker, and ELI JAGGER of 281 Lee Street, aforesaid, Sheet Metal Worker
and Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of our invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is an application to Mules and Twiners whereby a
broken end or yarn is prevented flying out and coming in contact with and winding
round the adjoining spindles and thus preventing what are known as lashed ends.
In performing our invention we suspend a metal blade; by preference upon the faller
wire and which at its upper edge is provided with projections so spaced between each
spindle as to serve as guides or supports for a broken end until the same is wound
upon its own proper spindle. The surface of this plate which extends down below the
faller wire prevents the broken end getting round the spindles below such faller wire.
In some cases we make the plate in two or more pieces-capable of sliding one upon
another so as to occupy less room as the faller wire descends into closer contact with
the carriage, or we make a substitute for the lower part of this plate by suspending
thereto a piece of fabric or other suitable material and thus are enabled to make a
lighter article.
We do not confine ourselves tó suspending to the faller wire as the plate or its
equivalent can be supported on the spindle rail or upon the top of the carriage.
JOHN G. WILSON,
Agent to the Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Applicable to Mules and Twiners.
We GEORGE PICKFORD of 245 Lee Street, Oldham, in the County of Lancaster
Mule Overlooker, and ELI JAGGER of 281 Lee Street aforesaid, Sheet Metal Worker
and Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of our invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:―
The object of this invention is an application to Mules and Twiners whereby a
broken end or yarn is prevented flying out and coming in contact with and winding
round the adjoining spindles and thus preventing what are known as lashed ends.
And in order that this our said invention may be readily seen and understood we
have hereunto annexed a drawing illustrative of our improvements and will now
proceed to describe the same with the assistance of the various Figures and letters of
reference marked thereon.
Fig. 1. is a front view and Fig. 2. an end view (drawn about half size) of so much
of the spindle rail of a Mule as is necessary to explain our improvements which are
shewn applied thereto. Fig. 3. is a full sized front view and Fig. 4. an end view of
our improved metal blade shewn detached.
In all the views a. is the spindle rail of the mule. b. b. are the spindles, c. is the
front and d. the rear faller shaft, e. is the faller wire carried in the ordinary manner by
the faller sickle f.
In accordance with this our invention we suspend upon the faller wire e. a metal
blade g. (as indicated more clearly in Figs. 3. and 4.) by means of spring hooks h.
which we prefer as enabling us to remove the plate at will but it will be obvious that
other suitable fastenings might be substituted. This blade g. at its upper edge is
provided with projections q¹ as illustrated which are so spaced mid-way between each
spindle as to serve as guides or supports for a broken end until the same is wound
upon its own proper spindle.
The plain surface of this plate g. or the part which extends down below the faller
wire e. prevents the broken ends getting round the spindles b. below such faller wire.
It will be observed that this application of the metal plate g. does not interfere in
the least with the action of the faller wire e. as it crosses the spaces formed in the
plate between the projections g¹ and thus is free to act upon the yarn and produce the
winding action in the ordinary manner.
In some cases we make the plate g. in two or more parallel pieces capable of sliding
one upon another so as to occupy less room as the faller wire descends into closer
contact with the carriage, or we make a substitute for the lower part of this plate by
suspending thereto a piece of fabric or other suitable material-and thus are enabled to
make a lighter article.
We do not confine ourselves to suspending the fabric to the plate as it can
be suspended separately (as illustrated by side view and front view in Figs. 5 and 6

page_text: respectively) to a wire or band z. held by brackets y. fixed on the spindle rail x. or
carriage board whilst the metal plate w. hangs on the faller and thus (in this case the
plate w. and the fabric would be disconnected.
It will be apparent that these improvements are equally applicable to new or existing
Mules or Twiners.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of our invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :—
The improvements in or applicable to Mules and Twiners substantially as and for
the purposes herein before described.
JOHN G. WILSON,
Agent for the Applicants.