Improvements in the Machines known as Gassing Frames and Employed for Gassing Yarns or Threads.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 6th June, 1889-Accepted, 27th July, 18-9
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Machines known as Gassing Frames and
Employed for Gassing Yarns or Threads.
I THOMAS RIVETT of Lancashire Hill Mills Stockport Cotton thread Manufacturer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
"
My invention relates to the machines known as "gassing frames and employed
forgassing" yarns or threads and consists in arrangements by which I am enabled
to dispense with the flanged bobbins hitherto used in "gassing frames" to receive the
yarn or thread after it has been operated upon.
According to my invention I cause the yarn or thread after being operated upon
by the gas flames of the gassing frame to be wound by means of a revolving drum
or surface upon a bobbin tube or spindle mounted in or upon a suitable frame cradle
or arm which frame cradle or arm is so mounted upon a suitable pivot that the
bobbin tube or spindle or the surface of the yarn or thread wound upon the said
bobbin tube or spindle will be held in contact with the revolving drum or surface by
means of a weight or spring so that yarn or thread will be wound upon the said
bobbin tube or spindle and I cause the yarn or thread to be guided to the bobbin
tube or spindle by passing through a trumpet or guide of any suitable form which
trumpet or guide is traversed to and fro as quickly and as far as may be necessary
for the formation of a " bobbin "
or "spool" of the required length and firmness.
The said trumpet or guide is moved to and fro in any suitable manner and means are
or may be provided by which the amount of "traverse" imparted to such trumpet or
guide may be varied as may be desired.
Dated this Fifteenth day of November 1888
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Machines known as "Gassing Frames" and
Employed for "Gassing" Yarns or Threads.
I THOMAS RIVETT of Lancashire Hill Mills Stockport Cotton Thread Manufacturer,
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 Invention relates to the machines known as gassing frames" and employed
for "gassing" yarns or threads and consists in arrangements by which I am enabled
to dispense with the flanged bobbins hitherto used in gassing frames to receive the
yarn or thread after it has been operated upon.
"
According to my Invention I cause the yarn or thread after being operated upon
by the gas flames of the "gassing frame" to be wound by means of a revolving drum
or surface upon a bobbin, tube or spindle mounted in or upon a suitable frame, cradle
or arm which frame, cradle or arm is so mounted upon a suitable pivot that the
bobbin, tube or spindle or the surface of the yarn or thread wound upon the said
bobbin, tube or spindle will be held in contact with the revolving drum or surface by
means of a weight or spring so that yarn or thread will be wound upon the said
bobbin, tube or spindle and I cause the yarn or thread to be guided to the bobbin,
tube or spindle by passing through a trumpet or guide of any suitable form which
trumpet or guide is traversed to and fro as quickly and as far as may be necessary
for the formation of a "bobbin or "spool" of the required length and firmness.
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The said trumpet or guide is moved to and fro in any suitable manner and means
are or may be provided by which the amount of " traverse" imparted to such trumpet
or guide may be varied as may be desired.

page_text: In the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 is a front view and Fig. 2 a side view of
so much of a machine known as a gassing frame" as is requisite to illustrate my
invention. a is the frame, cradle or arm which is mounted upon and free to be
turned on a bar b extending lengthwise of the machine and supported at intervals by
brackets c secured to the framework d of the machine. The frame, cradle or arm a is
prevented from being moved longitudinally upon the bar 6 by means of the collar b¹.
Secured to and projecting from the frame, cradle or arm a is a stud or spindle e upon
which is placed the bobbin or tube f upon which the yarn or thread is to be wound.
Projecting from the frame, cradle or arm a is a projecting part a' from which depends
a weight a such weight a² tending to turn the frame cradle or arm a in the direction
indicated by the arrow A. Whon yarn or thread is being wound upon the bobbin
tube or spindlef the weight a' tends to keep the hobbin tube or spindle for the yarn
or thread wound thereon in contact with the circumference of the drum g. The
yarn or thread to be wound upon the bobbin, tube or spindle fis conducted thereto by
means of the trumpet or guide h secured to the traverse rail j. When the yarn or
thread is to be "pieced or when the bobbin or tube f is to be replaced by another
bobbin, or tube and it is desired that the bobbin tube or spindle for the yarn or
thread wound thereon be removed out of contact with the drum g the frame cradle or
arm a may be moved by means of a lever k which is similar to that ordinarily
employed in "gassing frames" and is operated by the attendant. The franie cradle
or arm a is provided with a boss a³ against which the lever k acts when such lover k
is operated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The construction adaptation and use of the frame cradle or arm a mounted as
hereinbefore described by which I am enabled to dispense with the flanged bobbins
hitherto used in gassing frames.
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Dated this Fourth day of June 1889.