IMPROVEMENTS CONNECTED WITH CAPS EMPLOYED IN SPINNING AND TWISTING FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1884

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I, JOSHUA CHARLES ROUSE of Bowling Dyke Mills, Halifax, Yorkshire, Worsted
Spinner do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
CONNECTED WITH CAPS EMPLOYED IN SPINNING AND TWISTING FIBROUS
MATERIALS," to be as follows:—
The objects of my Invention are two fold.
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Firstly. To be able to employ a spool with a flange larger in proportion to the
diameter of the barrel than has hitherto been possible, whereby I can place more
yarn upon the spool than can now be done with the cap commonly used for a spool
with a barrel of that diameter and consequently increase the time which a spinning
or twisting frame can run without being stopped to change the spools.
Secondly. To give increased facilities for finding the broken end on the spool in
spinning or twisting, without the necessity of removing the cap from the spindle as
is now frequently the case.
To carry out my Invention and enable me to perform the objects above
mentioned I make use of the ordinary cap, on the bottom rim of which I place a
ring, or segments of a ring or flange. Over this cap I then slip a conical, or other
suitably shaped tube or sleeve, made of any suitable materials, the upper or
contracted end of which fits onto the ring or flange formed on the bottom of the
cap, the base of the tube or sleeve being larger than the flange of the spool.
In the process of spinning or twisting the thread is wound on the barrel of the
spool until the bottom part of the cone formed in winding is equal in diameter to
the outer edge of the flange of the spool, and as the loose conical tube or sleeve can
be of any suitable diameter in any of its parts, it necessarily follows that I can use
spools with flanges much larger in proportion to the barrel than is now possible
with the same diameter of cap; consequently without increasing the diameter of
the cap I can form spools containing a greater quantity of yarn, and when the end
of the thread is broken instead of lifting the cap off the spindle to find it, I simply
lift up the conical tube or sleeve.
As the rim of the cap is often damaged by removing the cap so frequently to
find the broken end, the risk of doing so is very much reduced, as its removal for
such purposes is now rendered in most cases unnecessary.
Deted this 2nd day of May 18QA
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Patent Agents, Halifax,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I, JOSHUA CHARLES ROUSE of Bowling Dyke Mills; Halifax, Yorkshire, Worsted
Spinner do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
CONNECTED WITH CAPS EMPLOYED IN SPINNING AND TWISTING FIBROUS
MATERIALS," and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The objects of my Invention are two fold.
Firstly. To be able to employ a spool with a flange larger in proportion to the
diameter of the barrel than has hitherto been possible, whereby I can place more
yarn upon the spool than can now be done with the cap commonly used for a spool
with a barrel of that diameter, and consequently increase the time which a spinning
or twisting frame can run without being stopped, to change the spools.
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Secondly. To give increased facilities for finding the broken end on the spool in
spinning or twisting without the necessity of removing the cap from the spindle as
is now frequently the case.
In order that my Invention and its advantages may be better understood I herein
give reference to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, wherein Fig. 1 is section of
an ordinary cap A and an ordinary' spool B, showing as much thread on the barrel
of the spool as can be wound thereon.
As is well understood by those conversant with the trade, the flange of a spool
'must be no larger than the inner diameter of the cap, in consequence of a portion
of the said flange entering the cap each time the lifting rail is at its highest lift.
In order therefore to wind an increased quantity of thread upon a spool when using
a cap of ordinary diameter with a spool having a barrel of ordinary diameter,
I employ a loose sleeve C which is slipped onto the cap A as shown in Fig. 2 which
illustrates my improvements.
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By the employment of this loose sleeve, the bottom of which is larger in diameter
than any part of the cap I am enabled to increase the size of the flange on the spool
to any practical size, by which means a much greater quantity of thread can be
wound on a spool of a given diameter of barrel than can now be done, which is a
great desideratum, as will be well understood by those in the trade, because with
winding more thread upon each spool, the machine can be run longer without
stopping for changes. On a close examination of the Drawing, it will be observed
that the same diameter of spool barrel is employed in both illustrations, but that
with the aid of the sleeve C, a larger flanged spool can be employed holding fully
twice as much thread as the small flanged spool as shown in Fig. 1.
In addition to the advantages mentioned above, the loose sleeve is found very
advantageous when the thread is broken because instead of lifting the cap off the
spindle to find such broken end as is now the case, it is simply necessary to lift up
'the loose sleeve; and as the rim of the cap is often damaged by removing the cap
so frequently to find broken ends, the risk of doing so is much reduced, as its
removal for such purposes is now rendered in most cases unnecessary.
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In conclusion I would remark that the loose sleeve is prevented slipping off the
cap by having the rim of the cap slightly thickened; or other suitable means may
be employed so as to admit of the sleeve being easily lifted when finding broken
ends. The sleeves may be made of glass or other suitable material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I would observe that
I make no claim to an increased outer diameter of cap, as such is already shown
and described (although used for a different purpose) in prior .Letters Patent

page_text: granted to Josiah Aked, dated 17th January 1880 No. 216, but what I believe to
be new and claim is,
Firstly. The employment of the loose sleeve C when used in combination with a
cap A, whereby a larger flanged spool can be employed than formerly, and a larger
bobbin produced thereby, substantially as herein described and shown in the
Drawings.
Secondly. The use and employment of the loose sleeve C to facilitate the finding
of broken ends, substantially as set forth herein.