Improvements in Machines for Spinning Flax, Hemp, Jute, and other Fibres.
Year: 1899

page_text: Improvements in Machines for Spinning Flax, Hemp, Jute, and other
Fibres.
I, HENRY MERCER GIRDWOOD, of Broughton Flax Mills, Salford, in the County
of Lancaster, Flax Spinner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
My invention relates to improvements in machines for spinning flax, hemp,
jute and other fibres,, and the objects of my invention are to economise time,
labour and waste of material.
When flax is being spun the water in the troughs through which the rovings
pass becomes very gummy and soiled so that it is necessary to clean out the
Troughs regularly, and to effect this, it is the general custom to break all the
ends of the rovings to allow of the trough being properly cleaned, and after this
has been done the rovings have all to be pieced again; in this manner much
time is lost and material spoiled or waste made.
According to my invention I avoid the necessity for breaking the rovings and
this I effect by making the dipping rod of suitable short lengths. Near to each
end of each dipping rod I secure a small arm and in each pair of arms I secure
an additional light rod parallel to and a short distance, say two inches, from the
dipping rod, and to each of the dipping rods I also connect two hooks. Each
dipping rod with its parallel rod is supported in suitable bearings cast with or
attached to the usual brackets which pass from the back to the front of the trough.
The rovings pass as usual under the dipping rods and in the space between them
and the parallel rods connected to them. When it is necessary to clean tho
trough the dipping rods with the rovings in position are lifted out of the trough
and are hung up on to the usual rove rod by the hooks and the water is then run
off. When this has been done and the rovings pushed to one side, the trough
can be readily cleaned, and when clean the dipping rods are unhooked and
placed again in their bearings in the trough, thus bringing the rovings back into
the trough, and when the rovings have been straightened the machine can be
re-started, the whole operation having been carried out without breaking the
rovings.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Spinning Flax, Hemp, Jute, and other
Fibres.
I, HENRY MERCER GIRDWOOD, of Broughton Flax Mills, Salford, in the County
of Lancaster, Flax 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:—
My mvention relates to improvements in machines for spinning flax, hemp,
jute and other fibres, and the objects of my invention are to economise time,
labour and waste of material.
When flax is being spun the water in the troughs through which the rovings
pass becomes very gummy and soiled so that it is necessary to clean out the
troughs regularly, and to effect this, it is the general custom to break all the
ends of the rovings to allow of the trough being properly cleaned, and after this.
has been done the rovings have all to be pieced again; in this manner much
time is lost and material spoiled or waste made.
According to my invention 1 avoid the necessity for breaking the rovings and
this effect by making the dipping rod of suitable short lengths as illustrated in
the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which
Figure 1 is a front elevation and Figure 2 a transverse vertical section of part
of a wet spinning machine.
Figures 3 and 4 are similar views to Figs. 1 and 2 respectively but showing one
section or short length of the dipping rod with the rovings lifted out of the
trough and hung up.
In these views, a designates the frame of the machine, the upper and a
the lower rove rod, & the trough and e the dipping rod which I make in any
convenient number of sections or short lengths.
Near to each end of each dipping rod e I secure a small arm f and in
each pair of arms f 1 secure an additional light rod g parallel to and a
short distance, say two inches, from the dipping rod c and to each of the
dipping rods o 1 also connect two hooks h. Each dipping rod c with its
parallel rod is supported in suitable bearings cast with or attached to the
usual brackets i. I prefer to square the ends of the dipping rods and to
make their bearings of corresponding form as clearly shown in Fig. 4 so that
when the dipping rod e is in its normal position the additional rod is held clear
above the level of the water in the trough d as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The
rovings pass as usual over the rove rods b, c under the dipping rods e and in
the space between them and the parallel rods y connected to them. When it is
necessary to clean the trough the dipping rods o with the rovings k in position
are lifted out of the trough d and are hung up on the upper rove rod by the
hooks and the water is then run off from the trough. When this has been done
and the rovings pushed to one side as shown best in Fig. 3 the trough can be
readily cleaned, and when clean the dipping rods e are unhooked from the rove
rods and placed again in their bearings in the trough thus bringing the rovings k
back into the trough, and when the rovings have been straightened the machine
can be re-started, the whole operation having been carried out without breaking
the rovings.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what
I claim is :-
In a wet sinning frama

page_text: for lifting them with the rovings in position out of the trough and hanging up the
rods without breaking the rovings while the trough is being cleaned.
2. The combination with each section or short length of the dipping rod and
its bearings, of an additional rod held by connecting arms parallel thereto and
preferably clear of the water whilst in the trough, and a pair of hooks for sus-
pending each dipping rod with the rovings during cleaning all substantially as
and for the purposes herein set forth.
3. The general construction, combination, and arrangement of parts substan-
tially as and for the purposes herein described with reference to the accompany-
ing drawings.
Dated this 1st day of February 1900
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant, 17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.