IM- PROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF MOUNTING THE DRIVING BANDS EMPLOYED IN GIVING MOTION TO THE SPINDLES OF SPINNING, DOUBLING, AND WINDING MACHINERY
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Leedham Binns, of Grove House, Oakenshaw
Low Moor, in the County of York, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF MOUNTING THE DRIVING BANDS EMPLOYED IN
GIVING MOTION TO THE SPINDLES OF SPINNING, DOUBLING, AND WINDING
MACHINERY."
Sealed the 16th March 1875, and dated the 28th January 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Leedham Binns at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 28th January 1875.
I, LEEDHAM BINNS, of Grove House, Oakenshaw Low Moor, in
the County, of York, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention.
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF MOUNTING THE DRIVING BANDS EMPLOYED
IN GIVING MOTION TO THE SPINDLES OF SPINNING, DOUBLING, AND WINDING
MACHINERY," to be as follows :-
The Invention has for its object improvements in the mode of mounting
the driving bands employed in giving motion to the spindles of spinning,

page_text: doubling, and winding machinery, whereby the friction of driving is
materially reduced, and the driving bands are caused to last much longer
than bands mounted in the mode usually adopted.
For this purpose I mount the drum or cylinder in its bearings at such
a height with respect to the pulleys or "warles" on the spindles that
when a band is stretched from a pulley or warle on one side of the frame
to a pulley or warle on the other side of the frame the said band shall
be capable of running clear of such drum or cylinder. I also cause one
band to drive either two or four spindles, and I arrange the bands to
pass from a pulley or warle on one side of the frame to the drum or
cylinder, around which it takes a complete turn; it then passes diagonally
to a pulley or warle on the other side of the frame, whence it may
return direct to the first-mentioned pulley or warle, and in doing so it
will pass clear of the drum or cylinder.
If desired each band may pass partly around two pulleys or warles on
cach side of the frame. And in order to prevent the driving bands thus
arranged from thrusting the drum or cylinder in one direction, I mount
some of the bands in one direction and some in the other, so that they
shall neutralisce each other in their thrusting action on the drum or
cylinder. By this arrangement, when using machinery of the ordinary
construction, a spindle at each end of the frame and two spindles at the
centre will require to be driven by bands otherwise arranged. Theso
last-mentioned bands will pass partly around the pulleys or warles and
partly around the drum or cylinder, guide pulleys being employed to
prevent the bands running against the edges of the warles or pulleys.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Leedham Binns in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 28th July 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LEEDHAM
BINNS, of Grove House, Oakenshaw Low Moor, in the County of York, 3
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters.
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of January, in the year
of our Lord Onc. thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-

page_text: eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto the said Leedham Binns, Her special licence
that I, the said Leedham Binns, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Leedham Binns, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MODE OF MOUNTING THE DRIVING BANDS EMPLOYED IN GIVING MOTION TO THE
SPINDLES OF SPINNING, DOUBLING, AND WINDING MACHINERY," upon the condition
(amongst others) that J, the said Leedham Binns, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one
of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Scal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE that I, the said Leedham Binns, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings here-
unto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to
say:
The Invention has for its object improvements in the mode of mounting
the driving bands employed in giving motion to the spindles of spinning,
doubling, and winding machinery, whereby the friction of driving is
materially reduced, and the driving bands are caused to last much longer
than bands mounted in the mode usually adopted.
"
In the accompanying Drawings Figure 1 represents a cross section,
and Figures 2 and 3 plan views of so much of a
cap spiuning
frame" as will enable me to describe the application of my Invention
thereto.
According to my Invention I mount the drum or cylinder a in its
bearings in the frame of the machine at such a height with respect to
the pulleys or "warles b, b, on the spindles c that when a band d is
stretched from a pulley or "warle" on one side of the frame to a
"

page_text: pulley or "warle" b on the other side of the frame, the said band shall
be capable of running clear of the drum or cylinder a as clearly shown
at Figure 1. I also cause one band d to drive either two spindles c,
as shown at Figure 2, or four spindles, as shown at Figure 3, and I arrange
the bands d to pass from a pulley or "warle" on one side of the frame
to the drum or cylinder a, around which it takes a complete turn; it then
passes diagonally to a pulley or "warle" b on the other side of the
frame, whence it may be caused to return direct to the first-mentioned
pulley or "warle," as shown at Figure 2, or if desired each band may
pass partly around two pulleys or "warles" on cach side of the frame,
as shown at Figure 3.
It will be seen that in either case the band d in passing from one side
of the frame to the other runs clear of the drum or cylinder a. And in
order to prevent the driving bands thus arranged from thrusting tho
drum or cylinder in one direction, some of the bands may be mounted
in one direction and some in the other, as will be readily understood, so
as to neutralise cach other in their thrusting action on the drum or
cylinder. By this arrangement, when using machinery of the ordinary.
construction, a spindle at each end of the frame and two spindles at the
centre will require to be driven by bands otherwise arranged. These
last-mentioned bands will pass partly around the pulleys or warles,
and partly around the drum or cylinder, guide pulleys being employed
to prevent the bands running against the edges of the warles or
pulleys, as will be well understood.
In the arrangement of spinning machinery represented in the Drawings
a weighted roller c, mounted in vertical guide slots at each end of the
machine, is employed to take up the slack of the bands produced in the
alternate rise and fall of the pulleys or "warles" b.
I would here remark that the mode herein described of arranging the
bands d of spinning, doubling, and winding machinery, although shown
applied to a "cap spinning frame," in which the pulleys or warles
are formed on or applied to hollow spindles c capable of rising and falling
upon fixed spindles f. It is also applicable to other descriptions of
spinning, doubling, and winding machinery, in which the pulleys or
"warles" with their spindles do not rise and fall when at work, and it
is also applicable in cases in which instead of using a continuous tin
drum or cylinder a, a series of driving pulleys or wheels are employed.

page_text: I would also remark that I am aware that bands have heretofore been
arranged in a somewhat similar manner to that herein shown and
described, but in such cases they were not arranged diagonally, but were
passed across the frame from one pulley or "warle" to that immediately
opposite, and other guide pulleys were employed to prevent the different
parts of each band from chafing against each other and against the drum
or cylinder a.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the mode
in which I carry the same into effect, I would have it understood that
what I claim is, mounting the bands of spinning, doubling, and
winding machinery so that they shall, when passing across the frame,
run clear of the driving drum or cylinder or pulleys, and at the same
time by their diagonal direction have no tendency to chafe as they pass
around the driving drum or cylinder or pulleys, in manner substantially
as herein shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Leedham Binns, have hereunto
set my hand and scal, this Twenty-third day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-
five.