IMPROVEMENTS IN THE SPINDLES AND FLIERS. OF SPINNING FRAMES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the "International
Patent Office," No. 8, Southampton Buildings, London, Consulting
Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE SPINDLES AND
FLIERS. OF SPINNING FRAMES."-A communication from abroad by John
Goulding, of Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Sealed the 7th January 1870, and dated the 21st September 1869.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said William Robert Lake
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition
and Declaration, on the 21st September 1869, pursuant to the 9th
Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
ROBERT LAKE, of the "International Patent Office," No. 8, Southampton
Buildings, London, Consulting Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE SPINDLES-AND FLIERS OF SPINNING FRAMES," and have petitioned Her
Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have made solemn Decla

page_text: ration that it has been communicated to me from abroad by John
Goulding, of Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Robert Lake, do hereby
declare that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and
seal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawing forming
a part of this Specification :-
This Invention relates to the construction and arrangement of spindles
and fliers of spinning frames with reference to such relative disposition
of them as shall cause the lateral movement of the spindle to be con-
trolled by the flier, the stem of the spindle above the bobbin having a
bearing in the flier so as to be supported in an upright position and kept
from vibrations thereby while left free to rotate relatively to as well as
with the flier.
The said Invention consists in a spindle and flier, the foot of the
spindle of which is supported in a step or socket bearing, while its
upper part or stem extends up between the flier arms, and is encircled.
by a disk or collar fixed to the flier, the spindle playing freely in a
vertical direction through the collar, but being held in an upright
position and kept from lateral vibrations by being so encircled.
The Drawing represents two spindles and fliers embodying these
improvements.
A shews a flier in which the flier arms are fixed to an open frame
composed of a series of rings united by a series of vertical rods, and B
a flier, having arms attached to rings placed upon a long tube projecting
down from the neck of the flier. a denotes the foot of the spindle;
b, the whorl upon which rests the bobbin c; d, the stem of the spindle;
e, e, denote the flier arms. At A these arms are shewn as springing
from a ring f, their shanks extending through this and another and
parallel ring g above it, and these rings being fixed to a series of
vertical rods depending from the flier neck i. The spindle stem
passes through the rings f, g, and up into the tubular flier neck, as
seen at A, and the rings are also made large enough to allow the bobbin
stem to run freely through them. At a short distance below the flier
neck the rods / carry a collar k, through which is a central eye l,
which just admits (and allows to slide through it) the spindle stem.
The flier neck being mounted in suitable bearings and rotated by

page_text: suitable mechanism, and the spindle foot resting in a suitable socket
bearing on the spindle rail, it will be obvious that as the spindle
rises and falls and is rotated by the drag of the yarn the spindle will
be supported in an upright position by the collar bearing, and will
be susceptible of running at great speed without vibration, the collar
permitting it to slide vertically, but effectually preventing lateral move-
ment of it. Under this arrangement the spindle is not only driven
with much less friction than when it is supported and rotates in
bearings in the ordinary manner, but the speed of the flier may be
increased from five thousand to fifteen or even twenty thousand
revolutions per minute by reason of this provision for controlling
lateral sway or vibration of the spindle stem, which tendency to
vibration limits the speed of a spindle having a stem laterally
unsupported, too great vibration creating an undue stress upon the
yarn and causing it to break. The construction shewn at B is essentially
the same as at A, the tubular flier neck extending down to the lower
ring f, and having within it an inwardly projecting ring or collar m for
supporting the stem of the spindle as it slides vertically through the same.
Having thus fully described the said Invention, as communicated
to me by my foreign correspondent, I claim, a flier and its spindle, which
spindle standing upon a socket bearing has its stem supported in a
vertical position by a suitable collar or collars fixed to the flier, the stem
sliding vertically through the flier collar or collars, and being kept from
lateral vibration thereby.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Robert Lake, have here-
unto set my hand and scal, this Twenty-first day of September,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
nine.
30 Witness,
WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE. (L.S.)
THO. N. PALMER,
Clerk to Messrs. Haseltine, Lake, & Co.,
8, Southampton Buildings,
London.