IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES to be as follows:
Year: 1885

page_text: We, JOHN WAUGH DAWSON, Cotton Spinner, and HENRY SIMPSON, Carder, both
of Cross Heath Mills, Wolstanton, in the County of Stafford, do hereby declare the
nature of our Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR SPINNING AND
DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES to be as follows:-
"
This Invention relates to certain improvements in or applicable to the spindle
mechanism of machines for spinning and doubling cotton and other fibrous
substances.
The present improvements consist essentially in combining with a vertically
reciprocating lifting rail adapted for carrying a series of revolving spindles, and
combined with suitable means (of the character but not necessarily of the arrange-
ment described in the Specification of former Letters Patent N° 13,208 of 1884
granted to us) for imparting such a movement to the rail, and also for imparting.
a differential revolving motion to such spindles, a series of revolving spindles
constructed and adapted substantially in the manner hereinafter described.
The upper end of each such differentially revolving spindle is made of a tapering
or conical formation, and carries a conical piece upon which the cop is directly
wound, and from which it is removable when wound, and which only has contact
with and a bearing upon the spindle at its own upper and lower ends, its inter-
mediate portion not touching the spindle.
By this improved means and peculiar combination of parts the required amount
of drag is most easily obtained, as the piece upon which the cop is wound depends
for its movement and co-operation with the spindle, entirely upon its frictional
contact therewith, and when spindles of such improved construction are used in
combination with a vertically reciprocating lifting rail, and with suitable means
for automatically giving such movement to the said rail, and also for imparting
at the desired points a differential speed to the spindles, the winding of the cop
is perfectly attained with the proper or most advantageous amount of drag at
every part.

page_text: In lieu of the ordinary flyer we further combine with such apparatus above an
upper fixed rail and in such a manner as to be capable of being rotated quite
independently of the spindle a tube or extended ring of sufficient length of the
kind described in the Specification of our said former Letters Patent and having at
its upper edge an eye or twirl like that of an ordinary flyer for the thread to pass
through; this improved formation meets with less resistance from the air than the
ordinary flyer and prevents the ballooning of the thread, and when adapted as
herein described remains revolving without any movement of elevation while the
movable lifting rail carrying the revolving spindles partakes of the rising and
falling movements given to it.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: and other Fibrous substances.
We, JOHN WAUGH DAWSON, Cotton Spinner, and HENRY SIMPSON, Carder, both
of Cross Heath Mills, Wolstanton, in the County of Stafford, do hereby declare the
nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
This Invention relates to certain improvements in or applicable to the spindle
mechanism of machines for spinning and doubling cotton and other fibrous
substances.
The present improvements consist essentially in combining with a vertically
reciprocating lifting rail adapted for carrying a series of revolving spindles and
combined with suitable means (of the character but not necessarily of the arrange-
ment described in the Specification of former Letters Patent No 13,208 of 1884
granted to us) for imparting such a movement to the rail, and also for imparting
a differential revolving motion to such spindles, a series of revolving spindles
constructed and adapted substantially in the improved manner hereinafter described
and illustrated on the accompanying drawings in which latter the improved
construction is represented in elevation in Fig. 1, and in sectional elevation in
Fig. 2.
1, represents one of such differentially revolving spindles, the upper end, 2, of
each of which is, in accordance with the present improvements, made of a tapering
or conical formation, and carries a conical piece, 3, upon which the cop, 4, is
directly wound, and from which it is removable when wound, and which conical
piece, 3, only has contact with and a bearing upon the spindle at its own upper
and lower ends, 5, 6, its intermediate portion not touching the spindle; as most
clearly seen in Fig. 2.
By this improved means and peculiar combination of parts the required amount
of drag is most easily obtained, as the piece, 3, upon which the cop, 4, is wound
depends for its movement and co-operation with the spindle, 1, entirely upon its
frictional contact therewith; and when spindles of such improved construction are
used in combination with a vertically reciprocating lifting rail, and with suitable
means for automatically giving such movement to the said rail, and also for
imparting at the desired points a differential speed to the spindles, the winding of
the cop is perfectly attained with the proper or most advantageous amount of drag
at every part.
The said lifting rail, and the means of actuating it and of actuating the spindles
as aforesaid are not illustrated on the accompanying drawings, as, as aforesaid, they
may be of the kind described and illustrated in the Specification and drawings of
our said former Letters Patent or of any other suitable kind.
In lieu of the ordinary flyer we further combine with such apparatus above an
upper fixed rail carrying the parts illustrated, and in which the sockets, 7, of the
spindles, 1, are inserted and secured in position by nuts, 8, and in such a manner

page_text: as to be capable of being rotated quite independently of the spindle, 1, a tube, 9,
or extended ring of sufficient length of the kind described in the Specification of
our said former Letters Patent, and having at its upper edge an eye or twirl, 10,
like that of an ordinary flyer for the thread to pass through: this improved
formation meets with less resistance from the air than the ordinary flyer and
prevents the ballooning of the thread, and when adapted as herein described
remains revolving without any movement of elevation while the said lifting rail
rises and falls according to the motion given to it carrying the differentially
revolving spindles with it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim; is
In machines for spinning and doubling cotton and other fibrous substances.
1. The combination with a vertically reciprocating lifting rail adapted for
carrying a series of revolving spindles and combined with suitable means for
imparting such a movement to the rail and also for imparting a differential
revolving motion to such spindles, of a series of revolving spindles constructed and
adapted substantially in the improved manner herein before described.
2. The further combination with such apparatus of the herein before described
improved tubular or extended ring formation of flyers in such a manner as that
such flyers can be rotated quite independently of the rising and falling or revolving
movements given to the spindles substantially as described.
3. The herein before described improved construction of differentially revolving
spindle, the same consisting essentially in tapering the upper end thereof and in
adapting thereto a conical piece (upon which the cop is directly wound) in such a
mauner as to have contact therewith and a bearing upon the spindle at its own
upper and lower ends, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described.
4. The herein before described improved construction of flyer, the same consisting
essentially in the formation thereof of a tubular or extended ring formation provided
at its upper edge with an eye or twirl substantially as and for the purpose herein-
before described.
A
1
1