IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED FOR SINGEING YARNS
Year: 1875

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Hiram Jagger and Job Jagger
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 30th March 1875.
We, HIRAM JAGGER, Yarn Finisher, Bradford, and JOB JAGGER, Wool
Comber, of Queensbury, both in the County of York, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS
EMPLOYED FOR SINGEING YARNS," to be as follows, that is to say:
1
This Invention relates to employing a number of fixed cylindrical
burners having openings formed in the bottom parts to admit atmospheric
air, and perforated with holes in the tops, producing clear blue flames
through which the yarn is caused to pass, also in a simple reel gear
for removing the singed or gassed yarn, and in means of lubricating the
bobbin spindles and lighting the gas. For this purpose we employ a
number of fixed cylindrical tubes or burners, having openings formed
in the bottom parts to admit atmospheric air; the tops of the burners are
perforated, producing clear blue flames through which the yarn is
caused to pass; the cylindrical tubes or burners are fitted on gas taps,
screwed in gas tubes, fitted to a supply gas pipe, fixed in front of the
apparatus; the gas taps enable the regulating of the gas supply to the

page_text: cylindrical burners; on the gas supply pipe is fitted a small perforated
gas pipe in front and a little below the tops of the cylindrical burners,
and is for the purpose of setting light to the gas mixed with atmospheric
air coming through the cylindrical burners; the gas is shut off at the
supply pipe during the operation of taking the singed or gassed yarn off
the reel and the replacing of fresh bobbins. The operator having placed
full bobbins on the spindles, passed the yarn through eye guides, and
attached the ends to the reel, turns a tap fitted between the small
perforated pipe and the front supply gas pipe; the gas escaping through
the small holes is lighted by means of a branch pipe fitted to the supply
gas pipe, and brought to the top and at one end of the small
perforated pipe, this branch pipe has a jet of gas kept burning; the
lighted gas of the small perforated pipe communicates with the gas
mixed with atmospheric air escaping through the burners ignites the
whole of the burners at once, the tap of the perforated pipe is then
turned and the gas escaping therefrom stopped until required.
Stationary spindles are fitted in a bearer fixed at the back of the
frames; these spindles are pointed at the end, and on the spindles arc
placed metal tubes having flanges on which rest the bobbins; in the tops
of the metal tubes above the spindles are formed recesses in which
are placed felted wool or other material capable of imbibing or holding
oil or other lubricating substance; the pointed ends fit in small holes
formed in the bottom parts of the recesses; the oil or lubricating substance
escapes through the small holes and lubricates the spindles.
The reel is actuated by a strap working on a fast pulley fitted on the
reel shaft (a loose pulley is also fitted on the shaft); the reel shaft is
fitted at the end on which the fast and loose pullies are placed in a
bracket or bearer cast on one of the frames of the apparatus; the other
end of the shaft fits in a sliding bearer to allow of removing the banks of
singed or gassed yarn; the sliding bearer is fitted in guides bolted to the
side of the frame, and stops are fitted at each end of the bearer, also a
hand screw is fitted in one of the guides to secure the sliding bearer
when the reel is in its working position.