IMPROVE- MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING FIBRES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Ripley, of Bradford, in the County
of York, Spinner and Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING FIBRES."
Sealed the 20th January 1874, and dated the 18th November 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Ripley at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 18th November 1873.
I, FREDERICK RIPLEY, of Bradford, in the County, of York, Spinner
and Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING FIBRES," to be
as follows:
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The object of this Invention is to provide efficient means for giving
drag" to or putting tension on the fibre or fibres of yarn under the
operation of "spinning" or doubling," in such a manner that the
drag or tension may throughout the operation remain under control,
and may be accurately regulated, equably maintained, and readily
adjusted.

page_text: The object is effected by varying and adjusting as may be required
the relative rotary speed of the flyer and the bobbin, such variation and
adjustment being obtained by driving the spindle and the flyer
separately, that is, with separate bands or belts or other equivalent
means, and by employing where requisite change gearing.
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I find it beneficial in order to accomplish the said object to employ
"inverted flyers' which are secured to "wharves"
or wharles
driven or caused to rotate upon bosses formed on the spindle rail in
which the spindle rotates; the latter has "wharves" or "wharles " thereon
which are driven by bands or belts, and the spindles are thereby caused
to rotate at a speed such, and so regulated relatively to the speed of the
flyers, as to induce a rotary motion in the bobbin which will secure the
drag" or tension on the yarn which is required for the proper winding
of the same on the bobbin.
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The same object may as is obvious be attained by other equivalent:
mechanical appliances, which will cause the spindle and the flyer to
revolve separately at any speed which may be desired.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Frederick Ripley in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 16th May 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
RIPLEY, of Bradford, in the County of York, Spinner and Manufacturer,
send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of November, in the 2
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in
the thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Frederick Ripley, Her
special licence that I, the said Frederick Ripley, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Frederick a
Ripley, 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

page_text: 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 MACHINERY FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING
FIBRES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Frederick
Ripley, 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 Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Frederick Ripley, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, reference being had to the accom-
panying Sheet of Drawings, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say :-
The object of this Invention is to provide efficient means for giving
a "drag" to or putting tension on the fibre or fibres of yarn under
the operation of spinning or doubling, in such a manner that the
drag or tension may throughout the operation remain under control,
and may be accurately regulated, equably maintained, and readily
adjusted.
The object is effected by varying and adjusting as may be required
the relative rotary speed of the flyers and the bobbin, such variation
and adjustment being obtained by driving the spindle and the flyer
separately, that is, with separate bands or belts or other equivalent
means, and by employing where requisite change gearing.
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I find it beneficial in order to accomplish the said object to employ
inverted flyers, which are secured to wharves ог "wharles" driven
or caused to rotate upon bosses formed on the spindle rail in which the
spindle rotates; the latter has "wharves" or
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"wharles thereon
which are driven by bands or belts, and the spindles are thereby caused
to rotate at a speed such and so regulated relatively to the speed of the
flyers as to induce a rotary motion in the bobbin, which will secure the
or tension on the yarn which is required for the proper winding
of the same on the bobbin.
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page_text: The same object may it is obvious be attained by other equivalent
mechanical appliances, which will cause the spindle and the flyer to
revolve separately at any speed which may be desired.
Such being the nature and object of this my said Invention, herein-
after following, is a complete description of the same, aided by Drawings
fully setting out and particularly describing the construction of and
the manner of operating and working the Invention.
The Drawings shew by Fig. 1 an end elevation of part of a spinning
frame having my improvements applied; Fig. 2 is a front elevation of
the same (partly in section).
At A is shewn a flyer inverted and secured to the wharve or
wharl B its bearing being the boss C secured on or in the spindle rail D,
the rotary motion of the flyer is derived solely from the cylinder E,
band F, and wharve or wharl B; the cylinder E is on the first motion
shaft F¹, on the end of which shaft is a wheel G gearing with a carrier
or intermediate wheel H, and this in turn gears with the wheel J, thus
communicating motion to the cylinder K; this cylinder by means of the
driving band or belt L and pulley M, gives the requisite rotary motion
to the spindle N on which the bobbin or tube for the yarn. P as spun or
doubled is carried.
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It will be seen that the flyer and the spindle have in the cylinders E
and K a separate and distinct source of motion, and that the relative
speed of the flyer and spindle will be determined by the relative
diameters and speed of such cylinders; these then vary (as shewn in the
Drawings) so much as to give a speed to the flyer and a speed to the
spindle, such as will induce only such rotary motion of the spindle as to
secure the " 'drag' or tension on the yarn requisite for the proper
winding the same on the bobbin or tube as and when spun or
doubled. It may however be necessary for the spinning of varying
"counts" or classes of yarn, to still further (in degree) vary or alter
the respective speed of the flyer and spindle, any such variation may be
readily effected by the substitution of a smaller or larger carrier or
intermediate wheel H; the stud H¹ on which the wheel H is carried
and works is secured by a nut in the slot hole R formed in the bell-crank
lever S. On slackening or easing the nut T the bell-crank lever S is free
to move on its fulcrum (the shaft F¹) and so and by means of the slot
hole W change intermediate wheels of the required diameter are readily

page_text: placed and adjusted properly in gear with the wheels G and J. Or in
lieu of the use of the two cylinders E and K and change intermediate
wheels the cylinder E may alone be employed and the required
regulation of the relative speed of the flyer and spindle would then be
secured, either by varying the respective diameters of the wharve or
wharl B and the pulley M, or by the use of a conical grooved speed
pulley in place of the pulley M or the pulley B.
In the Drawings an ordinary inverted flyer is shewn; "cup" flyers
also may be advantageously employed.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of this my
said Invention, together with the manner in which the same is to be
or may be performed or carried into practical effect, I would have it
understood that I claim as my Invention, the improved means of giving
a drag to or putting tension on the fibres of yarn while being wound,
by varying, regulating, and adjusting the relative speed of the flyers
and bobbins of spinning and doubling machinery, substantially as and
for the purpose herein described and illustrated in the annexed
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Ripley, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of May, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-