Improvements in Means for Holding and Lubricating the Spindles of Machines for Gilling and Drawing Wool or other Fibrous Substances, or of Machines for like Operations.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Mar., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 21st Dec., 1891-Accepted, 20th Feb., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Holding and Lubricating the Spindles
of Machines for Gilling and Drawing Wool or other Fibrous
Substances, or of Machines for like Operations.
We GEORGE RAMSDEN of the firm of Ramsden Bros. of Keighley, in the
County of York, Machine Makers, and WILLIAM WALTON of the same place,
Manager do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows, that is
to say -
In connection with machines known as gill-boxes, drawing-boxes and roving
boxes the usual and old method employed for holding the vertical spindles
in their operating positions consists of a hinged bracket mounted upon a
supporting cross rail into a recess in which it is made to fit as by being halved
thereto and in which position it is held by a well known holding catch arrangement.
The fitting or adjusting of this holding catch together with the fitting of the
hinged bracket in order to enable same to be firmly held by sand holding catch is
very costly and to obviate this excessive cost and produce holding means that are
not so readily worn lone, by which wearing the spindle is allowed to vibrate, is
the object of this invention.
To accomplish this the hinged joint of the holding bracket is so formed that
said bracket inay be freely moved in a vertical, as well as in its usual horizontal
direction while said bracket and the recess for the reception of same in the cross
rail are so constructed and shapel that when the former is dropped vertically into
the latter a perfectly rigid stay is formed for the upper end of the spindle.
The arrangement for lubricating the upper end of the spindle consists of forming
a recess in the rail in proximity with the opening therein for the reception of
the spindle, into which recess is placed a piece of fibre, felt or cloth.
Over this felt or cloth is fitted a cover through which an opening is made for
the passage of the lubricant so that the cloth etc., may become saturated by this
lubricant allowing it to be withdrawn by contact with the spindle but preventing
it from flowing too freely.
Dated this 19th day of March 1891.
G. KAMSDEN.
W. WALTON.
Per Samuel Hey,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Holding and Lubricating the Spindles
of Machines for Gilling and Drawing Wool or other Fibrous
Substances, or of Machines for like Operations.
We GEORGE RAMSDEN of the firm of Ramsden Brothers of Keighley, in the
County of York, Machine Makers, and WILLIAM WALTON of the saine place
Manager, do her by declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say :—
In connection with machines known as gill-boxes, drawing-boxes and roving
boxes the usual and old method employed for holding the vertical spindles
in their operating positions consists of a hinged bracket mounted upon a
supporting cross rail into a recess in which it is made to fit us by being halved
thereto, and in which position it is held by a well known holding catch arrange-

page_text: ment.
The fitting or adjusting of this holding catch together with the fitting of
the hinged bracket in order to enable same to be firmly held by said holding catch,
is very costly and to obviate this excessive cost and produce holding and lubricating
means that are not so readily worn loose (by which wearing the spindle is allowed
to vibrate) and that will supply the lubricant in desired quantities is the object of
this invention.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings
Figs. 1 and 2 are front and part sectional side elevations showing the upper end
of a spindle in connection with our improved holding device.
Figs. 3, 4 and 5 are top view, front and sectional side elevations enlarged scale
illustrating our said device in detail.
To attain the object of this invention the hinged joint a¹ of the holding
bracket is formed by the hole, through and in which its axial pin a' passes and
operates in its support e, being made to allow its said pin a¹ to be moved, as by
being raised into the position shewn by Figs. 4 and 5, so that said bracket a
may be freely moved in this vertical as well as in it usual horizontal direction as
when turning upon and about said pin a', while said bracket a and the recess 6 for
the reception of same in the support e (which is in place of the cross rail partly
shewn in broken lines Figs. 1, 3 and 4, said support e being attached to and carried
by a cross rail mounted lower and more within the end frames of the machine) are
so constructed and shaped (the bracket a being tapered to fit within the tapering
recess b, in which it is held by the flanges & when it has descended into the position
shewn by Figs. 1 and 2) that when said bracket a is dropped or made to descend
vertically into the said recess b a perfectly rigid stay is formed for the upper end d
of the spindle d.
The arrangement for supplying the lubricant to this end d' of the spindle d
consists of forming a recess in the support e in proximity with the opening therein
for the reception of the spindle d, into which reces is placed a piece of fibre, felt
or cloth.
Over this felt or cloth is fitted a cover g through which an opening is made
for the passage of the lubricant so that the cloth, felt or fibre fmay become
saturated by this lubricant, allowing it to be withdrawn therefrom by contact with
the spindle but preventing it from flowing too freely.
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.
1. The combination and arrangement of the bracket a with the part c, each of
these being formed and constructed substantially as herein specified and for the
purpose set forth.
2. In combination with the spindle d, the parts and 9 constructed and arranged
substantially as herein specified to attain the object set forth.
Dated this 19th day of December 1891.
GEORGE RAMSDEN.
WILLIAM WALTON.
Per Samuel Hey,
Agent.