Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Mar., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 27th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 29th Jan., 1889
I, JAMES WHITEHEAD of 15 Rush Croft Road, High Crompton, Shaw, near Oldham
in the County of Lancashire Mule Overlooker, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in self acting mules, and in particular to an
invention for which I have applied for Provisional Protection dated March 13th 1888
& numbered 3878.
The object of this present invention is also to improve the snarl preventing motion
so as to be automatic and more certain in its action, to require no attention, to
produce a more perfect & cause the cop to receive more yarn than heretofore, besides
making such improvements also applicable to that construction of mule in which the
clutch box on the front roller shaft is actuated by means of a cam & lever and screw
spindle, the latter being arranged to be slid to and fro by a handle, in a bracket fixed
to and moving with the mule carriage.
My present invention consists in causing the said screw, the function of which is to
cause the said lever to keep the clutch box a certain time out of gear, to work
automatically by bringing the same in connection with the trail lever and back
copying plate.
To this end I suitably fix on the said screw spindle a cord pulley which is prevented
from moving sideways, and when actuated causes the said screw spindle to rotate and
slide backwards or forwards in the said bracket.
On the end of the mule carriage the copying rail or on the faller bracket near
thereto, 1 employ a double cord pulley and at the bottom of the carriage a single
cord pulley over which I run a cord, the ends of which I suitably fasten to the cord
pulley on the said screw spindle.
The said cord above the single cord pulley, is furnished with two bowls, projections,
or stops arranged a certain distance apart from each other, the cord between the said
bowls etc. passing through an eye formed in a bracket fixed to the trail lever.
Dated this 21st day of March 1888.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.

page_text: I, JAMES WHITEHEAD of 15 Rush Croft Road, High Crompton Shaw, near Oldham
in the County of Lancashire, Mule Overlooker, do hereby 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 :-
This invention relates to improvements in self-acting mules, and in particular to an
invention for which I have applied for Provisional Protection dated March 13th 1888,
and numbered 3878.
The object of this present invention is to improve the snarl-preventing motion so as
to be automatic and more certain in its action, to require no attention, to produce a
more perfect, and cause the cop to receive more yarn than heretofore besides making
such improvements also applicable to that construction of mule in which the clutch
box on the front roller shaft is actuated by means of a cam and lever, and screw
spindle, the latter being arranged to be slid to and fro by a handle, in a bracket fixed
to and moving with the mule carriage.
My present invention consists in causing the said screw spindle, the function of
which is to cause the said lever to keep the clutch box a certain time out of gear,
to work automatically, by bringing the same in connection with the trail lever and
back copping plate.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused to be
appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference indicating
like parts in the various figures.
Fig. 1 is a front view of a portion of the headstock of the mule with my
improvements applied. Fig. 2 a side view of the latter detached.
A is the back portion of the headstock. B the carriage. C the copping rail.
D the clutch box on the front roller shaft. E the snarling motion or screw spindle
bracket. F the trail lever.
In carrying out my invention and referring to the Figs. generally, I suitably fix on
the said screw spindle a, arranged to rotate and slide in the bracket E fixed to the
carriage B, a cord pulley b, which is prevented from moving sideways by being
employed in a slot formed in the bracket E and when actuated causes the said screw
spindle a to rotate and slide backwards or forwards in the said bracket E.
On the end of the mule carriage B, near the copping rail C, or on the faller
bracket c, near thereto, I employ a double cord pulley e, and at the bottom of the
carriage a single cord pulley e¹, over which I run a cord c¹ or its equivalent, the ends
of which after being passed over another pair of guide pulleys are. suitably fastened
to the cord pulley 6 on the said screw spindle a.
The said cord c above the single cord pulley el is furnished with two bowls,
projections, or stops d, d¹ arranged a certain distance apart from each other, the cord
between the said bowls, etc., passing through an eye b₁ formed in a bracket b³ fixed to
the trail lever F.

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The said stops d, d¹ and portion of the cord c¹ passing through the satu
preferably form by inserting into the cord c¹ where it passes through the eye bl of the
bracket 62, a piece of wire a¹, and by fitting thoreon, adjustably, two collars
stops d & d¹, which come into contact with the bracket b³, in order to regulate the
travel of the cord c' at will.
On the carriage B moving in, the screw spindle a, as usual, comes into contact with
the lever d³, and causes the clutch box D to be actuated at the proper time, which
hitherto has been determined by moving the said screw spindle a in or out of the
bracket E by hand, but, by providing the screw spindle a with the pulley bas
described, and bringing the same into connection with the trail lover F, it is actuated
automatically by the bracket 62 fixed thereto and coming into contact with the said
stops && d', thus governing the revolution of the front roller automatically, and
keeping the free from snarls during doffing.
yarn
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
In self-acting mules, actuating the screw spindle a, automatically from the trail
lever F and back copping plate by means of cords c¹ and bracket b² or their
equivalent, operated substantially as and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 24th day of December 1888.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester,
Agents to Applicant.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester,
Agents to Applicant.