CERTAIN NEW WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention of AND USEFUL IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR Spinning
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Warren Wattles, of the State of
Massachusetts, of the United States of America, for the Invention of
WOW HAR SEEING"
Sealed the 14th March 1873, and dated the 15th January 1873.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Joseph Warren Wattles
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 15th January 1873, pursuant to the 9th Section
of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
WARREN WATTLES, of the State of Massachusetts, of the United States
of America, send greeting.
"CERTAIN NEW
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention of
AND USEFUL IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR Spinning,” and have petitioned
Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, to grant unto me, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the
same, and have made solemn Declaration that I am the first and true
Inventor thereof.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Warren Wattles, do hereby
declare that the following Comple Specification, under my hand and

page_text: seal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, in and by the follow-
ing statement, reference being had to the accompanping Drawings
making part of my Specification.
My Invention has special reference to the rings of what are termed,
"ring and traveller spinning frames," or machines, or "ring spinning
machines," and is to effect the proper adjustment of a ring with
respect to its spindle, and also to enable the ring and its receiver to
be held together and in the ring rail by the pressure of a single screw
inserted in such rail, the nature of the Invention consisting,-
First. In an eccentric circular shanked ring, and an eccentric
circular receiver, therefor held together by a single screw going
through the receiver above the ring rail, and held to the ring rail by
another screw going into the said rail and being screwed against the
receiver.
Second. In the ring receiver constructed not only with a shank to fit
the rail socket, and with a bore eccentric with the cylindrical outer
surface of such shank, but also so made as to be capable of being sprung
or contracted upon the shank of the ring by a screw inserted in the rail,
and employed to confine the receiver in the socket of the rail.
Third. In the combination and arrangement of a single or clamp
screw with the ring rail, and with the clamping receiver, and ring of the
kind herein-before mentioned.
Fourth. In a ring gauge or centralizer for indicating when a ring is
concentric with its spindle, or as applied to and used with the spindle,
the ring and its receiver, to effect the centralizing of the ring with
reference to the spindle.
In constructing ring rails for spinning frames great difficulty has
been experienced in getting each of the sockets thereof for the reception
of the rings precisely concentric with the spindle to extend up through
such socket. When the socket is not concentric with the spindle, the
ring being concentric with the socket, the traveller while in operation
is liable to wear the ring unevenly, and as a consequence to have a
vibratory motion tending to render the tension on the yarn uneven,
whereby it will be improperly spun. The ring sockets of the rail may
be originally eccentric with their spindles, or may become so in time

page_text: revolving the receiver in the socket, and the ring in the receiver, be able
to bring or adjust the ring so as to be concentric with the spindle.
The ring receiver I form as a thin ring easily sprung diametrically by
the pressure of the set screw used to hold it in place in the socket of the
ring rail. In order to have the receiver readily compressible on the
shank of the ring I split transversely and radially at one point of its
circumference by sawing through the ring or removing from it a small
portion, so that the ring may not be an entire circle, such being as
shown in Figure 5, in which h indicates the opening made through the
ring.
In the Drawings A denotes the ring rail in part, B one of its sockets,
D the ring, and a the shank thereof, E the receiver, and b its shank.
The outer cylindrical surface of the shank of the ring is eccentric with
respect to the race way c and the bore of the ring. The bore of the
receiver is cylindrical and eccentric with respect to the outer surface of
the shank of such receiver, the whole being as represented in the
Drawings. The supporting flange of the ring is shown at e, and that of
the receiver is exhibited at f. The screw for holding the receiver and
the ring together and within the socket of the ring rail is seen at g as
screwed into the ring rail and radially against the outer surface of
the receiver, the cross cut or opening of the receiver is as herein-before
mentioned, shown at h.
When for the purpose of fastening the ring in an entire annular
receiver a screw is employed to go through the latter, the receiver has to
extend above the rail and to receive a clamp screw arranged about one
fourth of an inch above the ring rail, the same being as shown in
Figure 8, which is a side view of a ring rail not only having such a
receiver and a ring applied to it, but also showing a split receiver and
its ring as made and applied in my improved way; such Figure also
shows the ordinary ring without a receiver and held in place in
the rail by a single screw screwed into the latter and against the shank
of the ring.
In the said Figure 8 A denotes the rail, F the said ordinary ring,
H the ring with the elevated receiver I, and with the two fastened
together by a clamp screw 8, another screw t being employed to hold the
in the rail socket

page_text: What I term my improved receiver and ring are shown in said
Figure 8 at K and L as held together, and in the rail by a single
screw u screwed into it, and against the receiver in manner as shown in
Figure 2.
'
By examination of Figure 8 it will be seen that the top of the ring L
is no higher above the rail than is the top of the common ring F, while
that of the elevated ring H is of necessity much higher; this extra
elevation of the ring above the ring rail causes the yarn to be laid out of
place or too high on the bobbin. With my improved ring and receiver,
held together and to the rail by a single screw as described, will be no
such improper laying of the yarn on the bobbin.
The ring gauge or centralizer consists of a cylinder or slightly
tapering conical frustum provided with a handle w and having a hole
or passage x made axially through it, the hole being to correspond in
diameter with the spindle at its largest diameter or thereabouts. The
part is to have a diameter corresponding with that of the inner
circumference of the race of the ring.
In using the ring gauge it is to be placed on the spindle so as to be
concentric therewith and be dropped upon the ring; on the ring and its
receiver being revolved so as to bring the ring concentric with the
spindle, the gauge will drop into or through the ring and thereby
indicate that the ring and the spindle are concentric.
I claim as of my Invention the following, viz, the eccentric circular
shanked ring and the eccentric circular or circular shanked receiver, held
together and to the ring rail by two separate screws, one being above the
rail and going through the receiver, and the other going into the rail and
being screwed against the receiver.
Also the ring receiver constructed not only with a shank to fit the
rail socket and with a bore eccentric with the cylindrical outer surface
of the said shank, but also so made as to be capable of being sprung or
contracted upon the shank of the ring by a screw inserted in the rail
and employed to confine the receiver in the socket of the rail, all being
substantially as shown and described.
Also the combination and arrangement of the single screw with the
ring rail and with the clamping or contractile receiver and its ring,
substantially as described.

page_text: Also the ring gauge or centralizer for application to the spindle and
the eccentric ring or as used therewith, and with the receiver for
effecting the centralizing of the ring with reference to the spindle.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Warren Wattles have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of December,
A.D. 1872.