Improvements in Self Acting or Hand Mules.
Year: 1894

page_text: Late of Application, 14th Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 12th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 16th Feb., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Self Acting or Hand Mules.
1, ARTHUR PLATT-HIGGINS, of 15 Lansdowne Road, Didsbury, in the County.
of Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
My invention relates to self acting or hand mules for spinning fibrous materials
and has for its object the detection and interception of soft or thick places or flown
ends in the spun yarn by means of clearing plates or other equivalent devices placed
between the drawing rollers and the spindles and preferably coming into operation
after the spindles have finished twisting in such a manner as to intercept the said
thick places and flown ends aud prevent them being wound upon the spindles.
Dated thin 19th dow of Movch 1804
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant.
I, ARTHUR PLATT-HIGGINS, of 15 Lansdowne Road, Didsbury, in the County
of Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, 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 :-
My invention relates to self acting or hand mules for spinning fibrous materials
and has for its object the detection and interception of soft or thick places or flown
ends in the spun yarn by means of clearing plates or other equivalent devices placed
between the drawing rollers and the spindles and preferably coming into operation
after the spindles have finished twisting in such a manner as to intercept the said
thick places and flown ends and prevent them being wound upon the spindles.
In the accompanying drawings forming part of this Specification-
Figure 1 is a side sectional elevation of part of a self acting mule to which my
improvements are applied.
Fig. 2 is a similar view omitting part of the carriage and showing the fallers in
another position.
Figures 3 and 4 are end and front elevations respectively on a larger scale
showing a clearing plate applied to the counterfaller.
Figures 5 and 6 are front and end elevations respectively showing a clearing
plate applied to the winding or copping faller.
In Figures 1 and 2,-a designates the mule carriage, b the spindle, driven as usual
by
a band c from the tin roller or drum d; e the yarn, f the winding faller shaft,
fits sickle, and fits wire or rod, g the counterfaller shaft, g¹ its sickle and g³ its
wire or rod.
In carrying my invention into effect I attach to the counterfaller wire gas
illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, and also more clearly shown in the detail views,
Figs. 3 and 4, a light metal or other suitable plate which has slots ¹ formed in it

page_text: at intervals corresponding to the number and distance apart of the spindles b. Whilst
the carriage is coming out the yarn e passes from the drawing rollers, not shown, to
the spindles
clear of both faller wires fg as shown in Fig. 1; but when the
twisting operation has been finished, and whilst the yarn is being wound on, the
faller wires occupy the relative positions shown in Fig. 2, so that each yarn e passes
through its corresponding slot in the clearing plate h by which means any thick
place in the yarn is detected and cleared or broken down.
In the alternative arrangement illustrated by Figs. 5 and 6 the slotted clearing
plate is shown attached to the winding faller wire fits action being for all
practical purposes so far as clearing the yarn is concerned identical with that
already described; but I prefer to place the clearing plate on the counterfaller
wire as in that position the broken end is less liable to be caught by an adjacent
thread of yarn.
I wish it to be clearly understood that I do not limit myself to the specific
arrangements shown and described as any suitable device for clearing the yarn
other than the slotted plate specified might be employed between the drawing
rollers and the spindles; but I consider the form of plate and its position on the
counterfaller wire as illustrated to be the most suitable appliance and convenient
place for effecting the object of my invention.
1-
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what 1
claim is :-
In a self acting or hand mule
1. The arrangement use and application of a clearing device such as the slotted
plate herein shown and described placed between the drawing rollers and the
spindles for the purpose of detecting and intercepting thick places in the spun yarn
substantially as specified.
2. The two arrangements of slotted clearing plates substantially as herein set
forth, for the purpose specified
a
day of January 1895.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for Applicant.