Improvements in or appertaining to the Spindles of Mule-spinning Machinery.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Feb., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 21st Nov., 1895-Accepted, 21st.Dec., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or appertaining to the Spindles of Mule-spinning
Machinery.
I, JOSEPH BROOK, of Idle Road, Bolton, near Bradford, in the County of York,
Mechanic, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the spindles of mule spinning machinery,
and its object is to provide an efficient "button or bobbin carrier adapted to be
placed upon any of the spindles to support and drive shorter bobbins than the
spindle is made to receive.
For this purpose I employ a circular split spring or clip adapted to be passed on
to the spindle the requisite distance and owing to its springy nature grip the spindle
sufficiently to revolve with the spindle and carry the bobbin with it. This clip is
provided with a wing preferably on each side adapted to engage the staples or
notches of the bobbin.
The spring clip may be formed from the solid and have the "split" cut in it or
it may be pressed from sheet metal or from tubing. In either case one or more
coils of wire may be passed round it to increase the strength of the spring.
Dated this 20th day of February 1895.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.
Improvements in or appertaining to the Spindles of Mule-spinning
Machinery.
I, JOSEPH BROOK, of Idle Road, Bolton, near Bradford, in the County of York,
Mechanic, 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 the spindles of mule spinning machinery,
and its object is to provide an efficient "button or bobbin carrier adapted to be
placed upon any of the spindles to support and drive shorter bobbins than the
spindle is made to receive."
For this purpose I employ a circular split spring or clip adapted to be placed on
to the spindle the requisite distance and owing to its springy nature grip the spindle
sufficiently to revolve with the spindle and carry the bobbin with it. This clip is
provided with a wing preferably on each side adapted to engage the staples or
notches of the bobbin.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying sheet of drawings forming a part of
this Specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts
in each of the figures.
Figure 1, represents an elevation of a portion of a spindle with a bobbin thereon
fitted with my improved button.
Figure 2, represents a side view of Figure 1.

page_text: Figure 3, represents a separate elevation of the button.
Figure 4, represents a plan view of the same, and Figure 5, represents a cross
section on the line a. b Figure 3.
The spindle A and bobbin B are of the usual type.
The button C is made from sheet metal stamped and pressed to form. A piece
of wire D is coiled round the lower portion C 2 embracing the spindle A to
increase the strength of the spring and its grip on the spindle. A piece C3 is
turned up on each side at the bottom of C2 to keep the wire D from slipping off.
The wings C4, C4 are provided to engage the notches B 2 in the bobbin.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A spring metal button for the spindles of spinning machinery of the form
substantially as herein shown and described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 19th day of November 1895.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Patent Agents.