Improved Means for Protecting the Foot Steps of Mule, Twiner, and the like Spindles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 18th June, 1892-Accepted, 30th July, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Protecting the Foot Steps of Mule, Twiner, and
the like Spindles.
I ELI JAGGER of Werneth Metal Factory, Green Street Oldham, in the County
of Lancaster, Tin-plate Worker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This invention relates to improved means for protecting the foot steps of mule,
twiner & the like spindles for which Letters Patent No. 11,180 dated August the
12th 1884 and Letters Patent No. 1752 dated February the 9th 1885, were granted
to me and has for its object to prevent the step protectors from falling off the
spindle rail and thereby getting lost, whilst at the same time they are more readily
placed in position or removed, permit of the spindles being freely raised without
disturbing the protectors and no loss of oil is caused in lubricating the same, as
heretofore has been the case.
To accomplish this I combine a number of foot step protectors, having an inverted
shield and rim, to a plate formed with a flange on one side and adapted to rest loosely
on the spindle rail.
The said plate, which I may form in two parts suitably secured together, may be
stamped out respectively with shields & rims aforesaid concentric with each other,
or the said plate may carry the said protectors loosely, by forming corresponding
holes through the same, those in the lower plate part being in size larger than those
in the upper part and adapted to receive the rim of the step protector, whilst the
holes in the upper part are respectively formed with a flange projecting into the
inverted shield of the foot step protector.
The said rim and hole and the space between the two plate parts are of such a
size as to give the protector longitudinally as well as vertically a little play and thus
cause the same to accommodate itself to the foot step and spindle.
By these means I form a foot step protector which, although covering a number
of foot steps with one protector plate, offers facility for the proper adjustment of the
rim of each protector to its individual foot step.
Dated this 17th day of September 1891.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Protecting the Foot Steps of Mule, Twiner, and
the like Spindles.
.
I, ELIJAGGER, of Werneth Metal Factory, Green Street, Oldham, in the County
of Lancaster, Tin-plate Worker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and.
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to improved means for protecting the foot steps of mule
twiner and the like spindles for which Letters Patent No. 11,180, dated August
the 12th 1884, and Letters Patent No. 1752, dated February the 9th 188, were
granted to me and has for its object to prevent the step protectors from falling off*
the spindle rail and thereby getting lost, whilst at the same time they are more readily
placed in position or removed, permit of the spindles being freely raised without

page_text: disturbing the protectors and no loss of oil is caused in lubricating the same, as
heretofore has been the case.
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.
Figs. 1, 3, 5, 6 & 7 are cross sections and Figs. 2 & 4 are respectively plans of
Figs. 1 & 3 of various forms of my improved step protector in position on the
spindle rail.
Fig. 8 shows the same in a raised position.
In carrying out my invention and referring to Figs. 1& 2, I combine a number of
foot step protectors A. (say about six) having an inverted shield. a and rim a', with
a plate or frame B, which has a flange or bead c on one side and is adapted to rest
loosely on the spindle rail C, the flange or bead c serving to prevent the oil from
running over at the back of the rail C and the plate or frame B to prevent, the oil
running around the foot step D onto the spindle rail C. The step protectors A are
held jointly in position in the plate or frame B by two lips c¹ formed underneath
near each edge thereof and individually by countersunk holes or bevel flanges.c²,
projecting respectively from the face of the plate or frame B into the shield a of
each protector A, in such a manner, that a small space is provided between the
flange and lips c¹ and the step protector A which affords the latter some play in the
plate or frame B sufficient to render the same laterally as well as vertically
movable and cause to adjust themselves individually to the steps D, fitting inside
the latter just as if not combined. Around the protector rim a' an air space d is
provided, which prevents the oil being drawn. out of the steps D by capillary
attraction.
The plate or frame B which I may form in two parts 6 6, suitably secured
together, as shown in Figs. 3 & 4, say by solder, may be stamped out with a bevel
flange c², which in this case serves as protector shield a as well as to retain the
protector rim a' in a comparatively concentric position therewith.
Another way of forming the plate or frame B in two parts b, b, consists in
forming holes e, see Fig. 5, through the lower part b', in size larger than those in
the upper part 6 and that of the diameter of the rim a', which holes e are adapted to
receive the step protector rim a' loosely, whilst the holes e in the upper part bare
respectively formed with a bevel flange as previously described, projecting into
the foot step protector shield a.
The rim a and hole e and space aforesaid between the same and the two plate or
frame parts 6, 6', are of such a size as to give the protectors A laterally as well as
vertically sufficient play, also to cause the same to accommodate themselves
independently-of each other individually to the foot steps D and spindles.
By these means I form a foot step protector which, although covering a number
of foot steps D with one protector plate or frame B, offers facility for the proper
adjustment of each protector rim a¹ to its individual foot step D.
Fig. 6 shows the plate or frame B made suitably for raised foot steps D and
Fig 7 for frames with vertical spindles, by forming it with a flange or bead con
each edge to prevent the oil running over on either side.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion: and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim, is-
"In protectors for foot steps of mule, twiner, and the like spindles."
1st. The combination of a number of foot step protectors A with a plate or
frame B, the protectors A being rendered laterally as well as vertically movable
in the plate or frame B so as to facilitate the manipulation and proper adjustment
of each individual protector A to its step D, substantially as set forth.
2nd. The combination of a number of step protectors A with a frame or plate B
having a bead or beads c adapted to keep the oil off the spindle rail C and bevel

page_text: flanges projecting into the protectors A and adapted to hold the latter in position
and conduct the oil into the foot steps D, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 17th day of June 1892.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicant.