Improvements in and connected with. Anti-ballooning Plates for Spinning Frames.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Feb, 1897-Accepted, 11th Sept., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with. Anti-ballooning Plates for
Spinning Frames.
I, ALOISE GUTLEBEN, Spinning Mill Manager, of Bühl near Gebweiler in the
Province of Alsace, German Empire, do hereby declare the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The present invention relates to spinning machines, (Throstle machines), and is
designed to prevent the threads from neighbouring cops from touching each other
and getting entangled and breaking, which hitherto often happened owing to the
excessive vibration of the threads. By means of the anti ballooning plates forming
the object of the present invention the further advantage is obtained that each plate
is independently moveable, whilst heretofore the plates of a whole row of cops could
only be thrown back all together.
Each cop is provided with an anti ballooning plate, said plate having a lateral
projection or lug and consisting of a metal plate, having a guide slot for a pin carried
by an operating or carrier bar, which serves to operate all the plates at once if this is
desirable. The. engaging pin is mounted on an arm of the said carrier bar and
the plates are all pivoted on said bar, one, plate being arranged between two
spindles.
In order to render the present specification more easily intelligible reference is had to
the accompanying drawings in which similar letters of reference denote similar parts
throughout the several views:-
Fig 1 is a cross section through a throstle machine showing the antiballooning
plates in elevation in its two positions viz. in operative position (to the right) and
thrown back (to the left hand side).
Fig. 2 is a part front view of the machine with the anti balloning plates arranged
thereon,
Fig 3 a part plan view of the same parts of the machine and
Fig. 4 a detail side and end elevation of the anti ballooning plate drawn to a
larger scale.
The anti ballooning plates are arranged along, the machine and consist of a small
platea (Fig. 4), having a rearwardly, downwardly extending flat arm b by means of
which, they are pivoted on the carrier bar c. The plate a is provided at its upper
part with a laterally extending lug a¹ and the arm has a slot d below the bar c in
which slot a pin is secured by means of a washer f and nut f, said pin being
mounted in the arm of a lever g having a boss by which it is secured to the carrier
bar c by means of a set screw or in other suitable manner. The plates are loosely
pivoted on the said carrier, bar. Obviously if the bar c is rotated all the plates will
be thrown back into the position shown at II in Figure 1, but if it is desired to
lrow one of them out, this can be done by means of the slot. d which allows of the
movement of the plate whilst its actuating lever remains stationary. The shaft or
carrier bar c is turned by means of the bar h carrying the guides arranged above the
cops a said bar h being adapted to slide in the machine frame and being provided
with a downwardly extending slotted arm i to engage a cam as hereinafter described.
A bar m fast on the carrier bar c passes through the slot of the arm i and has formed
at its end a cam surface (Fig. 2) adapted to engage an inclined surface or cam 7 of a

page_text: bracket fast on the machine frame. The arm m is rectangular at the point at
which it lies in the slot of the arm i and is keyed by means of groove and key pv
to the bar c..
The operation of this part of the invention is as follows:-If the bar h carrying
the thread guides is moved to the left of Figure 2 the cam surface at the end of the
arin m will contact with the cam 1 thus -throwing the outer end of the said arm
upwardly and partially turning the carrier bar c which throws back all the anti
ballooning plates simultaneously.
The lug a¹ of the plate is provided with a notch or slit in order to effect increased
friction on the thread, so that if coarse or double threads unspin they will be caught
up and torn off.
Thus if this arrangement is employed the full cops will have a clean and smooth
appearance, having no fibres on the outside of the threads, whilst heretofore the
finished cops presented a fibrous, rough appearance.
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 :-
1. In a throstle spinning machine the combination of a series of anti ballooning
plates arranged one between each cop a carrier bar upon which said plates are pivoted,
a lateral lug to each plate having notch as specified, means in connection with said
carrier bar to throw all the plates out at once and means in connection with said
plates to enable any one of same to be thrown back separately, substantially as
described.
2. The combination of a series of anti-ballooning plates a carrier bar upon which
said plates are pivoted, a series of downwardly extending arms to said plates and a
slot in each arm below the said carrier bar substantially as specified, means in
connection with said carrier bar to engage said slots and means for partially rotating
said carrier bar in the manner and for the purpose substantially as described.
3. The combination of a series of anti ballooning plates consisting of sheet metal
having lateral lugs thereon with notch as specified, a downwardly extending arm to
each plate as specified, a carrier bar to which said plates are pivoted, a slot in said
plate arm below said carrier bar, an arm adjacent each carrier bar and pivoted to said
bar, said arms being fast on the bar, a pin at the end of each arm to project into
each plate and means in connection with the thread guide plate of the machine to
partially rotate said carrier bar in the manner and for the purpose substantially
as described.
4. The combination of a series of anti ballooning plates arranged as specified, a
carrier bar to which the same are loosely pivoted means in connection with said
carrier bar to operate said plates simultaneously and means in connection with said
plates to enable their being operated separately as specified, a thread guide plate
having a downwardly extending arm having a slot, an arm fast on said carrier bar
and extending through said slot, a cam on the end of said arm and a cam surface fast
on the machine frame against which said cam of the carrier arm acts when the thread
guide plate is moved substantially as described.
Dated this 12th day of February 1897.