An Improved Manufacture of Roving Flyer.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Sept., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 1st June, 1894-Accepted, 7th July, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Manufacture of Roving Flyer.
I WILLIAM RINTOUL of Wellington Foundry, Leeds, in the County of York,
Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to increase the life of roving-flyers, which are
liable to rapid wear in the lateral holes of the head, from the friction of the rove
as it passes through, and also at the upper part of the head, from the friction of
the bearing which embraces it, in order to steady the rotation of the flyer.
Hitherto these flyers have been made by drawing down from a blank the metal
to form the tubular arms and shoulders, and the head is shaped up iu dies, additional
metal being welded in place before the shaping dies are brought into action on the
flyer. This process of manufacture renders it difficult to use metal of a high
temper for the head, and in a short time the flyer becomes worn in the hole through
which the rove passes, and where it revolves in a steadying bearing.
It is to provide for the use of a material different in its nature from that of
which the body of the flyer is made, or which may have been welded to the body
of the flyer, and also to provide for the renewal of the heads of roving flyers in a
simple and efficient manner, that my invention is designed.
I form the flyer somewhat after the ordinary manner, and cut a screw thread on
the upper part of the flyer socket (omitting the lateral holes for the passage of the
sliver to either arm).
To the screwed sockets I fit a sleeve of steel or other suitable material formed
with a female thread.
This sleeve I finish off, at top, like an ordinary flyer head, and pierce it with
lateral holes for the passage of the rove.
The sleeve will present a hard resisting surface to the action of the passing rove,
and of the bearing which steadies the top, and when cut or worn, it may be readily
It will be obvious that the
replaced by a new sleeve at comparatively little cost.
means employed for attaching the parts together may be varied.
Dated this 20th day of September 1893.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Manufacture of Roving Flyer.
I WILLIAM RINTOUL of Wellington Foundry, Leeds, in the County of York,
Manager 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 :-
The object of this invention is to increase the life of roving flyers, which are liable
to rapid wear in the lateral holes of the head, from the friction of the rove as it
passes through, and also at the upper part of the head, from the friction of the
bearing which embraces it, for the purpose of steadying the rotation of the flyer.
Hitherto these flyers have been made by drawing down from a blank the metal
to form the tubular arms and shoulders, and the head is shaped up in dies, additional
metal being welded in place before the shaping dies are brought into action on the
flyer. This process of manufacture renders it difficult to use metal of a high

page_text: temper for the head, and consequently the flyer, in a short time, becomes worn in
the hole through which the rove passes, and also at the part which is embraced by
a steadying bearing.
It is to provide for the use of a material different in character from that of
which the body of the flyer is made, or which may have been welded to the body
of the flyer, and also to provide for the renewal of the worn heads of roving flyers,
in a simple and efficient manner, that my invention is designed.
In the accompanying drawing, I have shewn at Fig. 1, in side elevation, partly in
section, a roving flyer constructed according to my invention.
In order to provide a highly tempered steel head for the flyer, I make the neck
of the flyer as shewn at A, reducing its external diameter somewhat, and cutting
upon the rebated portion a screw thread.
To complete the head of the flyer, I fit upon this neck a sleeve B, shewn detached
at Fig. 2. This sleeve is internally threaded at its lower end (see Fig. 1), to
receive the screw thread cut upon the neck A.
In this sleeve, lateral holes are made for the passage of the rove through the
head to the flyer arms, and the connected parts A, B, are so proportioned as to
present, externally and internally, uniform diameters as shown in the section.
A pin C is tapped or driven into the sleeve, and when screwed up or rivetted, it
will lock the parts A and B firmly together.
This head will present a hard resisting surface to the action of the passing rove,
and of the bearing which steadies the top, and, when cut or worn, it may be readily
replaced by a new sleeve at comparatively little cost. It will be obvious that the
means employed for attaching the parts together may be varied without departing
from the nature of my invention.
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
The adaptation to roving flyers, of a detachable head piece or sleeve of
hardened steel or other suitable metal, as and for the purpose above set forth.
Dated this 1st day of June 1894.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.