IMPROVEMENTS IN SPINNING AND DOUBLING MACHINERY
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Higgin Maxted, of Galgate in the County of
Lancaster for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SPINNING AND DOUBLING
MACHINERY"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Higgin Maxted at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th February 1882.
CHARLES HIGGIN MAXSTED of Galgate in the County of Lancaster "IMPROVE
MENTS IN SPINNING AND DOUBLING MACHINERY
My Invention relates to machinery for spinning or doubling yarns or threads of
silk, cotton, wool, or other fibrous material, the object which I have in view being
to secure economy of construction and working and greater efficiency particularly
at high speeds, than can be attained by the use of spindles of ordinary construction.
For this purpose I fix on the upper or stationary rail of a spinning frame a number
of tubular studs on each of which as an axis I mount a driving pulley. From this
pulley I carry up a light frame shaped like an inverted U and having at its centre
at the top an eye or hook and also at each side an inclined slit. The upper part
of this frame is grooved in trough form. Through the hollow of the tubular stud
I pass a rod which is fixed to a moving rail below by which it can be raised or
lowered. The bobbin is put upon this rod resting on a collar thereof. The yarn
or thread is led from the feed roller over a guide rail through the eye or hook at
the top of the U frame down the groove at one side of the frame through the slit
in its side and to the bobbin. The pulley being caused to revolve carries with it
the U frame along with the yarn or thread and this gives the required twist or
double. The bobbin is also caused to revolve by the drag of the thread or yarn,
its friction on the collar retarding it sufficiently to wind the thread or yarn
upon it.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Charles Higgin Maxted in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
5th August 1882.
CHARLES HIGGIN MAXSTED of Galgate in the County of Lancaster
MENTS IN SPINNING AND DOUBLING MACHINERY"
"IMPROVE-
My Invention relates to machinery for spinning or doubling yarns or threads of
silk, cotton, wool, or other fibrous material, the object which I have in view being
to secure economy of construction and working and greater efficiency particularly
at high speeds than can be attained by the use of spindles of ordinary construction.
For this purpose I construct and arrange the spinning spindles and their flyers as I
will describe referring to the accompanying Drawings. Fig. 1 is a vertical section
shewing one of a range of spindles, Fig. 2 is a transverse section and Fig. 3 a
plan of part of the top or guide rail. On the stationary rail A. I fix a tubular
stud B on which as an axis I mount the driving pulley C. From the upper face of
this pulley I carry up a light frame D shaped like an inverted U and having at
the top a tubular pivot working in a bearing in a rail E. Through the front of the
rail E and through one side of the tubular pivot is cut a slit for facilitating
insertion of the yarn or thread. Through the tubular stud B is passed a rod F
which at its lower end rests on a rail G that can be raised or lowered. By giving
the rod F half a turn it can also be raised or lowered independently. The bobbin H
is placed on the upper end of the rod F resting on a collar I formed on the rod.
The yarn or thread is led from the feed roller over the guide rail, K (which is fixed
on the rail E) through the hollow pivot of D, and through guide hooks L on one of
the limbs of D to the bobbin H. The pulley C and flyer frame D being caused to
revolve rapidly, the required twist or double is given to the thread or yarn and the
bobbin H is also caused to revolve by the drag of the thread or yarn on it, but it
is retarded by the friction of its bearing on the collar I so as to wind on the thread
or yarn as it is delivered. While it winds on the thread or yarn the bobbin is
raised and lowered by the rod F worked by the moving rail G so as to distribute
the convolutions as desired along the bobbin. The slitting of the tubular pivot at
the top of the flyer D and of its bearing in the rail E gives facility for introducing
the thread or yarn without having to thread it through the pivot. The drag of the
thread or yarn can be increased as desired by winding it several times helically
round the limb of D between the guide hooks L.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I hereby declare that I make no general claim to fixing
the flyer frame on the driving pulley and placing the bobbin on the collar of a rod
that ascends and descends but does not revolve, but I claim as my improvements in
spinning and doubling machinery :-
First. The use of the tubular stud B fixed on the rail A so as to form a
pivot for the pulley C of the flyer and to give passage for the sliding rod F,
substantially as herein described.
Second. The combination of the tubular stud B, driving pulley C and flyer
frame D, the sliding rod F with its collar I and moving rail G substantially as
and for the purposes herein set forth.
In witness whereof I the said Charles Higgin Maxsted have hereunto set my
hand and seal this Third day of August in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty-two.
C. H. MAXTED. (L.S.)