Improvements in Flyers employed in Slubbing, Intermediate, Roving, and other similar Machines.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 10th Oct., 1891-Accepted, 14th Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Flyers employed in Slubbing, Intermediate,
Roving, and other similar Machines.
We, JAMES WILLIAM SCOTT of Halliwell Cotton Works, Bolton, Cotton
Spinner, Joux HAMER of 15 Windsor Grove, Bolton. Frame Overlooker, and
JOHN CARR of 267 Chorley Old Road, Halliwell near Bolton, Carder, all in the
County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of our said invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the construction of "Hyers" for
machinery known as slubbing, intermediate, roving, and other similar machines
employed in the process of preparing cotton and other fibrous materials, having for
its object that of removing the defect or evil arising from the admittance of
"rat-tails" or other deleterious matter collected in the flyer-tube or hollow leg
with the sliver as it is delivered on to the bobbin or its equivalent. It is well
known that owing to the present construction of this description of flyer that it is
impossible to produce a clear smooth passage through the tube or hollow leg,
consequently it is a source of great annoyance owing to the facilities afforded for
collecting deleterious matter, well known in the trade as "rat-tails" and other
imperfections, which, when admitted to the sliver, considerably decreases the value
of the yarn made therefrom. To overcome this defect we construct the flyer tube
or hollow leg with slots or openings sufficiently wide to allow of the internal surface
being filed and polished to produce a perfectly smooth surface that will prevent the
collection of the aforesaid imperfections. The flyer tube or hollow leg is provided
with the slot or opening on the outside of the bend, and inside the said leg in the
part extending from the bend to the bottom or nearly so. This invention is equally
applicable to existing flyers as the said slots or openings can be cut in by any
suitable mechanical or other means, after which the inside of the flyer tube or
hollow leg can be polished in any convenient manner, thus preventing the collection
of the imperfections before mentioned.
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EDMUND CHADWICK,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Flyers employed in Slubbing, Intermediate,
Roving, and other similar Machines.
We, JAMES WILLIAM SCOTT of Halliwell Cotton Works, Bolton, Cotton
Spinner, JOHN HAMER of 15 Windsor Grove, Bolton, Frame Overlooker, and
JOHN CARR of 267 Chorley Old Road, Halliwell near Bolton, Carder, all in the
County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of our said 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 construction of "flyers" for
machinery known as slubbing, intermediate, roving, and other similar machines
employed in the process of preparing cotton and other fibrous materials, having for
its object that of removing the defect or evil arising from the admittance of
" rat-tails or other deleterious matter collected in the flyer-tube or hollow leg
"

page_text: with the sliver as it is delivered on to the bobbin or its equivalent. It is well
known that owing to the present construction of this description of flyer that it is
impossible to produce a clear smooth passage through the tube or hollow leg,
consequently it is a source of great annoyance owing to 'the facilities afforded for
collecting deleterious matter, well known in the trade as rat-tails" and other
imperfections, which, when admitted to the sliver, considerably decreases the value
of the yarn made therefrom. To overcome this defect we construct the flyer tube
orthollowlegswith slots.oriopenings sufficiently wide to allow of the internal surface
being filed and polished to produce a perfectly smooth surface that will prevent
the collection of the aforesaid imperfections. The flyer tube or hollow leg is
provided with the slot or opening on the outside of the bend, and inside the said
leg in the part extending from the bend to the bottom or nearly so. This invention
is equally applicable to existing flyers as the said slots or openings can be cut in
by any suitable mechanical or other means, after which the inside of the flyer tube
or hollow leg can be polished in any convenient manner, thus preventing .the
collection of the imperfections before mentioned.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of our improved flyer for slubbing, intermediate, roving,
and other similar machines employed in the process of preparing cotton and other
fibrous materials.
Fig. 2 is an end elevation.
Fig. 3 is a sectional end elevation through line A¹ B' in Fig. 1, and
Fig. 4 is an enlarged section of flyer-tube or hollow-leg through line C¹ D' in
Figs. 2 and 3.
A is the flyer-tube or hollow-leg of the flyer, and is the portion or part to which
our invention refers. Hitherto it has been customary to construct this tube or
hollow-leg in sectional form as shown in Fig. 5, by which it is impossible to produce
a clear smooth passage through the same. Owing to this defect in construction and
manufacture it is impossible to lay or remove the rough fibres or surface of the
metal, which is the cause of the collection of what are known in the trade as
" rat-tails" or tufts and other imperfections in the flyer-tube or hollow-leg A. As
these imperfections collect they are given off intermittently, and if they are
admitted to the sliver the yarn made therefrom is considerably decreased in quality
and value.
Our invention is designed to entirely remove this defect, which we effect by
constructing the inner side of the flyer-tube or hollow-leg from the point G to H
with the slot or opening K of sufficient width to allow of the internal surface being
filed or polished by any suitable means, such as, emery paper or other suitable
substance to lay or remove the rough metallic fibres and produce a perfectly smooth
surface that will prevent the adhesion or collection of the aforesaid imperfections,
thereby enhancing the value of the yarn made from the sliver passing through the
same. The slot or opening K is produced by filing a portion of the circular tube A
away as shown in Fig. 4, which will leave the same sufficiently wide to admit of
polishing as before described. The upper portion of the flyer-tube or hollow-leg
on the outside of the bend from M to N is made open as shown in Fig. 2, by which
the internal surface can be polished, by any well known means. It will be
seen on examining the annexed drawings that the ordinary presser is not shown as
it forms no part of this invention, although necessary in this description of flyers.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
-invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we-claim is:
In combination with flyers employed in slubbing, intermediate, roving, and other
similar machines the use of the slot or opening K to allow of the internal passage

page_text: of the flyer-tube or hollow-leg A being polished to prevent the collection of
" rat-tails or tufts, and other imperfections, substantially as described.
Dated the 8th October 1891.
EDMUND CHADWICK,
Agent.