NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CLEANING THE BEAMS OF MULES AND SPINNING FRAMES, COLLECTING THE DUST AND WASTE THEREOF, AND ALSO FOR CLEANING THE FLOORING UNDERNEATH THE MULE CARRIAGES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Tolhausen, of 17, Faubourg Montmartre,
Paris, Civil Engineer and Patent Agent, for the Invention of "NEW OR
IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CLEANING THE BEAMS OF MULES AND SPINNING
FRAMES, COLLECTING THE DUST AND WASTE THEREOF, AND ALSO FOR CLEANING
THE FLOORING UNDERNEATH THE MULE CARRIAGES." -A communication by
Edward Isler, residing at No. 17, Faubourg Montmartre, aforesaid.
Sealed the 7th July 1863, and dated the 31st January 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Tolhausen
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 31st January 1863.
I, FREDERICK TOLHAUSEN, of 17, Faubourg Montmartre, Paris, Civil
Engineer and Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CLEANING THE BEAMS OF MULES
AND SPINNING FRAMES, COLLECTING THE DUST AND WASTE THEREOF, AND ALSO FOR
CLEANING THE FLOORING UNDERNEATH THE MULE CARRIAGES," a communication
from Edward Isler, a person resident at No. 17, Faubourg Montmartre,
aforesaid, to be as follows:-
The first part of this Invention relates to a self-acting apparatus for cleaning
the rollers, and also part of the roller beams of mules, self-actors, and other
spinning frames. This object is accomplished by means of a brush or a block

page_text: set with brushes or pencils standing out at different angles, so as to sweep the
different parts to be cleaned. This brush is made to slide to and fro in a
suitable guiding tube in front of and near the roller beam, and is set in
motion from the first line of drawing rollers by means of double bevel gear
drums and endless mule banding. The reversing motion is obtained by a
worm and wheel acting on catches and springs that actuate a lever by which
one or the other of the followers of the bevel gear aforesaid is thrown into
gear with the driving bevel wheel.
The second part relates to collecting the waste delivered by the brush, and
also wiping the top of the mule carriage when it runs in near the roller beam.
This contrivance consists of a cloth of woolly texture which is hung loosely
under and along the roller beams so as to receive the waste swept off by the
self-acting brushes. The under or bulging side of this cloth also wipes the
top of the mule carriage when it draws up under it.
The third part of this Invention relates to an apparatus for cleaning or
dusting the flooring under the spinning frame, and which is travelled over
by the carriage. This apparatus consists of a shaft mounted in suitable
bearings on the mule carriage, and carrying by means of arms a rotary
cleaning roller covered with flannel or other suitable material. This roller is
let down so as to roll on the floor and gather the waste thereon, whilst the
carriage is running out, and when the carriage begins running in the said
roller is lifted off the floor, which is, effected in a self-acting manner by means
of stops and catches, and a click and ratchet motion lifting and holding up
and releasing or lowering the roller arms at each end of the carriage path
respectively, thus producing the effects desired.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
'by the said Frederick Tolbausen in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 30th July 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
TOLHAUSEN, of 17, Faubourg Montmartre, Paris, Civil Engineer and Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and
in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Frederick Tolhausen, Her special licence that I, the said Frederick

page_text: Tolbausen, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Frederick Tolhausen, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time, and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "NEW OR
IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CLEANING THE BEAMS OF MULES AND SPINNING FRAMES,
COLLECTING THE DUST AND WASTE THEREOF, AND ALSO FOR CLEANING THE FLOORING
UNDERNEATH THE MULE CARRIAGES," (a communication to him by Edward
Isler, a person resident at No. 17, Faubourg Montmartre, aforesaid,) upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Frederick Tolhausen, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under or
their, or one of their hands and seals should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
,
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Frederick Tolhausen, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:―
The first part of this Invention relates to a self-acting apparatus for cleaning
the rollers, and also part of the rollers and beams of mules, self-actors, and
other spinning frames. This object is accomplished by means of a brush or
a block set with brushes or pencils standing out at different angles so as to
sweep the different parts to be cleaned. This brush is made to slide to and
fro in a suitable guiding tube in front of and near the roller beam, and is set
in motion from the front line of drawing rollers by means of double bevel
gear, drums, and endless mule banding. The reversing motion is obtained
by a worm and wheel, acting on catches and springs that actuate a lever by
which one or the other of the opposite followers of the bevil gear above said is
thrown into gear with the driving.
The second part relates to collecting the waste delivered by the brush, and
also wiping the top of the mule carriage when it runs in near the roller
beam. This contrivance consists of a cloth of woolly texture, which is hung
loosely under and near the roller beams, so as to receive the waste swept off
by the self-acting brushes. The under or bulging side of this cloth also wipes
the top of the mule carriage when it draws up under it.
The third part of this Invention relates to an apparatus for cleaning or

page_text: dusting the flooring under the spinning frame, and which is travelled over by
the carriage. This apparatus consists of a shaft mounted in suitable bearings
in the mule carriage, and carrying by means of arms a rotary cleaning roller
covered with flannel or other suitable material; this roller is let down, so as
to roll on the floor and gather the waste thereon whilst the carriage is running
out, and when the carriage begins running in the said roller is lifted off the
floor, which is effected in a self-acting manner by means of stops and catches,
and a click and ratchet motion lifting and holding up, and releasing or
lowering the roller arms at each end of the carriage path respectively, thus
producing the effects desired.
On the annexed Sheet 1 of Drawings, Figs. 1 to 6 relate to the first part of
this Invention. Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the outer end of a spinning mule
or self-actor; Fig. 2, cross section of the same through A, B, and C, D,
(Fig. 1); Fig. 3, the same section through E, F, and G, H; Fig. 4, the
same section through A, B, and E, F; Fig. 5 a sectional plan through I, K,
(Fig. 1); Fig. 6, the same plan through L, M. To those conversant with
spinning machinery it will be superfluous to point out and describe the usual
parts on implements shewn on these Drawings, such as the beam, the drawing,
clearing, and top rollers, weights, stands, brackets, and other portions, which
are the same as those now used in the various systems.
a, Fig. 1, is a brush, consisting of a sector set with cards, and worked by a
connecting rod 6 and crank c. The card surface of the brush is made elastic
by means of springs j, j, so as to yield to the inequalities of the rollers or the
waste accumulated on them; d, Fig. 2, pulley on the crank shaft, by which a
rocking motion is imparted to the sectorial brush a; e, sliding case or box, in
which the brushing apparatus is contained; guide tube extending along the
roller beam; 9, 9, two casters rolling on the tube f; h, under roller for guiding
the apparatus along the roller beam; i, two stops fixed at the ends of the
tube f, and acting upon the arms k, which support the fork ; m is a ball,
which acts upon or gears into the fork 1, and to which the two ends of the
banding are attached for driving the apparatus in its case e; n, two drawing
springs attached to the case e, and acting on the fork 1; o, two brushes for
cleaning the horizontal surface of the roller beam; p, card flats for clearing
the waste from the brush a. The roller and beam cleaning and sweeping
apparatus is driven in the following manner, as represented by Sheet 2 of the
annexed Drawings; Fig. 11 is a front elevation of the driving motion; Fig. 12
a plan of the same. 9 is a bracket fixed on the beam near the disengaging
apparatus for the rollers, as shewn in the Drawings; r, double-grooved pulley or
wharve, which is supported by the bracket q, and works the right and left band

page_text: bands; s, worm wheel on the pulley shaft; t, worm on the roller shaft; u, two
guide pulleys on the right hand of the pulley b; v, the same on the left;
x, y, (Fig. 1), two pairs of guide pulleys at the two ends of the tube and of
the beam; one of these pulleys is intended to guide the band into the tube,
and. the other for guiding and stretching the same; z, band. by which the
case e and whole brushing and sweeping apparatus is drawn to and fro.
The roller-brushing and beam-sweeping apparatus above described works in
the following manner :-Supposing. the self-actor to have been at rest and
then to be started, the roller end which carries the worm t (see Fig. 11
and 12), is set in motion, and thereby the skew wheels and pulley r is made
to rotate, which draw along the band z to which the ball m is attached on
each side. Supposing the case or box e, Fig. 1, to be at the upper or right
hand end of the self-actor at the time motion begins, the ball m acts upon
the fork l, and drags the case e to the left until it reaches that end of the
tube f, when it meets with and strikes against the stop i, which lifts the hook
or catch k; in consequence thereof the fork is laid down by the draught of
the ball m, allowing the same to pass, and by reason of the traction of the
springs n, n, the said fork resumes its former or original position. The ball m
next passes over the guide pulleys f and h, and also the driving pulley 7, and
by seizing the fork 1 from the left the sliding case e is drawn to the right. A
longitudinal slot is provided in the bottom of the tube f, so as to allow the
fork tumbling and giving passage to the ball m. The motion of the roller
cleaner is combined with that of the sliding case e in the following manner :-
Whilst the sliding case e is set in motion a band, which is fixed at both ends
of the self-actor, and is wound on the pulley d, (Fig. 2), sets the same rotating,
and thus works the crank c, which imparts the rocking motion to the sectorial
brushes. The waste which the brushes collect from the rollers is doffed by
the side flats p, p, whence it drops on the waste collector represented by
Fig. 7, and described herein-after. It is necessary to observe that the form
of the sliding case, and the mode of driving the same, has to be altered
according to the kind of self-actor or spinning frame employed.
The second apparatus or waste collector is shewn in cross section, Fig. 7,
(Sheet 1). r, mule carriage frame; s', arms fixed on the roller beam; t',
brackets fixed on the creel. Wires are passed through the arms and brackets,
and the cloth or apron u¹ is hung by means of eyes on the front wire, and by
means of hooks in the bind wire, so as to be detachable for removing the
waste collected. It will be easily understood by the manner in which the
cloth u is hung, its under or bulging side will wipe the top of the carriage at

page_text: each passage, whereas the upper side of this apron will collect the waste and
dust from the roller beam and rollers.
The third part of this Invention relates to an apparatus for cleaning, wiping,
or dusting the flooring of spinning rooms. This apparatus is shewu in end
elevation, Fig. 8; Figs. 9 and 9* are a detached elevation and a plan; Fig. 10
is a longitudinal section of the apparatus. a', shaft extending under the
a²,
carriage of the self-actor, and turning in suitable bearings (not shewn in the
Drawings), similar to the bearing c', (Fig. 10), in which the end of the shaft
runs; d, roller arm keyed on the shaft a¹; e, cleaning roller; f¹, lever with
three arms; g', click lever; h', h¹, two clicks; , ratchet wheel carrying a
pin o'; ', ring for adjustment; m', n', front and back stops, which are fixed
on the floor; p', carriage rail. This apparatus works as follows:-Supposing the
self-actor to be started on the carriage arriving at the end of its outward course,
the click lever g' strikes against the stop m', and causes the ratchet wheel to
turn one tooth. The same action goes on until the ratchet has made one
complete revolution, when the pin o¹ on the ratchet raises the hooked
lever, causing the cleaning rollers to fall on the floor. At the same time
the three-armed lever f¹, which is fast on the shaft a¹, turns as much as is
required for causing the hooked and jointed lever h¹ (Figs. 9 and 9*), to gear
again, which could not take place unless the lever f¹ went through the said
motion. The motions described are effected at the end of the run-out, and are
followed the carriage running in, when the rollers e¹ by rolling on the floor
gather and wrap on them all the waste dust and fly produced. As soon as
the carriage reaches the end of its home course, the three-armed lever f¹
strikes against the stop n¹, (see Fig. 9), by which the cleaning rollers e¹ are
raised up, the lever being thereby placed in its former position again, and
the rollers kept suspended above the floor.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Tolhausen, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of July. A.D. 1863.
F. TOLHAUSEN. (L.S.)