Improvements relating to the Spindle Apparatus of Jack, Roving, Intermediate, Slubbing and like Frames, used in Spinning Cotton, Wool, Flax, and other Fibres.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Nov., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 8th Aug., 1899-Accepted, 18th Nov., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Spindle Apparatus of Jack, Roving,
Intermediate, Slubbing and like Frames, used in Spinning Cotton,
Wool, Flax, and other Fibres.
I, WILLIAM SUMNER, Spindle and Fly Maker and Repairer, Spring Hill Iron
Works, Waterhead, Oldham, Lancashire, lo hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
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Firstly, my invention relates to mechanism or method, for driving spindle loose
collar bearings by the bobbin wheels, used in rovings and such like frames.
or near the top end of the bobbin wheel at its tube part, that runs round and upon the
fixed frame collar, near it's top end-I make or form one or more recesses or recess,
for the purpose of rotating or driving round with it, a spindle loose collar bearing
formed at its outside and near its upper end with a lug or lugs or projections
fitted and formed to gear or enter into the recesses formed in or near to the top
of the bobbin wheel and to be driven round thereby. Or the lugs or projections
and recesses may be reversed, by placing or forming the recesses on the outer
side of the loose collar and the lugs or drivers fixed or formed to the bobbin
wheel to be so driven.
The inside of the loose collar supports the spindle within which the spindle
revolves and the outside of the loose collar is supported by the fixed frame collar
within which it runs.
Secondly in carrying out my improved long collar the lower part of the collar
'bearing I make of cast iron formed with a shoulder or projection to rest upon the
lug, or arm, or other suitable part of the lifting rail or its connections, and
secured thereto in any suitable manner. Within the lower bearing part its full
length or nearly so, I firmly fix a tube (by preference made from steel tubing) the
tube forms an extension upwards of the lower part of the collar bearing and is
secured thereto in any suitable manner, say by driving or screwing in as may be
found most convenient. A little below the top of the tube, I fix within the tube
a shell or lining of alloy metal, preferable of phosphor bronze, as a bearing for
the spindle, and so placed as to form a reservoir or receptacle for oil, within the
tube to lubricate the spindle.
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1900
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Spindle Apparatus of Jack, Roving,
Intermediate, Slubbing and like Frames, used in Spinning Cotton,
Wool, Flax, and other Fibres.
I, WILLIAM SUMNER, Spindle and Fly Maker and Repairer, 389, Huddersfield
Road, Oldham, and at Spring Hill Iron Works, Waterhead, Oldham, do hereby.

page_text: declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be, per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
This invention has principally for its object to provide for the construction of
improved collar bearings for the spindles of jack, roving, intermediate, slubbing
and like frames, used in the preparation and spinning of cotton, and other fibres,
which collar bearings are more durable, more firmer, causes less wear of the
spindle, and less power to drive the frame than heretofore has been the case.
And in order that my invention may be " more" fully understood, I have
caused to be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of
reference indicating like parts in the various figures.
Fig. 1, an elevation showing the working parts of my short collar invention a,
is formed as an ordinary short collar which is fixed or fastened to the frame lift-
ing rail in the usual manner, b, is a loose collar which runs round within the
fast collar a, and is driven round by its lugs or projections c, which fits in the
recesses formed in the bobbin wheel e, the openings or channels to oil or lubri-
cate with, are marked i.
Fig. 2 shows a plan of the bobbin wheel e, its recesses d, and the loose collar b
with its lugs c, which are made to fit within the recesses d, to be driven round
thereby, and its place for lubrication ¿.
Fig. 3 is an elevation showing the loose collar b, its lugs or projections c, by
which it is driven round, and the lower part of 6 which internally supports the
spindle and externally runs round within the fixed collar a, and is steadied and
supported thereby.
Fig. 4 is a plan of the bobbin wheel e, with its recesses or openings & formed
to take in the lugs or projections c of Figs. 3 and 5 and its place for lubrication
Fig. 5, shows a plan of the loose collar. b, its lugs or projections e, formed to fit
within the recesses or openings d shown in Fig. 4, and its place for lubrication i.
Fig. 6, is a longitudinal section of my improved long collar showing its lower
cast iron part of collar a, its connected upward extension tube f, made preferably
of cold drawn steel tubing, and its short shell or lining g, for spindle bearing,
"preferably I employ for this lining phosphor bronze metal," and the top of this
lining I place preferably about half an inch below the top of the extension tube f,
by so doing the upward part of the extension tube f, above the top of the lining g,
serves as an oil reservoir to lubricate the spindle when at work, and prevents dirty
oil. from flying from the spindle bearing to the yarn.
It will thus be seen that this formation of a frame driven collar as shown from
Figs. 1 to 5, dispenses with all wire pins as drivers, is more durable, less liable
to get out of order, and permits of a simple method of oiling or lubricating the
bobbin wheel, the collar, and the spindle at one operation.
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And in Fig. 6. the tube f being made to fit the full length or nearly so " of
the fixed part of the collar a, is more firmer than as shown in a patent granted
to me. No. 14655 in year 1897, and its short shell or tube lining being the only
part that can be worn by the spindle, can whenever required easily be replaced at
small cost, its oil reservoir prevents the oil from flying from the spindle to stain
the yarn, and the diameter of the tube f, is so that ordinary diameters of bobbins,
used to short collars may be used to these long collars.
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―
Firstly for rovings and like frames the combination of forming projections
upon the outside upper end of a frame driven collar, and. a 'frame' bobbin wheel
having recesses or openings formed or fixed at the inside upper end of the tubular
part of the bobbin wheel formed to fit the projections, at the top of the driven
collar, to be driven round thereby, substantially as herein before described and
illustrated by Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.

page_text: Secondly for rovings and like frames, the combination of a lower fixed cast iron
collar part, an upper extension tube having a short lining near its upper end, for
spindle bearing, and above the lining the top inner end of the extension tube
forms an oil reservoir to lubricate the spindle substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated in Fig. 6 in the drawings.
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