Improvements in Machinery and Apparatus for Spinning and Winding Jute, Tow, Flax, Hemp, Cotton, Wool, and other Fibrous Substances, also applicable to Roving Machines.
Year: 1884

page_text: Improvements in Machinery and Apparatus for Spinning and
Winding Jute, Tow, Flax, Hemp, Cotton, Wool, and other
Fibrous Substances, also applicable to Roving Machines.
We ALEXANDER CARRIE, JAMES MEEKISON, and DAVID OGILVIE, all of Dundee
in the County of Forfar, North Britain do hereby declare the nature of our
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY AND APPARATUS FOR SPINNING
AND WINDING JUTE, Tow, FLAX, HEMP, COTTON, WOOL, AND OTHER FIBROUS
SUBSTANCES, ALSO APPLICABLE TO ROVING MACHINES" and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
Our Invention relates to machines used for spinning and winding jute, tow,
flax, hemp, cotton, wool, and other fibrous substances, and it has for its object
novel methods of construction and arrangement of such machines and their
appurtenances so that the operations of "spinning " and "winding" jute, tow,
flax, hemp, cotton, and wool or other fibrous substances (which operations have
hitherto been carried on by two distinct machines) can be carried on in a single
machine and also so that the same Invention may be applied to the process of
roving."
In carrying out our Invention, we employ a "spinning frame," of the kind
ordinarily used, but ad led to, modified, and otherwise altered in detail in the
manner hereinafter described, and also having combined with it certain parts
peculiar to " winding" machines of the kind ordinarily used, as well as other novel
parts not heretofore used in the present styles of "spinning" and " winding"
machines, the whole of the parts, being arranged, geared, and combined, so as to
effect and produce by one machine, the complete processes of spinning and winding
which are at present effected by two separate machines, as well as also to apply
the same Invention to effect the improvement of "roving" machines.
In the accompanying Drawings which are in illustration of our Invention,
Figure 1 is a front elevation, and Figures 2 and 3 are side elevations of the
machine. Figure 4 (Sheet 2) gives different details of the lifter rail, traverse,
spindle, fly, and other parts.
Motive power from a steam engine or other convenient source is applied to the
driving pulley A which actuates the cylinder B and the small pinion C. This
pirtion C acting upon the toothed wheel C₁, transmits the necessary revolving

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power through the toothed gearing wheels C2, C3, and C, to one extremity of the
drawing roller D. At the other extremity of this drawing roller D is attached a
toothed pinion E, which acting upon the tooth-d gearing wheels E1, E2; and E³,
drives the retaining roller F; and at the same time, by means of the toothed
gearing wheel E', works the cam H attached thereto, and adjustable in the slot S.
The cam H in its revolutions works through the medium of the small friction
wheel J, an up and down motion upon the traverse lever K, which is connected
with the lifter shaft M by means of a screw adjustable connecting rod N (shewn
broken off in Figure 3) and weighted lever N¹, causing a corresponding up and
down movement of the lifter rail R by means of the chains or other suitable
connection R¹
Simultaneously with this up and down movement of the lifter rail, the fly P is
made to revolve off the cylinder B by means of the connecting strap P¹. The
motion for the tempering of the spindle containing the cop also operates simulta-
neously with the up and down movement of the lifter rail. The temper is obtained
by the traverse of the lifter working between two bevel slides, one at each end of
the traverse, adjustable by means of two carrying bars T on fixed bolts attached to
a bracket T¹ fixed on the gables of the machine..
In the lifter is situated an adjustable pressure stud 8 (Figure 4) acting on the
spindle and fixed on the bottom side of the rail R, and adjustable by means of a
slot and set screw t.
On the opposite side of the spindle is an adjustable socket and stud s¹ (Figure 4)
having a spiral spring u surrounding it and pressing between the shoulder of the
stud, and the socket, thereby causing pressure to the spindle.
The socket is attached to the tempering bar o (situated in the lifter) by means
of a slot and thumb screw. By these means pressure upon or tempering of the
spindle can be regulated with great accuracy. The top rail Y contains the sockets
in which revolve the "wbarves" v with flys attached. Inside the socket is a
tube w fixed (and adjustable) to the lifter rail R. On the top of this tube revolves.
a conex driven by the flyer; and inside this tube revolves the spindle driven by.
the thread of the material.
The conical cup rises and falls with the tube w and lifter rail R and forms the
cop in the usual way by raising it gradually during the successive stages of
formation:
On the top of the spindle is a cone y on which to start the cop, and at the bottom
of the spindle is a collar z for drawing the spindle out of the cop by means of a lever
pedal V, which, when at rest and in position, keeps up to the lifter rail, and when
pressed down, allows the spindle to slip down for a corresponding distance, and the
cops can then be detached:
Thus, from and through the driving pulley A, power is generated, which by
means of the gearing apparatus described, keeps in simultaneous motion, the
drawing roller, retaining roller, cam, lifter rail, traverse, flyer, spindle, tempering
apparatus, and all connections.
The action of the apparatus is as follows:-The material after coming from the
preparing" department, is put upon the rove rack W, and one end of the thread
is passed through the rove conductor L on to the retaining roller F, thence over
the front of the frame to the drawing roller D, where it is drawn to the size of
yarn required. Then after leaving the drawing roller it is fixed upon the fly,
thence transmitted to the spindle, and there wound into a cop, by the various
actions of the machine herein before described.
The improvements may be applied to roving machines of the ordinary kind such
as are used for coarse spinning, the construction and action of which are essentially
the same as in the spinning machinery described and shewn, except that the parts
are heavier and stronger.
It is only therefore necessary to substitute such roving machines instead of the
spinning machinery with the automatic winding apparatus described and shewn.
The machine may be made of any size, and to suit any number of spindles...

page_text: We do not confine ourselves to the precise form and proportion of the various
details of the apparatus, which may be varied to suit varying circumstances, but
having now particularly described our said Invention and the manner in which it
is to be performed, we claim
1. The cam with all its working gear and attachments of wheels, rods, and levers,
all substantially as hereinbefore described and shewn.
2. The lifter, traverse, spindle teinpering arrangement, with all their connections,
working parts, and acces-ories, substantially as hereinbefore described and shewn.
3. The various arrangements and details of spindle, fly, socket, tube, and hollow
cone, with their accessories, working parts, and relative attachments, substantially
as hereinbefore described and shewn.
4. The application of the several parts above described, to the machine known
as the "roving machine."