IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM FOR SPINNING
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Herbert John Haddan, of the Firm of Herbert an
and
Company, Solicitors of Patents, of 67, Strand; in the City of Westminster,
Civil Engineer, for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM FOR
SPINNING." A communication from abroad by William Mason, of the State of
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Herbert John Haddan at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th July 1880.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert and Company, Solicitors
of Patents, of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil Engineer.
'IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM FOR SPINNING." A' communication from abroad
by William Mason, of the State of Massachusetts, United States of America.
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The Invention relates inore particularly to devices for supporting, guiding, and
lubricating the spindles of ring spinning frames, and consists in the following con-
struction and arrangement of the same:- -The guide or bolster is provided at its
upper part, which projects above the rail, with a screw thread, and its lower part
(below the rail) with a convex shoulder, upon which rests a correspondingly concave
collar encircling the bolster, and resting with its flat upper side against the lower
surface of the rail. Another such collar or ring rests with its flat base on the upper
surface of the rail, and is concave at the top, corresponding to the convex base of a
screw nut which is screwed on the thread of the bolster. Extending down within
the upper part of the bore of the bolster is a loosely fitting bushing provided at the
top with an oil receptacle which surrounds the bushing and rests on the top of the
bolster. From the lower part of the bolster an arm projects downward, and is pro-.
vided at its lower part with a socket to receive an oil reservoir secured to the
socket by a clamp screw, and extending upward to or nearly to the whorl of the
spindle. The spindle is guided above the whorl by the bolster and its bushing,.
while its foot is supported by a loosely fitting step arranged inside the oil reservoir
and resting on a ledge or shoulder near the bottom of the latter, so as to leave an
oil cell or cavity below the spindle step, from which the oil is led upward to the
spindle foot. An elastic sleeve of cloth or other suitable material may be placed
between the bolster and the bushing, or between the oil reservoir and the spindle
step, the sleeve being in the latter case supported by a metallic tube placed inside.
the elastic sleeve, and resting with a collar on the top of the oil reservoir.
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Herbert John Haddan in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th
January 1881.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert and Company, Solicitors
of Patents, of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil Engineer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM FOR SPINNING." A communication from abroad
by William Mason, of the State of Massachusetts, United States of America.
Figure 1 is a front elevation, Figure 2 a side view, and Figure 3 a vertical
section of a spinning frame spindle and its supports applied to a rail; Figure 4 is a
top view, and Figure 5 is a side elevation of the spindle step. In carrying out this
Invention I provide the spindle bolster, furnished with a-clamp, screw-and-nut,
convex shoulder, and collars having centering surfaces, as represented, with a
socketed arm to extend directly from it, the said bolster, and to support an oil
reservoir applied to it, the said arm, and to the spindle or its step, and with respect
to the whorl of such spindle, essentially as herein set forth and as represented in
the accompanying Drawings. The oil reservoir is extended below the step, and
there is in the reservoir and beneath the step a cell or cavity, the step being of a
peculiar construction, and supported on a shoulder at the top of such cavity. The
bolster is also provided with a loose and removable bushing, having an oil reservoir
or trough near its top, as hereinafter explained.
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In the Drawings A denotes the spindle tubular bolster, provided at its upper part
with a male screw a; B is the spinning frame rail for supporting such bolster, the
hole 6, made in the said rail and for reception of the bolster, having a diameter
somewhat larger than that of the part of the bolster within it; at its lowest part
the bolster has a convex shoulder c, upon which rests a correspondingly concave
collar or ring C, which encircles the bolster and has a flat upper surface to rest
against the lower surface of the rail; another such collar or ring D encoinpasses the
bolster, and rests with its flat side on the upper surface of the rail B; a screw nut E,
having a convex bottom d to enter the corresponding concavity of the ring D, screws
upon the screw a.
Extending down within the upper part of the bore of the spindle bolster is a
loosely fitting bushing F, constructed or provided at its upper part with an oil
receiving trough G that encompasses the bushing and rests on the top of the bolster.
Such trough is arranged somewhat below the top of the bushing, and serves not
only to support the bushing in place and cover the upper ends of the bolster and
nut, but to hold oil for the lubrication of the part of the spindle that is within the
bore of the bushing, there being a small passage or educt ƒ leading from the upper
part of the trough into the said bore.
From the lower part of the bolster an arm H projects in manner as shown, such
arm at its lower part being provided with a socket h to receive and support the oil
reservoir K. Furthermore; there is screwed into the arm a clamp screw I to enter
the socket, and with it to operate to sustain the said oil reservoir K, which extends
up through the socket to or nearly to the whorl of the spindle.
The said spindle, shown at L, and having a driving whorl arranged with it, as
represented, extends into the oil reservoir. and up through the bolster A and the
bushing F, the foot i of the said spindle entering and being sustained by the loosely
fitting step M arranged within such reservoir, and resting on a ledge or shoulder k
at the top of the oil cell or cavity disposed below the oil chamber m of the said
reservoir.
The step is constructed to allow oil to freely flow from the chamber m into the
cellar or cavity, and thence up through the bottom of the step into the spindle into
the spindle foot bearing of the step, there being a hole n leading from the central

page_text: part of the bottom of such bearing down through the step. There is also in the
step another hole or induct o leading laterally into the spindle foot bearing, the
object of the said hole o being to insure the conical part of the foot of the spindle
being properly lubricated, and by means of the spindle to create a circulation of oil
through the step and oil reservoir.
The step, as shown, to receive the foot of the spindle has notched heads p, p, to
sustain or aid in sustaining the step in place. The body of the step has a diameter
less than that of the mouth of the oil cellar, cell, or cavity, whereby oil can flow
down around the step and into the said cellar, cell, or cavity. I do not confine
myself to this particular form of "skeleton step," as it may be otherwise properly
made to allow oil to flow on the outside of it freely down from the oil reservoir into
the cell or cellar, and circulate upward through the step and around the spindle foot
to the chamber above, and around the latter. The said step is to also be of such
diameter that it will on being inserted in the reservoir readily drop to the bottom
thereof, and as readily fall out of the reservoir when the latter is turned upside
down. The fitting of the step in the receiver and the bushing in the bolster is
generally to be so close that oil, when between the reservoir and heads of the step,
as well as that between the bushing and bolster, will suffice to hold them with
sufficient steadiness.
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I however sometimes apply to the bushing a yielding or elastic sleeve to encom-
pass it, and to extend around it and between it and the internal surface of the
bolster, such sleeve being a tube of cloth or other proper material; and I also some.
times apply such a tube or sleeve to the step to extend around its heads and
support them against the surrounding main surface of the oil reservoir, such sleeve
or sleeves being in order to enable the spindle to assume a vertical position when
revolving at a high speed, and having upon it a bobbin that by reason of being
eccentric with the spindle, or from some cause, is calculated to produce more or less
gyration or "wabbling" of the spindle, or swerving of it from a vertical line.
Figure 6 is a vertical section like Figure 3, but showing the bushing and step as
supported by the yielding.or elastic sleeves.
In such Figure the step is shown as provided with a metallic sleeve t, and also
with an elastic or yielding sleeve u, which intervenes between the inner surface of
the reservoir K and the outer surface of the metallic sleeve; this metallic sleeve is
inserted within the reservoir K, and has at the top a flange v to support it on the
top of the receiver. The step in this case is loosely fitting within the said metallic
sleeve.
The elastic or yielding sleeve encompassing the bushing is shown at w, grooves
being formed in and around the bushing to enable the elastic sleeve to be secured
to it by thread wound about the parts of the sleeve that cover the said grooves.
The sleeve t may also be provided with such grooves for aiding in securing to it an
elastic sleeve ..
In some cases the yielding sleeve may be applied directly to the step, but to have
such step close fitting within the oil reservoir it is better to make use of the
metallic sleeve t to support the yielding sleeve.
The whorl of the spindle being arranged midway or about so between the spindle
bearings, it will be seen that the spindle while in rapid revolution, and provided
with a bobbin liable from having become warped or more or less eccentric to the
spindle to cause the latter to gyrate or wabble," can by the action of gravity
take a vertical position or assume such a position as will cause it to run
steadily.
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The whorl of the spindle is shown at w₁ as arranged between the top of the
reservoir and the lower end of the bolster, and close to both, whereby it serves as a
cap for the mouth of the reservoir and as a cover for the lower end of the bolster.
From the above it, will be seen that the clamping nut and screw of the bolster
and its adjusting devices are arranged wholly above the rail, and that from such
bolster there is extended below the rail an, arm for supporting the oil reservoir
carrying the spindle foot step. The spindle with its bearings and oil reservoir can

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be moved or adjusted horizontally in directions radial to the hole in the rail, or
should the spindle not be vertical its supports can be tipped more or less to bring
it into proper position. The means adopted for sustaining the spindle admits of it
not only being adjusted into due relation with the ring when within such (it being
understood that this spindle is for what are termed "ring spinning frames
provided with a "ring" and "traveller" for each of their spindles), but of being
otherwise adjusted. Furthermore, the bolster being in one piece with its sustaining
arm, and such arm being also a supporter of the oil reservoir, is productive of
advantage. The readiness with which the spindle can be adjusted into concentricity
with the ring, and afterwards firmly secured in its position, renders the spinning
mechanism containing this Invention specially useful and valuable in comparison
with most if not all others in use.
What I claim as this Invention is.as follows, viz.
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The spindle bolster A provided with the convex shoulder c and a clamp screw a,
convex bottomed nut E, and adjusting plano-concave collars C, D, arranged with
each other and the rail B in manner as shown, in combination with the supporting
arm H (extending down from the said bolster) and with the oil reservoir K,
provided with the spindle step M and sustained by the said arm and by a screw I
screwed therein, all being as represented, and arranged with the spindle and whorl
substantially as specified.
I also claim the bolster loosely fitting bushing, having a reservoir or oil trough
as described, in combination with the spindle bolster A (provided with the convex
shoulder c and clamp screw a, convex bottomed nut E, and adjusting plano-concave
collars C, D, as set forth), and with the spindle L, the supporting arm H, and the
oil reservoir K, such reservoir being provided with a supporting step to the spindle;
and sustained by the arm H and a screw I, and all being substantially, as
specified.
I also claim the combination of the cylindrical oil reservoir and step holder and
its loosely seated step, as described, with the arm H, bolster A; spindle L, and
means, as explained, for supporting the spindle and bolster, and connecting them
with the rail so that they may be adjustable relatively thereto, as specified.
I also claim in combination with the spindle and its supports, as explained, a
yielding or elastic sleeve, as described, applied to the step or a metallic sleeve
surrounding it, or to the bushing, or such sleeve applied to both step and bushing,
in manner and to operate there with substantially as set forth.
I also claim the spindle step, made in manner and to operate substantially.as set
forth.
I also claim the bushing and its oil trough, constructed and arranged substantially
as represented.
I also claim the spindle L and its whorl w¹, arranged and combined essentially
in manner as set forth, with the bolster A, arm H, oil reservoir K, step M, bushing
F, and means, as described, for adjusting and supporting the bolster relatively to
the rail.
In witness whereof, I, the said Herbert John Haddan, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of January, A.D. 1881.