Improvements in and connected with Ring Spinning and Doubling Machines.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Sept., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 29th June, 1899-Accepted, 29th July, 1899
[Communicated from abroad by WILLIAM FRANCIS SUTTILL, of 19, Rue Cambon,
Paris, in the French Republic, Engineer.] -
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Improvements in and connected with Ring Spinning and Doubling
Machines.
I, WILLIAM GEORGE HEYS, of 70, Market Street, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
1
This invention relates to ring spinning and doubling machines in which there
are, on one or each side of the machine, two rows or banks of spindles at different
heights and its object is to facilitate the guiding of the rovings or threads from
the rollers to the lower rows or banks of spindles.
According to these improvements, the upper spindle rails are provided with
openings or passages at or near the longitudinal centre line of the rail and
at or near the mid points between contiguous rings.. When the lower row.of
spindles is in the same vertical plane, as the upper row, the rovings or threads
pass through the openings in the upper rail to the lower spindles. When the
two rows of spindles are in different vertical planes, thread guides are arranged
below the openings or passages in the upper rail through which the rovings or
threads pass at an angle to the thread guides of the lower spindles.
This method of guiding the rovings or threads permits the operative to piece
up with facility whilst the machine is running.
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W. E. HEYS & SON,
Agents for the Applicant:
Improvements in and connected with Ring Spinning and Doubling
Machines.
I, WILLIAM GEORGE HEYS, of 10, Market Street, Manchester, in the County-of
Lancaster, Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this 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 ring spinning and doubling machines, in which there
are, on one or on each side of the machine, two rows or banks of spindles in
two different horizontal planes, and its object is to facilitate the guiding of the
rovings or threads from the rollers to the lower rows or banks of spindles.
According to these improvements, the upper spindle rails are provided with
openings or passages at or near the longitudinal centre line of the rail and
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page_text: at or near the mid points between contiguous rings. When the lower row of
spindles is in the same vertical plane, as the upper row, the rovings or threads
pass through the openings or passages in the upper rail to the lower spindles. When
the two rows of spindles are in different vertical planes, thread guides are arranged
below the openings or passages in the upper rail through which the rovings or
threads pass at an angle to the thread guides of the lower spindles. Or, the
threads or rovings may be guided over pulleys or rollers to thread guides over
the lower spindles.
This method of guiding the rovings or threads permits the operative to piece
up with facility whilst the machine is running.
These improvements are illustrated by the accompanying drawings to which
reference will hereinafter be made.
Figure 1 represents in transverse section;
Figure 2, in front elevation, and Figure 3 in plan, a part of two rows of
spindles on different horizontal planes and in the same vertical plane.
Figure 4 shews a partial plan of the upper spindle rail, under the same
arrangement, with parts cut away for the free passage of the threads or rovings.
Figure 5 represents in transverse section;
Figure 6, in front elevation; and
Figure 7, in plan, a part of two rows of spindles in different horizontal and
vertical planes.
In either case it is assumed that the spindles on one side of the machine are
symmetrical with those on the other side.
As shewn by Figures 1 to 4 inclusive, the threads after leaving the rollers
pass through thread guides T in the front edge of the thread board A, alternate
threads passing respectively to the upper and to the lower rows of spindles as
indicated by Figure 2.
Openings, such as are shewn by Figure 4, or equivalent thereto, are formed in
the ring rail R and spindle rail S for the passage of the threads going to the
lower row of spindles. These are conducted through the thread guides t. The
openings, since the spindles break pitch with each other, will come directly
over the centres of the lower spindles.
In the case where the two rows of spindles are in parallel vertical planes, as
illustrated by Figures 5, 6 and 7, the threads for the lower row of spindles,
after leaving the thread board A, pass downwards, behind and under the light
bowls g, and at an angle to the lower thread guides t, whence they descend to
the rings of the lower spindles.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated
to me by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is:-
1. In ring spinning and doubling machines having two rows of spindles at
different heights, the hereinbefore described means for and method of guiding
the threads for the lower row of spindles whereby they are caused to pass between
the rings of the top row, substantially as set forth and as illustrated by the
accompanying drawings.
2. In ring spinning and doubling machines in which there are two rows of
spindles in the same vertical plane, constructing or arranging the top spindle
rail with openings through which the threads for the lower row of spindles
can pass, substantially as hereinbefore described and as illustrated by the
companying drawings.