An Improvement in Travellers for Ring Spinning.
Year: 1888

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Travellers for Ring Spinning.
We ELIAS LEAK of Trenton, New Jersey, United States of America, Machinist, and
THOMAS BRIGHT WILSON, of 4 Hope View, Derby Road, Fallowfield, Manchester, in
the County of Lancaster, England, Civil Engineer, 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 and accompanying
drawings:-
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Our said Invention which relates to travellers for use in ring spinning consists in
manufacturing the said travellers from novel materials whereby we obtain certain
improved results, such for example as lightness, reduced friction, and the absence of
necessity for lubrication. The materials which we have found suitable for our
purpose are horn, bone, ivory, celluloid, xylonite, vulcanized fibre, and other similar
light materials such for example as catgut. We also use aluminium and its alloys
this metal being very considerably lighter than steel and not being liable to oxydation.
In making the aluminium travellers we would employ the ordinary or similar methods
of forming metal travellers but in the case of the other indicated materials we would
form them in dies or moulds or by means of tools ordinarily used or suitable for
working such materials. Our Invention does not however relate to the methods of
producing the said travellers but only to the materials from which they are made.
The travellers may be used in conjunction with the ordinary.metal rings or they may
be used with rings of porcelain or glass.
To render the uses of our improved travellers more clear we have appended a sheet
of drawings to which we will now refer.
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Fig. 1. is a sectional view of a ring a of glass or porcelain secured by means of the
nut to the ordinary ring rail 6 of a spinning frame. The traveller c is made of horn
or of any
of the hereinbefore recited materials and is sprung into position on the ring.
The cop d is shown in dotted lines the yarn d¹ being represented as coming from the
drawing rollers above and being wound upon the cop through the agency of the
traveller cas is well understood.
The form of the traveller may be varied from that shown.
Fig. 2 is a sectional view in which the ring a is made of metal in the ordinary
manner.
The traveller c is of horn or of another of our improved materials as in the case of
Fig. 1. As our improved travellers are so much lighter than the ordinary steel
travellers, we not only save in driving power but also expect to be able to spin finer
counts of yarn than has hitherto been possible in ring spinning. When made of the
non-metallic materials herein before specified it will be found that lubrication may be
dispensed with and thus the danger of marking the yarn or cops with lubricant which
at present exists is obviated.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
The manufacture of travellers for use in ring spinning, from the indicated materials
that is to say from horn, bone, ivory, celluloid, xylonite, vulcanized fibre, catgut and
the like materials and from aluminium and its alloys, with the objects and substantially
as hereinbefore described and shown.