IMPROVEMENTS IN RING AND TRAVELLER SPINNING AND TWISTING FRAMES
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT. to Alexander Melville Clark of the firm of A. M and
W. Clark of 53 Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex Fellow of the
Institute of Patent Agents for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN RING AND
TRAVELLER SPINNING AND TWISTING FRAMES communicated to him from
abroad by Jean Jacques Bourcart, of Zurich, Switzerland
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Melville Clark
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th March 1883. -
ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK of the firmn of A M and W Clark of 53 Chancery
Lane in the County of Middlesex Fellow of the Institute of Patent Agents
IMPROVEMENTS IN RING AND TRAVELLER SPINNING AND TWISTING FRAMES."
[Communicated to him from abroad by Jean Jacques Bourcart, of Zurich,
Switzerland]
These improvements in ring and traveller frames relate to the combination of
the Combe spindle (English Patent N° 1466 1859) with a special bolster, a movable
thread guide, and a pin fixed in the ring rail to facilitate the piecing up of broken
ends.
I have represented in Figures 1 and 2 of the annexed drawings two arrange-
ments of the improved spindles combined with a movable thread guide and with a
pin for use in piecing up broken ends.
In these two Figures the same letters of reference indicate similar parts
A is a self containing or Combe's (English Patent N° 1466 1859) or Rabbeth's
(US Patent No 68561. 1867) or Atwoods (U.S. Patent 58046. 1866) spindle
provided with a bolster B Figure 2 (Sterry U.S. Patent No 60802. 1867) beneath
the bobbin D and above the wharve. This spindle is supported by frames a b c
capable of adjustment and regulation and placed on a cross rail X of the machine
or on rails a¹ and c¹ fixed to the frame y.
The ring rail E is carried by supports F fixed on rods g which slide up and down
in guides H for the winding on motion.
The thread guides ik are also fixed on the rods g and participate in their motion,
these thread guides as well as the supports F being capable of adjustment on the

page_text: rods g. These thread guides may be without eyes and constructed of a simple lath
of wood or metal as shown in Figures 3, 4 and 5. They may or may not be capable
of being raised in groups or separately and may or may not be provided with means
of separating the threads and preventing them running double.
(Figure 1) is a rod which fixes the supports F in position. m is a notched rod
capable of sliding in guide staples on the frame b for preventing at will the raising
of the spindles out of their footsteps. In Figure 6 m is a rib on a flap m' hinged
to the frame at o. By dropping down the flap in the direction of the arrow the
spindles are free but by raising it into the position figured in the drawing they
cannot be lifted out of their footsteps.
h (Figure 1) is a pin driven or screwed into the ring rail and serving to facilitate
the piecing up of broken ends. q is the traveller furnished with a little hook
around which the thread is to be entwined twice or three times. 7 and indicate
rings causing the oil to fall back into the cups and operating by centrifugal action.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Alexander Melville Clark in the Great Seal Patent Office, on the
14th September 1883.
"
ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK of the firm of A. M. and W. Clark of 53 Chancery
Lane in the County of Middlesex Fellow of the Institute of Patent Agents.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN RING AND
TRAVELLER SPINNING AND TWISTING FRAMES
A communication to me from abroad by Jean Jacques Bourcart of Zurich,
Switzerland.
These improvements in ring and traveller frames relate to the combination with
the Combe spindle (English Patent N° 1466, 1859) of a special Bolster, a movable
thread guide, and a pin fixed in the ring rail to facilitate the piecing up of broken
ends.
I have represented in figures 1 and 2 of the annexed drawings two arrangements
of the improved spindles combined with a movable thread guide and with a pin
for use in piecing up broken ends. In these two figures the same letters of
reference indicate similar parts.
A is a self containing or Combe's (English Patent. N° 1466, 1859.) or Rabbeth's
(U.S. Patent N° 68561, 1867) or Atwoods (U.S. Patent 58046. 1866) spindle
provided with a bolster B Figure 2 (Sterry's U.S. Patent N° 60802. 1867) beneath
the bobbin D and above the wharve. This spindle is supported by frames a b c
(figure 1), capable of adjustment and regulation and placed on a cross rail X of the
machine or on rails a¹ and c¹ fixed to the frame y (figure 2)
The ring rail E is carried by supports F fixed on rods g which slide up and
down in guides H for the winding on motion.
The thread guides ik are also fixed on the rods g and participate in their
motion, these thread guides as well as the supports F being capable of adjustment
on the rods g. These thread guides may be without eyes and constructed of a
simple lath of wood or metal as shown in figures 3, 4, and 5. They may or may
not be capable of being raised in groups or separately and may or may not be
provided with means of separating the threads and preventing them running
double.
(Figure 1) is a rod which fixes the supports F in position. m is a notched rod
capable of sliding in guide staples on the frame b for preventing at will the raising
of the spindles out of their footsteps. In figure 6 m is a rib on a flap m¹ hinged
to the frame at o. By dropping down the flap in the direction of the arrow the
spindles are free but by raising it into the position figured in the drawing they
cannot be lifted out of their footsteps.
h (Figure 1) is a pin driven or screwed into the ring rail and serving to facilitate
the piecing up of broken ends. q is the traveller furnished with a little hook.
around which the thread is to be entwined twice or three times. and indicate
rings causing the oil to fall back into the cups and operating by centrifugal action.
Having described the nature of the said Invention and the manner of performing
the same I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be protected by the
hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent, is;
1. The combination.in continuous spinning frames of spindles of the kind known
as Combe's or Atwood's or Rabbeth's furnished with a bolster below the bobbin
and above the wharve, with rings and travellers, a movable thread guide and with
or without a pin fixed in the ring rail for facilitating the piecing up of broken
ends.
2. The combination specified in Claim 1 as herein before described and represented
in the drawings.

page_text: 3. The adjustable frame a b c carrying the Spindles substantially as herein
specified.
4. The rod m (figure 1) fitted to slide in slotted supports b or in the form of a
rib m (figure 6) on a hinged flap m¹ for the purpose of preventing the spindles
being brought up above their footsteps as specified.
5. The pin h for facilitating the piecing up of broken ends substantially as
specified.
In witness whereof I the said Alexander Melville Clark, have hereunto set my
hand and seal this fourteenth day of September A.D. 1883.
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