Improvements in Ring-traveller Apparatus of Spinning or Twisting Machinery.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application. 21st Oct., 1890-Accepted, 22nd Nov., 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ring-traveller Apparatus of Spinning or Twisting
Machinery.
I ARTHUR FLETCHER WHITIN of Whitinsville in the State of Massachusetts one
of the United States of America, Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performer, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention has for its object to provide a ring, such as used in a spinning or
twisting machine, with a novel clearer whereby the lint or fibre adhering to the usual
traveller may he detached, and at the same time the traveller acts to clear the
clearer.
Usual clearers, so far as known to me, soon become loaded with fibre which has to
be removed by hand, and if not removed the clearer ceases to be effective.
To effect the automatic clearing of the clearer, I have so constructed the clearer and
applied it to the ring, or it may be, to its holder, that the clearer occupies a diagonal
position with relation to the direction of movement of the traveller on the race of the
ring, so that the fibre caught on the clearer is immediately carried up the inclined
clearer and discharged from the upper end thereof.
One part of this invention therefore consists in a traveller clearer containing an
upright portion inclined in the line of progress of the traveller.
Also, in a traveller clearer consisting of a piece of wire-like material inclined in the
line of progress of the traveller.
Also in the combination with a spinning ring and traveller, of a traveller clearer
having its upper end located near the ring and inclined in the direction of the
traveller.
Also in the combination with a spinning ring having an annular groove or depression
at its outer side, of a traveller clearer consisting of a portion inclined upwardly in the
direction of the motion of the traveller on the ring race and having a spring-like
portion to clasp the ring in the said annular groove, substantially as will be
described.
Fig. 1, in side elevation, shows a spinning ring with my improved clearer attached
thereto, and
Fig. 2, shows a modified form of clearer applied to the ring holder, the ring having
a double race.
The ring a and the traveller b, shown in Fig. 1, are of usual construction except
that the ring has an annular groove c, into which is sprung the shank d of the clearer e,
the said shank being shaped to partially embrace the ring, the flanges at the sides
of the groove preventing the rising and falling of the clearer.
The essential feature of the clearer e is that it is inclined upwardly and forwardly in
the direction of motion of the traveller.
Instead of having a spring-like shank to embrace the ring, the clearer, as shown
at f, may be inserted in a holder f¹, as represented in Fig. 2, wherein the ring is
shown as of the double race variety.
The clearers will preferably be composed of wire, and in operation any lint or fibre
adhering to the traveller is caught by the clearer, and the material so accumulated or
deposited upon the clearer is by the continued rotation of the traveller, made to move
up and off the end of the clearer.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what 1
claim is :-
1: A traveller clearer containing an upright portion inclined in the line of progress
of the traveller substantially as described.

page_text: 2: A traveller clearer consisting of a piece of wire-like material having an
upwardly extended portion inclined in the line of progress of the traveller, substantially
as described.
3: The combination with a spinning ring and traveller, of a traveller clearer having
its upper end located near the ring and inclined in the direction of the traveller,
substantially as described.
4: The combination with a spinning ring having an annular groove or depression
at its outer side, of a traveller clearer consisting of a portion inclined upwardly in the
direction of the motion of the traveller on the ring-race, and having a spring-like
portion to clasp the ring in the said annular groove, substantially as described.
Dated the 20th day of October 1890
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.