Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Oct., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 10th July, 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 10 Aug., 1888
I DANIEL ORME of the firm of George Orine & Co. of Oldham in the County of
Lancaster, Gas Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows: :-
My Invention relates to the counters which are employed to register the number of
"draws" or stretching motions of the carriages of mules used in the spinning of
fibrous materials and is also applicable in the indication of the number of banks pro-
duced in the said mules. In the specification of Letters Patent No. 5437 granted to
me in conjunction with Francis Heans Orme and dated the 13th day of December 1881
a vibrating lever was described which gave intermittent revolving motion to a wheel
having leaves or projections the said wheel being connected to the registering train of
wheels carrying the various indicating discs. In my present invention I employ the
said vibrating lever but provide an arrangement of gearing wheels and indicating
discs which is simpler and more compact than the arrangement indicated in the said
foregoing specification of Letters Patent and enables me to produce an equally efficient
counter at considerably less cost. As in former instances the rocking or "scroll" shaft
of the mule is utilized to give motion to the said vibrating lever but it may be actuated
from any other suitable moving part of the mule. As already said the vibrating lever
acts upon a wheel having three projections or leaves similar to the wheel shown in the
said foregoing specification so as to make it revolve intermittently but under my
present invention the axle of the said intermittently revolving wheel carries a worm
which is preferably triple threaded but which may have a greater or less number of
threads. This triple threaded worm gears with a worm wheel carried on a shaft at
right angles to the axis of the worm. The worm wheel has ten teeth and is moved
one tenth of a revolution at each motion of the triple worm which latter is moved
one third of a revolution at each forward and backward stroke of the vibrating lever.
This proportion of movement between the worm and the worm wheel may however
be varied. The first indicating disc carrying ten numerals representing units upon its
periphery. is moved at the same rate as the worm wheel and by means of a pinion

page_text: carried on a parallel shaft moves the next disc round one tenth of a revolution for
each complete revolution of the first or unit disc, the second disc carrying ten numerals
representing tens upon its periphery. A complete revolution of the second disc moves
a third disc one tenth of a revolution round, which third disc carries ten numerals
representing hundreds and so on, any suitable number of indicating discs being
employed and strung side by side upon a common spindle each pair of discs being
connected by a suitable pinion the discs being arranged side by side occupy little space
in comparison with the former counters. The whole mechanism is contained in a
suitable case and the numerals are seen through an opening in the dial which is or
may be covered with glass.
When using my invention to indicate the number of hanks produced in mules the
same arrangement of intermittently revolving indicating discs is used but to connect
the first driving disc with the three leaved wheel I may use spiral skew or other
gearing instead of or in combination with the said triple or other threaded worm, the
said gearing wheels being made as change wheels so that they can be altered or
arranged to suit mules having differeut powers of production.
Dated this 8th day of October 1887.
DUTTON & FULTON,
1, St. James Square, Manchester,
Agents.

page_text: I DANIEL ORME of the firm of George Orme & Co. of Oldham in the County of
Lancaster, Gas Engineers, 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
My Invention relates to the counters which are employed to register the number of
"draws" or stretching motions of the carriages of mules used in the spinning of
fibrous materials and is also applicable in the indication of the number of banks
produced in the said mules. In the specification of Letters Patent No. 5437 granted
to me in conjunction with Francis Heans Orme and dated the 13th day of
December 1881 a vibrating lever was described which gave intermittent revolving
motion to a wheel having leaves or projections, the said wheel being connected to the
registering train of wheels carrying the various indicating discs. In my present
invention I employ the said vibrating lever but provide an arrangement of gearing
wheels and indicating discs which is simpler and more compact than the arrangement
indicated in the said foregoing specification of Letters Patent and enables me to
produce an equally efficient counter at considerably less cost.
And in order that my said Invention may be properly understood I will now
proceed more particularly to describe the same with reference to the annexed sheet of
drawings.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the counter with the front removed so as to show the
working parts more clearly.
Fig. 2 is a vertical cross section of the counter at the line A. B. Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a modified form of the counter.
The rocking or scroll shaft of the mule imparts a rocking motion by a worm or
other means through the quadrant a to the spindle b. which carries the scapement
lever or pallet c. This lever is thus made to vibrate so as to act upon the three leaved
pallet wheel d and cause it to perform one third of a revolution at each double stroke
of the lever. The wheel d is carried by the stud e and is formed in one piece with or
is attached to a worm which is preferably triple threaded as shown in the drawing,
but which may have a greater or less number of threads. This triple threaded worm f
gears with a worm wheel g which is fixed upon a sleeve which also carries the first or
unit disc i of the figured indicating discs i. jk. I m. The proportions of the worm and
worm wheel are such that the indicating disc performs one tenth of a revolution at
each double stroke of the lever c. The disc is figured on its periphery from 0 to 9
being ten units and the indicating figure shows through a slit n in the dial face o
(see Fig. 2). The remaining discs are similarly figured to indicate tenths, the disc i
representing units, the discj tens, the disc k hundreds the disc thousands and so on.
As the discs stand in the drawing they would indicate that 46231 "draws" had
been performed by the mule. The method of communicating motion from one
indicating disc to the other is the same as that set forth in the specification of former

page_text: Letters Patent No. 10882 of 1884 granted to myself and Francis Heans Orme. These
discs j. kl. m are strung loosely upon a central spindle p and above the discs is a
spindle a carrying loosely running pinion wheels having teeth which gear with teeth
formed on the sides of the discs j. k. 1 m. Every second tooth of the pinion is
prolonged and gears with a recess r on the side of the discs i j k l. At the tenth
movement of the disc i the recess comes opposite to and gears with one of the
prolonged teeth on the pinion and by moving the pinion produces a corresponding
movement to the extent of one tenth of a revolution of the disc j. The discj moves
the disc k. in a similar manner but at much longer intervals of time and so on
throughout the series of discs. Any suitable number of indicating discs may be used
all being connected and moved by the pinions x as hereinbefore described. The
manner of mounting the indicating discs and the absence of extended trains of gearing
enable me to produce a compact and comparatively cheap and simple counter for
mules. The whole mechanism is contained in a cases and the face is covered with
glass t so as to exclude dust and fluff. The glass may if desired be protected by a
hinged cover attached to the case and not shown in the drawing.
A modification in the mode of transmitting the motion of the worm to the first
indicating disc i is shown at Fig. 3. A worm wheel u gears with the worm f. The
wheel u is fixed on a short spindle carrying a bevel wheel which gears with another
bevel wheel w on the sleeve which carries the disc i. The wheels v and w may be
made as change wheels capable of being changed and arranged to suit mules having
different powers of production.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
(1) The general arrangement, construction and combination of parts comprising
the improved counter or indicator for mules substantially as described and shown.
(2) In counters or indicators for mules the employment of figured indicating discs
arranged side by side and operating each other by means of connecting pinions from a
worm and worm wheel intermittently rotated by a vibrating scapement lever acting
on a pallet wheel substantially as described and shown.
(3) In mule counters of the indicated nature transmitting the motion from the
worm and worm wheel to the discs through gearing capable of being changed and
altered to suit varying requirements substantially as described and shown.
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DUTTON & FULTON,
1, St. James Square, Manchester,
Agents.