Improvements in Apparatus for Spinning Flax, Cotton, and other Textile Fibres.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 27th Aug., 1895-Accepted, 5th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Spinning Flax, Cotton, and other
Textile Fibres.
We, ROBERT HENRY STURROCK READE, Managing Director of York Street
Flax Spinning Company Limited, Belfast, in the County of Antrim, Ireland, and
HUGH M KIBBIN, Foreman Mechanic to the said company, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
These improvements relate to the spinning of yarns, wet or dry, in the form of
cops, and consist of a novel arrangement of a spindle and flyer whereby cops of
yarn can be formed on the bare spindle or upon a thin shell thereon, without a
bobbin or pirn, during the process of spinning.
In the ordinary process of flyer spinning as hitherto in use the flyer is firm upon
the spindle, and the yarn is wound upon a bobbin or pirn placed loose upon the
spindle, the bobbin or pirn being made to rotate on the spindle by the yarn being
wound on it. In this invention the flyer is separate from the spindle, and the
spindle itself stands in the place of the bobbin or piru and is made to rotate by the
yarn being wound directly upon it.
In our invention the flyer consists of a collar carrying an eye or eyes on its upper
end, which collar extends through and is fitted loose in its carrying rail and is free
to rotate therein. This collar is fitted with a wharve, either above or below the
rail, by which it is driven by a band. The flyer eye or eyes may be attached in
any convenient way to this collar, such as by being screwed, soldered or the like.
The internal diameter of this flyer collar is the measure of the diameter of the cop
to be spun.
The spindle is carried by a second collar fixed to or in the traverse or builder
rail, which we place below or under the flyer rail, this collar being sufficiently long
to entirely support the spindle, leaving only the blade exposed. The spindle and
spindle collar being carried by the traverse or builder rail the two rise and fall
together with the rail up into or through the flyer collar to build up the cop of
yarn on the spindle blade. Any desired amount of drag can be applied by means
of a drag band applied to the spindle near the foot through a groove or cut in the
side of the spindle collar.
The internal diameter of the flyer collar and the external diameter of the spindle
collar are such that the spindle collar can pass up through or into the flyer collar
without any contact between them, the two collars being quite independent one of
the other. The spindle collar is sufficiently long to pass up to the upper edge of
the flyer collar when the traverse or builder rail is raised, and as the yarn or cop is
built upon the spindle it gradually, through the action of the copping motion,
passes down inside the flyer collar.
On the spindle we place a small loose socket or washer of brass or other material,
and upon which the building of the yarn may be commenced, to assist in the stripping
or doffing of the cops.
Instead of carrying the flyer on a collar projecting through the rail it may be
carried on a wharved ring rotating ou a short tube projecting from or inserted in
the rail, the tube being sufficiently large to allow the cop to pass through it.
Dated this 10th day of December 1894.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for Spinning Flax, Cotton, and other
Textile Fibres.
We, ROBERT HENRY STURROCK READE, Managing Director of York Street
Flax Spinning Company Limited, Belfast, in the County of Antrim, Ireland, and
HUGH MKIBBIN, Foreman Mechanic to the said company, 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 the spinning of yarns from flax cotton or other fibres
either by the wet or dry process in the form of cops and is designed to, provide
mechanism whereby cops of yarn can be formed on the bare spindle or upon a thin
shell of paper (or other material) thereon without a bobbin or pirn during the
process of spinning though if desired a bobbin or pirn may be employed therewith.
In the ordinary process of flyer spinning as hitherto carried out the. flyer. is
firmly attached to the spindle and rotates therewith and the yarn is by the
rotation of the spindle and flyer wound upon a bobbin or pirn placed loosely upon
the spindle the bobbin or pirn being caused to rotate upou the spindle by the drag
or pull of the yarn as it is lapped thereon.
This invention consists essentially of a collar or socket carrying a flyer or guide
eye through which socket the spindle passes supported in one of the rails and
driven or caused to rotate therein by means of a driving band in. combination with
a spindle upon which the yarn is wound carried by traverse or builder rail and
caused to rotate by the drag of the yarn as it is lapped around the spindle.
The invention will be fully described. with reference to the accompanying
drawings in which a single spindle and sufficient of the parts of a spinning, frame
are shown to illustrate the invention.
Fig. 1. Front elevation partly in section.
Fig. 2. Transverse sectional elevation.
Fig. 3. Plan.
We construct the frame with a fixed or stationary carrying rail to support a
loose collar or socket A capable of being rotated therein.
The carrying rail is preferably constructed double or of two parts B and C
placed at fixed distances apart and the collar or socket A of such a length as to fit
into both rails in which it is free to rotate. It is provided at or near its centre
with a wharve D to receive a driving band d. by which. it is rotated at any desired
speed:
The rails B and C are formed with slots b into. each of which a socket A is.
placed and retained in position by a plate E screwed or bolted to the front edge
thereof.
Instead of the socket A being fitted into a double rail B and C it may be fitted
into a single rail and the wharve D may be placedieither above or below the rail
but the arrangement shown will be found the most satisfactory,
On the upper side of the socket A is fixed a guide eye (or eyes) a through
which the yarn from the rollers passes and by which it is, delivered onto the
spindle F. The guide eye a is secured to the socket A in any convenient way
such as by being screwed soldered brazed or the like. The internal diameter of
the socket or collar D is equivalent to the external diameter of the cop, to. be
spun.
The spindle F is free to rotate and is carried in a fixed collar G secured in or
to the traverse or builder rail H. The collar G is sufficiently long to entirely
support the spindle F leaving only the blade bare. The traverse or builder rail H

page_text: is raised and lowered in the usual way by the poker J and the spindle collar G and
spindle F being carried thereby they rise and fall with the rail to build up the cop
upon the spindle blade.
The spindle F is caused to rotate by the pull (or tension) of the yarn upon it as it
is carried round by the guide eye a on the socket A. The desired amount of drag
to cause the yarn to wind upon the spindle is applied by means of the drag
band K applied near the foot of the spindle through a slot
in the spindle
collar G.
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The internal diameter of the rotating socket A and the external diameter of the
spindle collar G are such that the spindle collar can pass up through or into
the socket A without any contact between them, the two collars being quite
independent one of the other. The spindle collar is sufficiently long to pass up to
the upper edge of the revolving socket. A when the traverse or builder rail is
raised and as the yarn or cop is built upon the spindle it gradually through the
action of the copping motion passes down inside.
On the spindle we may place a small loose socket or washer of brass or other
material upon which the building of the yarn may be commenced to assist in the
stripping or doffing of the cops.
Instead of carrying the guide or flyer eye a on a socket projecting through the
rail it may be carried on a wharved ring rotating on a short tube projecting from
or inserted in the rail the tube being sufficiently large to allow the cop to pass
through it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. In a spinning frame a positively driven collar or socket carrying a flyer or
guide a, rotating in a fixed rail or rails, through which collar the spindle passes,
in combination with a loose spindle upon which the yarn is wound carried in a
suitable collar by the traverse or builder rail substantially as described and
shown.
2. In a spinning frame the combination of the fixed rails B and C, the positively
driven socket A rotating therein, the guide eye a, the loose spindle F, the spindle
collar G carried by the traverse rail H with a slot g cut therein for the drag
band K substantially as described and shown.
3. In a spinning frame the combination and arrangement of the several parts
substantially as described and shown.
Dated this 15th day of August 1895.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Manchester, Liverpool, and London, Patent Agents.