CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING AND SPINNING YARNS OF ALL FIBRES, WINDING YARNS OR FORMING COPS OR BOBBINS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Lancaster of Accrington, in the County of
Lancaster, Machine Maker, for an Invention of " CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING AND SPINNING YARNS OF ALL
FIBRES, WINDING YARNS OR FORMING COPS OR BOBBINS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Lancaster at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th July 1883.
WILLIAM LANCASTER, of Accrington, in the County of Lancaster, Machine
Maker, "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING
AND SPINNING YARNS OF ALL FIBRES, WINDING YARNS OR FORMING COPS OR
BOBBINS
"
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The first part of my Invention relates to an improved holder or holders for
carrying or holding the improved flyers or travellers for the purpose of spinning
yarns, an improvement in the process of spinning being effected by using a holder
of this improved construction or using more than one such holder part of my
improvements consisting in making the holder of one or more plates.
The second part of my invention relates to a spaced or slotted or grooved plate
or bar to be used on spinning machines, such spaces slots or grooves serving as
guides to the yarn between the delivery rollers and the spindles in place of the
ordinary guides now used
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The third part of my invention relates to a plate, rod or bar placed between the
thread or yarn guides und the delivery rollers in order to break or reduce the sharp
angle described by the thread or yarn
The fourth part of my Invention relates to the manner or mode of applying A
lever to a pulley or wheel, or otherwise fixed on one of the first shafts of the
spinning machine by which the machine in motion may be almost immediately
stopped or arrested being in connection with the setting-on and stopping handle,
one of the advantages resulting therefrom being the prevention of snarls ruffled or
broken ends or threads.

page_text: The fifth part of my invention relates to a novel form of swift or ryce used on
machines for winding yarns and forming cops.
This ryce or swift may be made by preference of hollow or solid wire of any
shape or of any other thin metal substance.
I propose that the pegs or projecting arms forming the radius or diameter of the
ryce shall pass through one, or between two or more washers or flanges on a barrel
or centre-piece either of metal or other substance
These pegs may be better secured in their places by indenting or shaping the
washers or flanges suitably
The sixth part of my invention relates. to the connection or application of
revolving small conical or cylindrical rollers or bowls used on winding machines for
forming cops or bobbins of yarn working on adjustable centres to admit of making
different diameters of cops or bobbins on one and the same spindle or machine, to
the long tubes, warves or band.pulleys, The long tube warve or band pulley may
be made with a spring inside or outside for the purpose of turning the spindle tube
or bobbin around when the band pulleys revolve

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by tho said William Lancaster in the Patent Office on the 26th January
1884.
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WILLIAM LANCASTER of Accrington in the County of Lancaster Machine
Maker CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING
AND SPINNING YARNS OF ALL FIBRES WINDING YARNS OR FORMING COPS OR
BOBBINS
"
The first part of my invention relates to an improved holder or holders for
carrying or holding improved flyers, travellers or drag wires for the purpose of
spinning yarns, an improvement being effected in the process of spinning by using
the holder or holders of a peculiar construction and applied in an improved manner
to my angle bar and by using more than one holder or holders jointly, such holder
or holders consisting of one or more plates, and especially in the novel mode of
attaching them together in an improved manner to my angle lifting bar as shown
on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings Figures 1, 2 and 3.
These plates, traveller holders or flyer holders as shewn in Figures 1, 2, and 3
are by preference made of thin material with inserted rings called ferrules on which
my travellers, flyers or drug wires are placed. In this case two thin plates or ring
plates are placed together one above the other as shown at Figures 1, 2 and 3 and
fastened together by means of a screw with a small washer or ring between them of
sufficient thickness to separate the plates to leave sufficient room or space to allow
parts of the traveller to work freely therein. The ferruled plates and rings are
fixed on my angle bar A in the manner described by the screw B and washer C
and by a bar D passing over one or more plates, the said screw B passing through
this bar D and holding all together, thus giving my angle bar greater strength and
rigidity and securing the plates E and F more firmly in their places. The
advantages resulting from the use of more than one plate as shown by Figures 1, 2
and 3 are that the Byers, travellers or drag wires may be made lighter and more
suitable for finer counts of yarn or softer spun yarn by the shortening of one of the
prongs at G of the forked dragwire H, the bottom plate F serving to keep the
drag wire in its place. Moreover the piecing of broken ends is facilitated the yarn
being more easily passed under the short prong of the drag wire H and which yarn
is also passed under the other extremity of the drug wire H. The said plates E
and Fare adjustable and can be set concentric with the spindles, which pass
through them and these plates can also be used singly, that is, without the second
plate or ring F; and an improvement in these plates used singly is effected by
placing the ferrule or ring in the plates in such a manner that as much of the
ferrule projects over the plate as under the plate rendering these plates reversible
and enabling me to use the rings reversed when one of the projecting parts of the
ferrule is worn. One of these single reversible plates is shown at Figure 4. These
plates whether used singly or double may be constructed in numbers together of
one piece of metal, or any other material, as shown at Figure 5 which represents a
thin sheet or thin plate of steel with holes punched through it and each hole fitted
with inserted ferrules or rings at certain distances to suit the gauge or distance of
the spindles in the spinning machine.-H in Figure 1 and J in Figure 4 and
Figure 6 show improved forms of drag wires with forks and with projections or
bends to keep them in their proper position in and on the rings or plates and to
guide the yarn to the spindle cop or tube. The yarn is passed through these drag
wires in a similar manner as described in reference to H in Figure 1.
The second part of my invention relates to a spaced or slotted or grooved plate
to be used on spinning machines and, as shown at Figures 7 and 8, such spaced,

page_text: slotted or grooved plates serving as guides to the yarn between the delivery rollers N
and the spindles O in place of the ordinary wire guides and hinged flap boards now
used. Such slotted or spaced plates are made from thin material, such as sheet
steel or other suitable thin material or may be made of strong material with a thin
edge or thin part about the slots spaces or grooves and can be made singly to
serve for an individual spindle or in long plates to serve for a number of spindles.
The slots, spaces or grooves in these plates are set out to correspond with the
spindle gauge or spindle distance, and each groove or space receives a thread, and
the whole number of threads in a machine are thus conducted or guided to the
spindles with great ease and freedom; the process of piecing up broken ends
being moreover facilitated and accelerated.
Figures 7 and 8 shew this improved thread guide K applied over the spindles
and attached by preference to a board L which passes down the whole length of
the machine, but which board may be made in parts. The thread guide plates K
are adjustable and movable on the board.
The third part of my invention relates to a thin plate or a thick plate presenting
a thin edge to the yarn and placed between the delivery rollers N and the thread
guides or yan guides over which the yarn passes previous to passing over the
thread guides, and being a thin plate, made of steel by preference or a thick plate
presenting a thin edge to the yarn it assists in propelling the twist ascending from
and given by the motion of the spindles and drag wires to the delivery rollers N.
Figures 7 and 8 at M show these thin plates applied to the upper surface of the
board Lupon which board they are moveable.
The fourth part of my invention relates to a novel mode of putting in action and
relieving a brake for the purpose of suddenly aresting the motion of continuous
spinning machines, when the strap is removed from the fast to the loose pulley,
and preventing the formation of snarls and of other defects in the yarn caused by
-the-tardy-and-slow stoppage of the machine. This is effected as shown in Figures 9
and 10 and without the aid of cams, springs, blocks or chains, but by means of a
lever P with an inclined plane at one end Q attached to the end of the machine on
a centre pivot R, the said lever extending from one end of the brake S to the strap
setting on apparatus T, to which apparatus 1 attach a small bowl U nctuating on
the incline of the lever Pat Q, as shown in Figures 9 and 10, and either relieving
or putting in action the arm or brake S acting as a brake upon the pulley wheel V
as the strap setting on apparatus T is moved one way or the other.
The pulley wheel V is placed on one of the first motion shafts of the machines
and the brake is not applied to the driving pulleys of the machine.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention and in
what manner the same is or may be performed I wish it to be understood that I do
not limit myself to the precise details herein given as the same may be varied and
modified without departing from the principle thereof, and that what I Claim as
Eccured to me by the hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is :-
Firstly-The use of holders for carrying flyers or travellers when constructed
substantially as hereinbefore described and shewn Figures 4 and 5 of the
drawing.
Secondly-The combination of a holder for carrying flyers or travellers
constructed of two or more plates, with a washer or ring, an angle bar and a top
flat bar, in the nanner hereinbefore described for the purpose specified and shewn
at Figures 1, 2 and 3 of the drawing
Thirdly-In combination with my improved holders, the use of flyers, travellers,
or drags wires of the forms shown on Figures 1, 2, 4 and 6 of the drawing, and
arranged to work in, upon, or between the plates as set forth.
Fourthly-The use of the slotted, grooved or spaced thread guide plates in
continuous spinning machines, forming the guide of the yarn or thread to one or
more spindles substantially as described and shewn at K Figures 7 and 8 of the
drawing.
Fifthly -The use of thin metal plates, or metal plates presenting a thin edge to

page_text: the yarn and placed between the thread guide plates and the delivery rollers, sub-
stantially as described and shewn at M Figures 7 and 8 of the drawing, for the
purpose specified.
Sixthly-In continuous spinning machines, the automatic breaking arrangement
shewn Figures 9 and 10 of the drawing, operating substantially as described, for.
the purpose specified.
In witness whereof I the said William Lancaster have hereunto set my hand and
seal this Twenty fifth day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty four:
Vitness
CHARLES LANCASTER
Accrington.
WILLIAM LANCASTER (L.S.)