Improvements in Anti-ballooning Arrangements combined with. Guide Board Arrangements for Ring Spinning and Doubling Frames, and in Creels for the same and other Preparing and Spinning Machines.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Jan., 1898
Improvements in Anti-ballooning Arrangements combined with.
Guide Board Arrangements for Ring Spinning and Doubling
Frames, and in Creels for the same and other Preparing and
Spinning Machines.
We, TAYLOR LANG & Co. LIMITED, of Castle Iron Works, Stalybridge, in
the County of Chester, Machine Makers, and WILLIAM THOMAS WATTS, Director
of the said company, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention, to be as
follows:-
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1. Plates, or small barred or gridded frames have been used, placed between
the spools or bobbins on the spindles of ring spinning frames as separators, to
prevent the threads which balloon from lashing into each other, and such
separators have been generally mounted upon the ring rail to move up and down
therewith.
According to our invention, we employ by preference small two bar separators or
plates, which are not fixed to or carried upon the ring rail but are arranged so that
they can be changed in position according to the position of the ring rail so as
to come between the threads at the points where the curve of the thread describ-
ing the "balloon is at the greatest distance from the axis of the spindle.
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We also arrange the separators so that they can be brought into the position
for spinning, and into that for doffing simultaneously, combined with arrange-
ments for also simultaneously moving the thread guide wire boards into the
spinning and doffing positions.
In carrying out our invention we combine and arrange the parts as follows,
or in an equivalent manner.
In a guide from the spindle rail we arrange a rod or vertical poker to slide
up and down, the lower end of this poker is or may also be guided so as to slide
up and down in a bracket secured to the ordinary poker for actuating the ring
rail. There are as many of these pokers as may be required at intervals apart
in the lengthway of the frame, and the upper ends are or may be forked to
carry and form the bearings of a shaft (hereinafter called the separator shaft)
which may extend from end of the frame or be made in suitable lengths.
To this separator shaft carried by the said pokers, the arms from the separator
frames or plates are secured so that by oscillating the separator shaft, the
plates or frames may be brought into the position for spinning or into that for
doffing.
The pokers for the separators have each two adjustable collars, one of which
rests against the upper bracket or bearing for the poķer when the separators

page_text: are in their lowest position, the other collar is adjusted on the poker at some
point above the bracket which comes from the ring rail poker, so that at a certain
time in the lift of the poker, the upper side of the bracket from it will come
against the collar on the separator poker and lift it to keep the separators nearly
opposite the centre of "ballooning."
The separator pokers may be actuated by an arm or branch from the arm
actuating the ring rail pokers, or by other equivalent mechanism or by the same
shaft extending the length of the frame when such are used for actuating the
ring rail pokers or by other means from the ring rail motion.
The separator shaft or each shaft if made in short lengths, has an arm secured
to it (which if desired may carry a weight to counter-balance the separators)
which arm in each case is connected by a rod to an arm secured on a shaft in
bearings on the frame and extending the length thereof.
This shaft is or may be midway of the width of the frame (hereinafter called
the central shaft), so as to conveniently act for the separators on both sides of
it and there is or may be one arm on this central shaft for each length of
separator shaft.
By oscillating the central shaft all the separators can be simultaneously moved
into the spinning or into the doffing position.
Each thread guide wire board is separately hinged to a board or shaft and
the shaft or board has an arm from it connected by a rod adjustable in length
with an
arm on the said central shaft, so that the oscillation of the central
shaft will simultaneously lift the thread guide wire boards on both sides of the
frame, and the separators at the same time into the doffing position and the
reverse oscillation of the central shaft will return them to the spinning position.
The separator shaft or shafts may be made with an arm to come against a
stop on the separator poker when the separators are in the spinning position,
and the pin in the arm through which the separator shaft is actuated from the
central shaft may fit a slot in the end of the connecting rod going to the arm
on the central shaft, so that the latter may have to oscillate to some extent before
it begins to lift the separators from the spinning to the doffing position, or the
slot may be at the other end of the connecting rod.
In some cases if desired each separator may be secured on the separator shaft
so that it can oscillate back from the spinning to the doffing position, the
separator shaft in such case having additional oscillation.
Other variations may also be made in the arrangements of the mechanism
described, without departing from its peculiar features.
2. Our invention consists in the mode of constructing creels for the roving
bobbins of ring and other spinning and preparing frames.
The lower ends of the skewers for the bobbins rest upon pot or glass, and by
our invention we use plain discs of pot or glass by preference, or they are slightly
coned, and in some cases the upper faces are or may be concave.
These discs we place in holes in a rail of wood by preference so that their
upper faces are flush with the upper face of the rail.
Upon this rail we secure a metal plate or rail by screws which holds the
discs in position, and this metal plate, has a hole through it coned at its upper
side over the centre of each pot or glass disc.
The holes in the metal plates keep the lower ends of the bobbin skewers.
central over the pot or glass discs.
Dated this Nineteenth day of January 1900
PETER J. LIVSEY,
Agent.

page_text: Improvements in Anti-ballooning Arrangements combined with
Guide Board Arrangements for Ring Spinning and Doubling
Frames, and in Creels for the same and other Preparing and
Spinning Machines.
We, TAYLOR. LANG & Co.. LIMITED, of Castle Iron Works, Stalybridge, in
the County of Chester, Machine Makers, and WILLIAM THOMAS WATTS, Director
of 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;
1. Plates or small barred or gridded frames have been used, placed between
the spools or bobbins on the spindles of ring spinning frames as separators, to
prevent the threads which " balloon" from lashing into each other and such
separators have been generally mounted upon the ring rail to move up and down
therewith.
According to our invention, we employ by preference small two bar separators or
plates, which are not fixed to or carried upon the ring rail but are arranged so that
they can be changed in position according to the position of the ring rail so as
to come between the threads at the points where the curve of the thread describ-
ing the "balloon" is at the greatest distance from the axis of the spindle.
We also arrange the separators so that they can be brought into the position
for spinning, and into that for doffing simultaneously, combined with arrange-
ments for also simultaneously moving the thread guide wire boards into the
spinning and doffing positions.
In carrying out our invention we combine and arrange the parts as follows,
or in an equivalent manner.
In a guide from the spindle rail we arrange a rod or vertical poker to slide
up and down, the lower end of this poker is or may also be guided so as to slide
up and down in a bracket secured to the ordinary poker for actuating the ring
rail. There are as many of these pokers as may be required at intervals apart
in the lengthway of the frame, and the upper ends are or may be forked to
carry and form the bearings of a shaft (hereinafter called the separator shaft)
which may extend from end to end of the frame or be made in suitable lengths.
To this separator shaft carried by the said pokers, the arms from the separator
frames or plates are secured sb that by oscillating the separator shaft, the
plates or frames may be brought into the position for spinning or into that for
doffing.
The pokers for the separators have each two adjustable collars. one of which
rests against the upper bracket or bearing for the poker when the separators
are in their lowest position, the other collar is adjusted on the poker at some
point above the bracket which comes from the ring rail poker, so that at a certain
time in the lift of the poker, the upper side of the bracket from it will come
against the collar on the separator poker and lift it to keep the separators nearly
opposite the centre of "ballooning."
The separator pokers may be actuated by an arm or branch from the arm
actuating the ring rail pokers, or by other equivalent mechanism, or by the same
shaft extending the length of the frame when such are used for actuating the
ring rail pokers or by other means from the ring rail motion.
The separator shaft or each shaft if made in short lengths, has an arm secured
to it (which if desired may carry a weight to counter-balance the separators)

page_text: which arm in each case is connected by a rod to an arm secured on a shaft in
bearings on the frame and extending the length thereof.
This shaft is or may be midway of the width of the frame (hereinafter called
the central shaft) so as to conveniently act for the separators on both sides of
it and there is or may be one arm on this central shaft for each length of
separator shaft.
By oscillating the central shaft all the separators can be simultaneously moved
into the spinning or into the doffing position.
Each thread guide wire board is separately hinged to a board or shaft, and
the shaft or board has an arm from it connected by a rod adjustable in length
with an arm on the said central shaft, so that the oscillation of the central
shaft will simultaneously lift the thread guide wire boards on both sides of the
frame, and the separators at the same time into the doffing position and the
reverse oscillation of the central shaft will return them to the spinning position.
The separator shaft or shafts may be made with an arm to come against a
stop on the separator poker when the separators are in the spinning position,
and the pin in the arm through which the separator shaft is actuated from the
central shaft may fit a slot in the end of the connecting rod going to the arm
on the central shaft, so that the latter may have to oscillate to some extent before
it begins to lift the separators from the spinning to the doffing position, or the
slot may be at the other end of the connecting rod.
In some cases if desired each separator may be secured on the separator shaft
so that it can oscillate back from the spinning to the doffing position, the
separator shaft in such case having additional oscillation.
Other variations may also be made in the arrangements of the mechanism
described, without departing from its peculiar features.
2. Our invention consists in the mode of constructing creels for the roving
bobbins of ring and other spinning and preparing frames.
The lower ends of the skewers for the bobbins rest upon pot or glass, and by
our invention we use plain discs of pot or glass by preference, or they are slightly
coned, and in some cases the upper faces are or may be concave.
These discs we place in holes in a rail of wood by preference so that their
upper faces are flush with the upper face of the rail.
Upon this rail we secure a metal plate or rail by screws which holds the
discs in position, and this metal plate has a hole through it, coned at its upper
side over the centre of each pot or glass disc.
The holes in the metal plates keep the lower ends of the bobbin skewers
central over the pot or glass discs.
Fig. 1, is a partial cross sectional elevation,
Fig. 2, is a partial front elevation of one side, and
Fig. 3, is a plan view of one lifting lever detached, these views showing suffi-
cient of the mechanism of a ring frame to illustrate the description of the first
part of our invention.
Fig. 4, is a detached view of an alternative arrangement for actuating the
separator and guide wires.
Fig. 5, is a partial elevation illustrating an alternative mode of actuating
the poker rods carrying the separator shafts which is different from that shown
in Figs. 1, 2 and 3.
Fig. 6 is a section, and
Fig. 7, a plan illustrating the second part of our invention.
In Fig. 1, sufficient of the mechanism is shown on the left of one side of
the ring frame, the other side of the frame being exactly the same, but only
parts of that side are shown in Fig. 1.
a, are parts of the roller beams; b, the spindle rails to the upper flange of
which the ordinary self-contained spindles 61, are secured as usual, one of which
only with the spool 62, upon it is shown in Figs. 1 and 2.
c, is the ordinary ring or copping rail, which rails are secured to and carried

page_text: at the upper ends of rods termed " pokers" d, having bearings so as to slide
vertically in the flanges of the spindle rail in the ordinary manner.
The lower ends of the pokers d, have shoes d³, secured to them each of which
rests and is acted upon by an anti-friction bowl d³, carried in the end of a
lever d³, in the usual manner, two of these levers d³, being secured on a shaft d*,
in suitable bearings on the framing extending from one side to the other side
in the ordinary manner, which shafts (there are as many as are required) are
also oscillated in the ordinary manner. The copping or ring rails c, are worked
up and down to distribute the threads upon the spools 62, and gradually ascend
from the bottom higher and higher as the spools build, as is well understood.
The ring rail c, is shown in Fig. 1, at about its lowest position in full line
and at about its highest position in dotted line. The separators e, are plates
or bars, each with a stem, which is secured upon a shaft e¹, passing in the length-
way of the frame and this shaft e¹, may extend the entire length of
the frame or be in lengths fixed upon in which latter case arms e5,
and e and a rod e6 will be required for each length. The shaft or shafts e¹,
for the separators e, is carried by and can oscillate in a bearing at the upper end
of a rod or poker e³, which pokers e2, are at intervals and they are in guides 63,
formed upon or secured to the spindle rail b, and the lower end of each separator
poker, has a shoe e³, secured to it to rest and be acted upon by a bowl e,
having its bearings in a bracket or projection d, from the side of the lever d³,
which actuates the ring rail pokers d, this is best shown by Figs. 2 and 3.
By this arrangement it will be seen that the pokers d and e², for both the ring
rail and separators rise and fall simultaneously but that the separator pokers e²,
have a less extent of movement. The projection d5,
may be
a bracket which
can be secured to the lever d³, so that by slots in the lever ³, the bracket may be
adjusted to give more or less lift, the shoe e³, acted upon by the bowl e, may be
made to extend to one side of the poker e², so that the bowl can be adjusted to
act under the centre of the poker or on either side to suit the lift required.
Only one separator e, is shown on each side of Fig. 1, and one in Fig. 2, but
it is understood that there is one between each adjoining spindles.
On the left of Fig. 1, the separator is shown in full line at about its lowest
position and in dotted line at about its highest position when spinning or twisting.
When doffing, at which time the ring rail is at about the position shown on the
left of Fig. 1, the separator shafts e¹, are oscillated to bring the separators e,
from the position for spinning to that for doffing as shown in dotted line on the
left of Fig. 1, by e².
In bearings in the middle of the frame, a shaft f, passes lengthways in suitable
bearings and it has a lever or arm e, upon it to which one end of a rod e",
is connected, the other end being jointed with an arm e, on the separator shaft e¹,
and it is by oscillating this shaft f, (by any suitable handle) that the separators
are actuated on both sides of the frame as there is a lever or arm e, on the
shaft f, and a connecting rod e, and arm e, for both sides of the frame, but
these arms e, are on the opposite sides of the shaft f.
As the separator shafts c¹, rise and fall, the separators e, will have a slight
oscillation due to the angle of the connecting rods af, so that in the lowest position
of the separator shafts e¹, the separators will come more to the front of the
frame on its left side and will be drawn back at the highest position of the
separator shafts, but this extra oscillation may be reduced by making the con-
necting rod e, a little longer so as to bring the separators a little forward in
their lowest position and this will cause them to be drawn back less at their highest
positions.
The reverse of this movement in the separators will take place on the right side
of the frame owing to the angle of the connecting rods e6, being reversed, but
it is met by adjusting the length of the rod e, for that side accordingly.
But if desired one or the other end of the, holes for the joint pins in the con-
necting rods e, is or may be slotted to a short extent so as not to act at the

page_text: first part of the oscillation of the shaft f, upon the separators e, the shafts or
stop, at the
arms e, from them in this case being arranged to come against a
upper end of the poker rods e³, carrying them when in the required position
for spinning.
The guide wires g, are arranged in any ordinary manner and connected with
a shaft g', so that each guide wire g, may be lifted separately, or a number of
them separately, by hand or all of them for both sides of the frame by an arm g²,
on the shaft g¹, (on each side) to the end of which one end of a rod g³, is
jointed, the other end of which is jointed to an arm g', on the shaft f, the arm g',
lifting the guide wire for one side of the frame being on the opposite side of the
shaft f, to the arm g, for the other side of the frame.
Thus when the shaft f, is oscillated (by any suitable handle) in the direction
of the arrows on Fig. 1, the guide wires g, will be oscillated upwards and the
separators withdrawn into the doffing positions simultaneously.
. I
If the shafts e¹ and g¹, extend the full length of the frame, the shaft. f, need
only be long enough at one end of the frame to carry the arms g and e5.
The arms and e5, for each side are or may be arranged if required on two
separate shafts f, in bearings on the framing, geared together by spur segmental
This arrangement will
wheels indicated by dotted arcs fl or by other means.
allow the connecting rods e6 and g³, for both sides to be at the same angle.
Fig. 5 illustrates another arrangement for actuating the pokers e², for the
separator shaft e¹, but that shown by Figs. 1, 2 and 3 is preferred.
In this case there are two collars which can be secured on the poker e2, when
adjusted. The upper collar e, is secured to allow the separators to rest at the
lowest position as shown and the lowest collar e", is secured at a point, at which
the separators are to begin to rise and fall with the ring rail e, as the lower
end of the separator pokers e², slide through and are guided in a hole in an
arm eb, from the shoe d', on the lower end of the ring rail poker d, which will
thus rise and fall for a time before it begins to act upon and lift the pokers e²,
for the separators.
According to the second part of our invention, the lower creel rail is formed
by rails h, of wood by preference, and at the required distance apart a pot step h¹,
by preference, is inserted in a hole in the rail h, and these pot steps may be
slightly concave on their upper surface for the lower tip end of the skewer for
the roving bobbin to rest upon.
The pots are secured or kept in the holes in the rail by a metal angle plate h²,
fastened to the rail h, at intervals by screws for wood, and the upper side of this
angle plate, has a hole h³, in it just above the cavity in each pot step h¹,
which hole in the metal is counter sunk to guide the lower tip of the skewer
into the hole to come upon the pot foot step h³.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is:-
1. The arrangement of separator plates or bars in ring spinning and
doubling frames to come between the spindles to rise and fall by connection
with the ring or copping rail but to a less extent, and to be capable of being
withdrawn from the spinning to the doffing position substantially as and for
the purpose hereinbefore described.
It
2. The combination of separator plates or bars arranged and actuated as
described in Claim 1 with guide wires arranged to be lifted into the doffing
position at the same time as the separators are moved into the same position
substantially as hereinbefore described. .
3. The combination and arrangement of separator plates or bars as herein before
described by reference to Figs. 1, 2 and 3, or when modified as described in
reference to Fig. 4, or actuated as described in reference to Fig. 5, and their
combination with mechanism for lifting the, thread guides into the doffing position

page_text: substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described and illustrated by
the drawings.
4. The construction of creel rails by combining a pot or equivalent foot step, .
in a wood or equivalent rail secured by a metal plate attached to the rail, the
metal plate having holes in it over the pot foot steps, substantially as and for
the purpose described and illustrated by the drawings.
Dated this Thirteenth day of Catalan 1902
PETER J. LIVSEY,
Agent.