Improvements in Means for Cleaning the Carriages of Self-acting Spinning Machines and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Improvements in Means for Cleaning the Carriages of Self-acting
Spinning Machines and the like.
I, EDWARD MUHLENBECK, of Lodz, Russian Poland, Mechanic, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:--
It is known that loss of time, and accidents, often fatal, are caused by the
method of cleaning carriages of spinning machines by hand, for which purpose
the workmen get between the threads and the carrying beam of the cylinders of
the machine.
The apparatus of the present invention does away with these inconveniences.
Further it is simpler, and more easily manipulated than apparatus hitherto con-
structed for cleaning the carriages whilst the machine is working, and is conse-
quently cheaper.
The apparatus is suitably formed of a disc which connects two straight pieces
one arranged in front of the other the back one lying behind the spindles. These
pieces are formed of plate, and are partly hollow and the disc is seated inside and
fixed in the front one by a pin or the like which serves as an axle for the same.
The disc is provided with a turned-up border by which it engages with a seg-
mental shaped abutment fixed in the back piece. The disc is provided on its
circumference with a suitable number of cut out portions giving the disc some-
what the form of a toothed wheel, these cut out parts engage with the row of
spindles which lie between the straight pieces in the manner of a rack. By
this arrangement the back piece is caused to follow the front piece which the
operator moves at will to the right or left along the machine. The actual cleaning
device to be fixed to the back piece may consist of a piece of plush or the like,
carried by a frame of iron wire passing over the carriage. The apparatus is
portable and need only be placed on the machine when required.
The apparatus can be utilised in any industry employing spinning machines
for working cotton linen etc., but it is evident that its form and measurements
must be adapted to the particular form of machine, and the number and distance
apart of the spindles etc. The straight pieces above mentioned may be made of
iron and strengthened by wood at the parts left free by the disc, they also have
their edges rounded off, so that they may more easily pass by obstacles caused
by defective plate joints of the machine, or prominent screw heads of the same.
Also the frame of iron wire only rests on the face of the carriage with its one
end, and the band of plush is arranged so as to hang from the same and fall over
the back face of the carriage.
Dated this 31st day of May 1899.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co..
Agents to Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Means for Cleaning the Carriages of Self-acting
Spinning Machines and the like.
I, EDWARD MÜHLENBECK, of Lodz, Russian Poland, Mechanic, 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:—
The present invention relates to an apparatus for cleaning the carriages of self-
acting spinning machines whilst working and for the purpose of obtaining a
construction more simple and economical and at the same time easier to handle
than apparatus of this kind at present in use.
This purpose is obtained by the use of a particular device for the connection of
two pieces which are movable one on each side of a row of spindles. One of
these pieces placed in front of the spindles is easily accessible to the hand of the
workman whilst the other which lies behind the spindles and carries the cleaner
is not so accessible and is consequently moved indirectly from the first mentioned
piece by the connecting device hereinafter described. One of the movable pieces
which may be in the form of sliding bars carries pivoted to it a disc the circum-
ference of which has a turned up border or flange by which it engages in a suitable
groove formed in the said piece concentrically to the disc. In order to allow of
this disc crossing the line of the spindles it is provided with recesses or bays in
its edge so that it has somewhat the form of a star or cross. These recesses or
bays forming spaces for passage of the spindles.
When the workman displaces by hand the first piece along the row of spindles,
the disc carried by it gears with the spindles as with the teeth of a rack and the
flange or the remaining intermediate arms of the disk slide in such a way in
the second piece as to take it along parallel to the first one. The cleaner is thus
moved without danger to the workman by means of a very handy apparatus very
simple in construction and consequently of very low prime cost.
The Fig. 1 of the drawing shows a form of execution of the cleaning apparatus
of my invention in a section on the line 1-1 of Fig. 2.
Fig. 2 is a plan view of the apparatus.
Fig. 3 shows in reduced scale the installation of the apparatus on the carriage
of a self-acting spinning machine.
The apparatus comprises a disc which connects the two sliding bars 6 and
the one being arranged in front of and the other one behind the spindles.
The dise is fastened to the piece b by its pivotal axle and holds the bare by the
turned up border h which is provided on its circumference.
The bays in the dise convert it into a kind of toothed wheel engaging with
the row of spindles as with a rack.
By this arrangement the bar c is bound to follow the bar b which is pushed by
the hand of the workman as desired to the right or the left or along the carriage.
The actual cleaning device to be fastened to the piece c may consist of a piece
of plush or the like carried by a frame of iron wire f, attached by screwed eye-
lets to the piece c.
The apparatus is portable and may be placed on the machine only when
cleaning is desired.
The apparatus will be usefully employed in every textile industry which uses
self-acting spinning machines whether for cotton, combed wool, carding wool
flax etc. But it is evident that its form and dimensions must suit each particular
construction of spinning machine and the spread or distance between the axes of

page_text: the spindles must be taken into account, as well as their diameter, the distance
between the cords at the beginning of the bobbins, and the space at disposal
between the spindles and the supports of the faller wires and the accessories
attached thereto.
The dimensions of the apparatus represented in the annexed drawing corre-
sponds with the self-acting spinning machine of the Société Alsacienne de Con-
structions mécaniques, having the spread of the spindles equal to 43 m/m and
the diameter of the spindles above the faller wires 9 m/m.
The Figs. 1 and 2 show the apparatus with its iron-wire frame not provided
with plush.
The body of the bars b and c is of sheet metal, they could be strengthened by
wood in the spaces left free by the disc a.
d is the axle of the disc, its ends bear in the upper and lower walls of the
bar b; e is a metal piece of segmental form seated in the turned up flange of
the disc and fastened by screws to the upper wall of the bar c.
The ends of the lower walls of the bars b and c are slightly raised in order to
facilitate the sliding of these parts over any uneven places whch they may meet
such as defective joints of the plate, bands or projecting screw heads.
The iron-wire-frame f rests at its free end on the carriage (Fig. 3).
The plush-band is sewn so as to float on the frame and falls back on the hind
part of the carriage.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
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1. An apparatus for cleaning the carriage of self-acting spinning machines
having a cleaner carried by a piece arranged behind the spindles, this piece
being displaced by means of a movable piece before the spindles, by the medium
of a rotating disc a having bays or recesses for passage of the spindles.
2. An apparatus for cleaning the carriage of self-acting spinning machines
comprising a movable piece c behind the spindles, carrying a cleaning tissue, a
movable piece b before the spindles which can be easily handled by the workman,
a disc a the axle of which is mounted on the piece ; this disc being provided on
its periphery with a flange h which engages behind a segmental portion c of the
piece c and with a series of recesses & corresponding to the spread of the spindles.
Dated this 27th day of February 1900.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C., London.