Improvements in Self-acting Twiners Fitted with Travelling Creels.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Feb., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Nov., 1897-Accepted, 8th Jan., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Self-acting Twiners Fitted with Travelling Creels.
I, JOHN CLEGG, of Asa Lees and Company Limited, of Soho Iron Works, Oldham,
in the County of Lancaster, Manager of Mule Department, do hereby declare tho
nature of this Invention to be as follows:
My invention relates to improvements in twiners fitted with travelling crecls
and the object of my Invention is to prevent such accidents as arise in case of the
piecer or operative getting caught between the creel and any fixed obstruction
such as a pillar for supporting an upper floor, an accident which not infrequently
takes place.
In twiner crecls of the ordinary construction the top creel which is carried by
the front slide of the carriage is rigidly held in its position so that it cannot yield
in case the creel meets with any obstruction.
According to my Invention I secure the bottom creel bar to a casting or support
hinged to a bracket secured to the slide front and by a suitable stop piece or pro-
jection on the bracket or casting prevent the creel bar from falling too far forward.
In order to maintain the creel bar and creel in its proper working position I cast
a projecting arm on the bracket or an equivalent and connect the end of this arm
by a coiled spring or equivalent to the casting which supports the creel bar.
When an obstruction is met with the spring yields and allows the creel to turn
back toward the slide front of the carriage.
When the obstruction is removed the spring again draws down the creel into
its working position without damage to the machinery.
1 may arrange the whole front of the creel to move as one part as described or
I may divide it into sections of any convenient length each section being free
to move back when required independently of the others.
Dated this 2nd day of February 1897
II. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Self-acting Twiners Fitted with Travelling Creels.
I, JOHN CLEGG, of Asa Lees and Company Limited, of Soho Iron Works, Oldham,
in the County of Lancaster, Manager of Mule Department, 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:-
My invention relates to improvements in twiners fitted with travelling crecle

page_text: and the object of my Invention is to prevent such accidents as arise in case of the
piecer or operative getting caught between the creel and any fixed obstruction
such as a pillar for supporting an upper floor, an accident which not infrequently
takes place.
In twiner creels of the ordinary construction the top creel which is carried by
the front slide of the carriage is rigidly held in its position so that it cannot yield
in case the creel meets with any obstruction.
According to my Invention I secure the bottom creel bar to a casting or support
hinged to a bracket secured to the slide front and by a suitable stop piece or pro-
jection on the bracket or casting prevent the creel bar from falling too far forward.
In order to maintain the creel bar and creel in its proper working position I cast
a projecting arm on the bracket or an equivalent and connect the end of this arm
by a coiled spring or equivalent to the casting which supports the creel bar.
The accompanying Drawing represents a sectional elevation of the carriage of
a self acting twiner with the travelling upper creel arranged according to my
Invention.
In these views, designates the carriage, b the carriage wheels, c the slide front
of the carriage, d the bracket secured thereto, e the casting or support hinged at e
to the bracket, f the bottom creel bar, the upper creel bar, h the bobbins, i the
coiled spring secured at one end to the casting e and at the other end to a pro-
jection on the bracket d, and is a stop piece on the bracket which prevents
the creel from falling too far forward. When the twiner is at work and an
obstruction is met with the spring i yields and allows the creel to turn back toward
the slide front c of the carriage: but when the obstruction is removed the spring i
again draws down the creel into the working position as shown in the Drawing
without damage to the machinery and without injury to the piecer who may
have been caught between the travelling creel and any fixed obstacle such as a
pillar.
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I may arrange the whole front of the creel to move as one part as described or
Juay divide it into sections of any convenient length each section being free to
move back when required independently of the other."
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
1. Mounting the travelling creel of a self acting twiner in such manner that
when an obstruction is encountered it will yield and turn back toward the slide
front of the carriage and when the obstruction is removed it will automatically
resume its working position.
2. In combination, the slide front c, of the carriage, the bracket & secured
thereto, the hinged casting e supporting the creel with the bobbins h, and the
spring or its equivalent, all substantially as and for the purposes herein set
forth.