Improvements in the Weighting of Rollers of Spinning and Preparing Machinery.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 10th Aug., 1894-Accepted, 22nd Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Weighting of Rollers of Spinning and
Preparing Machinery.
1 ROBERT ROSCOE of Nagpur, Central India, Mill Manager, do hereby
leclare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My said invention relates to improvements in means for weighting the top
rollers of machines used in preparing and spinning fibrous materials, such as
cotton, wool, flax and the like."
Heretofore it has been usual to weight such rollers by means of dead weights
or of weighted levers. The wires or levers holding such weights have heretofore
been rigid.
According to my said invention the weight hook or weight is formed of steel
curled or bent into such shape as to form resilient springs one end of which
rests on the neck of the roller while the other end carries the weight. Such
springs may be formed from flat round or other section of steel or steel wire by
stamping or otherwise.
By this means instead of a rigid hook a yielding or resilient connection is
formed between the weight and the point where it bears on the roller so that the
rollers lift more promptly and without jerks to allow irregularities to pass.
Dated this 14th day of November 1893.
EDWARD TURNER WHITELOW,
70, Deansgate, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Weighting of Rollers of Spinning and
Preparing Machinery.
I, ROBERT ROSCOE of Nagpur, Central India, Mill Manager, 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 said invention relates to improvements in means for weighting the top rollers
of machines used in preparing and spinning fibrous materials such as cotton, wool,
flax and the like.
Heretofore it has been usual to weight such rollers by means of dead weights or
of weighted levers. The wires or levers holding such weights have heretofore
been rigid.
According to my said invention the weight hook or weight is formed of steel
curled or bent or otherwise fashioned into such shape as to form resilient springs
one end of which rests on the neck of the roller while the other end carries the
weight. Such springs may be formed from flat round or other section of steel or
steel wire by stamping or otherwise.
In the accompanying drawings are shown by way of example three shapes of
such springs.
In the weight hook shown in Figure 1 the weight wire is formed of the shape
shown from a flat piece of steel. The top curved part a rests on the neck of the
top roller. The weight hangs on the lower hook c while the bow b acts as a
spring. The weight book shown in Figure 2 is made from round wire having
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page_text: several horizontal coils at 6 which form the spring. The weight hook shown in
Figure 3 is formed from a round wire or flat ribbon of steel turned with a vertical
coil b for the same purpose.
Various shapes may be formed to suit special cases and the weight to be
applied.
By the means described instead of a rigid hook a yielding or resilient connection
is formed between the weight and the point where it bears on the roller so that the
rollers lift more promptly and without jerks to allow irregularities to pass.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is-
1. A spring weight hook substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
2. A weight hook shaped at its upper end to hang on a roller at its lower end to
receive a weight and coiled or bent at an intermediate point in order to obtain
resiliency substantially as and for the purpose set forth and shown.
Aumun 1904
E. T. WHITELOW, A.M. Inst. C.E.,
70, Deansgate, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.
E. T. WHITELOW, A.M. Inst. C.E.,
70, Deansgate, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.