IMPROVED MEANS OF LUBRICATING THE SPINDLES OF CAP AND CUP FRAMES, EMPLOYED IN. SPINNING, AND TWISTING FIBROUS SUBSTANCES, APPLICABLE ALSO FOR LUBRICATING OTHER FRICTIONAL SURFACES OF MACHINERY
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edmund Feather, Thomas Feather, and John Luty,
of Oxenhope, near Keighley, in the County of York, Worsted
Spinners, for the Invention of "IMPROVED MEANS OF LUBRICATING THE
SPINDLES OF CAP AND CUP FRAMES, EMPLOYED IN. SPINNING, AND TWISTING
FIBROUS SUBSTANCES, APPLICABLE ALSO FOR LUBRICATING OTHER FRICTIONAL
SURFACES OF MACHINERY."
Sealed the 13th July 1866, and dated the 17th January 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edmund Feather, Thomas
Feather, and John Luty at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 17th January 1866.
We, EDMUND FEATHER, THOMAS FEATHER, and JOHN LUTY, of Oxen-
hope, near Keighley, in the County of York, Worsted Spinners, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED MEANS OF
LUBRICATING THE SPINDLES OF CAP AND CUP FRAMES EMPLOYED IN SPINNING AND
TWISTING FIBROUS SUBSTANCES, APPLICABLE. ALSO FOR LUBRICATING OTHER FRICTIONAL
SURFACES OF MACHINERY," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates chiefly to self-acting means of lubricating the
spindles of that class of spinning and twisting or doubling machinery
known as "cap frames" and also " cup frames," wherein the spindles do
not rotate, but are fixed to one of the rails and the bobbins caused to
rotate thereon.

page_text: Our improvements consist, as applicable to the cap frame, in constructing
the spindle rail with or applying thereto a small recess, cup, or reservoir at
the foot of each spindle to contain the lubricant, and in applying to the
lifting rail a dipper or instrument (by preference) in the form of a spiral
spring around each spindle, which depends sufficiently therefrom that when
the said lifting rail is at the bottom the dipper will dip into the lubricant,
and on the lifting or rising of the said rail the dipper will distribute the
lubricant on the surface of the spindle.
As applicable to cup frames, we construct in or apply to the lifting
rail or the foot of the spindle the recess or reservoir for the lubricant,
and attach the dipper to the steadying rail so as to act as previously
described. This means or method of lubricating may be applied to other
vertically slidable spindles, bars, or rods, or parts slidable thereon in
machinery generally.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edmund Feather, Thomas Feather, and John Luty
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th July 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, EDMUND
FEATHER, THOMAS FEATHER, and JOHN LUTY, of Oxenhope, near Keighley,
in the County of York, Worsted Spinners, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto us, the said Edmund Feather, Thomas Feather, and John Luty, Her
special licence that we, the said Edmund Feather, Thomas Feather, and
John Luty, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
we, the said Edmund Feather, Thomas Feather, and John Luty, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time, and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVED MEANS OF LUBRICATING
THE SPINDLES OF CAP AND CUP FRAMES EMPLOYED IN SPINNING AND TWISTING
FIBROUS SUBSTANCES, APPLICABLE ALSO FOR LUBRICATING OTHER FRICTIONAL SURFACES
CF MACHINERY," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said

page_text: Edmund Feather, Thomas Feather, and John Luty, our executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Edmund Feather, Thomas Feather,
and John Luty, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement and accompanying Sheet of
Drawings (that is to say):-
This Invention relates chiefly to self-acting means of lubricating the
spindles of that class of spinning and twisting or doubling machinery known
as cap frames and also "cup frames," wherein the spindles do not rotate
but are fixed to one of the rails and the bobbins caused to rotate thereon.
Our improvements consist, as applicable to the cap frame, in constructing
the spindle rails with or applying thereto a small recess, cup, or reservoir
at the foot of each spindle to contain the lubricant, and in applying to the
lifting rail a dipper or instrument (by preference) in the form of a spiral
spring around each spindle, which depends sufficiently therefrom that when
the said lifting rail is at the bottom the dipper will dip into the lubricant,
and on the lifting or rising of the said rail the dipper will distribute the
lubricant on the surface of the spindle.
As applicable to cup frames we construct in or apply to the lifting rail
or the foot of the spindles the recess or reservoir for lubricant, and attach
the dipper to the steadying rail, so as to act as previously described.
This means or method of lubricating may be applied to other vertical
slidable spindles, bars, or rods, or parts slidable thereon in machinery
generally.
This Invention will be readily understood by reference to the accom-
panying Sheet of Drawings, wherein Fig. 1 is a front elevation, and Fig. 2
is a cross section of a cap and spindle or stud with the rail, in which is fixed
and supported the tube and its warle or pulley on which the bobbin is
placed, and by which it is driven or caused to rotate, and the lifting rail by
which the traverse or rising and falling motion of the bobbin is produced,
constructed in accordance with our improvements.
A is the cap; B, the spindle or stud; C, the spindle rail; D, the tube with
its warle or pulley E resting upon the lifting rail F. The spindle or stud

page_text: is fixed in a cup G, which cup is fixed in a recess formed in the rail C. A
spirally formed wire dipper H is placed on or around the spindle or stud,
and is attached to the lifting rail by which it is moved or carried up and
down thereon. Every time the lifting rail (with the tube thereon) ap-
proaches the bottom stroke or lowest point of traverse the dipper enters
the cup dipping into the oil, and on the return stroke a portion of the oil
is carried up thereby and distributed on the surface of the spindle or stud,
which on the next descent of the lifter enters into and lubricates the
interior of the tube. In order to prevent dirt or fly from getting into
the cups a washer or cover I is placed over each, which can be easily
removed to supply fresh oil thereto.
The mode of applying this Invention to cup frames will be readily
understood by spinners and machine makers, the only difference being in
having the oil cup fitted into the lifting rail and the dipper attached to the
steadying rail in a similar manner, as above described. It will be observed
that the recess or reservoir may be formed in the rail without the use of
a cup by having the spindle or stud fitted and fixed in such manner as to
be oil-tight or so that the oil could not escape through the bottom. Also
that the dipper may be of other forms or of other inaterial.
In witness whereof, we, the said Edmund Feather, Thomas Feather,
and John Luty, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Thir-
teenth day of July, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.