IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO RING SPINNING PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION FRA
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Monks, Manager, William Monks, Overlooker and
William James Redman, Mechanic, all of Bacup in the County of Lancaster
for an Invention of " IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO RING SPINNING
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Monks, William
Monks, and William James Redman at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents on the 22nd March 1883.
JAMES MONKS, Manager, WILLIAM MONKS, Overlooker, and WILLIAM JAMES
REDMAN, Mechanic, all of Bacup, in the County of Lancaster, "IMPROVEMENTS
IN OR APPLICABLE TO RING SPINNING FRAMES
"
Our invention relates to means for obviating the effects of what is termed the
"ballooning" of the threads, in ring spinning, and consists in automatic arrange-
ments by which a wire or its equivalent is stretched from end to end of a ring
frame so as to be brought to come in contact with the threads, and withdrawn
therefrom, at the required time, in the spinning of each set of cops or bobbins, and
by which the wire or its equivalent is also withdrawn or removed out of the way
automatically when the cops or bobbins have to be doffed.
We secure a bracket to the roller beam or framing at the end of the machine, and
this bracket carries a stud' upon which a compound lever is arranged to oscillate.
One arm of the lever is slotted to allow of a stud or screw being secured and
adjusted in it, and with this screw or stud a wire is connected and extends along
the back of the spindles to a similar stud in a similar lever carried on the stud of a
similar bracket to that above mentioned at the other end of the machine, so that
the simultaneous movement of the levers at both ends of the frame will cause the
wire to be brought against or taken away from the threads.
We prefer to make each lever carrying the wire with a hollow boss to receive a
helical spring one end of which is secured to the hollow boss the other end to the
boss of a weight lever, which has a projection that enters a notch in the end of the
hollow boss of the "wire lever,"
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Thus arranged the weight lever and wire lever can oscillate together and the
wire lever can oscillate without moving the weight lever.

page_text: On the stud for the compound lever there is an arm secured by a set screw which
acts as a collar to keep the levers on the stud and carry the joint of a pawl which
can enter a notch in one arm of the weight lever and hold it up when lifted, but
when the pawl is released the weight on the lever oscillates both weight and wire
lever and brings the wire away from the threads.
There is a screw or stud in one arm of the weight lever for the slot of a slotted
link, which is connected with the ring or copping rail and when the latter is
screwed down at the commencement of a fresh set this slotted link moves with it
and the end of the slotted link comes against the screw or stud in the arm of the
weigh lever and pulls it down until the -pawl catches the knot and holds it, the
slot in the slotted link permits it to rise without acting upon the weight lever as
the cop or bobbin builds, but when the set has been completed to the point where
the ballooning wire may be withdrawn a stud or projection from the ring or
copping rail comes against a projection from the pawl or a lever mounted on the
arm of the weight lever and thus releases the pawl and allows the weight to
oscillate the wire out of the way.
When the copping rail is lowered for a fresh set and the frame is to be doffed
the guide wire board is either drawn back or moved to one side, in either case there
is a connection by a chain or otherwise with the boss of the wire lever so that the
movement of the guide wire board will cause the wire lever to oscillate to bring
the wire out of the way of doffing.
There is a duplicate of the mechanism described at each end of the frame, one right,
the other left handed, to simultaneously operate on both ends of the ballooning wire.
For double sided 'frames which are generally used only one set of the mechanism
described is used on one side of the frame, for the other side the ballooning wire is
stretched between simple bell crank levers each on a stud in a bracket secured at
each end of the frame, and each wire lever on one side of the frame has an arm
connected by a rod with the corresponding bell crank lever on the other side of
the frame which are thus, both moved simultaneously from the same actuating
mechanism.
We do not confine ourselves to the precise mechanism described, as our invention
for automatically actuating a ballooning wire in ring frames may be variously
modified and still be actuated from the movements. of the ring rail and guide wire
board.
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said James Monks, William Monks, and William James Redman in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 12th September 1883.
JAMES MONKS, Manager, WILLIAM MONKS, Overlooker, and WILLIAM JAMES
REDMAN, Mechanic, all of Bacup, in the County of Lancaster. "IMPROVEMENTS IN
OR APPLICABLE TO RING SPINNING FRAMES,"
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Our invention relates to means for obviating the effects of what is termed the
ballooning" of the threads in ring spinning, and consists in automatic arrange-
ments by which a wire or its equivalent is stretched from end to end of a ring
frame so as to be brought to come in contact with the threads and withdrawn
therefrom at the required time in the spinning of each set of cops or bobbins and
by which the wire or its equivalent is also withdrawn or removed out of the way
automatically when the cops or bobbins have to be doffed.
We secure a bracket to the roller beam or framing at the end of the machine,
and this bracket carries a stud, upon which a compound lever is arranged to,
oscillate.
One arm of the lever is slotted to allow of a stud or screw being secured and
adjusted in it, and with this screw or stud, a wire is connected and extends along
the back of the spindles to a similar stud in a similar lever carried on the stud of
a similar bracket to that above mentioned at the other end of the machine, so that
the simultaneous movement of the levers at both ends of the frame will cause the
wire to be brought against or taken away from the threads.
We prefer to make each lever carrying the wire with a hollow boss to receive a
helical spring one end of which is secured to the hollow boss, the other end to the
boss of a weight lever, which has a projection that enters a notch in the end of the
hollow boss of the wire lever.
Thus arranged the weight lever and wire lever can oscillate together, and the
wire lever can oscillate without moving the weight lever.
:
On the stud for the compound lever there is an arm secured by a set screw,"
which acts as a collar to keep the levers on the stud and carry the joint of a pawl
which can enter a notch in one arm of the weight lever and hold it up when
lifted, but when the pawl is released, the weight on the lever oscillates both weight
and wire-lever and brings the wire away from the threads.
"
There is a screw or stud in one arm of the weight lever for the slot of a slotted
link, which is connected with the ring or copping rail, and when the latter is
screwed down at the commencement of a fresh set, this slotted link moves with it
and the end of the slotted link comes against the screw or stud in the arm of the
weight lever and pulls it down until the pawl catches the notch and holds it, the
slot in the slotted link permits it to rise without acting upon the weight lever as
the cop or bobbin builds, but when the set has been completed to the point where
the ballooning wire may be withdrawn, a stud or projection from the ring or
copping rail comes against a projection from the pawl or a lever mounted on the
arm of the weight lever and thus releases the pawl and allows the weight to
oscillate the wire out of the way.
When the copping rail is lowered for a fresh set and the frame is to be doffed.
the guide wire board is either drawn back or moved to one side, in either case
there is a connection by a chain or otherwise with the boss of the wire lever so
that the movement of the guide board will cause the wire-lever to oscillate to
bring the wire out of the way of doffing.

page_text: There is a duplicate of the mechanism described at each end of the frame one
right the other left handed to simultaneously operate on both ends of the
ballooning wire.
For double sided frames, which are generally used, only one set of the mechanism
described is used on one side of the frame, for the other side the ballooning wire is
stretched between. simple bell crank levers, each on a stud in a bracket, secured at
each end of the frame, and, each wire lever on one side of the frame has an arm
connected by a rod, with the corresponding bell crank lever on the other side of
the frame which are thus both moved simultaneously from the same actuating
mechanism.
We do not confine ourselves to the precise mechanism described, as our invention
for automatically actuating a ballooning wire in ring frames may be variously
modified and still be actuated from the movements of the ring rail and guide wire
board.
Fig 1 is a front elevation, and fig 2 a cross sectional elevation illustrating the
mode of carrying our invention into effect.
Fig 3 is a front sectional elevation of one of the brackets and parts of the
mechanism carried by it for one end of the frame.
Fig 4 is a side view of a weight lever, and its jointed latch lever; and fig 5 is a
front or edge view of the same.
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Fig 6 is a side view of the balloon wire lever, and fig 7 an edge view of the
same.
Fig 8 is a side view of the arm and jointed pawl, and fig 9 is an edge view
thereof.
a represents the rail which carries the bearings 6 for the spindles.
al another rail through bearings in which and in the rail a the pokers or vertical
rods c¹ slide up and down, that carry the copping or ring rail c; bare bobbins on
the spindles, and a² is a beam representing the roller beam.
To this beam a² at each end of the frame, a bracket d is secured, and as the
bracket and mechanism are the same for each end of the machine, except that one
is right and the other left handed we need only describe the mechanism at one
end of the machine.
The bracket d has a slot for a stud d' which is thus adjustable to and from the
spindles. On this stud d there is a hollow boss e which is secured to a two armed
lever ex by a set screw (see figs 3, 6 and 7).
In the hollow boss e there is an helical spring e³ one end of which is made to
enter one of the holes e in the hollow boss, the other end of which spring enters a
hole f¹ in the lever f which is free on the stud d' and its side boss enters the
hollow boss e of the lever f (see fig 3)-The spring es acts torsionally to rotate the
lever e¹ until one end of a notch e in the edge of the hollow boss comes against a
projection, on the boss of the lever f.
One arm e of the lever ex is slotted for a screw e to which the ballooning
wire e is attached as shown in fig 1.
The levers ex and f are kept in their places on the stud d' by an arm g secured
on the stud by a set screw. To this arm a pawl g¹ is jointed at g² (see figs 1, 2, 8
and 9) which rests upon the arm fx of the weight lever so that the pawl g' can
enter a notch f³ in the arm fx of the weight lever and hold it when drawn down
sufficiently by the slotted link 'h jointed to a pin or projection c² from the end of
the ring or copping rail c, the slot of the link h being also connected with a boss fi
on the side of the arm f* of the weight lever as shown in figs 1 and 2.
The arm
f* of the weight lever is pulled down so that the pawl'g' will catch on
the notch in the arm fx and hold it when the ring or copping rail c descends to
its lowest position:
On the side of the arm fx of the weight lever a latch lever f³ is jointed at fo
and this latch lever is prevented from descending lower in relation to the arm f* of
the weight lever than it is shown in figs 1, 2, 4 and 5, as a projection f" from it

page_text: comes against the boss of the weight lever as shown best in fig 4, but this latch
lever f5 can be lifted, and is lifted when the pin or projection c² of the ring or
copping rail comes against its end f at which time its upper surface comes against
a projection g³ from the side of the pawl g' (see figs 8 and 9) and thus lifts the
pawl out of the notch f³ in the arm of the weight lever and allows the weight fo
on the weight lever f to lift or oscillate the wire-lever arm e¹ upwards and away
from the threads.
This action takes place when the copping rail c has ascended to the point fixed
upon at both ends of the frame, at or about the same upward traverse of the copping
rail..
.
When the copping rail c is at its lowest position, as when doffing the "set" the
ballooning wire e' is brought to its lowest or nearest position to the spindles but
when the thread guide boards are moved either sideways or backwards this
movement is made to draw up the wire-levers e¹ out of the way as a chain or other
connection is made between the thread guide boards, and the boss e of the wire
lever to pull it up as the helical spring e gives way.
In figs 1 and 2, k represents the slide for the thread boards; k¹ slotted brackets
attached to the slide; chains, one end attached to the brackets, the other to
the boss of the lever e first passing over a guide pulleys having its bearing in the
bracket d, consequently when the thread guide board is moved the wire levers e¹
and balloon wire e' are lifted out of the way.
The same arrangement is or may be used when the thread guide boards are moved
backwards, the guide pulley being arranged accordingly.
If desired the helical spring e³ in each hollow boss e may be dispensed with by
arranging a weight or weight lever to draw down the wire lever e' when its weight
is not sufficient to cause it to descend by its own gravity until a notch e³ or its
equivalent in the boss e of the lever comes against the projection f2 on the boss
of the lever f, the weight f being made sufficiently heavy to more than counter-
balance the said weight or weight lever and the balloon wire e and connected
parts.
When the selfacting mechanism is applied to one side of a machine its movements
are conveyed to the other side of the machine by placing a bell crank lever l' and 12
on a stud in a bracket attached to the roller beain.
One arm of this bell crank lever carries the screw for one end of the balloon
wire, and the other arm is jointed with one end of a connecting rod 13 adjustable
in length, the other end of which rod is jointed with a stud secured in the slot in
an arm e from the boss of the wire lever e*.
There is a similar arrangement at each end of the machine, the balloon wire on
both sides of the machine will thus be simultaneously actuated.
In some cases one or more screws or projections (according to the length of the
frame) are or may be secured in the copping rail (in the space between the rings by
preference) with a Vend or head which comes exactly under the wire as shown in
figs 1 and 2, where is the V headed adjustable screw.
A little time before the copping rail ascends to the point where the ballooning
wire is withdrawn the V of the screw or projection c³ will come in contact with
and hold the wire e' steady and prevent it from vibrating and coming against the
travellers."
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We have now particularly described the nature of our said invention and the
modes of carrying the same into effect and claim as our invention,
Firstly. The arrangement of a wire or its equivalent in combination with ring
frames, so that it will be automatically brought into position to act upon the threads,
and taken away from them, substantially as and for the purpose herein before
described.
Secondly. The arrangement of a wire or its equivalent in combination with ring
frames so that it will be automatically brought into position to act upon the threads

page_text: and taken away both when spinning and when doffing, substantially as and for the
purpose herein before desccribed.
Thirdly. The combinations of mechanism with ring frames, substantially as and
for the purpose herein before described and illustrated by the drawings.
In Witness whereof we the said James Monks, William Monks and William
James Redman have hereunto set our hands and seals this eleventh day of
September in the year of our :Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty
three
F
JAMES MONKS
(L.S.)
WILLIAM MONKS (L.S.)
WM JAS REDMAN (L.S.)