Improvements in and connected with Continuous Spinning Machines.
Year: 1896

page_text: Communicated from abroad by CHARLES MARTINOT and AIME GALLAND, 19 Rue
Cambon, Paris, in the French Republic, Engineers.
Improvements in and connected with Continuous Spinning Machines.
1, WILLIAM EDWIN HEYS, of 70 Market Street, Manchester in the county of
Lancaster, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
This Invention relates to improvements in spinning machines and particularly
to ring frames employed in spinning cotton weft.
According to these Improvements, it is arranged that the ring rail shall be raised
and lowered at the proper times and rates as in existing machines, but that in
addition to the motion of the ring rail, each time the ring rail reaches nearly
to e end of its upward movement, the spindles shall move vertically so as to
effect a cross winding of the yarn to about the mean diameter of the cop, when
the descent of the spindles recommences. This movement of the spindles is
simultaneous with the movements of the ring rail or its equivalent and it may
be effected by canis, levers, slides or the like. At present, it is preferred to be
effected by a cam for each spindle, which cam is shaped to produce and permit the
desired movement. The lift is, in this case, effected by the contour of the cam
and the return by a spring or the reverse, that is to say the spindles may be forced
upwards by the action of the springs limited by the contour of the cains, and be
forced down by the contour and movement of the cam alone.
Doted this 15th day of December AD 1896
WILLIAM E. HEYS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Continuous Spinning Machines.
I, WILLIAM EDWIN HEYS. of 70 Market Street Manchester in the county of
Lancaster, Chartered Patent Agent, 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:-
This Invention relates to improvements in spinning machines and particularly
to the ring frames employed in spinning cotton weft.
According to these improvements, it is arranged that the ring rail shall be
raised and lowered at the proper times and rates as in existing machines, but that
in addition to the motion of the ring rail, each time that the ring rail reaches
nearly to the end of its upward movement, the spindles shall move vertically in
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page_text: such a manner as to effect a rapid cross winding of the yarn to about the mean
diameter of the cop cone, whereupon the descent of the spindles recommences.
This movement of the spindles is simultaneous with the movements of the ring
rail or of its equivalents and it may be effected by means of cams, levers, slides or
the like. At present, it is preferred to be effected by a cam for each spindle,
which cam is shaped to produce and permit the desired movement. The lift is,
in this case, effected by the contour of the cam and the return by a spring, or the
reverse, that is to say the spindles may be forced upwards by the action of the
springs limited by the contour of the cams, and be forced down by the contour
and movement of the cam alone.
I will further describe the said Invention with reference to the accompanying
drawings in which:
Figure 1 represents in sectional elevation, one of the spindles and its accessories
in the position occupied by it during the chief part of the winding.
Figure 2 shews the same spindle in elevation at the end of its upward motion.
A indicates the spindle, B the ring rail, C the cam for controlling the motion
of the spindle, E the spring by which the upward motion of the spindle is effected,
O the cop, and P the cam shaft.
"When the ring rail B arrives almost at the end of its upward travel, (Figure 1),
a recessed part e, of the cam comes in line with a projection 7, attached to the
lower end of the spindle. As the cam rotates, (clockwise as shown by the draw-
ings), its movement permits the part 7 to be forced upwards into the recess c, by
the spring E. The part 7, being attached to the spindle, the latter is consequently
also forced upwards into the position shewn by Figure 2. Immediately upon the
spindle attaining its higher position, the movement and contour of the cam
returns it to the position shewn by Figure 1.
This movement of the spindle is effected instantaneously, so that instead of the
yarn being wound upon the point of the cop, a cross winding is effected upon the
mean diameter. The movement is repeated at each lift of the ring rail:
Although this invention has been described only with reference to spinning
machines in which a ring rail and the spindles move in vertical lines, it will be
understood that it is equally applicable to other continuous spinning machinery
in which the spindles may be arranged vertically, diagonally, or even horizontally.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is:-
1. In continuous spinning machines of the type set forth, means and appliances
for imparting to the spindles at definite intervals of time, a rapid vertical recipro-
cation; constructed arranged and operating substantially as and for the purpose
hereinbefore described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
2. In ring spinning and similar machines, imparting to the spindles a rapid
vertical reciprocation at the moment when the ring rail reaches the top of its lift,
substantially as and by the means, herein before set forth with reference to the
accompanying drawings.
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Dated this 24th day of June A.D. 1897.
WILLIAM E. HEYS.