IMPROVEMENTS IN FLYERS AND SPINDLES OF MACHINERY FOR PREPARING, SPINNING, AND DOUBLING FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Mark Mason, of Manchester, Engineer and Machinist,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FLYERS AND SPINDLES OF MACHINERY
FOR PREPARING, SPINNING, AND DOUBLING FIBROUS SUBSTANCES."
Sealed the 6th December 1861, and dated the 10th June 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Mark Mason at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 10th
June 1861.
I, MARK MASON, of Manchester, Engineer and Machinist, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FLYERS AND
SPINDLES OF MACHINERY FOR PREPARING, SPINNING, AND DOUBLING FIBROUS
SUBSTANCES," to be as follows :-
- This Invention consists in forming a neck on the head of the flyer suitable
to run or rotate in a bracket or bearing fixed on a portable rail attached to the
framing, by which means the flyer is kept steady and may be run at much
greater speed than heretofore. A holo or opening is formed in the head and
a slit in the bracket for the thread or yarn to pass through. I also provide a
conical pike in the inside of the flyer to enter a hole or recess formed in the
top end of the spindle, whereby the said spindle is kept steady; or the end of
the spindle may form a similar pike and enter a hole in the flyer for the samo
purpose. A slit is cut in the end of the pike or the spindle, as the case may
be, to clip or span a wire or feather placed across the hole or recess for driving
the flyer, by which it may be driven in either direction.

page_text: perfectly circular; B is a loop, collar, or bearing, which is made to fit the said
neck so as to allow or admit of rotation therein. This bearing is attached and
capable of adjustment to a bracket C, which is hinged on a rod D, extending
the length of the frame, and supported at intervals by fixings E to the stretch
rail F; the flyer has the boss formed on the under side to give more room for
passing the end of yarn through the openings of the ring from the guide eye G
to the bobbin H, which is placed on the spindle H' as usual. It will be seen
that the bearing can readily be removed or lifted off the neck of the flyer by
the attendant to allow the flyer to be removed from the spindle for doffing in
the ordinary manner. And if it be required to lift the whole series of bearings
on one side of a frame at once, a shaft I is provided, with fingers J placed
under each bearing, which on being operated at one end will lift or raise the
whole series of bearings off their respective necks. By means of this Inven-
tion the spindles are kept steady at their top ends, and may consequently be
run at much great speed, and thereby produce more yarn than heretofore in
the same time.
Having thus described the nature of this my said Invention, and the manner
in which the same is or may be performed or carried into practice, I would
have it understood that I do not confine myself to the precise details as herein
set forth, as solid necks may be made on the flyers in the manufacture of new
ones if found desirable, or the necks may be of different shape and size; but
what I claim as of my Invention, and which I believe to be new within the
realm is, the forming a neck on on the flyer with a bracket or bearing for it
to rotate in, and thereby to steady the spindle top.
In witness whereof, I, the said Mark Mason, havo hereunto set my
band and scal, this Seventh day of December, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-one.
Signed, sealed, and delivered, by the
within-named Mark Mason in the
presence of
Wx. TASKER,
Patent Agent,
Halifax.
MARK MASON. (L.S.)