Improvements in Bearings or Supports for the Top Clearers of Preparing or Spinning Machinery.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Nov., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 8th May, 1897-Accepted, 12th June, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bearings or Supports for the Top Clearers of
Preparing or Spinning Machinery.
We, SAMUEL HERBERT BROOKS of the Firm of Brooks & Doxey, Union Iron
Works, West Gorton, Manchester in the County of Lancaster, Machine Makers,
and ALFRED DENSON of the Union Iron Works aforesaid, Mechanic, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention is designed to provide an adjustable bearing or support for the
top clearers of the drawing rollers of preparing and spinning machinery whereby
the position of the top clearer can be readily adjusted to correspond with the
position of the front top drawing roller.
The support or bearing comprises a movable upright or inclined flat plate against
which the pivots of the clearer rollers rest.
This movable plate we construct with a bracket or snug at its lower extremity
provided with a hole tapped to receive a screw. And on the top of the cap bar
neb we construct a couple of corresponding snugs or brackets through which we
pass a screw and in which the screw is free to rotate without moving longi-
tudinally. The screw when in position passes through the tapped hole in the
upright movable plate and is riveted at the end or otherwise secured in its place.
The base of the snug is fitted to slide along the top of the cap bar neb which prevents
any angular movement therein and maintains it upright.
Dated this 13th day of November 1896.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.
Improvements in Bearings or Supports for the Top Clearers of
Preparing or Spinning Machinery.
We, SAMUEL HERBERT BROOKS, of the Firm of Brooks and Doxey, Union Iron
Works, West Gorton, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Makers, and
ALFRED DENSON, of the Union Iron Works, aforesaid, Mechanic, 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 is designed to provide an adjustable bearing or support for the top
clearers of the drawing rollers of preparing and spinning machinery whereby the
position of the top clearer can be readily adjusted to correspond with the position of
the front top drawing roller.
The support or bearing for the clearer roller comprises a movable flat plate

page_text: mounted on the cap bar and held in position by a screw fitted in bearings along which
it slides and by which it is adjusted as required.
It will be fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings in
which the front neb of a cap bar of a slubbing roving and spinning frame is
illustrated.
Fig. 1. Side elevation.
Fig. 2. Front elevation.
The cap bar neb A is constructed with a couple of snugs a on top through which
a screw B is mounted provided with plain bearings in which it can rotate but without
longitudinal movement.
The movable plate C against which the pivots of the clearer rollers rest is
constructed with a snug c at its lower extremity corresponding to the snugs a
on the cap bar neb. The snug is provided with a hole which is tapped to receive the
Screw B.
The bottom of the snug c is fitted to rest upon the top of the cap neb so as to
prevent any angular movement of the plate and when in position the screw B
passes through the tapped hole in the snug. The screw is then secured in its bearing
by being rivetted over at the end.
The plate C may be vertical or inclined as desired.
By rotating the screw B the movable plate C may be set in any position between
the two snugs a on the cap bar neb.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
-claim-is :-
1. The combination with the cap bar neb of a preparing or spinning frame of a
movable plate C sliding on the top of the cap bar neb A and held in position
and adjusted by a screw passing through a snug on the bottom substantially as
described.
2. The improved adjustable support for the top clearers of preparing and spinning
frames substantially as described and shown.
Dated this 29th day of April 1897.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Manchester, Liverpool, and London, Patent Agents.