IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO RING SPINNING AND DOUBLING FRAMES " PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Brooks of the Union Iron Works, West Gorton,
Manchester in the County of Lancaster, Machine Maker, and Abraham
Holden of Gorton in the said County Spinning Manager for an Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO RING SPINNING AND DOUBLING
FRAMES
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Brooks and Abraham
Holden at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd March
1882.
SAMUEL BROOKS, of the Union Iron Works, West Gorton, Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Machine Maker, and ABRAHAM HOLDEN, of Gorton, in the
said County, Spinning Manager, " IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO RING
SPINNING AND DOUBLING FRAMES,"
In ring and traveller spinning and doubling frames or machines of ordinary
construction, the frame has to be stopped when the set is full, and the copping
mechanism has to be turned back to lower the ring rail to wind on the thread in a
spiral form and leave the ring rail in the position to start a fresh set, by hand, and
negligence in not stopping the frame at the proper time may cause much waste and
damage.
It is the object of our invention to provide against such negligence and save
time and labour by performing the operations referred to by selfacting combinations
and arrangements of mechanism in which our invention consists.
The mechanism for carrying out our invention may be varied, but according to
our present experience we arrange a slide or catch rod, which at one end can come
against the strap guide for starting and stopping the frame, and at or near the other
end of this catch rod, there is a notch which can catch upon one end of a slot in a
bracket attached to the framing of the machine.
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There is a finger from one of the "pokers" or vertical rods actuating the
copping" or 'ring rail," or this finger is from a special "poker" for the purpose,
and when it rises it comes under the sliding catch rod, and lifts it, and when the
ring rail has arrived at the highest position fixed upon, the catch rod is thus
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page_text: released from the bracket, and it is slided by a weighted bell-crank lever connected
with it in the direction to traverse the driving belt, but the first movement of the
catch rod is arrested by a projection upon its end which catches upon the side of
the said releasing finger on the end of the "poker," and is thus held while the
latter descends sufficiently to release it from the projection when the catch rod
makes a further movement which traverses the driving belt on to the loose pulley.
The horizontal arm of the said weighted bell crank lever depresses one end and
lifts the other or weighted end of another lever, that carries an incline or wedge
which acts to slide the bearing of one end of a short shaft having a friction pulley
upon it towards a face plate on the "tin roller" shaft so that the face plate will
rotate the friction pulley and thus the shaft which at its outer end has a toothed
wheel upon it for a toothed chain, that passes over a fixed guide pulley, and one on
one arm of a bell crank weight lever, which allows the chain to give way to the
movement of the heart lever, this chain gearing with a wheel on the copping motion
shaft so as to rotate it backwards.
But before the toothed chain begins to rotate the copping motion shaft, the pawl
of the copping motion ratchet is lifted away from it to allow the shaft and ratchet
to be turned backwards and this pawl is lifted by a cord, wire or chain with an
elastic spring interposed in its length one end of the cord wire ar chain being
attached to the ratchet pawl and then passes over suitable guide pulleys, the other
end being attached to the first named weighted bell-crank lever so that when the
weighted arm of the latter descends the pawl is lifted from the ratchet, but is
lowered again when the bell crank weighted lever is lifted again,
One end of the lever having the wedge or incline upon it is pushed up to bring
and leave the incline out of action, by an adjustable rod connected with the beart
wheel lever, or this is accomplished by connection with one arm of the weighted
bell crank lever.
The heart wheel lever is depressed at starting the frame after it has been doffed
to take up the slack thread by a cam on a vertical shaft, which has also an excentric
upon it for acting upon the belt guide to start the frame-the upper end of this
vertical shaft having a hand wheel upon it, in which there is a notch for a catch to
hold it in position when the frame has been started, the frame being stopped
selfacting, and started by this vertical shaft and hand wheel.
But when the frame is to be stopped between times of doffing this is done by a
separate handle acting indepently upon the belt guide.
The excentric on the vertical shaft in sliding the belt guide to start the frame-
slides the catch rod until its notch takes hold of the bracket and at the same time
lifts the connected weighted bell crank lever.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Samuel Brooks and Abraham Holden in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 30th August 1882.
SAMUEL BROOKS of the Union Iron Works, West Gorton, Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Machine Maker, and ABRAHAM HOLDEN of Gorton, in the
Baid County, Spinning Manager. "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO RING
SPINNING AND DOUBLING FRAMES."
In ring and traveller spinning and doubling frames or machines of ordinary
construction the frame has to be stopped when the set is full, and the copping
mechanism has to be turned back to lower the ring rail to wind on the thread in a
spiral form and leave the ring rail in the position to start a fresh set by hand, and
negligence in not stopping the frame at the proper time may cause much waste
and damage.
It is the object of our invention to provide against such negligence and save
time and labour by performing the operations referred to by selfacting combinations
and arrangements of mechanism, in which our invention consists.
The mechanism for carrying out our invention may be varied, but according to
our present experience we arrange a slide or catch rod which at one end can come
against the strap guide for starting and stopping the frame, and at or near the
other end of this rod there is a notch which can catch upon one end of a slot in a
bracket, attached to the framing of the machine.
There is a finger from one of the "pokers" or vertical rods actuating the
"copping" or 'ring rail" or this finger is from or upon a special "poker" for
the purpose; and when it rises it comes under the sliding catch rod, and lifts it,
and when the ring rail has arrived at the highest position fixed upon, the catch
rod is thus released from the bracket and it is slided by a weighted bell crank
lever connected with it in the direction to traverse the driving belt, but the first
movement of the catch rod is arrested by an adjustable projection upon its end
which catches upon the side of the said releasing finger on the end of the poker
and is thus held while the latter descends sufficiently to release it from the
projection when the catch rod makes a further movement which traverses the
driving belt on to the loose pulley.
The horizontal arm of the said weighted bell crank lever depresses one end and
lifts the other or weighted end of another lever that carries an incline or wedge
which acts to slide the bearing of one end of a short shaft having a friction pulley
upon it towards a face plate on the "tin roller" shaft so that the face plate will
rotate the friction pulley and thus the shaft which at its outer end has a toothed
wheel upon it for a toothed chain that passes over a fixed guide pulley and
another pulley on one arm of a bell crank weight lever, which allows the chain to
give way to the movements of the heart lever this chain, gearing with a wheel on
the copping motion shaft so as to rotate it backwards.
But before the toothed chain begins to rotate the copping motion shaft, the
pawl of the copping motion ratchet is lifted away from it to allow the shaft and
ratchet to be turned backwards, and this pawl is lifted by a cord, wire or chain
with an elastic spring interposed in its length one end of the cord wire or chain being
attached to the ratchet pawl and then passes over suitable guide pulleys, the other
end being attached to the first named weighted bell-crank lever so that when the
weighted arm of the latter descends the pawl is lifted from the ratchet, but is
lowered again when the bell crank weighted lever is lifted again.

page_text: One end of the lever having the wedge or incline upon it is pushed up to bring
and leave the incline out of action, by an adjustable rod connected with the heart
wheel lever, or this is accomplished by connection with one arm of the weighted
bell crank lever or by other suitable arrangements.
The heart wheel lever is depressed at starting the frame after it has been doffed
to take up the slack thread by a cam on a vertical shaft, which has also an
excentric upon it for acting upon the belt guide to start the frame the upper end
of this vertical shaft having a hand wheel upon it, in which there is a notch for a
catch to hold it in position when the frame has been started the frame being
stopped selfacting, and started by this vertical shaft and hand wheel.
But when the frame is to be stopped between times of doffing, this is done by a
separate handle acting independently upon the belt guide.
The excentric on the vertical shaft in sliding the belt guide to start the frame-
slides the catch rod until its notch takes hold of the bracket and at the same time
lifts the connected weighted bell crank lever.
Fig 1 is an elevation at the driving end with part of the side frame supposed to
be removed, and fig 2 a front sectional elevation at the driving end of so much of
a ring spinning or doubling frame as will be necessary for explaining our invention.
Fig 3 is an end elevation, fig 4 a front elevation, and fig 5 a plan view, of some
of the mechanism apart to show it more clearly.
a framing; a spindle rails; b one of the spindles; c bobbin or spool with yarn
upon it as when full; d copping rail, carried on the ends of pokers or vertical guide
rods d', e tin roller shaft; e fast and loose driving pulleys; f the heart wheel
lever, having its fulcrum at f'; g the belt guide sliding on the bar a²; g¹ shaft and
g handle by which the belt guide is slided by means of the wheel on the shaft g¹
which gears with the toothed rack 93 on the belt guide.
All the above parts referred to by letters and shown by the drawings are
ordinary and well known parts.
h is a rod that is carried in and can slide endways in suitable guides one end of
it has a projection that comes against a part on the belt guide as shown in dotted
line, the other end passes through a slot in a bracket a³ and it has a weight ¹ on
its end to keep it down against the bottom of the slot in the bracket a³. The
rod h has a projection h2 secured to it by a screw, so as to be adjustable in a slot,
in the lengthway of the rod.
There is a notch in the lower edge of the rod
hold of the bracket a³ in fig 2, but one part of
from the other part.
and this notch is shown to have
the rod h is shown, broken away
A bell-crank lever i having its fulcrum on a bracket on the framing has a slot
in its upper arm, which slot fits a pin in the side of the rod h, and the weight i²
suspended by a link on the lower arm acts to pull the rod h in the direction to
slide, the belt guide g to stop the machine.
The special poker d2 which has an adjustable finger d³ at its upper end, (which
is shown in full line in its lowest and in dotted line in its highest position in fig 2)
rises and falls with the copping rail & and when the latter has attained the highest
position fixed upon, and the set is full, the finger d³ will come against and lift the
rod sufficiently high to release the hook or notch in the rod h from the bracket a³,
when the weight on the bell crank lever will act to slide the rod h and thus the
belt guide g until the adjustable projection h³ comes against the finger d³ from the
poker de but when the latter has descended sufficiently the projection h² is released,
and the weighted bell crank lever i then slides the belt completely off the fast on
to the loose pulley.
To the lower arm of the bell crank lever i one end of a wire cord or belt ; is
attached which passes over three guide pulleys j', j and ja each on a stud in a
bracket from the framing and the other end of the cord or wire is attached to the
pawl for the copping motion gear, and with this cord or wire a spiral
spring is connected which will give way to the motion caused by the heart whee!
lever f

page_text: When the weight of the bell crank lever i falls the pawl f2 is released from the
ratchet, but when the weighted arm of the bell crank rises the paw! is lowered
again on to the teeth of the ratchet f³.
When the weighted arm of the bell crank lever i descends, it comes against one
end of a lever k (best seen in figs 3, 4 and 5) having its fulcrum k¹ on a bracket on
the framing, and raises the other end of this lever which has a small weight k²
suspended upon it by a link.
The end of this lever has a segmental part shown in dotted line in fig 1, but
in full line in figs 3 and 5 that forms a wedge and acts laterally against one bearing
of a horizontal cross shaft *, which bearing is arranged to be capable of moving a
little sideways, and the movement given by the segmental wedge forces the
periphery of a friction pulley on the end of the shaft against a face plate e
forming part of the fast driving pulley which thus rotates the shaft k*. The outer
end of the shaft is in a bearing on a bracket secured to the framing, and it has
a wheel secured upon it which gears with the links of a jointed chain that
passes over a guide pulley 7 on a stud in a bracket and one on a stud in the end
of a weighted bell crank lever k³, having its fulcrum k³ on a stud secured in the
framing
The jointed chain also gears with a wheel k* on a stud which has a wheel ƒ* on
it in gear with one on the worin shaft f5, of the copping motion, so that when the
shaft is rotated by the flange the copping motion shaft fo is wound back to
start a fresh set, and when the heart lever fis in motion the bell-crank lever k³
allows the chain to give way to the oscillating motion.
The friction pulley shaft is rotated one way to wind the copping motion back
for a fresh set and slowly the reverse way as the copping motion shaft is moved
tooth by tooth in building the cop, spool or bobbin.
There is a worm formed on the shaft (best seen in figs 3, 4 and 5) and it is
made to gear with a worm wheel loose on the vertical shaft m, but supported on
a collar m³ fast upon it.
There is a stud * adjustable in the worm wheel which when the shaft k* has
rotated sufficiently one way, comes against a projection from a lever on a stud l
in a bracket on the framing, and the other end of this lever is attached by a screw
to one end of a band or belt which passes over a pulley * fast on the shaft k¹
and the other end is attached to a screw in the framing.
This belt acts as a brake to stop the rotation of the shaft k* at the right
time.
There is another stud adjustable in the worm wheel that carries a cam or wedge
piece and just before the brake acts, this cam piece comes under the outer end of
a stud kl, the lever k and lifts it, and thus releases the segmental wedge k³ and
when the weighted arm of the bell crank lever i rises, the weighted end of the
lever falls until it rests on a projection k¹º (shown in dotted line) on the
bracket.
m is a vertical shaft in suitable bearings on the framing it has a hand wheel m'
at its upper end by which it is rotated and there is a notch in its rim for a catch
lever m² to enter when it has made one rotation, this catch being jointed on a stud
in a bracket on the framing.
This vertical shaft m has an excentric or cam m³ secured upon it for acting
upon the belt guide to move it to traverse the strap on to the fast pulley, and it
has a cam m secured at its lower end to act upon a bowl f7 in the heart wheel
lever to depress it when starting the frame after it has been doffed.
The driving belt n, belt guide g, levers i and k, are drawn in their positions when
the driving belt is on the loose pulley.
We have now particularly described the nature of our invention and the mode
of carrying the same into effect, and wish it to be understood that we do not limit
ourselves to the precise arrangement and details of construction which may be
modified without departing from our invention, but what we do claim is-
Firstly, Arrangements by which mechanism connected with the copping motion,

page_text: will when the set is full release a catch and allow a weight or spring to traverse
the driving belt from the fast to the loose pulley and will act upon and put in gear
mechanism for lifting the ratchet pawl of the copping motion and winding it back
ready for a fresh set, substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the
drawings.
Secondly, A shaft with cams or a cam and excentric upon it, by rotating which
shaft the slack thread is taken up, and the frame properly started after doffing
substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the drawings.
Thirdly. The combination and arrangement of selfacting mechanism and its
mode of action for stopping a ring throstle or doubling frame when a set is full,
lifting the pawl and winding back the copping motion ready for a fresh set,
substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the drawings.
Fourthly. The combination and arrangement of mechanism, substantially as
herein before described and illustrated by the drawings.
In witness whereof we the said Samuel Brooks and Abraham Holden have
hereunto set our hands and seals this twenty ninth day of August in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty two.