IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-OILING SPINDLES FOR SPINNING, DOUBLING, AND WINDING FRAMES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Garrett Tongue, of the Firm of Tongue and
Birkbeck, Patent Agents and Engineers, of 34, Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-OILING SPINDLES FOR SPINNING, DOUBLING, AND
WINDING FRAMES."-A communication from abroad by Francis Rabbeth,
of Ilion, in the County of Herkimer, and State of New York, and John
Edwin Atwood, of Willimantic, in the County of Windham, and State of
onnecticut United States of America.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Garrett Tongue at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
2nd February 1867.
I, JOHN GARRETT TONGUE, of the Firm of Tongue and Birkbeck, Patent
Agents and Engineers, of 34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in
the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-OLLING SPINDLES POR SPINNING, DOUBLING, AND
WINDING FRAMES," to be as follows:-
The nature of this Invention consists, firstly, in an arrangement of an oil
reservoir or cup mounted on and surrounding the oil box or bolster extension
to the spindle, said extension being slotted to convey oil to or round the

page_text: spindle, and the cup being provided with an aperture in its bottom extending
down within the bolster to the bearing, the bolster and oil box or tube to the
spindle being preferably constructed so as to form but a single structure;
said Invention also consists in a combination of oil cup round the bolster
outer revolving perforated sleeve forming part or extension of the whirr and
perforated exterior cap to said sleeve for feeding in the oil, and afterwards
closing all communication with the outside without removing the sleeve or
cap; also in providing the oil cup with a circumferential groove at or near
its rim to arrest and return to the cup any oil likely to be discharged there-
from by the centrifugal action of the spindle; and said Invention further
consists in providing the whirr or whirr sleeve with driving pins for holding
and rotating the bobbin, and whereby an extra collar connected with the
spindle for such purpose is dispensed, with, likewise in locking or retaining the
spindle to its place within the tube or on its step by means of a set screw in
combination with a packing to prevent the escape of oil from the tube. A
hardened steel step is screwed into the lower end of the tube for supporting
the spindle of a spinning frame, there being locking screw nuts on the bolster
or tube for holding the device to the frame which carries it. Surrounding the
upper end of the bolster is an oil cup which is in communication with the
bearing of the spindle in the bolster by a downwardly arranged passage which
serves to convey the oil directly within the bolster, while a slot in the upper
end of said bolster admits oil around the spindle above as the spindle in
rotating presents for the length of the slot its entire surface to the oil in the
cup. The whirr and upward continuation or extension of the same forming
an outer sleeve is covered in at top and made fast to the spindle, which it as
part of the whirr rotates; this sleeve has openings at or near its top for
feeding the cup with oil; as however it is desirable for the exclusion of dust
and other reasons that there should not (except when supplying the oil) be
any such direct open communication with the oil cup, there is arranged on or
round the sleeve a cap with perforations in it, which perforations by.simply
turning the cap may either be brought in line with the apertures for feeding
in the oil, or be adjusted out of communication therewith, when the apertures
will be closed by the cap; this forms a simple and rapid arrangement for the
purpose, and dispenses with all removal of parts. The cup is provided with
at or near its rim a circumferential groove which serves to catch and return
to the cup any oil projected by the centrifugal action of the spindle towards
the rim, and restrains it from flying over the latter. To drive the bobbin the
usual collar for that purpose is dispensed with, and the bobbin connected

page_text: with the whirr or whirr sleeve by pins fitting into apertures in the bottom of
the bobbin, which may thus be readily removed and replaced. There is a set
screw for locking the spindle to its place in the tube or on its step, said screw
fitting at its inner end a circumferential groove in the spindle, and being
provided externally on the inside face of its head with a soft or elastic packing
which prevents any leakage or escape of oil from the tube.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Garrett Tongue in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 2nd August 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
GARRETT TONGUE, of the Firm of Tongue and Birkbeck, Patent Agenst and
Engineers, of 34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letter's
Patent, bearing date the Second day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
John Garrett Tongue, Her special licence that I, the said John Garrett
Tongue, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said John Garrett Tongue, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should'
at any time agree with, and no others, froin time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed; should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN-SELF-OILING SPINDLES FOR SPINNING, DOUBLING, AND WINDING
FRAMES," a communication to me from abroad by Francis Rabbeth, of Ilion,
in the County of Herkimer, and State of New York, and John Edwin
Atwood, of Willimautic, in the County of Windham, and State of Connecticut,
United States of America, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said John Garrett Tongue, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in
the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Garrett Tongue, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
The nature of this Invention consists, firstly, in an arrangement of an oil
reservoir or cup mounted on and surrounding the oil box or bolster extension
to the spindle, said extension being slotted to convey oil to or round the spindle,
and the cup being provided with an aperture in its bottom extending down
within the bolster to the bearing, the bolster and oil box or tube to the spindle
being preferably constructed so as to form but a single structure. The said
Invention also consists in a combination of oil cup round the bolster, the outer
revolving perforated sleeve forming part or extension of the whirr and per-
forated exterior cap to said sleeve for feeding in the oil and afterwards closing
all communication with the outside without removing the sleeve or cap; also
in providing the oil cup with a circumferential groove at or near its rim to
arrest and return to the cup any oil likely to be discharged therefrom by the
centrifugal action of the spindle. And the said Invention further consists in
providing the whirr or whirr sleeve with driving pins for holding and rotating
the bobbin, and whereby an extra collar connected with the spindle for such
purpose is dispensed with, likewise in locking or retaining the spindle to its
place within the tube or on its step by means of a set screw in combination
with a packing to prevent the escape of oil from the tube.
Having thus stated the nature of the Invention it will now be described
with reference to the accompanying Drawing, in which Figure 1 is a vertical
sectional view of a spinning frame spindle with its attachments constructed
according to this improvement; and Figure 2 is a horizontal section thereof
through the line x, x, in Figure 1.
A represents the spindle of a spinning frame, and B, B', its bolster; and
tube B is a hardened steel step screwed into the lower end of the tube for
supporting the spindle of a spinning frame; G, G¹, are locking serew nuts on
'the bolster or tube for holding the device to the frame which carries it.
Surrounding the upper end 6 of the bolster is an oil cup C, which is in com-
munication with the bearing of the spindle in the bolster by a downwardly
arranged passage a, which serves to convey the oil directly within the bolster,
I while a slot c in the upper end 6 of said bolster admits oil around the spindle
above, as the spindle in rotating presents for the length of the slot its entire
surface to the oil in the cup; D is the whirr; and D' an upward continuation
or extension of the same forming an outer sleeve covered in at top, and made

page_text: fast to the spindle, which it (as part of the whirr) rotates; this sleeve has
openings d at or near its top for feeding the cup C with oil: As however it
is desirable for the exclusion of dust and other reasons that there should not
(except when supplying the oil) be any such direct open communication with
the oil cup C, there is arranged on or round the sleeve D' a cap E, with
perforations in it, which perforations by simply turning the cap may either
be brought in line with the apertures d for feeding in the oil, or be adjusted
out of communication therewith, when the apertures d will be closed by the
cap; this forms a simple and rapid arrangement for the purpose, and dispenses
with all removal of parts. The cup C is provided with at or near its rim
a circumferential groove 9, which serves to catch and return to the cup any oil
projected by the centrifugal action of the spindle towards the rim, and restrains
it from flying over the latter. To drive the bobbin the usual collar for that
purpose is dispensed with, and the bobbin connected with the whirr or whirr
sleeve by pins h fitting into apertures in the bottom of the bobbin, which may
thus be readily removed and replaced. F is a set screw for locking the
spindle to its place in the tube, or on its step, said screw fitting at its inner
end a circumferential groove i in the spindle, and being provided externally
on the inside face of its head with a soft or elastic packing k, which prevents
any leakage or escape of oil from the tube.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed or carried into practice, the following are
the novel features of improvement claimed under the above in part recited
Letters Patent as constituting the subject-matter of this Invention:-
Firstly, the arrangement of the oil cup C, communicating by an aperture a
with the bearing below in combination with the bolster arranged to project at
its upper end within said cup, and provided with a slot or opening c, substan-
tially as herein described and shown in the Drawing hereunto annexed.
Secondly, the arrangement and combination with an oil cup (mounted on
or surrounding the bolster) of the perforated whirr or whirr sleeve D', and
outer perforated cap E arranged to act in the manner herein shewn and
described.
Thirdly, the construction of the oil cup C with a circumferential groove g
at or near its rim, essentially as and for the purpose herein shown and
5 described.
Fourthly, arranging the whirr or whirr sleeve at its top with projecting and
driving pins h for gearing with the bobbin, as herein shown and described.
And, fifthly, the arrangement in combination with the spindle tube of the

page_text: set screw F and packing k operating to retain the spindle to its place and
prevent the escape of oil, as herein shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Garrett Tongue, hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Second day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
JOHN GARRETT TONGUE. (L.S.)