Improvements in Wet Spinning Flax, Hemp, or like Fibres.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 31st Oct., 1893-Accepted, 27th Jan., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wet Spinning Flax, Hemp, or like Fibres.
ADAM MOMEEKIN of Cogry Mills Doagh County Antrim Ireland Mill Manager
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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These improvements relate to the method and means employed for softening the
fibre whilst in the form of rove to make it in such a condition that it will "draw"
when passing from the retaining to the drawing rollers.
The usual practice is to pass the rove through hot water which in some cases is
made more effective in its softening or dissolving action on the gum which joins
the fibres together by being mixed with suitable alkalics.
These improvements in wet spinning flax hemp or like fibres consist in softening
the fibres whilst in the form of "rove" and while they are on the bobbin thus a
longer time can be given to the softening process which may be done with warm
water but cold water can be used for the purpose and the use of deleterious
chemicals be avoided and a stronger yarn produced because the gum which joins
the fibres together is not removed but merely softened.
The means employed consist of a steeping cistern for the rove whilst on the
bobbins which is placed convenient to the spinning frame and the immersion of
the rove whilst on the bobbins in water in a tank which is practically the ordinary
water trough of wet spinning frames made deeper so as to receive the bobbins and
which has a suitable arrangement of pins or sockets to keep the rove bobbins in
position whilst the rove is being pulled off by the drawing rollers or to supplement
the first steeping process a series of jets or sprays of cold water can be played upon
tho rove whilst the bobbins are in the creel.
By this method of softening the rove it is in such a condition that the retaining
and drawing rollers can be worked as close together as desirable or at the shortest
reach obtainable.
Vulcanite metallic or other non-soluble and nou-corrodible material may be used
for the rove bobbins or tubes either with or without ends or flanges and the rove
may be built thereon in the form of a cop.
An arrangement may be made for lifting the rove bobbins out of the water in
the trough singly or in groups.
Dated this 31st day of January 1893.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wet Spinning Flax, Hemp, or like Fibres.
I, ADAM MOMEEKIN of Cogry Mills, Doagh, County Antrim Ireland, Mill
Manager, 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 the method of and means employed for
softening the fibre whilst in the form of "rove" to facilitate "drawing" without
removal or loss of the gums natural to such fibro.
The usual practice is to pass the rove through hot water which in some cases is
made more effective in its softening or dissolving action on the gum which joins
the fibres together by being mixed with suitable alkalies.

page_text: The improvements in wet spinning flax, hemp, or like fibres, consist in softening
the fibres whilst in the form of "rove" and while they are on the bobbins thus a
longer time can be given to the softening process, which may be done with warm
water, but "cold water" can be used for the purpose, and the use of deleterious
chemicals be avoided, and a stronger yarn produced, because the gum which joins
the fibres together is not removed but merely softened.
Such being the nature and object of my said invention, the following is a
-complete description of same reference being had to the accompanying drawings
in which :-
Fig. 1 is a sectional side elevation of part of a spinning. frame with cistern or
tank adjacent thereto.
According to this invention the means employed consist of a steeping cistern or
tank 1 for the rove 2 whilst on the bobbius 3, which cistern or tauk 1 is placed
-convenient to the spinning frame, and above the drawing rollers 4. 4. The rove 2,
whilst on the bobbins 3 is immersed in water in the tauk 1, which is practically
the ordinary water trough of wet spinning frames but made deeper so as to receive
the bobbins, and in such trough is an arrangement of pins, spindles or sockets 6. 6
which carry and keep the rove bobbins 3 in position whilst the rove 2 is being
pulled off by the drawing rollers 4, 4. Instead of the steeping process above
described a series of jets or sprays of cold water can be played upon the rove
whilst the bobbins are in the creel, but I do not limit the invention to any special
form of water container, nor to the mode of applying the water so long as the
preparatory steeping or saturating is provided thereby to soften the gum and
facilitate the drafting of the rove.
By this method of softening the rove, it is in such a condition that the retaining
and drawing rollers can be worked as close together as desirable or at the shortest
"reach" obtainable.
Vulcanite, metallic, or other non soluble and non corrodible material may be
used for the 'rove bobbins or tubes, either with or without ends or flanges, and the
rove may be built thereon in the form of a cop.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
-claim is :-
In wet spinning, the softening of fibres whilat in the form of "rove
" and
while the fibres are on the tubes, bobbins or spools, as and for the purpose herein
-described.
Dated this 25th day of October 1885.
ADAM MOMEEKIN,
By his Agent, Walter Brierley,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax.