Improvements in Gassing or Genapping Frames for Silk and Cotton Yarns.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gassing or Genapping Frames for Silk and Cotton
Yarns.
I, JAMES HEATHCOTE, of Ivy House, Hurdsfield Road, Macclesfield, in the
County of Chester, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the construction and arrangement
of levers and fittings in connection with the same for use upon gassing or
genapping frames for silk and cotton yarns the object of the invention being to
provide an automatic gas controlling arrangement which will operate with the
action of the levers which stop and start the motion of the bobbin.
In carrying my invention into effect I employ a bobbin motion lever of such a
shape and form that when it is raised to stop the bobbin from revolving it also
raises a second lever which I place in position adjacent to it, which lever then
acts to remove or control the gas.
Upon the bobbin controlling lever I form a tooth like projection or horn
against which a pawl or catch engages to keep the lever in its desired position.
To act upon this catch I form upon my gas controlling lever a tripping or
releasing arm or snug which acts to raise the catch from engaging with the first
motion lever and thus when freed the lever falls and carries with it the bobbin
on to the friction or other driving drum.
I mount my lever upon a bracket carried in any convenient position upon the
machine or frame and I make the levers of a form to suit the size of frame and
the position of the gas and the bobbin drum upon the particular frame to which
my invention is to be applied.
I do not limit the application of my invention to any special form of frame
or arrangement of bobbin drum but modify the form and position of the levers
and their connections to suit any special requirement.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Gassing or Genapping Frames for Silk and Cotton
Yarns.
I, JAMES HEATHCOTE, of Ivy House, Hurdsfield Road, Macclesfield, in the
County of Chester, 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 construction and arrangement
of levers and fittings in connection with the same for use upon gassing or
genapping frames for silk and cotton yarns the object of the invention being to
provide an automatic gas controlling arrangement which will operate with the
action of the levers which stop and start the motion of the bobbin.
In carrying my invention into effect I employ a bobbin motion lever of such a
shape and form that when it is raised to stop the bobbin from revolving it also
raises a second lever which I place in position adjacent to it, which lever then
acts to remove or control the gas.
In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter referred
to,-
Figure 1 is a side elevation, Figure 2 a plan, and Figure 3 an end elevation
illustrating one convenient method of applying my invention.
The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same parts.
The bobbin is carried upon the arm or lever A which is pivotted upon the
pin B; the same pin serves also as the pivot of the levers C and D). Upon the
bobbin controlling lever CI form a tooth like projection or horn as cagainst
which a pawl or catch E engages when it is desired to keep the said lever and also
the arm or lever A and the lever D in the raised position at which the bobbin
is out of contact with the friction drum F. To act upon the catch I form
upon my gas controlling lever D a tripping or releasing arm or snug d which
acts, on the further and independent elevation of the lever D, to raise the catch
from engagement with the projection c from the lever C. The lever C is pro-
vided with lateral projections as cl and which serve as supports or abutments for
the levers A and D, and thus on raising the lever C from its service position,
such as is shown in the illustrations, the levers A and D are raised with it.
When the lever C is freed from engagement with the catch E, by the independent
elevation of the lever 1 as herein before described, it falls until brought to rest
by the abutment of its projection against the pawl or catch E. The weighted
lever A also falls and thus brings the bobbin mounted thereon into contact with
the friction driving drum F.
The slotted end of the lever D is connected with the gas flame, and controls
the same by its movement; on the descent of the lever on to the abutment c²
from the lever C, as shown in the illustrations, the gas flame is brought into
service.
I fix the pivot pin B and also the pin of the pawl or catch E upon a bracket
as G carried in any convenient position upon the machine or frame.
I make the levers of such form and so arrange them in connection with the
gas and the bobbin drum as will best suit the particular frame to which my
invention is to be applied.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. In gassing or genannine frames for silk and cotton
TOPIC automationil.

page_text: controlling the gas by the movement of the bobbin controlling device, sub-
stantially as described.
2. In gassing frames, the construction and arrangement of the levers A, C,
and I, with their fittings or connections, substantially as and for the purpose
described and as illustrated.
Dated this 15th day of pray
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, and
25, Cross Street, Manchester,
Agents for the Applicant.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, and
25, Cross Street, Manchester,
Agents for the Applicant.