Improvements in the Stands and Saddles used in Machines for Spinning Flax, Tow, Hemp, Jute, or other similar Fibres.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 27th Dec., 1892-4ccepted, 11th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Stands and Saddles used in Machines for
Spinning Flax, Tow, Hemp, Jute, or other similar Fibres.
SINCLAIR HUNTER of Connsbrook Villas, Sydenham, Belfast, in the County
of Down, Ireland, Foundry Manager, and WILLIAM HUNTER of Merven,
Jordanstown, in the County of Antrim, Ireland, Mill Manager, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In spinning yarns it is sometimes desirable to work with a very short reach, and
these improvements are designed to admit of the shortest possible reach being
obtained. These improvements further relate to the method of attaching the saddle
to the stand. This is done by simply passing the stand head through a slot in the
saddle as shown in Sketch A. If desired this could be otherwise arranged, as shown
in Sketches B, C, D.
The improved stand and
frames.
saddle can easily be applied to existing spinning
-with a little alteration-be used in conjunction
Most of the existing saddles can-
with the improved stand.
It is often desirable to line up the roller bearings. With the old style of stands
and saddles it is necessary to remove the troughs and rove guides, before the top
roller can be taken out. With the improved stands and saddles this is unnecessary,
whereby a considerable saving of time is effected, and the production is increased
in consequence.
Dated this 24th day of September 1892.
SINCLAIR HUNTER.
WILLIAM HUNTER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Stands and Saddles used in Machines for
Spinning Flax, Tow, Hemp, Jute, or other similar Fibres.
We SINCLAIR HUNTER, formerly of Connsbrook Villas, Sydenham, Belfast, in
the County of Down, Ireland, now of 160 Parkview, Mountpottinger, Belfast,
County Down, Ireland, Foundry Manager, and WILLIAM HUNTER of Merven,
Jordanstown, in the County of 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:-
These improvements consist in the use on machines for spinning flax, tow, hemp,
jute, or other similar fibres, of a novel form, and arrangement of "stands" and
"saddles," so designed as to admit of the shortest possible reach being obtained,
and to give the greatest possible space between the pressing-rollers. They further
relate to the method of attaching the "saddles" to the "stands." This is done
either by passing the stand-head through a slot in the saddle, as shewn on the
drawings filed with our Provisional Specification, in Sketches A and B ; or by
having the stand-head forked and making the saddle to pass between the jaws, as
shewn on the drawings filed with our Provisional Specification, in Sketches C and D.
The regulating curve for securing the proper action of the pressing-rollers is on
the stand and does not require any expensive fitting or machining.
The saddles are made without arms, but are attached to the stands substantially
as described, and shewn in the Sketches A, B, C, D aforementioned. They are
otherwise of the ordinary type, the improvement consisting in the method of
attachment, substantially as described,

page_text: The stand is such as to allow of the proper action of the saddle while the
shortest possible reach is obtainable, it being such as to allow the rollers to touch
each other.
All the arrangements are clearly shown on the drawings filed with our Pro-
visional Specification, and now lettered and figured so that the same letters or
figures always apply to the same or similar parts.
Sketch A is a front and side view of the stand E and saddle F and shows the
method of attachment by simply passing the stand-head E' through a slot Fl in the
saddle F so that the ends a and a' of the slot F' moving in the curved edges band b¹
of the stand-head E' control the action of the pressing rollers R and R', while the
side bearing c and c' of the slot F' on the stand head E' keeps the saddle F in
position sideways.
Sketch B is part of a front and side view of the stand and saddle, and shows the
method of passing the stand head E' through a slot Fin the saddle F; but instead
of the ends a and a controlling the movement, this is done by a pin G in the
saddle F working in a curved slot H in the stand head E¹.
Sketch C is also a part of a front and side view of the stand and saddle, and
shows the method of attachment by having a forked head E' on the stand E with
the saddle F passing between, and with two pins G and G¹ in the saddle F
substantially as shown for controlling the action of the pressing rollers R'.
Sketch D is a part of a front and side view of the stand and saddle, and shows
the same method of attachment as on Sketch C, but with only one pin G in the
end of the saddle F working in a slot H in the forked head E' of the stand E.
The improved "stands" and "saddles" can easily be applied to existing spinning
frames, and most of the existing saddles can-with a little alteration-be used in
conjunction with the improved stands.
With the improved "stands" and "saddles" it is possible to line up the roller-
bearings when this is required-without removing the troughs or rove-guides,
which must be removed with the old style of stands and saddles, before the top
roller can be taken out.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
1. The use of a stand in which the stand-head passes through the saddle, the top
and bottom edges of the said stand-head forming the guiding curves for controlling
the saddle, and keeping the pressing rollers in their proper position; the sides of
the said stand-head forming guiding planes for keeping the saddle in its proper
position sideways.
2. The use of saddles having a slot; a pin or pins for controlling the action of
the pressing-rollers substantially as described.
Dated this 23rd day of December 1892.
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SINCLAIR HUNTER.
WILLIAM HUNTER.