Improvements in or connected with Ring Spinning Frames..
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 10th July, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 10th Apr.. 1897-Accepted, 15th May, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Ring Spinning Frames..
We, SAMUEL HERBERT BROOKS of the Firm of Brooks & Doxey, Union Iron
Works, West Gorton, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Makers,
and ALFRED DENSON of the Union Iron Works aforesaid, Mechanic, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention is designed to provide for the return of the anti-balloon plate or
apparatus into normal position as the ring rail descends after doffing.
It consists essentially in the application to or combination with the shaft of the
anti-balloon plate of a finger or lever which will hang loosely suspended when the
plate is in normal position but when the plate is raised to a vertical position will be
carried round with it under the edge of the ring rail so that when the rail descends.
it will come in contact with it and carry the plate back to its position for restarting:
the frame.
On the anti-balloon plate shaft we place a small bracket or collar carrying a stud at.
one side. On this stud we pivot a lever or finger of approximately L or other
eccentric form with a projection which when the finger is moved in one direction will
come into contact with the shaft and when moved in the other direction will be carried
away from it. As the anti-balloon plate is lifted this projection is caused by the
gravity of the lever to come in contact with the shaft the lever being thereby carried
round and raised by it and when the lever is depressed it rotates the shaft back in
the opposite direction. When the anti-balloon plate is horizontal this lever hangs.
vertical.
Dated this 8th day of July 1896
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Ring Spinning Frames.
We, SAMUEL HERBERT BROOKS, of the Firm of Brooks & Doxey, Union Iron
Works, West Gorton, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Makers,
and ALFRED DENSON, of the Union Iron Works, aforesaid, Mechanic, 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 is designed to provide for the return of the anti-balloon plate
or apparatus into normal position as the ring rail descends for doffing or after
restarting.
It consists essentially in the application to or combination with the shaft of the
anti-balloon plate of a finger or lever which will hang loosely suspended when the
plate is in normal position but when the plate is raised to a vertical position will be

page_text: carried partially round with it under the edge of the ring rail so that when the rail
descends it will come in contact with the finger and carry the plate back to its position
for restarting the frame.
It will be fully described with, reference to the accompanying drawings in which
sufficient of a ring is shown to illustrate the invention.
Fig. 1. Side elevation partly in section.
Fig. 2. Front elevation.
Fig. 3. Side elevation showing the position of the parts when the ring rail is being
raised during the time that the anti-balloon plate is lifted.
Fig. 4. Side élevation showing the position of the parts when the ring rail is
falling.
The ring rail A the bobbin B and the anti-balloon plate C are all of any ordinary
construction.
The anti-balloon plate C is secured by set-screw or otherwise upon a loose or pivoted
shaft D and to this shaft we attach a small bracket or collar E carrying a stud or pin
at one side. On the stud or pin e is pivoted a lever or finger F of eccentric form
with a longitudinal slot which renders it capable of being moved to and fro over
the stud or pin e.
The end of the finger F is bent or of L shape so that when
moved in one direction it falls against or comes into contact with the shaft D and
when moved in the other direction will be carried away from it. Similarly the other
end of the lever is moved to and from the shaft D.
When the anti-balloon plate C is raised by the contact of the ring rail A against it
the lever or finger F falls into the position shown in Fig. 4. If the ring rail is raised
from the bottom of the lift when the finger F is in this position the finger is moved
back until the bent or eccentric end flies against the shaft D and the end f¹ is.
moved away from the shaft as shown in Fig. 3 and falls back by gravity when out of
contact with the rail to the position shown in Fig. 4. As the ring rail A descends
preparatory to doffing or after restarting the frame it comes into contact with the bent
end of the finger or lever F as shown in Fig. 4 with the end f' against the shaft.D
and causes the shaft to rotate back in the opposite direction thereby carrying the
anti-balloon plate into normal position (as in Figs. 1 and 2). When the anti-balloon
plate is in this position the lever or finger F hangs vertically or approximately so.
The anti-balloon plate is counterbalanced in the usual way by a weight G attached
by a wire g and the plate is prevented rotating too far by a stop H.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The combination with the anti-balloon plate of ring spinning frame of a lever or
finger pivoted so as to hang loosely suspended when the plate is in normal position
but when the plate is raised vertically for doffing the end will be carried partly
round under rail to engage with it as it descends to return the plate to its normal
position.
2. In a ring spinning frame the combination with the anti-balloon plate and the
shaft upon which it is pivoted of a swinging lever or finger and a bracket with pin or
stud upon which it is pivoted eccentrically to the shaft to be carried round with the
shaft as the plate is raised and to engage with the ring rail and carry the shaft and
anti-balloon plate back as the rail descends substantially as described and shown.
Dated this 9th day of April 1897.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Manchester, Liverpool, and London, Patent Agents.