IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPINNING, TWISTING, AND DRAWING FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick William Fox, of Windhill, in the County of
York, Spinner, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD
AND APPARATUS FOR SPINNING, TWISTING, AND DRAWING FIBROUS
SUBSTANCES."
OF
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick William Fox at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th November 1881.
FREDERICK WILLIAM Fox, of Windhill, in the County of York, Spinner.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR SPINNING, TWISTING,
AND DRAWING FIBROUS SUBSTANCES."
The object of this Invention is to produce a more even fibre, and at a quicker
speed and with a less expenditure of labour than hitherto."
I accomplish my object by fixing a stationary ring rail below the cap, used
hitherto in cap spinning only, sufficient to give clearance to the yarn, and spin the
yarn on to the bottom either in the ordinary way or from the top downwards, and
as the yarn is so built on to the tube it is enclosed in the cap until the tube is
quite filled.
The proximity of the ring rail to the bottom of the cap wraps in the fibres
hitherto loose, and ensures a steady and even drag.
5 SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Frederick William Fox in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
26th May 1882.
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FREDERICK WILLIAM Fox, of Windhill, in the County of York, Spinner.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR SPINNING, TWISTING,
AND DRAWING FIBROUS SUBSTANCES."
The object of this Invention is to produce a smooth and more even yarn at a
greater speed and with less expenditure of labour than hitherto, and consists in the

page_text: combination of a stationary ring rail fitted with a ring and traveller, with a metal
cap placed upon the upper end of a non-rotating spindle.
In the accompanying Drawings Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a non-
rotating spindle and cap with my improvements applied thereto, one side of the tin
casing which surrounds the cap on three sides is broken away to shew the ring and
cap, and at the top of the tin casing is secured a guide bar over which the fibre
passes; Figure 2 is a front view of the same; Figure 3 is a side elevation similar
to Figure 1, except that an ordinary guide board with porcelain eyes for guiding
the fibre is fitted to the frame; and Figure 4 is a sectional plan through line a, b.
The non-rotating spindles A are constructed and secured to the longitudinal
rail B, as in ordinary spinning, twisting, and drawing machines, each spindle
carrying at the top a cap C. On each spindle is mounted a tube to which is
secured a wharl D, the latter resting upon the lifter plate E, which gives traverse
to the tube and wharl D as the yarn Y is being built on the bobbin F, which is
mounted on the rotating tube and resting on wharl D, and which receive motion in
precisely the same manner as machines of ordinary construction.
Above the lifter rail E I secure to the rail B a stationary ring rail G by means
of a series of pillars H placed at intervals; this ring rail is at such an elevation
that when the machine is in motion the top of the traveller K is slightly higher
than the bottom edge of the cap C.
The fibre Y after leaving the nip of the front rollers L and M passes over guide
rod N, the front edge of which is in a perpendicular line with the centre of rings R,
and when the ordinary guide board with porcelain eyes is used passes through the
said eyes N¹, and then in either case through the traveller K, and is built on the
rotating bobbins.
The traveller K revolving gives twist to the yarn Y the entire distance from the
bobbin spool or tube F to the nip of the rollers L and M, and on the yarn passing
over the guide rod N or through the porcelain eyes N', or any other well known
guide, as the case may be, the yarn rolls on the surface of the same, partially
wrapping the loose or projecting fibres round the body of the yarn thread Y, which
loose fibres are finally wrapped round during the travel of the yarn through the
traveller K, and while passing in contact with the lower edge of cap at C', thereby
a smooth and even yarn is produced at the speed at which cap tubes are usually
run.
The caps may be if required encased on three sides at P with tin for the purpose
of preventing each respective thread of yarn from coming in contact with its
neighbours.
What I claim as my Invention is,―
The combination of a stationary ring rail G fitted with rings R, travellers K,
and metal caps C, arranged substantially in the manner and for the purpose
described, and as illustrated by the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick William Fox, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty-two.
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