Improvements in Self-acting Mules and Twiners.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Dec., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 8th July, 1897-Accepted, 21st Aug., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Self-acting Mules and Twiners.
I, JOHN MCQUEEN, of John Hetherington and Soas Limited, of Vulcan Works
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Maker, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in self acting mules and twiners and
particularly to the mode of driving the spindles from the rim shaft, and the chief
object of my Invention is to enable the rim shaft to be run at a comparatively slow
speed relatively to the speed at which the spindles are driven.
In carrying my Invention into effect I drive the rim shaft from the mule
countershaft but at a slower speed than usual and instead of driving the tin roller
and spindles directly from the rin shaft I drive them from an intermediate
countershaft driven from and at a greater speed than the rim shaft.
Dated this 28th day of December 1896.
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H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant.
Improvements in Self-acting Mules and Twiners.
I, JOHN MOQUEEN, of John Hetherington and Sons Limited, of Vulcan Works,
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Maker, 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:-
My invention relates to improvements in self acting mules and twiners and
particularly to the inode of driving the spindles from the rim shaft, and the chief
object of my Invention is to enable the rim shaft to be run at a comparatively slow
speed relatively to the speed at which the spindles are driven.
In carrying my Invention into effect I drive the rim shaft from the mule
countershaft but at a slower speed than usual and instead of driving the tin roller
and spindles directly from the rim shaft I drive them from an intermediate
countershaft driven from and at a greater speed than the rim shaft.
In the accompanying two sheets of drawings-
Fig. 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, Fig. 2 a plan and Fig. 3 an elevation
of the back of part of a self acting mule or twiner to which my improvements are
applied.
Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
In the drawings, a designates the headstock, b parts of the carriages, c the
carriage wheels, d the rails, e the tin drum,f the spindles, g the spindle bands, h the

page_text: rim shaft, i the fast and loose pulleys mounted thereon for the driving band ; which
passes over a pulley k mounted upon the usual mule countershaft l, these parts being
of the usual construction.
A grooved pulley m is secured to the rim shaft hand a rope or band n passes round
this pulley over a grooved pulley o secured upon a countershaft p and gives motion
to the latter an adjustable tightening pulley q being employed to regulate the
tension of the rope n. On the countershaft p is secured a grooved pulley ŕ for say a
double rope s which gives motion to the tin drum e and spindles f the rope 8. passing
from the first groove in the pulley rover a guide pulley t carried by a biket on the
headstock thence round a guide pulley u.on the carriage, over a pulley v secured to
the shaft of the tin drum and over an adjustable tension pulley w carried by the
frame from which the rope passes under a guide pulley x back to the second groove
in the pulley thence down again to the pulley over and under the several
pulleys u, v, w and a back again to the pulley r.
By the arrangement described I am enabled to drive the rim shaft hat a
comparatively slow speed, and to give any desired increase of speed to the short
shaft p from which the spindles f are driven by the rope 8.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
In a self acting mule or twiner-
11. In combination, the rim shaft and means for driving the same from the mule
countershaft, an intermediate counter shaft and means for driving the same at: au
increased speed from the rim shaft and means for driving the tin roller shaft and
spindles from the intermediate countershaft all substantially as herein set forth for
the purposes specified.
2 The combination with the rim shaft, of the intermediate countershaft p, means
for driving the same at an increased speed from the rim shaft, and means for driving
the spindles from the said countershaft p, substantially as herein set forth.
Dated this 7th day of July 1897.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
17 St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for Applicant...