Improvements in Self-acting Mules.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 26th July, 1889-Accepted, 31st Aug., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Self-acting Mules.
We THOMAS GUEST & THOMAS BROOKES of Poland Street, Oldham Road, Manchester
in the County of Lancaster, Machine Makers, and JAMES COCKER of 92 Lee Street
Oldham in the County of Lancaster, Mill Manager, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
Our improvements has reference to the governing motion, and the nosing motion of
the winding-on apparatus of selfacting mules, and as regards the governing motion it
consists in an improved mode of taking up the chain that connects the fallers with the
catch lever which lays hold of the catch or ratchet wheel connected with the pulley
around or over which the governing band passes, and thus by the going in of the
carriage gives motion to the screw of the winding-on quadrant and raises the nut as
the bottom of the cop is being formed. We attach one end of the chain to the under
faller, as usual, then the other end under a pulley on the catch lever, and up over a pulley
on the building faller finger, then down to an additional lever working on a stud and
attached to any convenient part of the carriage. This end of the chain, we attach
to a stud fixed in a slot, in this lever, the slot being for the adjustment of the
amount of chain to be taken up. This lever is acted upon by a cam revolving
on a shaft which receives its motion in any convenient form or manner from the
governing motion pulley around which the governing or strapping hand passes. As
the cam revolves it gradually depresses the slotted lever, and thus raises the end
of the catch lever, untill by the time the bottom of the cop is formed and no
farther action required, the catch lever ceases to act on the catch or ratchet wheel.
Our improvements as regards the nosing motion, consists in applying the nosing
pog to one end of a double lever working on a stud fixed to the top of the winding-on
quadrant arm, the other end of this lever is made heavier than the end with the peg.
To the top of the quadrant arm we attach a short shaft in any convenient position,
and on which we place a cam or tappit, that acts on the peg end of the lever―
the heavy end of the lever keeping the peg end constantly against the can-this
shaft with the cam on it is made to revolve by a worm on the builder screw-
or the builder screw itself may be the worm-driving a worm wheel which is
connected by pitch chains and wheels, or shafts and wheels, arranged in any con-
venient manner to or around the stud or shaft on which the winding-on quadrant
works, up to the cam or tappet-shaft at the top of the quadrant arın. This cam is
made and shaped so that as it revolves, it lowers the peg end of the lever with the peg
in the proportion required as the cop fills up, thus giving more and more depression
to the winding-on chain and consequently increased motion to the spindles whilst
winding-on at the nose, according as the cop increases in length and the spindle blade
gets smaller in diameter.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Selfacting Mules.
We THOMAS GUEST and THOMAS BROOKES, both of Poland Street, Oldham Road,
Manchester in the County of Lancaster, Machine Makers, and JAMES COCKER of
92 Lee Street Oldham in the County of Lancaster, 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 :-
Our improvements has reference to the governing motion of the winding-on

page_text: apparatus of self acting mules and consists in an improved mode of taking up the
chain that connects the fallers with the catch lever which lays hold of the catch or
ratchet wheel connected with the pulley or barrel around or over which the governing
of strapping band passes and this by the going in of the carriage gives motion to the
screw of the winding-on quadrant and raises the nut as the bottom of the cop is formed
in the usual manner..
In the accompanying sheet of drawings-Figure 1, represents part of a self
acting mule headstock with the winding-on quadrant, and also a section of a mule
carriage shewing our taking up apparatus in its position on the carriage. Figure 2
represents a front view of our apparatus as seen at the front of and behind the
front rail of the carriage,-
,a is the head stock framing, & the winding-on quadrant,
c the carriage, we attach one end of the chain d to the under faller-finger e in
the usual manner, then pass the other end under a pulley on the catch lever f
which works on a stud fixed to the carriage in the usual manner, then up over a
pulley on the building faller finger g-then down to a stud or bracket on the
lever i, working on a stud fixed to the bracket j which is bolted or fixed in any
convenient manner to the carriage. The lever i has a slot for adjustment of the
amount of chain to be taken up according to the size or shape of the cop. This
lever is acted upon by the cam k, revolving with the shaft which works in the
brackets or bearings m 'm' fixed to the carriage; n is the usual catch or ratchet
wheel working on a stud or shaft in the carriage-used for. giving what is called
the strapping motion to the screw of the quadrant and to which is attached or
connected the barrel or pulley o, around which the strapping band p passes in the
usual manner. Attached to the catch or ratchet wheel and barrel, or fixed on the
same shaft is the worm working in the worm wheel fixed to the shaft 1.
The shaft receives its motion from the difference betwixt the revolution the barrel
or pulley o makes when the carriage is coming out, and what it makes whilst going
in. When the carriage is coming out the lever is in the position as shewn in
the drawing, entirely free.from the ratchet wheel n, the barrel or pulley o is then
free to revolve according to the motion of the carriage, but as the carriage goes
in, and whilst forming the cop bottom the catch lever has hold more or less of the star
or ratchet wheel and gives the strapping motion in the usual manner, consequently the
barrel o and worm q makes fewer revolutions going in, and by this means the cam k
is made to revolve and gradually depresses the lever i, thus taking up chain and
raising the end of the catch lever untill by the time the bottom of the cop is formed
and no farther action required, the catch lever ceases to act on the catch or ratchet
wheel.
At the commencement of a set of cops the worm wheel shaft is pushed back until!
the worm wheel is out of geer-or it may be done in any other convenient manner-
the cam is then set in the position as shewn at Figure 2,-the worm wheel put into
gear with the worm, and it is ready for action again.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that
what we claim is
The cam in combination with the slotted lever for taking up the regulating
chain d the cam being made to revolve by the action of the ordinary strapping
motion in the manner as described and set forth in the drawings.
of duy 1000.
PETER MCGREGOR,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester, Agent for Applicants.