IMPROVEMENTS IN SPINNING MACHINERY
Year: 1879

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Denton Abel at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th November 1879. A com-
munication from abroad by Otto Poppe, of Kirchberg, in the Kingdom of
Saxony.
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CHARLES DENTON ABEL, of No. 28, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in
the County of Middlesex. IMPROVEMENTS IN SPINNING MACHINERY." [A
communication from abroad by Otto Poppe, of Kirchberg, in the Kingdom of
Saxony.]
The present Invention relates to an improved construction of spinning machinery
whereby the thread, sliver, or yarn as it is delivered from the ordinary stretching
rollers is simultaneously twisted, stretched, and wound by a flyer motion upon a
bobbin, thereby dispensing with the carriage of "self actor" spinning mules.
For this purpose the thread passes from the ordinary stretching rollers through a
revolving hollow spindle carried in bearings in line with the direction of the
thread. At the entering end of the spindle this carries within a fork a small roller,
against the periphery of which the thread is pressed by a second spring roller as it
passes into the hollow spindle. The axis of the first named roller carries a bevil
toothed wheel in gear with a fixed pinion on the bearing of the hollow spindle, so
that as this rotates it carries round with it the roller and its toothed wheel, and
this in rolling upon the fixed pinion receives a slow rotary motion which is thus
imparted to its roller. By this means the thread is twisted by the roller as it
passes into the hollow spindle, while the roller in only permitting its forward
motion in proportion to its own rotation by the toothed wheel, maintains the thread
in a stretched condition. The pressing roller might be dispensed with and the
thread passed once or twice round the twisting roller. Also in place of the toothed
wheels friction discs or wheels may be used. The front end of the hollow spindle
carries a flyer arm, through the eye of which the thread is passed to be wound
thereby on to a bobbin on a spindle, in line with the hollow spindle, which has also
a cranked arm with a square eye into which the square end of the bobbin spindle
passes, so that the rotation of the hollow spindle also causes the rotation of the
bobbin spindle. The bobbin itself receives a differential rotary motion upon its
spindle by means of a pulley on the latter driving a pulley on a way shaft, which
in its turn drives a pulley on the bobbin. The back end of the bobbin spindle is

page_text: carried in a bearing which can be slid back when it is desired to remove the filled
bobbin from the spindle.
Or in place of the above arrangement for supporting and driving the bobbin
spindle, the front end of the latter might be quite free so that the bobbin could be
removed without drawing the spindle back, the back end of the spindle being in
that case supported in two bearings, and the spindle receiving its rotary motion
independently of the hollow spindle. The bobbin might also receive its rotary
motion independently of that of its spindle.
The above described apparatus is applicable to spinning mules, twist, throstle or
doubling machines, and other descriptions of spinning machinery.