SPINNING FRAME TRAVELLER RINGS
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Chester Ammen Snow, of Washington, in the District of
Columbia, United States of America, for an Invention of "SPINNING FRAME
TRAVELLER RINGS." A communication from James Yale Anthony, of Taunton,
in the County of Bristol, in the State of Massachusetts, United States of
America, and William King Evans, of Berkley, in the County of Bristol, in
the State of Massachusetts, United States of America..
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Chester Ammen Snow at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th March 1881.
CHESTER AMMEN SNOW, of Washington, in the District of Columbia, United
States of America. "SPINNING FRAME TRAVELLER RINGS." A communication
from James Yale Anthony, of Taunton, in the County of Bristol, in the State of
Massachusetts, United States of America, and William King Evans, of Berkley, in
the County of Bristol, in the State of Massachusetts, United States of America.
Figure 1 is a side view, Fig. 2 a transverse section, and Fig. 3 a horizontal
section of a spinning frame ring containing the Invention.
The body of the ring instead of being of cast iron or steel is composed of glass,
glazed earthen-ware, or porcelain, preferably of the latter, and the neck or shank
of such body is encompassed by a metallic ring of soft metal, or a composition of
lead and tin. In making the ring the body at the neck or shank thereof may be
grooved to receive and hold the metallic ring; or such neck or shank may be
notched to preserve the ring in place and prevent it from accidentally separating
from the shank or turning around thereon, the metallic ring being cast or founded
on the glass or glazed earthenware body.
The purpose of the metallic ring is not only to strengthen the spinning ring of
a material, as described, but to prevent it from being crushed by a screw or screws
used for confining it in the ring rail of a spinning frame. The soft metal ring or
reinforce will readily yield to the pressure of the point of each of the confining
screws, and thus it will operate to prevent breakage of the spinning ring thereby.
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page_text: The reinforce also will prevent the ring from breaking in case of it being dropped
upon the floor.
The metal ring may be turned on its outer surface cylindrical and eccentric to
the race of the spinning ring, and thus be used as a means of effecting adjustment
of the ring, or the race thereof, into concentricity with the spindle. A spinning
ring having two races, and made of glass, glazed earthen-ware, or porcelain, may
have arranged around its neck, and between the two races, a soft metal ring or
reinforce, as set forth.
In the Drawings A denotes a spinning frame ring, which is to be supposed to be
made of glass, glazed earthen-ware, or porcelain, its neck or shank a being grooved
around it, and having in the groove b or otherwise fixed therein a soft metal ring c
to encompass the shank.
In practice it has been found that a spinning frame ring made of glass, glazed
earthen-ware, or porcelain will not only resist wear of the traveller as well if not
much better than will a ring of metal, but that it can be made very much cheaper,
and when combined with a reinforce of soft metal, as set forth, it can be used to
great advantage, and becomes very durable, and will not be easily broken or
cracked by the means used in confining it in the socket of the ring rail of a spinning
frame; therefore what I claim is as follows, viz. :-
1st. As a new or improved manufacture, a spinning frame travelling ring, made
of glass or glazed earthen-ware or porcelain, and grooved in and around its shank
or neck, in combination with a soft metal ring, band, or reinforce arranged in and
around the groove, all being substantially as set forth.
2nd. As a new or improved manufacture, a spinning frame traveller ring, made
of glass or glazed earthen-ware or porcelain, in combination with a ring or band of
soft metal extending around it, as and for the purpose specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Chester Ammen Snow, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.