Improvements in Spinning and Doubling Frames.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 27th May, 1896-Accepted, 27th June, 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Spinning and Doubling Frames.
I, ROBERT TAYLOR Junior, of Asa Lees and Company Limited, of Soho Iron
Works, Oldham, in the County of Lancaster, Engineer, 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 spinning and doubling frames and the
object of my improvements is to ensure the anti-ballooning plates being brought
into their normal or working positions at the same time that the hinged thread
board guides are lowered or moved into their working positions and this I effect by
connecting suitable levers or connections to the shaft from which the thread guide
boards are raised and lowered.
And in order that my invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect I will describe the accompanying three sheets of drawings reference being
had to the figures and letters marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of part of a spinning or doubling frame to which my
improvements are applied and Figs. 2 and 3 are two side views of part of the same
showing the parts in different positions.
In the drawings,-a is part of the frame of the machine to which is hinged the
board b which carries the separate hinged thread guide boards c, in each of which
is secured a thread guide d; e is the ring rail, the spindles and g the spindle rail;
secured to the ring rail are a number of small brackets h to each of which is hinged
an anti-ballooning plate i shown in Figs. 2 and 3 in different positions. A shaft j
carried in suitable bearings and extending from end to end of the frame has
secured to it handles, not shown, and arms & to which are pivoted levers the other
ends of which are connected to brackets m by studs 1, the brackets m being
secured to the hinged board 6 for tilting the latter and raising and lowering the
thread guide boards e when one of the handles is moved, the shaft j and parts
attached to it being of the usual construction. To the arms k or to separate arms
secured to the shaft jare pivoted two or more arms n which are supported on
projections on the levers and the arms a carry a light rod n¹ which extends
across the frame and against which the anti-ballooning plates i may rest when they
are thrown back in the position shown in Fig. 3.
In place of pivoting each anti-ballooning plate i independently on the bracket h
all the anti-ballooning plates might be pivoted on a single rod supported by the
brackets secured to the ring rail, and in this case the rod n' carried by the levers n
could be dispensed with and a projection or projections be secured upon one, two,
or more of the levers n so that one two or more of the anti-ballooning plates would
rest upon these projections.
In Figs. 1 and 2 the hinged thread guide boards c and the anti-ballooning plates
are shown in their normal or working positions; when it is desired to doff the cops
or bobbins a handle on the shaft ; is moved in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 2,
which moves the levers and tilts the hinged board b into the position shown in
Fig. 3, the anti-ballooning plates i are now turned by hand back into the position
shown in the figure to allow of the cops being doffed. Before the machine is
re-started it is necessary to turn down the thread guide boards e which is done by
moving the shaft j and this automatically moves the levers n and turns the anti-
ballooning plates i back into the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2, in this arrange-
ment of mechanism by actuating the hinged board b with the thread guide boards c

page_text: and the anti-ballooning plates from the single shaft jit is impossible to move
down the board "b and thread guides without also replacing the anti-ballooning
plates into their working positions and in this manner the anti-ballooning plates are
protected from injury.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In combination, a shaft arranged to raise and lower the thread guide boards
and simultaneously to move the anti-ballooning plates into their working positions
substantially as and for the purposes described.
2. The combination and arrangement of parts forming the improved mechanism
for actuating the anti-ballooning plates substantially as described and as illustrated
in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 26th day of May 1896.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
17 St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for Applicant.