IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1885

page_text: I JAMES SEED of 4 Avenham Terrace Preston in the County of Lancaster.
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS USED FOR SPINNING AND DOUBLING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS
SUBSTANCES to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in "Rings" and "travellers" which are
used on the machine known as the "ring frame" and other continuous spinning
and doubling machines to which the ring and traveller are applicable; and which
are used for spinning and doubling cotton and other fibrous substances.
With "traveller's which have been previously designed to cause increased
friction on the yarn or thread, there has been greater difficulty when attaching the
yarn or thread to the traveller than when using an ordinary traveller.
The object of..the invention is to obtain an increased friction on the yarn or
thread when passing through the traveller and also to enable the yarn or thread
to be passed under the improved traveller during the operation of "piecing up" in
as expeditious a manner as when using an ordinary traveller.
One method of forming the improved "traveller" consists in bending a piece of
wire so that it will make two spans round the ring side by side. Each span being
suitably curved or looped to cause the yarn, or thread to wrap more round the
traveller than it does round an ordinary traveller, the additional amount of
wrapping taking place in an automatic manner.
When piecing up the yarn or thread it is passed against the ring and under the
double span of the traveller in a similar manner to that adopted with the ordinary
traveller.
By another method the improved" traveller " may be made from sheet metal
cut so-as to form three, or more branches; the yarn, or thread passing under and
over the branches in a zigzag manner. In one modification a guard is added to
the ring and wholely or partially surrounding it. This guard may be constructed
either with the ring, or separately, its object being to prevent the yarn or thread.
from passing under the wrong branch.
Various modifications of the form of improved "travellers" can be made to suit
the different forms of rings, and for spinning and doubling various classes of yarn,
and thread in all of which an increased friction is obtained in substantially the
same manner together with simplicity and expedition in "piecing up."
GEORGE DAVIES,
Agent for the Applicaut,

page_text: Apparatus
Cotton and other Fibrous Substances.
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I JAMES SEED of 4 Avenham Terrace Preston in the County of Lancaster
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS USED FOR SPINNING, AND DOUBLING COTTON. AND OTHER FIBROUS
SUBSTANCES and in what manner, the same is to be performed, to be particularly.
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
i This invention relates to improvements in "Rings" and "Travellers". which are
used on the machine known as the "ring frame" and other spinning and doubling
machines to which the ring and traveller are applicable, and which are used for
spinning and doubling cotton and other fibrous substances.
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With travellers which have been previously designed to cause increased friction 1
on the yarn or thread there has been greater difficulty when attaching the yarn
or thread to the traveller than when using an ordinary traveller.
The object of the invention is to obtain an increased friction on the yarn or
thread when passing through the traveller and also to enable the yarn or thread
to be passed under the improved traveller during the operation of "piecing up" in 1
as expeditious a manner as when using an ordinary traveller,
One method of forming the improved traveller consists in bending a piece of
wire so that it will make two spans round the ring side by side. Each span being
suitably curved or looped to cause the yarn or thread to wrap more round the
traveller than it does round an ordinary traveller, the additional amount of
wrapping taking place in an automatic manner.
By another method the improved traveller may be made from sheet metal cut
so as to form three or more branches; the yarn or thread passing under and over
the branches in a zigzag manner.
For this modification of traveller I construct a ring of a suitable form having
a guard applied in such a manner as to cause the yarn or thread to pass under the
proper branch or branches.
The part forming the guard may wholly or partially surround the ring and may
be constructed with the ring or separately.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood I have annexed hereunto
a sheet of drawings and have marked the same with figures and letters of reference
corresponding with those in the following explanation thereof.
The Figs. 1. 3. 5. 8. 9. 11. 15. 17. 19. 21. 23. 25. 27. 29. 31. 33. and 35. in the
annexed drawings show plan views of improved travellers.
The Figs. 2. 4. 6. 7. 10. 12. 16. 18. 20. 22. 24. 26. 28. 30. 32. 34 and 36. show
respectively side elevation views of the same.
The thick line a, b shows throughout the figures the position which the yarn
assumes after being put under the feet c, c, (or foot c, where a single one is
employed) The yarn or thread comes down from the rollers past a through the
traveller and past b, to the cop or bobbin.
Fig. 7. shows a part of a ring in section having a guard e made with the ring to
prevent the yarn or thread from passing under d; the traveller shown on this ring

page_text: is made from sheet metal. Fig. 8 being a plan view of the same having three
branches the yarn passing under cc and over d, d in a zig-zag manner as shown.
Fig. 13. is a ring with the guard e made separately shown in section.
Fig. 8. also represents a plan view of traveller for use on this ring.
Fig. 14 is another form of ring shown in section having a guard e the same as
described with reference to Fig. 7. Figs. 15. and 16. show one traveller cut from
sheet metal suitable for this ring. When putting the traveller on, or taking it off
the inner tube f is raised, or taken out.
Figs. 17. and 18 show another form of traveller suitable for this ring the part
forming the guard e not being required.
The traveller shown at Figs. 31. 32. is suitable for the ring shown at Fig. 13 the
yarn being put under the foot c.
Various modifications of forms of my improved travellers can be made to suit
the different forms of rings, and for spinning and doubling various classes of yarn
and thread in all of which an increased friction is obtained in substantially the
same manner together with simplicity and expedition in "piecing up."
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
First. A traveller made from wire or sheet metal formed with two spans over
the ring side by side each span curved or looped so as to cause the yarn or thread
when passed once under the feet or foot to wrap more round the traveller than it
does round an ordinary traveller; the additional amount of wrapping taking place
in an automatic manner, substantially as shown and described.
Secondly. The "rings" substantially as shown and described with reference to
Figs. 7. 13. 14.
Thirdly. A traveller made from sheet metal cut so as to form three or more
branches and curved in such a manner that the yarn or thread will pass
expeditiously under and over the branches in a zigzag manner substantially as
shown and described.
GEORGE DAVIES,
Agent for the Applicant.