Improvements in Traverse Guides for Ring and other Spinning Frames.
Year: 1892

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Traverse Guides for Ring and other Spinning
Frames.
1, JAMES BURTINSHAW, of Lever Street Tin Works, Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Metal Worker, 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 :-
This invention relates to the traverse guide-which guides the sliver or partly
spun yarn or thread to the rollers at the back of the frame-in which a slot or
hole is formed through which the thread passes.
These traverse guides have hitherto been constructed either with an eyelet hole
or slot to receive the thread, these being formed either in the rod itself or by
affixing thereto a wire or plate bent or stamped to the required shape.
My invention is designed to secure the combined advantages of both the eyelet
hole and slot at present in use and consists essentially in mounting upon the guide
a wire or plate bent or stamped or otherwise formed with two sides or arms forming
a slot the top of one being bent over against the side of the other to present a top
to the slot and prevent the thread rising or being lifted out of the slot a space or
slit being formed through which the thread enters.
It will be fully described with reference to the annexed drawings in which as
examples two forms of the invention are shown as applied to the traverse rod.
Fig. 1. Perspective view.
Fig. 2. Perspective view of modified form.
The traverse guide A may be formed in the ordinary way to be attached or
applied to the traverse rod.
Upon the top edge of the guide A. I mount a bent wire or plate B formed with
two projecting members bbwhich enclose between them a slot C which forms the
guide eye. The member & forming one side of the slot stands upright whilst the
member is bent at its top end across the top of the slot C and so encloses
the slot at the top end. The bent end of the member 6 passes behind the upright
member a slit or narrow space being left or formed between the two through
which the thread passes when entering the slot.
The two upright members of the bent wire or plate B which form the
enclosed slot Care preferably set somewhat crosswise or askew on the traverse rod A
that is one in advance of the other so that the two outer edges of the slot C are
in the same plane transversely of the transverse rod.
I at present prefer to make the enclosed slot C forming the guide eye of double
wire bent to the shape shown in Fig. 1. though it may be stamped from a sheet or
plate either detached in the form shown in Fig. 2 or in one piece with the traverse
guide A.
It may be made of flat iron or wire of square or other shape which is
not liable to collect or become clogged with the fibre passing through it. Or it
may be made from separate pieces of wire or metal joined together but I consider
the single piece of wire bent double the best.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I wish it to be understood
that I am well aware that a guide eye has been formed of a single wire bent double
into a slot open at one end with two upright members also a single wire with one
upright member bent into an eye or slot at the upper end have both been used and
such do not constitute my invention but I declare that what I claim is :-
1. A traverse guide for ring or other spinning frames provided with a guide eye
in the form of an enclosed slot formed of two upright members the top end of one
being bent over against the other substantially as described and shown.

page_text: 2. In a ring or other spinning frame the combination with the traverse guide A
of the bent wire or plate B forming the guide eye C having the two upright
members bbl set askew or one in advance of the other and the top end of the
member bent over against the back of the member to enclose the slot C a
space or slit being left between the two for the insertion of the thread substantially
as described;
Dated this 9th day of September 1892.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.