An Improvement in or Applicable to machines Used for spinning,. Doubling, and Winding Yarn.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Apr., 1889
Soecification Accepted, 18th May, 1889
An Improvement in or Applicable to machines Used for spinning,.
Doubling, and Winding Yarn.
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We CARADOO OWENS of 88 Great Clowes Street Lower Broughton Manchester
Managing Dyer, and THOMAS HOUGHTON of Richmond Street Ashton-under-Lyne
Agent, both in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention is specially applicable to machines employed for spinning, doubling
and winding dyed or colored yarns the object of the invention being to facilitate the
discovery by the attendant of broken or deficient ends or threads and thus prevent or
lessen the occurrence of waste and imperfect yarn which is due to the difficulty
(especially in dark colored yarn) of at once discovering ends which become broken or
are otherwise absent.
The invention consists principally in the application to such machines of a strip, rod
or roller of any suitable material which can readily be kept clean and bright
(preferably enamelled iron) and either white, or of such a contrasting color to the
yarn being spun doubled or wound as may be found most suitable; such strip rod, or
roller being placed in such a position just behind or beneath the threads as will enable
the operative to discern at once whenever any of the threads shall have become
broken.
The strip rod or roller may be either fixed by brackets or otherwise to the machine
in such a position just below or behind the threads as may be found most suitable or
convenient or in machines, such as mules and twiners for example where the threads
rise and fall, the said strips rods or rollers should be so mounted that they will rise
and fall with the threads so that the white or other contrasting surface shall always be
at only a short distance behind, or beneath the threads and in some cases the threads
may even touch the surface in which cases we prefer to use an enamelled roller and to
cause the same to revolve in the same direction and at about the same speed as. the
threads are passing over it.
It will be obvious that the exact method of mounting the said strips rods or rollers
may be considerably varied according to the precise form and functions of the.

page_text: particular machine to which they are to be applied but such variation of fixing or
mounting will be obvious to any skilled mechanic and forms no especial part of our
invention so long as the principal novel feature of the invention is retained but for the
sake of illustration we have annexed hereunto a perspective drawing illustrating the
application of our invention to a mule or twiner, in which machines we find it
preferable to attach our invention to the "sickles" of the "faller" motion.
a represents part of the counter faller shaft 6 the counter faller wire and c one of the
" sickles."
In this case the sickle" is made rather longer than usual and the end c¹ is bent
outwards and flattened for the purpose of attaching thereto (by screws d or otherwise).
a strip of white or other suitably colored enamelled iron or other material e.
The threads from the counterfaller wire b pass just above the surface of the strip e
which being carried by the "sickles" c will rise and fall with the threads always
remaining just a short distance beneath them whereby any breakage or deficiency of
the dark colored threads passing over it becomes instantly visible to the attendant as
seen at **.
In applying our invention to an existing mule or twiner the part c¹ which supports
the stripe would be made in a separate piece and be rivetted, soldered or otherwise
attached to the end of the "sickle."
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
The combination with machines used for spinning, doubling and winding dyed
or colored yarns, of a strip, rod, or roller of white or other suitably contrasting color
fixed or mounted at a short distance beneath or behind the threads or yarn
substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein before set forth and described
and illustrated by the drawings annexed.
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicants.