Improvements in Flyers for Spinning Rope Yarns, Twine, and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 20th June, 1893—Accepted, 22nd July, 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Flyers for Spinning Rope Yarns, Twine, and
the like.
1 JOHN GOOD of Far Rockaway in the County of Queens and State of
New York, United States of America, Manufacturer, 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 that class of flyers known as closed flyers, which are
used for spinning rope yarns and twine, but it relates particularly to flyers of that
class which are so organized that the bobbin which is locked to and turns with
the spindle, has no movement lengthwise of the flyer, the necessary traverse for
winding the spun yarn or twine upon the bobbin being obtained by a ring which
is fitted to slide on the parallel rods or side bars of the flyer, and carries upon it
a yarn guide, over which the yarn or twine passes to the bobbin. The present
improvement consists in a novel combination hereinafter described and claimed in
such a flyer.
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal view, partly in section, of a flyer and spindle embodying
my invention.
Fig. 2 represents a transverse section in the line xx of Fig. 1, viewed from
the left.
Fig.
the left.
represents a transverse section in the line y y of Fig. 1, viewed from
Fig. 4 represents a transverse section, on a larger scale, of one of the side bars
of the flyer, and a face view of one side of the traversing ring.
Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.
A Aare the heads of the flyer, and A' the parallel rods or side bars con-
necting the heads. The heads A A¹ are constructed with journals a a', to be
supported in suitable bearings bb, and the head A is furnished with a driving
pulley P. The head A' is represented as furnished with capstans c c and capstan
gearing d d e, driven by a pulley a³, but the capstans, so far as my invention is
considered, may be omitted. D is the spindle, which may be fitted to the flyer in
any suitable manner providing for its independent rotation while locked lengthwise
therein, and providing also for the change of the bobbin E, which is so locked to
the spindle as to turn with it by a dog f, or fastening of any suitable kind.
g are
Fis the traversing ring which surrounds the flyer, and carries the sheaves g,
which serve as the yarn guides for guiding the yarn or twine on to the bobbin.
The said ring is constructed with parallel sockets i, which are fitted to slide freely
on the parallel rods or side bars A' of the flyer; and the said sheaves
pivotted into portions of these sockets which project beyond one face of the ring,
as shown in Fig. 1. The said projecting portions of the sockets are slotted, as
indicated at 5 in Figs. 1 and 4, to permit the yarn to pass through them on its way
over the sheave towards the bobbin, lugs 5 being provided on the said slotted
portions to receive the pivots of the sheaves g; and the side bars A* of the flyer
are hollowed out, as shown at 6 in Figs. 1 and 4, through the greater part of their
length, so that the sheaves g may be partly received within them. The sheaves j,
which serve the purpose of guiding the yarn or twine from the capstan head, or
the eye k of the flyer, as the case may be, to one of the traversing guides 9 in
the ring F, are partly received within the cavities 6 of the side bars, lugs being
provided at the sides of the said cavities, as shown at 7, to receive the pivots of
said sheaves.
It will be understood that the yarn or twine, in passing from the capstan, or the
eye of the flyer, over the guide sheaves ; and g, passes within the side bars of the

page_text: flyer, and is therein confined and protected, so as to be prevented from flying
outward, and throwing off so much fluff, and so far scattering the fluff blown off,
as in running a flyer with the yarn exposed along its sides, at the very high speed
at which I run this flyer.
The movement of the traverse ring to and fro along the flyer, may be produced
by any convenient means, as, for instance, by those which are described for that
purpose in the Letters Patent of Great Britain No. 5550, dated May 5, 1885.
It is obvious that, except for the balancing of the flyer, the traverse ring F
need have but one of its sockets i prolonged, and need have the sheaves g and j
on one side bar only.
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 [
claim is :-
The combination with a closed flyer having hollow side bars, of a traverse ring
with sockets to slide upon said bars, and a yarn guide sheave pivotted within a
slot in one of said sockets, and entering the cavity in one of said bars, substantially
as and for the purpose herein set forth.
Dated this 20th day of June 1893.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.