Prevention and Extinction of Fire in Textile or other Factories.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 9th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 9th Feb., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Prevention and Extinction of Fire in Textile or other Factories.
WILLIAM HENRY HALLSWORTH, of Nucleus Works Crossbank Street
Oldham Engineer and Machinist do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
In self-acting mules and other machinery in which any part is driven by bands
from a tin or other roller, to prevent the bands from slipping off the end of the
roller getting entangled in the bearing or otherwise getting out of place and
generating heat or fire from friction; the roller is made with a swelling, ridge, or
rim, & if desired the roller is so corrugated that each band may have a separate
groove or channel in which to travel.
In self acting mules and machinery of a similar class, the carriage is made of iron
instead of wood the plates being preferably corrugated.
Running parallel with the spindles and the length of the carriage, to the carriage
is attached a metal or other pipe furnished with sprinklers sufficiently close that
if all were in work at once the stream or jet from one would impinge on the stream
or jet of the other.
The metal or other pipe as aforesaid is supplied by means of a flexible pipe,
communicating by means of the usual pipes on the ceilings with the usual cistern in
the tower.
The flexible pipe may hang from the ceiling & thus swing backwards & forwards
with the mule carriage as it runs out and returns, or may be connected to an iron
pipe fixed either at the back of the creels or in the centre of the draw or stretch;
or otherwise.
In like manner the metal or other pipe with sprinklers may be affixed to any
part of the mule carriage, though preferably placed just a little lower than the
faller shafts.
The flexible supply tube is made as follows
India-rubber tube covered with asbestos and armoured by metal wire closely
wound upon the asbestos or
India-rubber tube armoured, the outer covering being asbestos; whichever may
be desired.
Dated this Eighth day of February 1893.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Prevention and Extinction of Fire in Textile or other Factories.
WILLIAM HENRY HALLSWORTH Nucleus Works, Crossbank Street Oldham
Engineer and 15 Ripon Street Whiteacre Road. Ashton-under-Lyne 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:-
(A) In self-acting mules and other machinery in which any parts are driven by
bands, from a tin or other roller, to prevent the bands from slipping off the roller,
getting entangled in the bearing, or otherwise getting out of place and generating
heat or fire from friction; the roller is made with a swelling rim, or ridge, at the ends;
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and in addition, (if desired) the roller is so corrugated longitudinally that each
band has a separate groove or channel in which to travel.
(B) The mule carriage of which a section is shown on Fig. 1 on enclosed one
sheet of drawings is (1) armoured by being covered with thin metal plates wherever
desired or (2) made entirely of metal the plates (marked A in Figure 1) being
preferably corrugated as shown.
(C) Running parallel with the spindles and the length of the carriage, to the
carriage is affixed a metal or other pipe, (marked B on Figure 1) furnished with
sprinklers, or perforated, and the holes soldered with fusible metal.
The sprinklers, or the soldered perforations, may be placed at intervals (regular
or irregular) so as to protect all or any part of the mule or carriage.
(2) If sprinklers be adopted, the sprinklers are preferably placed so close, that
the stream or jet from one sprinkler, will impinge on the stream or jet from
the next.
The metal pipe aforesaid has a connection with the usual water supplies (whether
from a cistern in the tower, or automatic fire pump &c.) by a fireproof flexible
tube, (a section of which is shown in Fig. 2).
The flexible tube may swing backwards and forwards with the mule carriage as
it performs each draw or stretch; may be attached to a lever actuated and moving
in the same way as the quadrant in the headstock; may be wound on a scroll
(marked F in Fig. 3) having a portion of the shaft hollow (for the passage of the
tube) (as shown in Figure 3) and may be attached to a metal pipe at the back of
the creels, or may be supplied from a cistern marked J as shown in Fig. 3 in which
the flexible tube marked G in Fig. 3 has a metal sleeve marked H in Fig. 3 with
which by using a stuffing box with rubber or other packing (marked K in Fig. 3)
in the usual manner a water tight connection is attained & a water supply secured.
The cistern is kept filled either by a supply from the usual tower or from a
pump &c. &c.
The metal pipe with (1) sprinklers or (2) perforated and soldered may be placed
anywhere on the mule carriage, though preferably fixed a little below the faller
shafts, or inside the carriage as shown in Figure 1.
(D) The flexible tube is made as follows and as shown in Figure 2 which shows
a section of the tube:-India rubber tube marked C in Fig. 2 covered with
asbestos (marked D in Fig. 2); armoured by having wire tightly coiled round it
marked E in Fig. 2; or if preferred, india rubber tube armoured, and then
covered with asbestos.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is.
(1.) The tin roller made as described for preventing the hand slipping off and
causing. heat or fire, by getting entangled in the bearings a generacing friction.
(2.) The mule carriage armoured as described to prevent the spread of fire.
(3.) The application of the metal pipe and sprinklers or metal pipe perforated
and soldered, to the mule carriage, for the protection of the mule carriage.
(4.) The supply of water to the carriage in motion, and the flexible tube and
other means by which it is attained.
Dated this Eighth day of November 1893.
WILLIAM HENRY HALLSWORTH.