Improvements in Portable Apparatus for Placing Cop Tubes upon the Spindles of Mules, Twiners, Ring Frames, and other similar Machines.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 9th Aug., 1889-Accepted, 14th Sept., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Portable Apparatus for Placing Cop Tubes upon
the Spindles of Mules, Twiners, Ring Frames, and other similar
Machines.
I, ELI JAGGER of Werneth Metal Factory, Green Street, Werneth Oldham in the
County of Lancashire, Tin plate Worker, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion to be as follows:-
These improvements relate partly to an invention for which Letters Patent were
granted to me bearing date 3rd day of July 1886, and numbered $728, and in which
an intermittent rotating cylinder or sliding flat is employed for holding cop tubes, in
conjunction with a suitable number of tapered shoots and guides, depending from
below the casing or frame in or on which the said cylinder or flat is intermittently
rotated or slid by suitable mechanism for the purpose of discharging the cop tubes
through the said tapered shoots onto the spindles of the respective machine ;--and
partly to an invention for which Provisional Protection has been granted to me,
bearing date March 9th 1888, No 3654, as regards the mechanism which effects the
intermittent rotation of the cop tube cylinder and the sliding flat is concerned.
My present invention has for its object the application and modification of the
principal features described in the aforesaid invention for the construction of an
apparatus usable for placing long as well as short cop tubes upon the spindles of
mules etc.
My improvements consist principally in the employment of a segmental cop
tube carrier, suspended from and in combination with a segmental frame or table
furnished below with a row of tapered shoots, terminated at each end by a guide.
The said segmental cop tube carrier I furnish at one end with a double row of
cam teeth, which are acted upon by means of a stud or lever suitably operated y the
finger of the user of the apparatus by means of which the rows of the cop tube
carrier are brought intermittently over the aforesaid tapered shoots.
In order to assist the forward movement of the segmental cop tube carrier, which
is suitably pivoted to its table, I arrange an india-rubber, spiral, or other spring,
which has a tendency to bring and retain the rows of cop tube holes, successively
over the tapered shoots.
One end of this spring I connect to an arm formed on the segmental cop tube
carrier, and the other end to its frame or table respectively, preferably by means
of an adjustable hook.
The said arm is so employed on the cop tube carrier as to vary the tension of
the said spring and compensate for the decrease and increase of the weight of and
power required for moving the cop tube carrier from position to position.
The described apparatus may be made of any suitable material and the cop tube
carrier may either be charged from above or from below the same, in the latter
case, however, a fixed or adjustable bottom would be employed over the top of the
cop tube carrier.
Each end of the frame or table is formed into or provided with a handle, by
ineans of which the apparatus is carried and placed on and removed from the
spindles, by the user of it.
Dated this Zib doy of Navambor 1888
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Portable Apparatus for Placing Cop Tubes upon
the Spindles of Mules, Twiners, Ring Frames, and other similar
Machines.
I, ELI JAGGER, of Werneth Metal Factory, Green Street, Werneth, Oldham, in the
County of Lancashire, Tin-plate Worker, 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 :-
Theso improvements relate partly to an invention, for which Letters Patent were
granted to me bearing date 3rd day of July, 1886, and numbered 8728, and in which
an intermittent rotating cylinder or sliding flat is employed for holding cop tubes,
in conjunction with a suitable number of tapered shoots and guides, depending
from below a casing or frame in or on which the said cylinder or flat is inter-
mittently rotated or slid by suitable mechanism, for the purpose of discharging the
cop tubes through the said tapered shoote on to the spindles of the respective
machine; and partly to an invention, for which Provisional Protection has been
granted to me, bearing date March, 9th 1888, No. 3654, as regards the mechanism
which effects the intermittent rotation of the cop tube cylinder and the sliding flat
is concerned.
My present invention has for its object, the application and modification of the
principal features described in the aforesaid inventions, for the construction of an
apparatus usable for placing long as well as short cop tubes upon the spindles of
mules, etc.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused to be
appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference indicating
like parts in the various figures.
Fig. 1. is a front view and Fig. 2. a vertical section of my improved apparatus.
Fig. 3. is part end view of a modification, thereof.
In carrying out my invention the improvements consists principally in the employ-
ment of a segmental cop tube carrier e, suspended from and in combination with a
segmental frame or table furnished below with a row of tapered shoots a, termi-
nated at each end by a guide d, placed on the spindles c.
3
The said segmental cop tube carrier e, I furnish at one end with a double row of
cam teeth,, which are acted upon by means of a stud y', seo Fig. 3. fixed onto
a slide g, suitably guided in grooves a³ in the frame or table b, or a lover g², may be
arranged to rock on the frame or table band interposed between the said teeth,³,
and the inner end of the slide g; or the upper end of the lever g², may be directly
operated by the finger of the user of the apparatus, whereby the rows e¹ of the cop
tube carrier e, are brought intermittently over the aforesaid tapered shoots a, and may
be locked in position by means of a catch h.
In order to assist the forward movement of the segmental cop tube carrier e, which
is suitably pivoted to its frame or table b, I arrange an india-rubber, spiral, or other
spring, which has a tendency to bring and retain the rows of cop tube holes e¹,
successively over the tapered shoots a.
One end of this spring I connect to an arm e³ formed on the segmental cop
tube carrier e, and the other end to its frame or table b, respectively, by means of an
adjustable hook 3 and stationary hook h².
The said arme³ is so positioned on the cop tube carrier e, as to vary the tension of
the said spring and compensate for the decrease and increase of the weight of and
power required for moving the cop tube carrier e from position to position.
The described apparatus may be made of any suitable material and the cop tube
carrier e may either be charged from above or from below the same, in the latter
case, however, a fixed or adjustable bottom i, see dotted lines, would be employed over
the top of the cop tube carrier e, on which during filling the same, the cop tubes e³
rest.

page_text: Each end of the frame or table b is formed into or provided with a bandle k,
by means of which the apparatus is carried and placed on and removed from the
spindles c, by the user of it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what 1
claim is:
"In portable apparatus for placing cop tubes upon the spindles of mules, twiners,
ring frames and other similar machines."
1st. The employment of a segmental cop tube carrier e suitably suspended from and
in combination with a segmental frame or table b, furnished below with a row of
tapered shoots a terminated at each end by a guide d, substantially as set forth and for
the purpose specified.
2nd. The combination with the cop tube carrier e and frame or table b of the
adjustable compensating spring h', substantially as and for the purpose specified.
3rd. The employment of the slide 9 or lever 9' in combination with the segmental
cam teeth,, substantially as set forth and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 8th day of August 1000.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicant.