Improvements in Ring Spinning and Doubling Machines.
Year: 1898

page_text: [Communicated from abroad by WILLIAM FRANCIS SUTTILL, of 19, Rue Cambon,
Paris, in the French Republic, Engineer.]
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Improvements in Ring Spinning and Doubling Machines.
I, WILLIAM GEORGE HEYS, of 70, Market Street, Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a new and useful construction and arrangement in
ring spinning and doubling machines whereby the space occupied by each
machine is, for the same number of spindles, considerably reduced.
These improvements consist in constructing and arranging upon each side
of the machine, two rows of spindles on different horizontal planes but in the
same vertical plane. The spindles in one row are arranged to alternate or
break pitch with those in the other row on the same side of the machine. All
the spindles in each of the rows are employed in the customary functions of
twisting and winding-on in connection with the usual rings.
D 1000
W. E. HEYS & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Ring Spinning and Doubling Machines.
I, WILLIAM GEORGE HEYS, of 70, Market Street, Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Chartered Patent Agent, 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 a new and useful construction and arrangement in
ring spinning and doubling machines whereby the space occupied by each
machine is, for the same number of spindles, considerably reduced.
These improvements consist in constructing and arranging upon each side
of the machine, two rows of spindles on different horizontal planes but in the
same vertical plane. The spindles in one row are arranged to alternate or
break pitch with those in the other row on the same side of the machine. All
the spindles are employed in the customary functions of twisting and winding
on, in conjunction with the usual rings.
The improved apparatus is illustrated by the accompanying diagrams in
which:-

page_text: Figure 1 represents a partial sectional end elevation;
Figure 2, a partial front elevation;
Figure 3, courses of the threads to the upper and lower rings respectively;
Figures 4, 5, and 6, the means for driving the spindles;
Figure 7, a side view; and
Figure 8, a front view of the ring rail lifting appliances.
F, indicates the frame side, and S S¹ the four rows of spindles on the frame,
two rows on each side, breaking pitch with each other as indicated by Figure 2.
The spindles are driven from the ordinary tin drums D D which rotate
in the directions indicated by the arrows, the spindles S¹ being driven from the
drum D', and the spindles S, from the drum D. See Figures 4, 5, and 6.
The courses which the threads T T take from the rollers R, to the travellers
on the respective ring rails, are shewn by Figure 3. All the threads pass first
through guides G, on the front edge of the rail H. Thence, the threads T pass,
as usual, direct to the travellers on the rings of the upper ring rail. The
threads T for the spindles of the lower spindle rail, may pass through
guides G¹ G¹¹, attached respectively to the front edges of the upper ring rail U,
and of the upper spindle rail U¹, to the travellers of the lower ring rail L.
The threads T may however be otherwise guided to their travellers.
The holders of the two ring rails U L, on the same side of the machine may
either be rigidly fixed to the same pokers, or there may be separate pokers for
separate ring rails. In the latter arrangement, which is illustrated by Figures 7
and 8, the rocker g, fulcrumed at h, of the ordinary lever lifting motion, carries
the two parallel pokers cd, of which the shorter, inner poker operates the ring
rail L, and the longer, outer poker, the upper ring rail U. An analogous
arrangement may be employed in connection with other systems of lifting
motion. In either case the two ring rails will move together. As shewn by
Figure 7, the rings are on brackets which project from the rail U, so as to bring
them into the same vertical plane with the rings of the ring rail L.
The ordinary mode of building may be employed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is:-
In ring spinning and doubling machines, the construction and arrangement on
each side of the machine, of two rows of spindles in the same vertical plane
and on different levels, substantially as herein before described and as illustrated
by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 27th day of June A.D. 1899.
W. E. HEYS & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.