Twisting Machines and for other Purposes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Mar., 1888
Complete Left, 22nd Mar., 1888
Complete Accepted, 11th May, 1888
Twisting Machines and for other Purposes.
I, LEEDHAM BINNS, of the City and County of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsyl-
vania, United States of America, now residing at No. 2438, North 6th Stroot, in
Philadelphia aforesaid, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to tubular plaited or braided driving bands for machinery
constructed with loops at their joining ends; and consists in a novel construction of
such bands for use in connection with an independent coupling means at the looped
ends of each band to make the band an endless one. The improved band is more
especially designed to be used for driving the spindles of spinning and twisting frames
and will be here described accordingly.
Plaited or braided, tubular, endless bands formed with loops at their ends, and used
for driving the spindles of spinning and twisting frames; heretofore have been made
by interlocking the loops at the ends of the band into each other during the process
of manufacturing such endless loop band. This necessitates the loops being made of
such size that the looped portions protrude laterally considerably beyond the main
portion of the band, thereby making the band at its joined ends much thicker than the
rest of the band. Such thick and clumsy junction of the ends of the band, causes it
to jump or batter the spindle at each revolution as said joint passes over or round the
spindle whirl, thereby producing extra wear and tear on the spindles and bearings and
requiring increased driving power and more oil and lubrication, as well as driving the
spindles more or less irregularly. Another objection is that an endless band of the
character just described is very difficult to apply to a spindle inasmuch as the spindles
of the frame and their driving drum, have to be uncoupled in order to put the bands
on and if the loops are connected when putting the bands on to the spindles, then it is
very difficult to lace the second looped end into the body of the band, as the band
must be at full stretch when complete, in order to drive the spindle.
According to this invention, the loops at the joining ends of the band are first
formed in the plaited or braided band at each end thereof and then an independent
fastening or hook of any suitable kind which will not objectionably protrude laterally
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page_text: beyond the main portion of the band is connected with the one loop of the band for
subsequent connection with the other loop. Said band may be furnished however,
independently of its connecting fastening, but it is an important feature of the invention
that the looped portions are of the same exterior size or thereabouts, as the rest of the
band, or in other words, do not objectionably protrude transversely or laterally beyond
the main portion of the band, and which the independent fastening provides for,
but which where the loops directly engage with one another, is not the case.
loops may be made by sheathing or tucking the terminal portions of the band into, or
into and through, the portions of the body of the band next adjacent to them, and as
heretofore done in other constructions.
Said
These plaited or braided tubular and looped bands can be applied by any person to
a spinning or twisting machine with perfect ease by simply hooking or connecting
by the independent fastening, the two looped ends of the band together at the same
time. The looped ends of the band thus independently united are as strong as the
main body of the band thereby, when so united, producing a plaited or braided, tubular,
hooked-connected and looped endless band, with little or no lateral projection at the
joining or hooking part Such a band will give a steadier and more even driving of
the spindles and will economise both oil and power, and the result will be less wear
and tear.
L. BINNS.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.

page_text: Twisting Machines and for other Purposes.
I LEEDHAM BINNS of the City and County of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsyl-
vania, United States of America, now residing at No. 2438 North 6th Street, in
Philadelphia aforesaid, 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 tubular plaited or braided driving bands for machinery,
constructed with loops at their joining ends; and the invention consists in a novel
construction of such bands for use in connection with an independent coupling means
at the looped ends of each band to make the band an endless one, substantially as
hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims. The improved band is more
especially designed to be used for driving the spindles of spinning and twisting frames
and will here be described accordingly.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specifi-
cation in which figure i represents a longitudinal view of the improved band before its
looped ends are joined together and with a uniting means applied to the one end, a
portion of the band being in section or broken away to illustrate the construction
of the loop in either end of the band. Figure 2 is a longitudinal view of the
same band after its ends have been joined together; and figure 3 is a longitudinal
view of a former style of plaited or braided, tubular, loop connected endless band
upon which this invention is an improvement. Similar letters of reference indicate
corresponding parts in all the figures.
Plaited, or braided, tubular, endless bands formed with loops at their ends and used
for driving the spindles of spinning and twisting frames have heretofore been made
substantially as shewn in figure 3 of the drawing that is to say by interlocking the
loops at the ends of the band into each other during the process of manufacturing
such band. This necessitates the loops being made of such size that the looped
portions protrude laterally considerably beyond the main portion of the band thereby
making the band at its joined ends much, or several times, thicker than the rest
of the band. Such thick and clumsy junction of the ends of the band causes it to
jump or batter the spindle at ech revolution as the joint passes over or round the
spindle whirl thereby producing extra wear and tear on the spindles and bearings
and requiring increased driving power and more oil and lubrication as well as
driving the spindles more or less irregularly. Another objection to an endless band
of the character just described, and thus directly joined by the loops, is that it is
very difficult to apply to a spindle inasmuch as the spindles of the frame and their
driving drum have to be uncoupled in order to put the bands on, and if the loops
are connected when putting the bands on to the spindles then it is very difficult
to lace the second looped end into the body of the band, as the band must be at
full stretch when complete, in order to drive the spindle.

page_text: The improvement which is the subject of the present invention is shewn in
figures 1 and 2 of the drawing. In these figures A indicates the plaited or braided
tubular band and bb the loops at its joining ends. These loops are first formed in
the plaited or braided band at each end thereof and then an independent fastening
or hook B of any suitable kind which will not objectionably protrude laterally
beyond the main portion of the band, is connected with the one loop 6 of the band
for subsequent connection with the other loop 6 for the purpose of applying the band
to its spindle or making the band endless. Said band may be furnished however,
independently of its connecting fastening, but it is an important feature of the
invention that the looped portions b bare of the same exterior size, or thereabouts,
as the rest of the band, or in other words do not objectionably protrude transversely
or laterally beyond the main portion of the band, and which the independent
fastening provides for, but which where the loops directly engage with one another
is not the case. Said loops bb may be made by sheathing or tucking the terminal
portions of the band into, or into and through, the portions of the body of the band
next adjacent to them, as shewn in figure 1.
These plaited or braided tubular and looped bands can be applied by any person
to a spinning or twisting machine with perfect ease by simply hooking or connecting
by the independent fastening, the two looped ends of the band together at the same
time.
The looped ends of the band thus independently united are as strong as the main
body of the band, thereby when so united producing a plaited or braided, tubular,
hook-connected and looped endless band with little or no lateral projection at the
joining or hooking part. Such a band will give a steadier and more even driving
of the spindles and will economise both oil and power and the result will be less wear
and tear.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. In plaited or braided and tubular spindle or other like bands, formed with loops
at their joining ends, the band A having its looped joining end portions b b of the same
size transversely, or thereabouts, as the remainder or body of the band, substantially
as specified.
2. In plaited or braided and tubular spindle or other like bands, formed with loops
at their joining ends, the band A having its looped joining end portions bb of the
same size transversely, or thereabouts, as the body of the band, in combination, with
an independent fastening attached to the one loop of the band and adapted to
engage with the other loop thereof, essentially as described.
3. In plaited or braided and tubular spindle or other like bands formed with loops
at their joining ends, the endless band A having its looped joining end portions bb of
the same size transversely, or thereabouts, as the body of the band, in combination
with an independent fastening uniting the two looped portions of the band, substantially
as specified.