IMPROVEMENTS IN SPINNING MACHINERY
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Browne, of the Firm of Browne and Company,
Patent Agents, of 5, Southampton Buildings, Holborn, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SPINNING MACHINERY." A
communication from abroad by Felix Benoist, Jules Benoist, and Magloire Jules
César Ponlain, all of Paris, France.
Sealed the 7th May 1878, and dated the 8th November 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Browne at the
•Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th November 1877:
ALEXANDER BROWNE, of the Firm of Browne and Company, Patent Agents, of 5,
Southampton Buildings, Holborn, in the County of Middlesex. IMPROVEMENTS IN
SPINNING MACHINERY,' A communication from abroad by Felix Benoist, Jules
Benoist, and Magloire Jules César Ponlain, all of Paris, France.
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It is well known in the trade the inconvenience arising in spinning on account of
what are called snarles or kinks, that is to say, the joining of two ends or threads
which cleave together, and consequently get spun together. Many ways have been
thought of to obviate the above inconvenience (which is most frequent in doubling
or self-acting machines), but none will be found so simple as that which constitutes
this Invention, in which the counter rod itself with a trifling addition may be made
to fulfil the part of snarl or kink breaker.
The Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed shews the Invention drawn full size.
At Figure 1 A represents the flatting roller of the spinning machine; B, B¹, two
flyers or spindles of the said machine; C, C; the counter rod; D, D', two ends or
threads coming from the flatting roller, and terminating at the spindle on which
they wind; E, a small piece fitted by its cross head to the counter rod by
Screw F.
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Figure 2 represents a side view of the piece E, also the position of the counter
rod with respect to the rollers at the time of its descent at the end of the winding
up, so as to reach its resting place at H. This piece may be fixed. to the counter
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page_text: rod in any other convenient way than that above described, or the piece may be
differently shaped.
The mechanism of this arrangement is very easy to understand under ordinary
circumstances; at the moment of winding up, the counter rod rises, and the end or
threads D, D¹, rubs upon it, as shown in Figure 2. The tension has the effect of
keeping them apart and away from the piece E, but if they get snarled or kinked,
and the end or thread D is broken, it will assume the position D"; then when the
counter rod arrives near the cylinders the piece. E will take the position E¹, the end
or thread D¹¹ would catch beneath and be broken by the cross head E, when the
counter rod sinks to the position H, a point which is its resting place after winding
up, as shewn in Figure 2.
It is evident that if, instead of using the counter rod itself, there is placed either
below or at the side an iron wire carrying the little piece E, but set in operation by
the same means as the counter rod, that this arrangement would be as a modifica-
tion of the arrangement before described, and this or any other equivalent arrange-
ment is intended to be included in this Provisional Specification.
SPECIFI ATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Alexander Browne in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 8th May
1878.
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ALEXANDER BROWNE, of the Firm of Browne and Company, Patent Agents; of 5, 2
Southampton Buildings, Holborn, in the County of Middlesex. IMPROVEMENTS IN
SPINNING MACHINERY.". (A communication, from abroad by Felix Benoist, Jules
Benoist, and Magloire Jules César Ponlain, all of Paris, France.)
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It is well known in the trade the inconvenience arising in spinning on account of
what are called "snarls" or "kinks," that is to say, the joining of two ends or
threads which cleave together, and consequently get spun together. Many ways
have been thought of to obviate the above inconvenience (which is most frequent in
doubling or self-acting machines), but none will be found so simple as that which
constitutes this Invention, in which the counter rod itself with a trifling addition
may be made to fulfil the part of snarl or kink" breaker."
The Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed, shows the Invention drawn to full size.
At Figure 1 A represents the flatting roller or cylinder of the spinning machine
B, B', two flyers or spindles of the said machine; C, C, the counter rod; D,.D., two
ends or threads coming from the flatting roller, and terminating at the spindle on
which they wind; E, a small piece fitted by its cross head to the counter rod by a
screw F.
Figure 2 represents a side view of the piece E, also the position of the counter rod
with respect to the rollers at the time of its descent at the end of the winding up,
so as to reach its resting place at H. This piece may be fixed to the counter rod in
any other convenient way than that above described, or the piece may be differently
shaped.
The mechanism of this arrangement is very easy to understand. In the ordinary

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course of winding up, the counter rod rises, and the end or thread D, D¹, rubs upon
it, as shewn in Figure 2. The tension has the effect of keeping these ends apart
and away from the piece E, but if they get "snarled or "kinked," and the end
or thread D is broken, it will assume the position shewn at D₁; then when the
counter rod arrives near the cylinders the piece E will take the position E¹, the end
of the thread D" would catch beneath, and be broken by the cross head of the
piece E when the counter rod sinks to the position H, a point which is its resting
place after winding up, as shewn in Figure 2.
It is evident that if, instead of using the counter rod itself, there is placed either
below or at the side an iron wire carrying the piece E, but set in operation by the
same means as the counter rod, that this arrangement would be as a modification of
the arrangement before described, and this or any other equivalent arrangement is
intended to be included in this Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Browne, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-eight.
ALEX, BROWNE. (L.S.)