An Appliance for Cleaning the Upper Portion of Ring Spinning Frames.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 7th May, 1886.
Complete Left, 7th Feb., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 22nd Mar., 1887.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance for Cleaning the Upper Portion of Ring Spinning
Frames.
1, FREDERICK WALKER WHIPP of Victoria Mills, Clitheroe, in the County of
Lancaster, Spinner & Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This invention has for its object the employment of an appliance by which the
upper portion of ring spinning frames, viz., the roller stands and beams, weights,
hooks and boards holding the snail catchers, the creel boards and pegs, etc., are
cleaned automatically, thus preventing the accumulation of cotton round the bobbins
and thereby diminishing the drag and preventing the rovings from breaking out.
The invention consists in the employment of a number of traversing brushes which
are caused to travel between & on the side of the creel pegs and bobbins, etc.
The brushes are sliding and mounted on wires fixed along the paths of the brushes.
Both ends of these bushes have cords attached which are wound around a corre-
sponding number of pulleys fixed on two shafts suitably mounted on each end of the
frame.
One of these shafts, the driving shaft, is capable of sliding crosswise and is suitably
geared up at each end to the front rollers in such a manner, that on the driving shaft
being caused to slide, each end will come alternately in and out of gear with the gear
of the respective front roller.
The automatic traversing motion of the brushes I obtain by means of a lever
having one short and three long arms moving on a stud suitably fixed to the frame,
the short arm working between two collars, or other equivalent, fixed on the driving
shaft, and the brushes coming into alternate contact with the long arms, at each
end of their travel, thus causing the driving shaft to slide and bring the respective
gearing in or out of gear, thereby reversing the rotation of the driving shaft and
travel of the brushes, which action is repeated each time the outer brushes come into
contact with either one or the other of the long arms.
Dated this 6th day of May 1886R
Pro FREDERICK WALKER WHIPP.
Bosshardt & Grant,
Agents to the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance for Cleaning the Upper Portion of Ring Spinning
Frames.
I, FREDERICK WALKER WHIPP, of Victoria Mills, Clitheroe, in the County of
Lancaster, Spinner & Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described &
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention has for its object the employment of an appliance by which the upper
portion of ring spinning frames, viz., the roller stands and beams, weights, hooks, and
boards holding the snail catchers, the creel boards and pegs, etc., are cleaned
automatically thus, preventing the accumulation of cotton round the bobbins, and
thereby diminishing the drag and preventing the rovings from breaking out.
The invention consists in the employment of a number of traversing brushes which
are caused to travel between & on the side of the creel pegs and bobbins, etc.,
automatically.
And in order that my invention may be better understood I have caused to be
appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference indicating
like parts in the figures.
Fig. 1 is a cross section & Fig. 2. a plan of the apparatus, shown applied to a
ring spinning frame.
In carrying out this invention I mount by means of hooks or eyelets, two traversing
brushes a, respectively on two wires b, suitably fixed on the top and along the sides of
the frame, so as to cause the brushes a, to travel on a certain path, viz., between the
roller stands and spindles.
The undersides of these brushes rest on the top of the frame e, and are covered with
plush, velvet, or any other material, which has a cleaning effect, and are on the inner
edges furnished with bristles al of various lengths, which clean between the weights,
hooks, roller stands and roller beam,
Both ends of these brushes a have cords d attached which are wound around a
suitable number of pulleys e, fixed on studs e¹, suitably fixed on each end or corner of
the frame c.
The automatic traversing of the brushes a may be obtained in various ways, but the
arrangement I prefer to use for such purpose is as follows :-
On the driving end of the frame c I mount on a suitably fixed stud a cord
pulley, around which is wound the cord d, and which is provided with a bevel
wheel h.
In front of the latter is mounted in suitable brackets i, a cross shaft, provided with
a key, which carries a bush h³ furnished at each end with bevel wheels & ².
This cross shaft is rotated always in one direction, from any moving part of the
frame by means of the worm and wheel & and transmits rotary motion to
the cord pulley g; through the bevel wheels, & which are brought alternately
into gear with the bevel wheel h, by the rocking lever l.

page_text: The latter rocks on the stud 1, and is held between the pin, 1, formed on one side
of the bar, sliding in the brackets m, the other side of the bar being furnished
with two arms, with eyelets through which passes the cord d, which runs from the
pulley g
The cords d near their brushes are formed with metal knots or projections n which
when the brush is near the end of its travel come alternately into contact with the
arms of the sliding bar, causing the latter to slide and take with it the rocking
lever 7.
The latter is provided with a weight o and formed with a radial slot o¹ which slides
on the stud o², fixed to the bush 3, and on passing its vertical line throws the bevel
wheel, which is in gear at that time, out of gear, & the other bevel wheel ² in
gear, with the bevel wheel h, thus reversing the motion of the latter, and in consequence
that of the brushes a.
In order to remove any fluff, & fly which may collect on the cords d, the same are
caused to pass through eyelets which strip off the dust collected thereon.
Instead of working the brushes automatically, the same may be actuated from time
&
to time by hand, by means of a pulley p fixed to the tail end of the frame
around which the cord d is wound. See dotted lines.
E,
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
The improved appliance for cleaning the upper portion of ring spinning frames
consisting of two traversing brushes guided along their paths by means of wires or
their equivalents, which brushes are slid backwards & forwards along the sides of
the frame by means of a reversing gear suitably actuated, substantially as hereinbefore
described & illustrated by the drawing annexed.
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BOSSHARDT & GRANT,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester,
Agents to the Applicant.