IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR LUBRICAting Spindles and JournaLS.”
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Hindley, of Higher Openshaw, near the
City of Manchester, Machinist, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS FOR LUBRICAting Spindles and JournaLS.”
in Apparatus for Lubricating Spindles and Journals.”

page_text: inclined slot or slide attached to the bolster or rail towards the spindle
or journal to be lubricated, thereby becoming self-adjusting, the point
of the oil vessel having a hole or aperture sufficiently large to transmit
the lubricant from the absorbent material in the oil vessel to the spindle
or journal.
Where lift is applied to the spindle or the lubricator is applied to a
lifting rail the lubricator acts both as a feeder and distributor, thereby
preventing accumulation of oil on the spindle, which in all quick speeds
is thrown off by the centrifugal force.
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Another advantage is obtained by preventing the oil from descending 1
on to the spindle haft and wharve.
Another modification of this Invention consists in placing a revolving
bowl driven by friction from the spindle as it riscs and falls; the bowls
provided with pivots working in an inclined slot or slide, and revolving
in an oil vessel supplied with lubricant as above described; the outward
surface of the bowl carries the lubricant to and from the spindle
When the spindle and rail are stationary and where little friction is
required the oil vessel can be placed in an inclined position and swivel
on a centre pin.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Hindley in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 26th January 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
HINDLEY, of Higher Openshaw, near the City of Manchester, Machinist,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
ninth year of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said James Hindley, Her special licence
that I, the said James Hindley, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said James Hindley, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no

page_text: others, from time to time and at all times thercafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, excrcise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR LUBRICATING SPINDLES AND JOURNALS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said James Hindley, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one
of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Hindley, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (that is to say):
The nature of this Invention consists in certain improved apparatus
by which a constant supply of lubricating material is supplied to all
descriptions of spindles and journals used in the manufacture of cotton
and other fibrous substances.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood, I will
proceed to describe the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
Figs. 1 and 2 are two elevations of an ordinary throstle spindle to
which my improvements are applied. a is the footstep rail; b, the
bolster rail, b¹, the bolster screwed therein, c, the spindle; d, the
bobbin; and e, the flyer, all of which are made as usual
The improved lubricating apparatus consists of a vessel, shewn best
in Figs. 3 and 4, made of tinned sheet iron or other suitable metal or
material, and containing a pad made of flannel, or sponge, or other
absorbent, which is saturated with oil or other lubricant; the vessel ƒ
is made with two projecting flanges which work in inclined slots in the
slide a fixed on the end of the bolster 6¹ by a set screw or otherwise, or
fixed to the bolster rail; the lower end of the vessel fis provided with a
hole through which the end of the flannel or other absorbent projects.
The inclined slots in the piece 9 cause the end of the vessel f to bear
against the spindle, which in revolving carries with it the requisite

page_text: amount of lubricant, which is evenly distributed over the spindle for the
entire lift By this means the lubricant is gradually supplied to the
spindle until it is all extracted from the absorbent in the vessel f,
whereas in the ordinary mode of lubricating when the lubricant is
supplied in large quantities a great proportion runs down the spindle or
is thrown off by centrifugal forco, thus causing waste and injuring the
driving bands.
Figs. 5 and 6 represent two views of the spindle of a mule for spinning
or doubling to which my improved lubricating apparatus is applied.
b is the bolster rail; and c, the spindle which is supported in a footstep
as usual. To the bolster rail is fixed a plate 7, and to this plate are
cast projections supporting the swivel vessel 2 containing a pad of
flannel or other absorbing material; the outer end of this vessel is
rather heavier than the inner end, which is provided with a small hole,
and which is pressed against the spindle by the preponderating weight
of the outer end. The absorbing material in the vessel being saturated
with oil or other lubricant as beforo described will deliver the lubricant
to the spindle, and by it to the bolster in the manner described in
reference to Figs. 1 and 2.
Figs. 7 and 8 represent an ordinary throstle spindle to which a
modification of my Invention is applied. In this arrangement the
slide is fixed as before to the bolster 6' or bolster rail b,, and it is
provided with inclined slots to receive the trunnions of the bowl 1,
which is covered with flannel or other absorbent, and the lower surface
of which is immersed in oil or other lubricant contained in the lower
part of the slide. As the bolster rail rises and falls to fill the bobbins d
the bowl, which is pressed against the spindle by the action of the
inclined slots, imparts the lubricant to the spindle.
Having thus thus stated the nature of my Invention, and described
three convenient modes of performing the same, I wish it to be understood
that I do not intend to hmit myself to the details given, as the same
must be varied according to the peculiar construction and size of the
spindles and journals to be lubricated, and I claim,―
First. The improved lubricating apparatus shewn and described in
reference to Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, in which the lubricant is applied to the
spindle from a vessel containing a pad of porous material saturated with