ROVEMENTS IN. SPINNING MACHINES
Year: 1884

page_text: [Communicated from abroad by Oscar Hanna (Carpenter), Hiram Watson
Thibbits Earnshaw (Woollen Manufacturer), James Earnshaw (Woollen
Manufacturer), all of Dover, in the County of Mason and State of Kentucky,
Charles Furley Corben (Wharfmaster), and James Warren Wormelsdorf
(Railroad Ticket Agent), both of Middleport, in the County of Meigs and
State of Ohio, all in the United States of America.]
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
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I, ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of the firm of A. M. and Wm. Clark, of
53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Fellow of the Institute of Patent
Agents, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN.
SPINNING MACHINES" (a communication to me from abroad by Oscar Hanna,
(Carpenter) Hiram Watson Thibbits Earnshaw, (Woollen Manufacturer) James
Earnshaw, (Woollen Manufacturer,) all of Dover in the County of Mason and
State of Kentucky, Charles Farley Corben, (Wharfmaster) and James Warren
Wormelsdorf, (Railroad Ticket Agent) both of Middleport in the County of Meigs
and State of Ohio, all in the United States of America), and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :—
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this
Specification in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all
the figures.
Figure 1 is a side elevation.
Figure 2 is an end elevation partly in section.
Figure 3 is an end elevation from the opposite end.
Our invention consists of a machine that will draw, spin, wind, and twist, wool
cotton, silk, flax, and all other fibrous materials, the said machine being particularly
adapted to the spinning of roving as it comes from the condenser.
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In the drawing A represents a stationary rail from which rises a slationary
screw or worm B. Below the thread of this screw and about its shank is swiveled
an upright rectangular frame or head C which upon its underside has a rigidly
attached boss a resting in a recess of the rail and provided with a pulley b whose
periphery is grooved to receive a band by which it and the upright frame or
head C are rotated in a horizontal plane. J is a toothed wheel fixed to a shaft J¹
journaled in the lower part of the upright frame and which wheel meshes with the
threads of the screw or worm B. Upon one side of the upright frame is a train of
gear wheels, H, H³, H³, which connect the shaft J' with the shaft F' of a drum F

page_text: and of which wheels H' is carried by a slotted and adjustable plate to permit its
position to be changed in accomodating different sizes of gears to vary the speed of
the drum. Upon the opposite side of the upright frame is a train of gear wheels
G, G¹, G², G³ which connect the shaft of the drum with the shaft I having on its
periphery a double or crossed spiral groove c in which travels the end of a
vibrating eyed the said cyc d being supported upon the slotted bar N the sides of
which slot act as guides to cause the eye to move back and forward in the spiral
crossed grooves in direction parallel to the axis of the shaft.
In the sides of the upright frame just above the drum F are formed right angled
slots which have an outlet upon the edges of the frame and in the vertical
portions of the slots are received the journals of a spool E whose periphery between
its end flanges rest upon the periphery of the drum and is rotated by the latter by
frictional contact therewith. In the upper end of the upright frame is formed a
throat t and from this the arm descends to the eye d and passes thence over a
guard wire d to the spool, the guard serving to keep the arm away from the
drum.
The operation of the invention is as follows:-
Horizontal rotation being imparted to the upright frame by means of the belt
acting upon the pulley b the roving passing through the throat t is spun or twisted.
As the toothed wheel J moves around the screw or worm B, a rotary motion is
imparted to the shaft J¹ and through the gears H, H¹, H' to the drum F and this
by rotating the spool E by frictional contact winds up the spun thread upon the
spool E. The roving as it passes through the throat t also passes through the
vibrating cyc d and as this moves back and forth it lays the thread upon the
spool.
By changing the number of teeth in the gears H, H1, H2 for greater or less speed
to the drum I may cause the spool to revolve faster or more slowly in relation to
the horizontal rotation of the frame which gives the twist, and thus increases, or
diminish the draw.
The device may be attached direct to the condenser card, to the jack frame or to
the twister frame when used as a doubler and twister. When attached to the
condenser card the rub rolls of the card answer the same purpose that the feed rolls
of a jack do, or in other words they answer as delivering rolls. The draught of
the thread is regulated by the thread being wound, as much faster than it is
delivered as is requisite to give the desired draw or fineness.
The screw or worm need not necessarily be stationary but may be arranged to
turn in the same direction with the frame with a differential speed or in the
opposite direction if desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
The combination of the rail A having screw or worm B, the upright frame
swiveling there about and having pulley b and throat t the gear wheel J and
shaft J, the gears H, H, H³, drum F, gears G, G¹, G², G³ and the mechanism for
laying on the yarn consisting of a crossed grooved shaft I and vibrating eye d or
their equivalents as described.