IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO SELF-ACTING MULES
Year: 1884

page_text: I WILLIAM THOMAS WATTS of the firm of Taylor Lang & Co Limited of Castle
Iron Works, Stalybridge in the County of Chester, Machine Makers, do hereby
declaro the nature of said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO
SELF-ACTING MULES, to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved combination and arrangement of mechanism
for making the lastening or "snarl" preventing lever (which has its fulcrum on
the carriage) automatic, the object of the said hastening lever being to move the
driving belt to the fast driving pulley to start the spindles a little earlier, and
earlier as the the cop builds--According to my invention the hastening or snarl
preventing lever, is made with a descending arin so as to form a bell-crank lever,
and this additional arm when the carriage moves in to the rollers, comes in contact
with a projection on one end of a lever having its fulcrum on a bracket secured
to the framing or floor-the other end of this lever is connected by an adjustable
rod with the copping rail, so that as the cop builds the projection on the said
lover is moved so as to come against the descending arm of the bell crank lever
on the carriage sooner and sooner and this will lift the hastening arm of the
lever so that the bowl on the arm of the strap lever will come upon it sooner,
and sooner as the cop builds and thus start the twisting rotation of the spindlo
carlier each stretch.
PETER J. LIVSEY,
Applicant's Agent.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I WILLIAM THOMAS WATTS, of the firm of Taylor Lang & Co Limited, of Castle
Iron Works, Stalybridge, in the County of Chester, Machine Makers do hereby
declare the nature of said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO
SELF-ACTING MULES, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
My invention relates to an improved combination and arrangement of mechanism
for making the hastening or "snarl" preventing lever (which has its fulcrum on
the carriage) automatic, the object of the said bastening lever being to move the
driving belt to the fast driving pulley to start the spindles a little earlier, and
carlier as the cop builds. According to my invention the hastening or snarl
preventing lever, is made with a descending arm so as to form a bell crank lever,
and this additional arm when the carriage moves in to the rollers, comes in contact
with a projection on one end of a lever having its fulcrum on a bracket secured to
the framing or floor the other end of this lever is connected by an adjustable rod
with the copping rail mechanism so that as the cop builds the projection on the
said lever is moved so as to come against the descending arm of the bell crank
lever on the carriage sooner and sooner and this will liſt the hastening arm of
the lever so that the bowl on the arm of the strap lever will come upon it sooner
and sooner as the cop builds and thus start the twisting rotation of the spindles
earlier each stretch.
Fig 1 shows so much of the mechanism of a selfacting mule as will be necessary
for explaining my invention.
a is one of the side frames of the headstock of a mule part of the frame, and the
rod b¹ connecting the shaper plates b is supposed broken away to bring the drawing
into less space.
c the mule carriage; d the hastening lever having its fulcrum d¹
in a bracket secured to the carriage. This lever d has a descending arm d³ which
when the carriage runs in to the rollers, comes against the projecting end of a
lever e or against a projection on that lever which is upon a stud or fulcrum e¹
adjustable in a bracket a secured to the floor, or it may be secured to the framing.
The lower arm of the lever e is jointed with one end of a rod which at the
other end is jointed with the "shaper plates" so as to move therewith; the rod eª
having a screw coupling so as to be adjustable in length. The bend or incline of
the hastening lever d when the carriage (c) runs in to the rollers comes under a
bowl on a stud secured in one arm of the bell crank belt traversing lever f
which has its fulcrum on the framing at f. This lever traverses the belt on
the driving pulley indicated by dotted line (2).
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 a lever or its equivalent with the shaper mechanism, so that
such lever or its equivalent or a projection from it will be changed in position as

page_text: the cops build and when the carriage runs in will come against and act sooner and
sooner on a lever having its fulcrum on the carriage for moving the belt lever,
substantially as and for the purpose herein before described and illustrated by the
drawings.
Dated thi
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