IMPROVE- MENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO SPINNING OR DRAWING MACHINERY
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Clough, of Haincliffe, in the West Riding of the
County of York, Spinner and Manufacturer, for an Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO SPINNING OR DRAWING MACHINERY."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Clough at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th August 1880.
JOHN CLOUGH, of Haincliffe, in the West Riding of the County of York,
Spinner and Manufacturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO SPINNING OR
DRAWING MACHINERY,"
This Invention relates to certain improvements applicable to fly or throstlo
spinning or drawing machines with the object of driving the bobbins on the spindles
at the speed required to take up the yarn or thread delivered by the rollers by a
motion independent of that of the spindles, but by means deriving their actuation
from the same driving shaft or cylinder from which the spindles are driven.
In carrying my Invention into practice I cause each bobbin to rest on a washer
(by friction with which it is driven) or to fit around a tube rising therefrom, the
washer or that to which it may be fixed being formed with a grooved periphery, so
that motion can be imparted to it by a band, and resting upon so as to partake of
the usual rising and falling motions of the lifter. In all cases I drive the washers
and bobbins at the proper variable speed required by means deriving their actuation
from the source above stated, and according to one method I provide the said
driving shaft or cylinder with a drum which is connected by a belt to a similar
drum carried by a stud in any convenient position, the stud also carrying a cone
axially, this cone being connected by a belt to a reverse cone on a cylinder or shaft
from which all the said washers are driven, the desired speed of rotation being
obtained by shifting the belt connecting the cones to a suitable position.
Various other equivalent means may be used for attaining the desired result, the
principle of the Invention consisting in driving the washers and bobbins indepen-
dently of the motion of the spindles by a cylinder, or shaft, or equivalent means
running at the required variable speed, and driven from the main shaft froin which
the spindles are driven.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Clough in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 9th February
1881.
JOHN CLOUGH, of Haincliffe, in the West Riding of the County of York,
Spinner and Manufacturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO SPINNING OR
DRAWING MACHINERY."
This Invention relates to certain improvements applicable to fly or throstle
spinning or drawing machines with the object of driving the bobbins on the spindles
at such relative and varying speeds as will cause the yarn or thread to be taken up
and wound thereupon by the spindles as it is delivered by the front rollers by a
motion independent of that of the spindles, but by means deriving their actuation
from the same driving shaft from which the spindles are driven.
The arrangement, which is illustrated on the annexed Sheet of explanatory
Drawings, is for spinning yarn onto the ordinary spinning bobbins. 1 represents
the front rollers, and 2 the ordinary flyer spindles, which are driven as usual at an
uniform speed from the shaft 3 by a series of drums, or an equivalent cylinder 3*
thereon, and by bands 4.
In carrying my Invention into practice I cause each bobbin to rest on a washer 5
(by friction with which it is driven), or to fit around a tube 6 rising therefrom, the
washer or that to which it may be fixed being formed with a grooved periphery or
fitted with a whorl 7, so that motion can be imparted to it by a band, and placed
on its spindle 2, resting upon so as to partake of the usual rising and falling motions
of the lifter 8.
In all cases I drive the washers and bobbins at the proper variable speed required
by means deriving their actuation from the source above stated, and according to
the method which I have chosen for an example, and which is illustrated on the
accompanying Sheet of Drawings in Figures 1 to 4, I provide the said driving shaft 3
with a drum or pulley 9, which is connected by a belt 10 to a similar drum or
pulley 11, carried by a short stud or shaft 12 supported in bearings 13 carried by
one of the end frames 14 and a crossbar 15 supported by the lateral rails 16 of the
frame, the stud or shaft 12 also carrying a cone 17 axially, the cone being connected
by a belt 18 to a reverse cone 19, carried and supported similarly to the cone 17,
and communicating motion by means of a drum or pulley 22 and belt 23 to a
similar drum or pulley 24 on the shaft 20, on which are a series of drums, or an
equivalent cylinder 20* driving the whorls 7 and bobbins by bands 21, the required
speed of rotation being obtained by the shifting of the belt 18 connecting the cones
17 and 19, the cones being calculated to give the various relative speeds required
for different twists and diameters of bobbin-barrels, the speed being varied as the
bobbin fills, and this shifting of the belt is effected (as shown most clearly in the
enlarged views Figures 3 and 4) by means of worm gearing 25, which is driven by the
ordinary lifter motion shaft 26, one of the wheels 25 having attached to it a plate
wheel 27 having a stud 28, which by means of a connecting bar 29 actuates a
lever 30 carrying a pawl 31, and thus causes an intermittent rotation of the ratchet
wheel 32 and differential screw 33, to one end of which the wheel 32 is made fast,
and upon which is a nut and belt-guide or fork 34, which causes the gradual
shifting of the belt 18, and thus changes the relative speeds of the cones 17 and 19,
and as the pulley 22, on the same same shaft as the cone 19 is, drives the shaft or
cylinder 20, which drives all the whorls 7, the relative speeds of the tubes 6 with
the bobbins they carry and the spindles 2 are altered as required.
35 represents the usual collar rail, and 36 the usual step rail.
I wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself to the above described
arrangement for attaining the above described result, as various other equivalent

page_text: means may be used arranged upon the principle of my Invention, which consists
in driving the washers and bobbins, independently of the motion of the spindles,
by a shaft provided with a series of drums, or an equivalent cylinder, or by other
equivalent means, running at the required variable speed, and driven by the inter-
vention of any suitable means from the main shaft from which the spindles are as
usual directly driven.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention, together with
the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into practical
effect, I would remark in conclusion that what I claim as the Invention secured to
me by the herein before in part recited Letters Patent is,-
The new and peculiar method of driving the bobbins on the spindles of fly or
throstle spinning or drawing machines at such relative and varying speeds as will
cause the yarn or thread to be taken up and wound thereupon by the spindles as
it is delivered by the front rollers, independently of the motion of the spindles, by
a shaft provided with a cylinder or drums, or by other equivalent means, running
at the required variable speed, and driven by the intervention of any suitable
means from the main shaft from which the spindles are (as usual) directly driven;
and especially I claim the novel arrangement of mechanism, substantially as herein-
before described and as illustrated on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, for
attaining the object of my Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Clough, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Fifth day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty-one.
JOHN CLOUGH. (L.S.)