Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Securing Top Rollers (Used in Spinning and Twisting Fibres) upon their Spindles or Arbors.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 4th May, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 4th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 9th Mar.,
1889
Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Securing Top
Rollers (Used in Spinning and Twisting Fibres) upon their
Spindles or Arbors.
I GEORGE HOLDSWORTH Bobbin Manufacturer of the firm of Messrs. Joseph
Pickard and Co. of Gaol Lane, Halifax in the county of York, do hereby declare
the nature of this Invention to be as follows :—
.
The object of my invention is to more perfectly secure the wood top rollers (used in
spinning and twisting fibres) to their arbors or spindles.
Hitherto such rollers have been secured or driven direct on to the squares or
hexagonals formed on such spindles or arbors, and so come in contact with oil or
grease and constantly work loose.
I now mount the wood rollers upon a metal flange having spikes cast or affixed
to its sides for piercing the wood rollers, or upon a metal flange and bush with spikes
as before described; the flanges or bushes having a square or hexagonal hole in them
to correspond with the shape of the arbor or spindle, the spikes of the flange or
bush are driven into the side of the roller, and they are then driven tight on
to the spindle or arbor, and so are made perfectly secure and cannot work loose.
Dated this Third day of May 1888.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: roller.
Fig. 2 is a modification of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is another modification of Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is a side view of a flange applied to a top roller.
Fig. 1. I mount the wood rollers A, upon metal flanges B, such flanges having
spikes C cast or fixed upon them, for piercing the wood rollers; the flanges have also
a square or hexagonal hole in them, so as to correspond with and fit upon the
square or hexagonal D of the arbor or spindle E, the spikes of the flanges are
driven into the roller A, and made secure upon it; without any possibility of their
working loose, the roller is then driven on the arbor as usual.
Or each of the metal flanges B (see Fig. 2) may be provided with a
bush B', passing partly through the roller, so as to fit upon the square or
hexagonal on the arbor or spindle E, the metal flange having spikes C as before
described.
Or only one of the metal flanges may have a bush B¹, which passes through
the roller A as shown at Fig. 3, and the other flange be fixed upon the bush B', after
the spikes are driven into the roller, the ends B' of the bush B₁, are rivetted up or
slightly opened, so holding the flange firmly upon the same, and preventing any oil or
grease from getting to the roller.
By the above arrangement it is impossible for the rollers to work loose upon their
spindles.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The use and employment of metal flanges B, with spikes C (or their equivalent)
substantially as and for the purposes shown and described.
2. The use and employment of metal flanges B with spikes C, and bush or
bushes B¹, or their equivalent, as and for the purposes shown and described.
1000
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax,
Agent for the Applicant.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax,
Agent for the Applicant.