Improvements in or connected with Wet Spinning Frames for Flax..
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Jan., 1897-Accepted, 6th Feb., 1897
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Improvements in or connected with Wet Spinning Frames for Flax..
I, JOSHUA VALENTINE EVES, of Forth River Mill, Falls Road, Belfast, in
the County of Antrim, Ireland, Flax Spinner, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to improvements in the machines in which flax or linen.
yarn is spun in a wet state. In these machines the rove is led from the creels->
over rods or pipes and is damped or saturated with water in a trough A and is.
drawn between the retaining rollers B and the drawing rollers and after it.
receives the desired amount of twist it is wound upon the bobbins D. The desired.
amount of drag or tension is put upon the bobbin by a drag string E which is
secured at one end and weighted at the other being carried over a drag strip F
formed with a number of nicks or notches to hold the drag string E in the desired
position.
In these frames as at present constructed the drawing roller C has a tendency
to travel longitudinally towards one end of the frame; the nicks of the drag strip F
are liable through carelessness on the part of the workers to become hammered
up or closed, thereby locking the string and preventing a free movement thereof;.
and the rove on its way from the rove bobbin in the creel to the rollers of the
frame has a tendency to slide along the rove rods and to get entangled with
neighbouring strands of rove. It is to remove these objections that the present.
invention is designed.
It will be fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings in which.
sufficient of a spiuning frame is shown to illustrate the invention.
Fig. 1. Transverse sectional elevation.
Fig. 2. Front elevation.
Fig. 3 and Fig. 4. Enlarged details of bottom drawing roller.
Fig. 5. Perspective view of improved drag strip.
Fig. 6. Perspective view of modification of same.
Fig. 7. Perspective view showing trough edging dippers and rove rods.
On the bottom drawing roller C preferably at or near one end I attach a number-
of collars or rings c which fit into a correspondingly formed block or journal H
carried by a bracket which is affixed to the end or other part of the frame.
Any desired number of rings c may be employed and they may be turned out.
of or shrunk upon the roller. This construction effectively prevents longitudinal
movement of the rollers when rotating.
The drag strip F I make out of sheet metal (preferably brass or steel galvanized).
stamped or cut with a serrated edge and then turned over with a rounded top
and the nicks formed of the serrated part projecting slightly forward. The
drag string passes between the teeth or projections formed by the serrations f of
the drag strip F.
In a modification shown in Fig. 6 slots or slits fare stamped in the sheet
metal and the edge is turned over into a roll leaving the slits on the front edge.
into which the drag strings E fall.
On the trough edging M the dipper N and the rove rods I form or raise-
transverse projecting beads m. This may be done by stamping the brass edging
in a die of suitable shape the rove rods being made of sheets so stamped and rolled.

page_text: into a tube. By this construction I secure the better separation of the rove in
frames with spindles closely pitched. And in the case of two roves being led to
one spindle a greater ease in seeing whether both roves are working one rove being
placed at each side of the bead or rib m they assemble or join at the slot of the
rove traverse guide P.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is,―
1. In a spinning frame the combination with the drawing roller C of the rings c
thereon and the corresponding journal H forming a thrust block substantially as
described and shown.
2. A drag strip for a spinning frame formed from a strip of sheet metal with
serrations slots or slits stamped therein and turned over at the edge substantially
as described and shown.
3. An improved drag strip for spinning frames constructed substantially as
described and shown with reference to Fig. 5 or Fig. 6.
4. In a spinning frame the improved construction of the trough edging dippers
and rove rods comprising transverse projecting beads or ribs at intervals thereon
substantially as and for the purpose described.
Dated this 31st day of December 1896.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.