Improvements in Machinery or Frames for Spinning and Twisting Fibres.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 8th June, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 7th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 21st Apr.,
1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery or Frames for Spinning and
Twisting Fibres.
I, ARTHUR WILSON METCALFE of Glass House Mill, Pateley Bridge in the
County of York, Flax Spinner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
These improvements relate to machinery for spinning and twisting fibres such as
flax, hemp, cotton and the like especially with the use of the ring system and
consist of means for the application of artificial heat to the ring rails where the
fibre spun or twisted is wet in order to evaporate any moisture that would otherwise
settle on the rings to the detriment of the spinning or twisting.
Also of improved means for driving the bobbin or spool in ring spinning and
twisting frames.
The application of heat according to my invention is chiefly needed in wet ring
spinning for flax, and embodies the use of a pipe or conduit heated either by steam
or water fixed close to, and preferably immediately underneath, the ring rail in
such a way as to impart a certain degree of warmth to the same for the purpose of
evaporating the moisture-settling on the rings arising from any cause.
It may also be used to dry the lifter rails of flyer spinning frames.
In connection with the said heating pipe I adopt means by which the heat may
be turned on and off intermittently if desired by automatic means such as an
eccentric or by other means in order to increase or reduce the amount of heat to be
imparted to the ring or lifter rails according to requirement.
The improved means for driving bobbins or spools will be found useful in
spinning or twisting when the bobbin is required to be driven positively by the
spindle or warve as ring and cap spinning and twisting. The bobbin or spool is
shod with a fluted metal piece around the base, which base on its inner side fits the
spindle above the warve of the spindle; and projecting about half an inch or so
above the base upon which the bobbin rests is a circular hoop so made that when
the bobbin is pressed down to its base on the spindle the hoop receives and clasps
the fluted base around the outside in such a manner as to have a firm hold of it.
Dated the 8th day of June 1893.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Machinery or Frames for Spinning and
Twisting Fibres.
I ARTHUR WILSON METCALFE of Glass House Mill, Pateley Bridge, in the
County of York, 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 :-
These improvements relate to machinery for spinning and twisting fibres, such as
flax, hemp, cotton and the like, especially with the use of the ring system and
consists of means for the application of artificial heat to the ring rails where the
fibre spun or twisted is wet in order to evaporate any moisture that would otherwise
settle on the rings to the detriment of the spinning or twisting.

page_text: Also of improved means for driving the bobbin or spool in ring-spinning and
twisting frames.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shews my improvements by a side view partly in section.
Figure 2 shews a cross sectional view, taken on the line A-B of Fig. 1.
Figure 3 shews by side view, and Figure 4 by plan view, a spring hoop, to be
described.
The application of heat according to my invention is chiefly needed in wet ring
spinning for flax and embodies the use of a pipe or conduit C heated either by
steam or water, fixed close to, and preferably immediately underneath, the ring
rail D, in such a way as to impart a certain degree of warmth to the same, for the
purpose of evaporating the moisture settling on the rings arising from any cause.
The ring rail D is supported and actuated by the lifter rod E with head F fitting
the rail. The head has a groove or hole in it in which the tube C rests and rises
and falls with the ring rail D, imparting heat to it from steam or hot water
conveyed to it at one end. The heating pipe C may if desirable be held in some
fixed position underneath or near the ring rail, from the spindle rail or other fixed
point.
The heating pipe C may also be applied to the lifter plate of flyer frames in a
precisely similar manner, the bobbin lifter taking the place of the ring rail D.
In connection with the said heating pipe I may adopt means by which the heat
may be turned on and off intermittently if desired, by any suitable means (not
shewn in drawing) such as any known eccentric or by other convenient means in
order to increase or reduce the amount of heat to be imparted to the ring or lifter
rails according to requirements, but as this means of regulation forms no essential
part of my invention I make no claim thereto.
The improved means for driving bobbins or spools will be found useful in spinning
or twisting when the bobbin is required to be driven positively by the spindle or
warve, as in ring and cap spinning and twisting. The bobbin or spool a is shod
with a fluted metal piece b, around the base c, which base on its inner side fits the
spindle d above the warve of the spindle; and projecting about half an inch or
so above the base upon which the bobbin rests, is a circular hoop e, so made that
when the bobbin a is pressed down to its base on the spindle d, the hoop e, having
feathers e¹, e², e³, turned slightly inwards, receives and clasps the fluted base b around
the outside, in such a manner as to have a firm hold of it, as shewn in Figure 2,
thus driving it in the direction of rotation.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The arrangement or combination and use of a pipe, or equivalent parts, for
the application of artificial heat to the bobbin lifter, or ring rails, in machinery for
spinning and twisting fibres, such as flax, hemp, cotton and the like, substantially
as set forth.
2. The construction and use of a bobbin base, fluted or plain, fitting the spindle
internally, and being grasped externally, by the spring feathers pressing against the
surface of the base, or fitting into the flutes, in order to attain a more efficient or
powerful driving hold, substantially as set forth.
3. The arrangement and combination of parts of means for effecting improved
driving of the bobbin or spool in ring spinning and twisting frames as set forth.
Dated the 7th day of March 1894.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.