Improvements in or connected with the Porcelain Guide Eyes in the Top or Wire Board of a Spinning Frame.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Sept., 1897-Accepted, 30th Oct., 1897
Improvements in or connected with the Porcelain Guide Eyes in the
Top or Wire Board of a Spinning Frame.
I, ALBERT HOLDEN ILLINGWORTH of Whetley Mills Bradford, in the County of
York, Worsted 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 certain improvements in spinning, and has for its
object, the prevention of double yarn being made. When ends break down on
a frame as ordinarily constructed, the broken end travels along the top or wire
board right or left to the next thread being spun and unites with it, thus making
double yarn which is not only waste when such is detected and cleared from the bobbin
or the like on which it is spun, but in the event of its not being detected, when
used in the weaving of fabrics, the piece is damaged by the fact of the double yarn
being present.
My object is also to be enabled to mount more spindles on a frame of given
length than has been accomplished with beneficial results when the frame is
constructed in the manner as hitherto.
In carrying out my invention the spindles are mounted and driven in the
usual manner,
but are of closer pitch whereby a greater number of spindles can
be utilized in a given length.
The great advantage of the closer pitch of the spindles permissable by the
adoption of my improvement is manifest in the fact that in one room of my mill,
I can now have over 8,000 spindles, whereas under the old arrangement 6,000
spindles was the maximum number.
In describing my invention in detail, reference is made to the accompanying
drawings in which Fig. 1. represents a sectional elevation of such portions of a
spinning frame as are required to illustrate my invention and,
Fig. 2. is a front view thereof.
The front rollers A and B. of the frame are mounted and driven in the manner
as hitherto, as are also the tubes on the stationary spindles C. which by my im-
provement I am enabled to place nearer together than has been the case when
the fibre D. is passed unprotected from the front rollers A. and B. to the bobbin
or the like E. in the manner as hitherto.
The top or wire board F. is hinged to the rail G. and opposite to each pair of
rollers A. and B. a porclain eye H. for guiding the thread is secured in the said
top or wire board. Around each porclain eye H. is secured a circular or other
suitably shaped guard J. raised some distance above the level of the top or wire
board.
An important part of my invention is in the construction of the guard J. of
such a nature as to prevent the possibility of the thread being spun, touching the
guard J. at all, as in the case of short stapled fibre such contact with the guard
would ruin the yarn, as in such case, that is, touching the guard, 'the twist could
not run up to the rollers and in consequence the thread would break.
By constructing a guard J. of such a nature as to encircle the porclain eye H.

page_text: and project some distance above the upper surface of the top or wire board F.
should a thread or end D. break and fall upon the top or wire board F. it cannot
come in contact with an adjacent thread and combine therewith as is now often
the case when the porcelain eye is unprotected and the spindles spaced at the
ordinary pitch, but as will be readily understood by persons conversant with
spinning the liability of a broken thread or end uniting with an adjacent thread
would be greatly increased in a frame in which the spindles were made of finer
pitch than hitherto, and no provision made for preventing the union of a broken
thread with an adjacent thread; this difficulty by my improvement is entirely
overcome.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
1. The formation of a guard of such construction to prevent the thread coming
in contact with the same secured to the top or wire board, and in combination with
an ordinary porcelain eye H. arranged substantially as shown and described.
2. The top or wire board F. of a spinning frame combined with a porclaín eye
guide H. and a guard J. surrounding same in a manner that, the thread D. is
clear of the guard when travelling from the front rollers to the bobbin or the like
on the spindle, for the purpose as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 4th day of September 1897.
JOHN WAUGH,
Agent.