Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Mar., 1886.
Complete Left, 25th Jan., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 8th Mar., 1887.
We JAMES DRABBLE of 72 Blandford Street, self-acting-minder and HENRY BRANDON,
of Coach and Horses Inn, Whitelands, overlooker, both in Ashton-under-Lyne in the
County of Lancaster do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to means for fastening the scroll-bands of such machines the
object being to obviate the necessity for splicing the same when broken, to save time
and trouble and to prevent the waste of the bands which at present takes place.
The scroll bands consist of cotton ropes and are employed usually two in front of the
spindle carriage for drawing the same up to the rollers and one behind the same for
holding the carriage back and preventing it from running violently against the
headstock.
These scroll bands are ordinarily fastened to the scrolls and to the carriage by
passing the end through a hole and tyeing a knot therein.
They are liable to become worn and broken and they almost invariably break within
a few inches of the scroll (where the heaviest strain occurs) and it then becomes
necessary either to put on a fresh rope or to splice a piece on; the first entails waste
of band and the second, time and trouble in splicing.
In order to obviate this we connect the band or rope to the carriage in the following
manner; we attach to the carriage at the front, and to the rack behind a bracket fitted
with a clip held on by two screw bolts.
The bracket and the clip are grooved inside and the band or rope being placed
between the two can be firmly secured by screwing down the nuts.
We fasten the end of the band or rope to the scroll by a knot in the usual manner,
and drawing the other end through the clip fasten it by means of the bolts. At this
end instead of making a knot and cutting off the end of the band or rope we leave a
considerable length thereof in reserve which we coil up and hang on to a peg or other
part of the carriage.
In the event of a band breaking, the broken end is removed from the scroll, the clip
is loosened, and the band or rope drawn forward until its end can be passed through
the hole in the scroll and knotted.
The band is then drawn tight and the clip is screwed down and the machine is
ready for work again, the only piece of band wasted being the short broken end near
the scroll which receives most of the wear and strain.
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicants,

page_text: We JAMES DRABBLE of 72 Blandford Street, Self-acting-minder and HENRY BRANDON
of Coach and Horses Inn, Whitelands, Overlooker both in Ashton-under-Lyne in the
County of Lancaster 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 means for fastening the scroll bands of such machines the
object being, to obviate the necessity for splicing the same when broken, to save time
and trouble, and to prevent the waste of the bands which at present takes place.
The scroll bands consist of cotton ropes and are employed usually two in front of the
spindle carriage for drawing the same up to the rollers and one behind the same for
holding the carriage back, and preventing it from running violently against the
headstock.
These scroll bands are ordinarily, fastened to the scrolls and to the carriage by
passing the end through a hole and tying a knot therein.
They are liable to become worn and broken and they almost invariably break within
a few inches of the scroll (where the heaviest strain occurs) and it then becomes
necessary either to put on a fresh rope or to splice a piece on; the first entails waste of
band and the second time and trouble in splicing.
In order to obviate this we connect the band or rope to the carriage in the following
manner which will be readily understood on reference to the sheet of drawings
hereunto annexed on which Fig. 1 is a side elevation, Fig. 2 a front elevation, and
Fig. 3 a plan view of the bracket which we attach to the front of the carriage. Fig. 4
is an elevation of the bracket applied to the rack (behind the carriage as hereinafter
mentioned) which is also sometimes used instead of the bracket shown at Figs. 1, 2, 3.
We attach to the carriage at the front (see Figs. 1, 2 and 3,) and to the rack
behind (see Fig. 4,) a bracket a, a fitted with a clip b, b held on by two screw bolts c, c.
The bracket a, a and the clip b, b are grooved inside and the band or rope d, d¹ being
placed between the two can be firmly secured by screwing down the nuts e, e.
We fasten the end of the band or rope d, d¹ to the scroll, by a knot in the usual
manner and drawing the other end through the clip b, b fasten it by means of the
nuts e, e and bolts c, c. At this end instead of making a knot and cutting off the end
of the band or rope we leave a considerable length thereof (not shown on the drawing)
in reserve which we coil up and hang on to a peg or other part of the carriage.
In the drawing the end d goes to the scroll, and the end d¹ is the loose end left of
suitable length.
In the bracket shown at Figs. 1, 2, and 3, we prefer to make the groove bent as
shown at Fig. 3, both for convenience in hanging the loose end d³ to the carriage and
also to obtain a firmer hold on the rope.or band,

page_text: In the event of a band breaking, the broken end is removed from the scroll the
clip 6,6 is loosened and the band or rope drawn forward until its end can be passed
through the hole in the scroll and knotted.
The band is then drawn tight and the clip b, b is screwed down, and the machine is
ready for work again, the only piece of band wasted being the short broken end near
the scroll which receives most of the wear and strain.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we claim is :-
The means (substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the drawings)
for fastening or attaching the scroll bands or ropes to the carriages of self acting
mules and twiners.
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicants.