Improved Means of Mounting Rings and Traveller Clearers of Ring Spinning and Doubling Frames.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 12th May, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 11th Feb., 1893-Accepted, 11th Mar., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means of Mounting Rings and Traveller Clearers of Ring
Spinning and Doubling Frames.
EDMUND TWEEDALE, SAMUEL TWEEDALE, & JOSEPH SMALLEY, Machine
Makers, Castleton near Manchester, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object the securing of the rings, in ring spinning and
doubling frames to the ring rail & for keeping the traveller free from loose fibres.
In carrying out our invention we form a recess in the ring rail that fits snugly the
lower flange of the ring thus setting it to its working position. We secure the ring in
this recess by a plate & screw, the ends of which plate rest on the bottom flanges of
the rings. These plates have prongs bent at an angle for the purpose of keeping
the travellers free from loose fibres.
The plates are slightly curved, the ends resting by preference on the bottom
flanges of the two adjacent rings with one screw in the centre.
We prefer to put traveller clearers at one end only of the plates but both ends
can be made with projection for traveller clearer and thus answer for two rings,
every alternate plate being then made without. Where the plates rest on one
ring only, extra screws are required for screwing them to the ring rails.
EDMUND TWEEDALE.
SAMUEL TWEEDALE.
JOSEPH SMALLEY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means of Mounting Rings and Traveller Clearers of Ring
Spinning and Doubling Frames.
We, EDMUND TWEEDALE, SAMUEL TWEEDALE, and JOSEPH SMALLEY, of
Globe Works, Castleton, near Manchester, Machinists, 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 has for its object the securing of the rings to the ring rail in ring
spinning and doubling frames; and also means for keeping the traveller free from
loose fibres.
Such being the nature and object of our invention we will proceed to describe
the same more fully, and for that purpose make reference to the accompanying sheet
of drawings illustrative thereof, wherein Fig. 1 is a plan, and Fig. 2 sectional
elevation of our improved method of mounting and securing rings to their rails, and
also the means we employ for keeping the travellers free from loose fibres.
In carrying out our invention we employ rings A having a flange or a recess on
both sides or top and bottom. The ring rail B is bored or formed with a recess, in
which the lower flange of the ring A snugly fits, whereby it is at once set. to its
working position, care being taken that the size of the bored part allows for no
lateral movement. The ring A is made secure and held in position by a plate C
which may be provided with a screw a, the outer edges of said plate being large
enough as to rest on the edge of the bottom flanges of two adjacent rings A as shewn
clearly in plan view Fig. 1, so that only one holding down plate C is required
between each ring.
At the end of each length of adjoining ring rails the screwed plates Care

page_text: reduced in diameter as shewn at.D in Figs. 1 and 2, and they fit only the edge of
one ring and this arises in consequence of the joining of the rails.
Instead of forming a screwed stud or peg a on the underside of each plate C we
may employ a nut bas shewn in section Fig. 2, and instead of using a circular
plate C we may employ one having two concave ends as shewn at E in Fig. 3,
which, as will be seen and understood fits closely to the body of the ring A and
possesses more holding surface on the flanges of the ring than is the case with a
circular plate like those previously described and shewn in Fig. 1.
The clearers for removing bits of loose fibres from the travellers are shewn at F
and they are composed of metal cut or otherwise formed out of the same metal as
the holding down plate C. These clearers are made to stand erect or vertical
as shewn in Fig. 2, and they serve the purpose of keeping the travellers free from
fibres.
In the drawings only one clearer F is shewn as rising up from each plate C, but
we may make two clearers rise up from one plate, so as to act upon two travellers,
in which case the plates having these clearers would only be required between the
rings alternately.
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 :-
Firstly. In ring spinning and doubling frames where double flanged rings are
employed resting in a recess in the ring rail and having no lateral movement, the
use therewith of holding down plates C and D resting on the bottom flanges of the
rings as herein described and shewn in Figs. 1 and 2.
Secondly. In ring spinning and doubling frames, the use of holding down plates
or screws such as C, formed with one or two traveller clearers as shewn and
described.
Dated this Tenth day of Fahre 1902
EDMUND TWEEDALE.
SAMUEL TWEEDALE.
JOSEPH SMALLEY.