AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR LUBRICATING THE SPINDLES OF CAP SPINNING AND DOUBLING FRAMES, WHICH APPARATUS IS ALSO APPLICABLE AS A CLEANER TO FLYER SPINNING AND DOUBLING FRAMES
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Clough, of Grove Mill, in the Parish of
Keighley, in the County of York, Worsted Spinner and Manufacturer,
and Prince Smith, the elder, of Holly House, in the said Parish,
Machine Maker, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND
APPARATUS FOR LUBRICATING THE SPINDLES OF CAP SPINNING AND DOUBLING
FRAMES, WHICH APPARATUS IS ALSO APPLICABLE AS A CLEANER TO FLYER
SPINNING AND DOUBLING FRAMES."
Seale the 5th January 1867, and dated the 16th July 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Clough and Prince
Smith at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 16th July 1866.
We, ROBERT CLOUGH, of Grove Mill, in the Parish of Keighley, in the
County of York, Worsted Spinner and Manufacturer, and PRINCE SMITH, the
elder, of Holly Llouse, in the said Parish, Machine Maker, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS
FOR LUBRICATING THE SPINDLES OF CAP SPINNING AND DOUBLING FRAMES, WHICH
APPARATUS IS ALSO APPLICABLE AS A CLEANER TO FLYER SPINNING AND DOUBLING
FRAMES," to be as follows -
This Invention may be applied in two ways, firstly, by making a recess in
the bobbin lifter in connection with each spindle; or, secondly, by fixing a
cup made of tin, brass, copper, or any other suitable material to the bobbin
lifter which traverses up and down the spindles, such recess or cup being
filled with cotton or other absorbent material saturated with oil.
It will be evident that this Invention is equally applicable for lubricating

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Clough and Pince Smith in the Great Scal Patent
Ofhce ou the 12th January 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ROBERT
CLOUGH, of Grove Mill, in the Parish of Keighley, in the County of York,
Worsted Spinner and Manufactures, and PRINCE SMITH, the elder, of Holly
House, in the said Parish, Machine Maker, send giceting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Robert Clough and Pine Sunch, Her special licence that we, the said
Robert Clough and Prince Smith, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said Robert Clough and Prince Smith, our executors,
admistrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR
LUBRICATING THE SPINDLES OF CAP SPINNING AND DOUBLING FRAMES, WHICH
APPARATUS IS ALSO APPLICABLE AS A CLEANER TO FLYER SPINNING AND DOUBLING
FRAMES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Robert Clough
and Prince Smith, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our, or one of our, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Robert Clough and Prince Smith, do
hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement in writing, and on reference to the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, that is to say. -
This Invention may be applied in two ways, firstly, by making a recess

page_text: in the bobbin lifter in connection with each spindle, or, secondly, by fixing a
cup made of tin, brass, copper, or any other suitable material to the bobbin
lifter which traverses up and down the spindles, such recess or cup being
filled with cotton or other absorbent material saturated with oil, or with a
suitable lubricating composition.
It will be evident that this Invention is equally applicable for lubricating
the spindles of cap spinning and doubling frames, and for cleaning the
spindles of flyer spinning and doubling frames.
The principal advantages to be denved from the use of our Invention
instead of the present mode of lubricating by hand are as follows.―
Firstly, a saving of oil; the ordinary cap spinning spindle requires oiling
three or four times in the day, whilst by the use of our Invention the absorbing
material only requies to be replenished with oil or the composition to be
renewed once a week. The ordinary cap twisting spindle requires oiling
five times a day, whilst our improved lubricator will only require replenishing
or renewing twice a week.
Secondly, a saving of labor, as the cap spinning spindle will only require
oiling once a week, and the twisting spindle twice a week, instead of every
spindle requiing oiling from eighteen to thirty times a week as at present
Thudly, a saving of power, because the spindles being more regularly
lubricated will keep cool and will require less power to drive them.
Fourthly, there will be less wear and tear and more uniformity in the speed
of the tube and the twist of the yarn, as the fiction will be diminished.
And, fifthly, our Invention presents the advantage of increased cleanliness.
In the ordinary method of oiling the spindles from one half to three quarters of
the oil is thrown off by the centrifugal force generated by the speed at which
the tubes revolve, and thus greases the frames and floor, but by our Invention
none of the oil is thrown off, as only a sufficient quantity is drawn up out
of the recess or cup to lubricate the spindle.
Such being the nature and object of our said Invention for "An Improved
Method of and Apparatus for Lubricating the Spindles of Cap Spinning
and Doubling Frames, which Apparatus is also applicable as a Cleaner to Flyer
Spinning and Doubling Frames," we will now proceed to describe more in detail
the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into
practical effect, and in order that the sanie may be distinctly understood we have
annexed hereunto a Sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof, and have marked
the same with figures and letters of reference corresponding with those in the
following explanation thereof, that is to say
In the annexed Diawing Figure 1 is a front view of a cap spinning spindle

page_text: and its adjuncts with our Invention applied thereto; Figure 2 is a sectional
view of the same, showing the application of a recess formed in the bobbin
lifter itself, and Figure 8 is a similar view showing the application of a cup
attached to the bobbin lifter.
In these three views a, a, represents the spindle rail; b, b, the bobbin
lifter; c, c, the spindle, d, d, the cap, and e, e, the revolving tube which
carries the bobbin; f,f, is a washer upon which the tube revolves, and g, g,
is the oil reservoir.
In Figure 2 this reservoir is formed by casting bosses or projections in the
lower side of the bobbin lifter and recessing out the same from the upper
side. In making a new frame this is the simpler method.
In Figure 3 the bobbin lifter is bored through and a small cup of brass or
other metal inserted therein. By this method old frames can be readily
adapted without putting in new bobbin lifters.
Having now described the nature and object of our said Invention for "An
Improved Method of and Apparatus for Lubricating the Spindles of Cap
Spinning and Doubling Frames, which Apparatus is also applicable as a
Cleaner to Flyer Spinning and Doubling Frames," together with the manner
in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into practical effect,
we would remark in conclusion that we claim as our Invention the use or-
employment for such purposes of a recess or cup formed in or adapted to the
bobbin lifter in connection with the absorbent or lubricating composition,
substantially in the manner herein-before set forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said Robert Clough and Prince Smith,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this First day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the said
Robert Clough and Prince Smith in
the presence of
WILLIAM BURR,
Solicitor,
RUDER
PRINCE SMITII.
(48)
(L S.)
Keighley.