Improvements in Flyers Used in Preparing or Spinning Fibres.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Jan., 1887.
Complete Left, 21st Apr., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 27th May, 1887.
PROVISIONAL, SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Flyers Used in Preparing or Spinning Fibres.
I AMOS PERRY, of 82 Wellington Road, Ashton-under-Lyne, Assurance Agent, late
Selfacting Minder in Cotton Mill, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be
as follows:-
This flyer is so improved that the Frame tenter can piece the ends much quicker
than on the ordinary flyers and without any extra twist or any rubbing or twisting
with the hands or fingers except that required in joining the ends together.
In this manner security is afforded that there will be no hard twisted roving when
the bobbins come to the mules.
My improvement is in the top part of the flyer and consists in the flyer being
opened or formed with a split at the press side of the flyers and extending from
the bottom of the eye to the top of the flyer so as to allow the roving to enter
into the slit or opening at the shoulder and then following the direction of the
slit to emerge at the top of the flyer and be then taken direct to the rollers.
With this construction of flyer there is no need for the frame to be stopped so long
a time as heretofore and whilst the roving is twisted and threaded up the flyer-all
that additional time being saved.
It will also effect considerable saving in roller leathers as there will be no hard
rovings to come through the rollers and the mule yard itself will also be improved.
Dated this 26th day of January 1887
JOHN G. WILSON,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Flyers Used in Preparing or Spinning Fibres.
I AMOS PERRY of 82 Wellington Road, Ashton-under-Lyne, Assurance Agent, late
Selfacting Minder in Cotton Mill, do hereby declare the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :—
This flyer is so improved that the Frame tenter can piece the ends much quicker
than on the ordinary flyers and without any extra twist or any rubbing or twisting
with the hands or fingers except that required in joining the ends together.
In this manner security is afforded that there will be no hard twisted roving when
the bobbins come to the mules.
On the accompanying drawing Fig. 1. is a front view of a Flyer embracing my
improvements, Figs. 2 and 3. are perspective views and Fig. 4. is a plan view of the
top part of the same flyer.
My improvement is in the top part A. of the flyer and consists in the same being
opened or formed with a split B. at the press side and extending at an angle as
illustrated, from the bottom of the eye C. to the top D. of the flyer so as to allow the
roving to enter or be drawn by the tenter into the slit or opening B. at the shoulder,
and then following the direction of the slit to emerge at the top D. of the flyer and be
then taken direct to the rollers. With this construction of flyer there is no need for
the frame to be stopped so long a time as heretofore and whilst the roving is previously
twisted and threaded up the flyer-all that additional time being saved. It will be
apparent that these improvements are equally applicable to flyers in which the eye,
instead of passing completely through the top part of the flyers, only enters from one
side. As applied to flyers used on slubbing frames it would save considerable time in
piecing and would thus obviate all hard ends proceeding to the intermediate frame.
By use on the flyers of intermediate and roving frames it would also save time in
piecing and prevent hard-ends going to the roving frames and mule respectively. It
will also effect considerable saving in roller leathers as there will be no hard rovings.
to come through the rollers and the mule yarn itself will also be improved.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare, that what I claim is :-
Constructing the top part of flyers used in preparing or spinning fibres with an
opening or split substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and
illustrated on the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 20th day of April 1887
JOHN G. WILSON,
Agent for the Applicant.