IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PRE- PARING, SPINNING, AND DOUBLING FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1862

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edmund Suckow and Edward
Habel at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 2nd October 1862.
We, EDMUND SUCKOW, and EDWARD HABEL, both of the City of Manchester,
in the County of Lancaster, Engineers and Machinists, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PRE-
PARING, SPINNING, AND DOUBLING FIBROUS MATERIALS," to be as follows:-
Our Invention relates to mechanism for twisting a sliver or thread, and at
the same time winding it upon a bobbin, and it consists in a combination and
arrangement of mechanism by which the bobbin is simultaneously rotated
upon its own axis, so as to wind and distribute the thread upon it and revolved
in a plane passing through its axis to put the twist in the sliver or thread, and
this combination and arrangement of mechanism consists of a frame having
a journal bearing at one end and a footstep bearing at the other end, and at
the journal end a pulley by which the frame is rotated by a suitable band.
At the footstep end of the rotating frame a worm or screw thread is fixed,
and this worm geers with a worm wheel fixed upon a short shaft which is
carried by bearings attached to the rotating frame and at right angles to the
axis thereof, so that as the said frame is rotated it carries the worm wheel
round the fixed worm, and thus rotating motion is obtained for winding and
distributing the sliver or thread upon the bobbin; motion is conveyed from the
short shaft to a fluted roller, and also to another short shaft, both the fluted

page_text: roller and second short shaft having bearings in the rotating frame and have
their axes placed parallel to the first named short shaft. Upon the second
short shaft a double or return screw thread is formed which acts upon a swivel
die carried by a boss sliding upon the screw shaft, and this sliding boss carries
the guide which distributes the sliver or thread upon the bobbin. The bobbin
upon which the sliver or thread is to be wound is placed upon a short spindle
with its axis parallel to, and its surface in contact with that of the fluted
roller. The ends of the spindle of the bobbin come in bearings which slide
in the rotating frame parallel to its axis and these sliding bearings are acted
upon by suitable springs, so that the bobbin is pressed with sufficient force
ngainst the fluted roller, these springs give way and allow the bearings to
lift as the bobbin fills with material. The sliver or thread passes from
suitable drawing rollers through the hollow axis of the journal end of the
rotating frame, then through the distributing guide, and lastly on to the bobbin.
To keep the sliver or thread from becoming slack when the guide is at the
middle and tight when at the ends of the bobbin, the guide is caused to
rotate partly round the returned screw by means of a bent bar passing across
and attached to the rotating frame, which bar changes the position of the
guide, so that the sliver or thread is pushed further from or brought nearer
to a plane passing through the axis of the bobbin and rotating frame, and
thus the thread is prevented from become alternately tight and slack. For
preparing, spinning, and doubling purposes, any convenient number of apparatus
constructed as described may be placed in a frame either in a horizontal or
vertical position and the rotating frames so arranged are each driven by a
band from a roller passing from end to end of the machine.
Our Invention further consists in arranging apparatus constructed upon
the principle above described with their axes in a vertical position and so that
one series of them will be above and the other below the level of rollers
delivering sliver or thread to both series, by this means a considerable amount
of space is economised.