Improvements in and relating to Self-acting Mules, Twiners, and the like Machines.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 13th May, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 13th Feb., 1900-Accepted, 28th Apr.,
1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Self-acting Mules, Twiners,
and the like Machines.
I, THOMAS WILDE, of 83, Queen's Road, Oldham, in the County of Lancaster,
Cotton Spinner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in and relating to self-acting mules,
winers and the like machines and has for its object to provide means whereby the
aperture existing between the ends of the doors in front of the mule carriage can
be effectually closed and the dust thereby prevented entering the carriage
through the said apertures.
To this end my invention consists in applying to each or every alternate door
end a slide or flap adapted to close the aperture between two door ends, which
slide or flap may be actuated either by hand or automatically when opening and
closing the said doors.
When adapting the said slide or flap to be actuated by hand I furnish the same
with a button, stud or the like by which, when opening or closing the said doors,
the slide or flap can be slid or turned over or from the aperture respectively.
In arranging the slide to move automatically I may employ upon the door a
spring, the upper end of which bar or
bar or rod placed under the influence of a
rod is suitably connected with the said slide and the lower end adapted to bear
against the carriage or frame to which the said doors are attached, so that when
opening the door the said spring causes the said bar or rod to receed or fall
and thereby withdraw the slide from the aperture and when closing the same
the slide will be pushed across again.
In adapting the said flap to move automatically I may secure to its pivot or
spindle, one or two projections adapted to come into contact with the faller
bracket or other suitable fixture when opening and closing the said doors and
thereby push the said flap forward and back respectively, or I may place the flap
under the influence of a spring which keeps it over the aperture and when
the door is opened is pushed back by contact with the faller bracket or other
suitable fixture.
10th dow of May 1899.
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Improvements in and relating to Self-acting Mules, 1 wines,
and the like Machines.
I, THOMAS WILDE, of 83, Queen's Road, Oldham, in the County of Lancaster,
Cotton Spinner, 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.
movements in and connected with self-acting

page_text: mules, iwiners and the like machines and has for its object to provide means
whereby the aperture existing between the ends of the doors employed in front
of the spindles in mule carriage or in twiners or the like machines can be
effectually closed and the dust thereby prevented from entering the carriage or
having access to the spindles through the said apertures.,
To this end my invention consists in applying to or at each or every alternate
door end, a slide or flap shaped cover adapted to close the aperture between two
door ends, which cover, may be actuated either by hand or automatically when
opening and closing the said doors.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused to
be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings, marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures, showing a few of the most practicable
forms in which my invention may be carried out and for example applied to the
doors of a self-acting mule carriage.
Figs. 1 & 9 are front views of a portion of a mule carriage, Figs. 2, 3 & 6 are
vertical sections, Figs. 4, 5, 8 & 10 sectional plans thereof showing my improve-
ments applied, and Fig. 7 a back view of the cover shown in Fig. 6...
a is the mule carriage, are the doors, capertures between the latter; the
faller brackets, e the cover.
Referring to Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5, when giving the cover e the shape of a flap,
I hinge the same to a pivot f secured to the spindle step-board g-opposite to the
aperture c. The upper end of this flap when closed bears against the front
board of the carriage and the said pivot is made long enough to allow or moving
the flap e by hand laterally from and over the aperture e, see more particularly
Figs. 4 & 5.
When access to the spindles is necessary, the door b is opened as shown in
Fig. 3, the flap e moved sideways into position shown in Fig. 5 and afterwards
swung back, whilst when it is desired to cover the spindles again, the flape is
slid back and swung forward to its former position and the door afterwards
closed against it.
According to another form of my invention I may adapt the said flap e to open
and close automatically by making it laterally stationary and place it under the
influence of a spring i, see Figs. 6 & 7, which when the flap is hinged to the
spindle step board, as in the present instance, causes the flap e when opening
the door b, to follow the same and take up the position shown in Fig. 6 in
dotted lines, i.e. rest against the faller bracket d, whilst when closing the door b,
the latter by contact therewith will move it back to its normal position, see full
lines Fig. 6, or when hinging the said flap to the end of the carriage door, I may
place the same under the influence of a spring which tends to keep it over the
said aperture when the door is closed and when opened is pushed back by contact
with the faller bracket or other suitable fixture as will be readily understood.
Referring to Fig. 8 according to another form of my invention I may hinge the
flap e to one end of the door band cause the same to be opened and closed
automatically by securing to its pivot f a projection or projections, say two k, l,
adapted to come alternately into contact with the faller bracket d when opening
and closing the door band thereby push the flap forwards or back into its normal
position respectively.
Referring to Figs. 9 & 10 when giving the said cover the shape of a slide e I
mount the same in guides m fixed at one end to the back of the door b and adapted
to be moved across and away from the aperture c by hand, the arrangement shown
in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5, being however in most cases preferable.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
In self-acting mules, twiners and the like machines, in connection with the ends
of the door b, a slide or flan e adanted to close the prontvin

page_text: door ends, which slide or flap may be actuated by hand or automatically when
opening and closing the said door, substantially as in the manner and for the
purpose hereinbefore specified.
Dated this 19th day of February 1900.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicant.