IMPROVEMENTS IN SPINNING AND TWISTING MACHINERY
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Haseltine, of the "International Patent
Office," No. 8, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
SPINNING AND TWISTING MACHINERY."-A communication from abroad by
George Chatterton, of Providence, Rhode Island, United States of
America.
Sealed the 17th May 1867, and dated the 25th January 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Haseltine at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
25th January 1867.
I, GEORGE HASELTINE, of the "International Patent Office," No. 8,
Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "Iм-
PROVEMENTS IN SPINNING AND TWISTING MACHINERY," a communication, to be
as follows:-
The object of the said Invention is to obtain a regular and uniform
movement of the flier at a swifter speed that has hitherto been possible, and
also to afford means for doffing or removing and replacing the bobbins without
the necessity of removing the flier.

page_text: The first part of the said Invention consists in forming a journal upon the
nose of the flier to allow the same to revolve in a stationary bearing on the
machine above the said nose, and in revolving the said flier with the gearing
on the lifting rail by means of a pair of upright traverse rods or equivalent
device attached to the collar of a revolving gear wheel above the bolster.
The said rods are connected to the two ends of the flier by a pair of drag
links in which the said rods slide vertically with the lifting rail so that the
flier is carried and caused to revolve by the application of the driving power
to its two ends or arms instead of to its centre or nose as heretofore:
The second part of the said Invention consists in the mode of constructing
and arranging the tube which carries the bobbin, the bolster, and the spindle,
whereby the tube and bobbin may be caused to revolve with the said spindle
by means of the driving gear beneath. The spindle is by this means shortened
and does not extend above the tube when the same is in its lowest position ;
the bobbin can therefore be removed from or placed upon the tube when
the latter is in this position. The nose of the flier extends above the same,
and is fixed in a collar which revolves in the hub of an arm extending from
the top of the machine. One arm of the flier is constructed in the ordinary
manner, and is provided with a suitable presser for delivering the roving
to the bobbin. Two drag links extend at right angles to the said flier, and
are formed with a smooth hole or guide at the end for the reception of the
two upright traverse rods; the lower ends of these rods are fixed in a plate
on the collar of a toothed wheel with which wheel the said rods revolve, motion
being communicated thereto by a wheel carried on the shaft of the traverse
or lifting rail. A bolster is attached to this traverse rail, the barrel of which
bolster encloses a tube; this tube extends from the bottom of the said
bolster and upwards from the top of the same to a height required by the
length of the bobbin for which it is intended. This tube is held in place
in the bolster by means of a screw nut below the plate which carries the
traverse rods and by a collar fastened with a set screw above the said plate.
The said collar has a dog or projection near the tube, which projection fits
into a notch in the lower end of the bobbin, and carries the latter with the
tube when it revolves. The said tube encloses the spindle which is secured
in the hub of a wheel at the bottom and extends upward to the top of the
tube or nearly so when the latter is in its lowest position (but never above
the top of the said tube) and the bore of the tube is made larger than the
diameter of the spindle from the bottom upward toward the top for the entire
distance, with the exception of such space as is sufficient to furnish the
required extent of bearing for the spindle. The said spindle has a keyway

page_text: or groove extending throughout its length for the reception of a key fixed
upon the interior surface of the tube. By this. means the motion of the
spindle is communicated to the tube which with the bobbin on its upper endl
is caused to revolve. The tube and bolster, with the toothed wheel and
plate, and also the rods above the bolster, have a motion with the lifting rail
which moves the bobbin to and fro past the delivery of the presser to distribute
the roving evenly upon the bobbin; in doing this the traverse rods slide
in the drag links of the flier parallel with the arms of the same.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Haseltine in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th
July 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
HASELTINE, .of the "International Patent Office," No. 8, Southampton
Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said George Haseltine, Her special lic chat I, the said George
Haseltine, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said George Haseltine, my executors, administrators, 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 "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN SPINNING AND TWISTING MACHINERY," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said George Haseltine, iny executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, 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 I, the said George Haseltine, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be

page_text: -performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Sheet of
Drawings forming a part of this Specification:-
The object of the said Invention is to obtain a regular and uniform
movement of the flier at a swifter speed than has hitherto been possible, and
also to afford means for doffing or removing and replacing the bobbins without
the necessity of removing the flier.
:
The first part of the said Invention consists in forming a journal upon the
"nose" of the flier, which journal is fitted to revolve in a stationary bearing
on the machine above the flier, and in revolving the said flier with the gearing
on the lifting rail by means of a pair of upright traverse rods or equivalent
devices attached to the collar of the revolving toothed wheel above the bolster.
These rods are connected to the two ends of the flier by a pair of drag links
in which the said rods slide vertically with the lifting rail, so that the flier
is carried and caused to revolve by the application of the driving power to
its two ends or arms instead of to its centre or nose as heretofore.
The second part of the said Invention consists in the mode of constructing
and arranging the tube which carries the bobbin, the bolster on the lifting
rail which affords a bearing for the same, and the spindle, whereby the tube
and bobbin may be caused to revolve with the said spindle by means of the
driving gear beneath. The spindle is by this means shortened and does not
extend above the tube when the same is in its lowest position. The bobbin
can therefore be removed from or placed upon the tube when the latter is in
this position.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a spindle flier and driving gear illustrating
iny improvements; Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same, partly in section;
Figure 3 represents one arm of the flier and connection for driving the. same.
Similar letters indicate corresponding parts in all the Figures.
E is the flier, the nose a of which extends above the same, and is fixed
in a collar c, which revolves in the hub of an arm A extending from the top
of the machine. One arm f of the flier is constructed in the ordinary manner
and is provided with a suitable presser T for delivering the roving to the
bobbin. Two drag links L extend at right angles to the flier, and are formed
with a smooth hole or guide at the end for the reception of the two upright
traverse rods S; the lower ends of these rods are fixed in a plate E. on the
collar of a toothed wheel N with which the said rods revolve, motion being
communicated thereto by a wheel B carried on the shaft H of the lifting

page_text: rail R. A bolster D is attached to this traverse rail, the barrel of which
bolster encloses a tube P; this tube extends from the bottom of the said
bolster upwards through the wheel: N, and from the top of the latter to a
height required by the length of the bobbin for which it is intended. This
tube is held in place in the bolster by means of a screw nut 6 below and
by a collar m fastened by a set screw above the plate E which carrics
the traverse rods. The said collar has a dog or projection i which fits in:o
a notch in the lower end of the bobbin, and carries the latter with the tube
when it revolves. The tube P encloses the spindle I which is secured in the
Lub of a wheel G at the bottom and extends upward to the top of the tube
or nearly so when the latter is in its lowest position, but never above the top
top of the said tube, and the bore of the tube is made larger than the diameter
of the spindle from the bottom upward toward the top for the entire distance
with the exception of such space as is sufficient to furnish the require extent
of bearing for the spindle; the latter has a keyway or groove t extending
throughout its entire length for the reception of a key or projection 9 fixed
upon the interior surface of the tube P. By this means the motion of the
spindle is communicated to the tube, which with the bobbin on its upper end
is caused to revolve the tube and bolster with the toothed wheel and plate,
and also the rods above the bolster have a motion with the lifting rail R
which moves the bobbin to and fro past the delivery of the presser to distributo
the roving evenly upon the bobbin; in doing this the traverse rods S slide in
the drag links of the flier parallel with the arms of the same. By the mode
herein described of mounting and revolving the flier it will be seen that the
same is confined at each extremity, and that in consequence it is capable of
being driven with greater velocity than when mounted by the nose on the
top of a long spindle, and that all liability to wabble and the consequent break-
ing of the roving is avoided. It will also be perceived that by driving the
bobbin tube with a short spindle by the gearing beneath a sufficient space is
afforded above the end of the said tube and between it and the bow of the
flier to remove and replace the bobbin in doffing.
Having thus fully described the said Invention as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, and shown how the same may be conveniently
and advantageously carried into practice, I claim,-
First, constructing the flier with a journal at its nose whereby it is mounted
and suspended from above and with drag links or equivalent devices at the
ends of two arms for the purposes and substantially in the manner described.
Second, the combination of the traverse rods L or equivalent devices with
the said flier for the purpose and substantially in the manner specified.

page_text: Third, the mode of constructing and arranging the tube which carries
the bobbin, the bolster, and the spindle so that the bobbin tube will be
operated by the spindle, substantially in the manner and for the purposes
specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Haseltine, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
Witness,
WM. ROB. Lake.
GEORGE HASELTINE. (L.S.)