Improvements in or connected with the Traveller Carriers of Ring Spinning, Doubling, and similar Frames.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 31st May, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 28th Feb., 1894-Accepted, 31st Mar., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with the Traveller Carriers of Ring
Spinning, Doubling, and similar Frames.
I JAMES BURTINSHAW, of Lever Street Tin Works, Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Metal Worker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
Hitherto in the construction of the traveller carriers of ring spinning, doubling
and similar frames it has been customary to attach thereto a short wire bracket or
support to carry, or to which is hinged the suspended traveller. In practice this
wire bracket or support has been found defective in as much as it has not been
sufficiently rigid to withstand the stress placed upon it, and any slight additional
pressure has tended to, or produced distortion in the bracket or support and thrown
the suspended traveller out of position.
This invention consists essentially in substituting for this wire bracket a firm
and rigid support which may be either in conical or hemispherical form or of other
dished shape, and hinging the traveller to this support by suitable means, and
consequently avoiding the objections inherent to those of ordinary construction.
In carrying out the invention I prefer to form the support of cone shape and to
solder or otherwise attach it to the cylindrical tube of the traveller carrier base
downwards at a section of the cone equal to the diameter of the cylindrical tube
of the traveller carrier, the disc on the cylindrical tube, where employed, being
attached above it. In the side of this cone shaped bracket or support I drill or
otherwise cut two small holes to receive the bar which forms the hinge for and to
Between these two
one extremity of which the suspended traveller is connected.
holes I may or may not cut a Vor other suitable shaped slot or slit to provide a
clear passage for the yarn or a hole in the side of the cone may be made for the
same purpose if necessary.
It will be obvious that the use of the cone or dish shaped support or bracket
will enable the spindle more readily to assume its position in the traveller carrier
and that the base of the cone may be made the bearing or surface in contact
with its bracket or carrier and so dispense with any intermediate disc or bearing
plate.
It will be understood that supports of other dished shape may be employed or
that the cylindrical shell and cone shaped bracket of the traveller carrier may be
formed in one piece thereby avoiding the necessity for their being made in sections
and subsequently combined or attached.
Dated this 30th day of May
1000
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with the Traveller Carriers of Ring
Spinning, Doubling, and similar Frames.
1, JAMES BURTINSHAW, of Lever Street Tin Works, Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Metal Worker, 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 :-
This invention is designed primarily to be applied to the spinning or winding of
the yarn upon a bare spindle or upon a thin tube or shell placed upon the spindle
in ring spinning doubling and winding frames.
Hitherto in this class of machine the traveller carrier has been constructed of a
short wire bracket to which the traveller has been attached or hinged or to which
it has been suspended. In practice this wire bracket or support has been found
defective in as much as it has not been sufficiently rigid to withstand the stress
placed upon it, and any slight additional pressure has tended to, or produced
distortion in the bracket or support and thrown the suspended traveller out of
position.
This invention consists in substituting for this wire bracket a firm and rigid
support or carrier for the traveller constructed of conical, hemispherical or other
dished shape to surround the spindle with a tubular prolongation to which the
traveller is pivoted or hinged.
It will be fully described with reference to the annexed drawings in which a part
of a ring spinning frame is shown to illustrate the invention.
Fig. 1. Front elevation.
Fig. 2. Side elevation partly in section.
Fig. 3. Sectional elevation.
Fig. 4. Sectional elevation of carrier and traveller (enlarged scale).
Fig. 5. Perspective view of same.
The spindle A, the spindle rail B, the traverse rail C, and the carrier bracket D
are of any ordinary or usual construction.
The traveller carrier or support E I construct of a hollow truncated cone with
a cylindrical tubular extension e the base of the cone extending downwards below
the carrier bracket D.
If desired the carrier E may be of bell shape or other corresponding shape, but
I at present prefer the conical form as I find that most convenient.
To the carrier E at the junction of the conical and cylindrical parts I attach
the drag or friction disc F by which the carrier is supported in position by the
bracket D and which gives the required amount of drag to the traveller to cause
the winding up of the yarn or thread.
The traveller G is formed of a wire arm or leg pivoted or hinged to the
carrier E and depending therefrom. The traveller G is pivoted to the carrier E
by means of two eyes y attached to the lower edge of the carrier or by means of
two holes cut therein and the traveller is of any convenient shape to receive the
yarn or thread and direct it onto the spindle to form the cop.
The drag disc F is provided with a slot or eye f through which the yarn passes
on its way down to the traveller and the side of the carrier E may be provided with
a similar slot or nick, but at present I prefer that the yarn should pass over the
outer surface.
The base of the cone shaped carrier E may be made wide enough to rest upon
the supporting bracket D and the drag disc F be dispensed with the traveller G
being pivoted inside the shell of the carrier E.
It is to be understood that the invention is contemplated to be applied to all
classes of spinning of fibrous materials where ring frames are employed such as the

page_text: dry spinning of cotton and wool, the wet spinning of flax, and the doubling, either
dry or wet, of yarns previously spun.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A firm or rigid traveller carrier or support for ring frames constructed of conical,
hemispherical or other similar shape with a cylindrical extension provided with a
suitable drag disc in combination with a depending traveller pivoted or hinged
thereto substantially as described.
This 7th 1...
Webma 1804
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Manchester, Liverpool, and London, Patent Agents.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Manchester, Liverpool, and London, Patent Agents.