Improvements in Spinning. Doubling, and Twisting Cotton and other Fibre, and in the Machinery therefor.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 11th May, 1887
Complete Left, 28th Jan., 1838
Complete Accepted, 2nd Mar., 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Spinning. Doubling, and Twisting Cotton and
other Fibre, and in the Machinery therefor.
We, HUGH STEVENSON Box Manufacturer of 71 Silver Street Portland Street
JOHN WEBB Manufacturer of 112 Grosvenor Street All Saints and SAM HALLAM
Engineer of Clitheroe Street Slade Lane Longsight all in Manchester in the County
of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of said Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
SPINNING DOUBLING AND TWISTING COTTON AND OTHER FIBRE AND IN THE MACHINERY
THEREFOR, to be as follows:-
Our present invention relates to the Invention for which Letters Patent No. 13440
were granted to us on the 6th day of November 1885 and also to the Invention for
which Letters Patent No. 4995 were granted to us on the 10th day of April 1886 in
both of which a hollow revolving tube or spindle with a wire or other spinning device
placed centrally over the top of said tube was employed and also to the Improvements
for which we applied for Letters Patent No. 3484 on the 8th day of March 1887 in
which we employed the hollow tube with a wire hook or spinning device placed
centrally at the bottom of said tube.
Our present Improvements consist chiefly in placing a flyer or other equivalent
spinning device below or at the bottom of the hollow revolving tube or spindle the
said spinning device being secured to the hollow tube. The rovings or yarn are taken
down the hollow tube doubled over the leg or one of the legs of the flyer or
equivalent spinning device and thence to a traveller or to an inverted flyer for
winding the yarn on to the spindle.

page_text: The effect of the flyer or equivalent spinning device connected to the hollow
revolving tube and used in combination with a ring and traveller or inverted flyer is
that as the yarn instead of being taken directly from a point at or near the centre of
the hollow tube to the traveller is first taken to the flyer or equivalent spinning device
on the tube and thence to the winding on traveller or inverted flyer the first flyer or
equivalent assists materially in driving or drawing round the traveller or inverted
flyer and thus tends to diminish and equalize the strain on the yarn being wound
upon the spindle or bobbin.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Spinning, Doubling, and Twisting Cotton and
other Fibre, and in the Machinery therefor.
We, HUGH STEVENSON, Box Manufacturer, of 71 Silver Street, Portland Street,
JOHN WEBB, Manufacturer, of 112 Grosvenor Street, All Saints, and SAM HALLAM,
Engineer of Clitheroe Street, Slade Lane, Longsight, all in Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, 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 :—
Our present Invention relates to the Invention for which Letters Patent No. 13,440
were granted to us on the 6th day of November 1885 and also to the Invention for
which Letters Patent No. 4995 were granted to us on the 10th day of April 1886 in
both of which a hollow revolving tube or spindle with a wire or other spinning device
placed centrally over the top of said tube was employed and also to the Improve-
ments for which we applied for Letters Patent No. 3484 on the 8th day of March
1887 in which we employed the hollow tube with a wire hook or spinning device
placed centrally at the bottom of said tube.
Our present improvements consist chiefly in placing a flyer or other equivalent
spinning device below or at the bottom of the hollow revolving tube or spindle the
said spinning device being secured to the hollow tube. The rovings or yarn are taken
down the hollow tube doubled over the leg or one of the legs of the flyer or
equivalent spinning device and thence to a traveller or to an inverted flyer for winding
the yarn on to the spindle.
The effect of the flyer or equivalent spinning device connected to the hollow
revolving tube and used in combination with a ring and traveller or inverted flyer is
that as the yarn instead of being taken directly from a point at or near the centre of
the hollow tube to the traveller is first taken to the flyer or equivalent spinning
device on the tube and thence to the winding on traveller or inverted flyer the first
flyer or equivalent assists materially in driving or drawing round the traveller or
inverted flyer and thus tends to diminish and equalize the strain on the yarn being
wound upon the spindle or bobbin.
And in order that our Invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect we will describe the accompanying two Sheets of Drawings reference being had
to the figures and letters marked thereon.
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation and Fig. 2 an elevation showing a hollow revolving
tube or spindle a, constructed substantially in the manner described in our aforesaid
Patents but now furnished with a flyer b secured at the bottom of the said tube or
hollow spindle a which is driven by a band acting on the wharve a¹ or otherwise.
The winding on spindle c shown in Fig. 1 is supported in a rail d and is caused to
revolve by means of the wharve c¹ or it may be by any other suitable means. The
rovings or yarn y is taken from the front drawing rollers not shown through the

page_text: hollow spindle a and doubled over one of the legs of the flyer 6 and is then taken
through the traveller e¹ to the revolving spindle c upon which it is wound. The
traveller e¹ is supported as usual on a ring e carried by the lifting or shell rail f.
g
Fig. 3 illustrates the use according to our Invention of a flyer b on the hollow
revolving spindle a in combination with an inverted flyer 9 for winding the yarn y
upon a bobbin h mounted on the revolving spindle c. In this arrangement the yarn
is taken from the flyer b to one of the legs of the flyer g and thence to the bobbin h.
The inverted flyer g is formed with a foot g' which is supported and free to revolve
on a washer i of leather or other suitable material on the lifting or shell rail to give
the requisite drag.
It is obvious that the use of the flyer b on the revolving hollow spindle a will tend
materially to diminish friction and to equalize the strain on the yarn being wound
upon the revolving spindle c or upon a tube or bobbin has the case may be and thus
a more uniform and consequently better quality of yarn will be obtained.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we would have it clearly
understood that we do not tie ourselves to any details of construction or arrangements
of the parts as herein shown as the same may be varied or modified without departing
from the nature of our Invention but we declare that what we claim is-
1. The herein described improvements in spinning doubling and twisting cotton
and other fibre consisting in the use and application of a flyer or equivalent on the
bottom of the revolving tube or hollow spindle in conjunction with a ring and
traveller or inverted flyer for winding the yarn on to the winding on spindle, tube, or
bobbin.
2. The combination with a winding on spindle or its equivalent and a ring and
traveller or inverted flyer, of a flyer secured to the bottom of the hollow revolving
tube or spindle a substantially as and for the purposes specified.
3. The construction combination and arrangement of the parts substantially as
and for the purposes herein described with reference to the Drawings annexed.
Dated this 27th day of January 1888.
H. B. BARLOW,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester,
Agent for Applicants.