Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Apr., 1887
Complete Left, 2nd Jan., 1888
Complete Accepted, 3rd Feb., 1888
JOSHUA VALENTINE EVES, of Brooklands Knock County Down Ireland Mill
Manager and SAMUEL HANNA 162 Falls Road Belfast Reeling Master do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
These improvements relate to that form of cage or frame employed to carry spinning
and other bobbins used for flax and other fibres in which the bobbins are kept separate
by being placed on pins.
These improvements consist in fixing a guard or guide between and around each
pin which guard or guide may be made of wire, net work or perforated sheet metal
and is fixed at such a distance from the bottom of the bobbins that they can only be
placed on the pins in the proper manner the edge of the openings in the guard or guide
effectually preventing the yarn on the bobbins from coming in contact with the pins
which are liable to be soiled by the grease or oil deposited on the inside of the bobbins
from the spindles and which would stain the yarn if it came in contact with the pins.
This guard or guide also acts as a conductor to the loose end of yarn left when
doffing so that when the bobbins are turned on their pins so as to wind up the free
end it is guided on to that part of the bobbin already covered with yarn and is
prevented from lapping round the greasy pins thus avoiding waste of yarn and pre-
venting its being soiled.
Dated this And La at tam 1007
JOSHUA VALENTINE EVES.
SAMUEL HANNA.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Carrying Bobbins.
JOSHUA VALENTINE EVES of Brooklands Knock County Down Ireland Mill
Manager and SAMUEL HANNA 162 Falls Road Belfast Reeling Master do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:—
These improvements relate to that form of cage or frame employed to carry spinning
and other bobbins used for flax and other fibres. in which the hobbins are kept separate
by being placed on pins.
These improvements are illustrated in the drawing herewith in which Fig. 1 is a top
view and Fig. 2 a section of a cage for wet spinning frame bobbins Fig. 3 is a longi-
tudinal section of a rack for a single row of bobbins constructed on the same principle
with guards between the bobbins Fig. 4 is a cross section of some of these racks
placed side by side in an open box and Fig. 5 is a top view of same.
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These improvements consist in fixing a guard or guide (a) between and around each
pin (e) which guard or guide (a) may be made of wire net work or of perforated
sheet metal as shewn in the drawing and it is fixed at such a distance from the bottom
of the bobbins (b) shewn in dotted lines that they can only be placed on the pins (e)
in a proper manner the edge of the openings in the guard or guide (a) effectually
preventing the yarn on the bobbins (b) from coming in contact with the pins (c)
which are liable to be soiled by the grease or oil deposited on the inside of the 2
bobbins () from the spindles and which would stain the yarn if it came in contact
with the pins (c).
The guard or guide (a) also acts as a conductor to the loose end of yarn left when
doffing so that when the bobbins (1) are turned on their pins (c) so as to wind up the
free end it is guided on to that part of the bobbin (1) already covered with yarn and
is prevented from lapping round the greasy pins (c) thus avoiding waste of yarn and
preventing its being soiled.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is
The guard described between bobbins in apparatus for carrying bobbins.
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