US1139806A - Ring-frame tool. - Google Patents

Description

L. H. ROONEY.

RING FRAME TOOL.

APPLICATION man 001.22. 1912.

Patented May 18, 1915.

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a snare Tn FTQ LUKE H. RODNEY, ornnwennronn, MASSACHUSETTS, Assrenoze To THE WHITIN MACHINE WORKS, or WHITINSVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION or MAS- SAGHUSETTS.

RING-FRAME TOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 22,1912. Serial No. 727,161.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LUKE H. RooNEY, a citizen of the United States, residing in New Bedford, Massachusetts, have invented the following described new and useful Ring Frame Tool.

The invention is a tool for removing the travelers from spinning rings and, is designed to obviate the trouble and waste of time ordinarily experienced by the operative in prying or pulling the traveler off of the ring when it is necessary to remove it. The new tool operates by pressing the traveler against the ring itself and relies onthe high temper of the traveler to cause it to snap into pieces when distorted or flattened against the top or side of the ring; The tool comprises a part adapted to find a bearing on some solid part of the machine, and preferably upon the lower side of the ring rail itself, and another part adapted to overlie the spinning ring in a position from which it can be moved to press the traveler downwardly against the top of the ring and thereby snap it in two. Such an instrument is shown in preferred and modified forms in the accompanying sheet of drawings, where 1n Figure 1 is a perspective view of the tool in use, showing the ring rail and ring in section, and the traveler in dotted lines; Fig. 2 is a modified form of the same instrument, incorporating certain adjustments.

As will be seen from the drawings, the tool comprises a handle 1, to which the parts 2 and 3 forming the fulcrum member and the traveler-engaging member, respectively, are secured by means of a screw 4, shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. In this form, the said members 2 and 3 can be most conveniently made in one piece by striking them up from a blank of strap iron, forming the connecting part 5, with a hole to receive the set screw, or otherwise, whereby it can be screwed to the handle. The lower member 2 is preferably adapted to engage upon the under side of the front flange 6 of the ringrail 7, and for this purpose is provided with a shoulder 2, as indicated, which will hook on to the back edge of this flange in an obvious manner. The upper member 3, which may be parallel with the lower member, is also somewhat longer, depending upon the position of the ring 8 with reference to the front of thering rail, so that it will overlie the ring when in the position indicated in the drawing. The length of the back portion 5 is selected according to the depth of the particular rail flange and the height of the ring, so that in the said position it will be close to the top of the ring. The traveler 9 is brought to the front of the ring, and by swinging the tool on the shoulder 2 as a fulcrum, the member 3 will be forced downwardly and will break the traveler against the ring. The broken pieces will snap off to one side or the other and fall on the floor.

In the modified form shown in Fig. 2, the upper and lower members 3 and 2 are arranged to be relatively adjustable with respect to each other, so as to be thereby accommodated to different types or thicknesses of ring-rails and rings. The lower member 2, provided with the same shoulder 2 is in this form an L-shaped piece'bored with a hole to receive the handle screw 4. Between the back of this member and the end of the handle, an auxiliary back plate 10 is inserted, this plate being adapted to be adjustably clamped between the handle and the member 2 and having an oblong slot receiving the screw 4 for this purpose. The said plate has a rearwardly turned flange 11, and the top member 3 is adjustably secured to it by means of a clamp screw 12 passed through an oblong slot in the top member and threaded in the flange. By means of the two screws it will be evident that the travelerengaging member can be brought to any position necessary to enable it to reach and Patented May 18,1915..

overlie the spinning ring regardless of the depth of the rail flange or the distance of the ring therefrom.

It will be understood that the tool above described and herein claimed is capable of embodiment in other and dissimilar forms and that within the scope of the claim various other means of rendering the parts of the tool adjustable can be resorted to.

I claim:

A tool for crushing travelers upon spinning rings, comprising a handle, an upper longer part projecting therefrom and adapted to cover a portion of the ring a lower shorter part opposed to the upper part and projecting from the handle in the same di- I on said lower part, the handle side of which nesses.

V to press the said upper part against the ring.

rection, and an upward projecting shoulder specification in the presenee o if two I Witshoulder servesvas a fulcrum bearing upon the support of the spinning ring, whereby the upward movement of'the handle serves Witnesses: V

CLARA T. SMITH,

In testimony whereof, I have signed this GERTRUDE MCOAR Ys Copies of this'patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G,

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