US1528277A - Thread-cleaning attachment for textile machinery - Google Patents

Description

, Mar. 3. 1925.

. 1,528,277 M. C. STERLING ET AL THREAD' L ANING ATTACHMENT FOR TEXTILE MACHINERY Filed Sept. 2, 1924.

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THREAD-CLEANING ATTACHMENT FOR TEXTILE MACHINERY.

- Application filed September 2, 1924. Serial No. 735,375.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, MYRON C, STERLING and WILLIAM E. SADLADE, residing, respec tively, at Miffiinburg, in the county of Union, and Turbotville, in the county of Northumberland, both in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented-new and usefullmprovements in Thread-Cleaning Attachments for Textile Machinery, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention has reference, in its broad aspect, to improvements in thread cleaning and guidingattachments for use in conjunction with textile machinery, and with respectthereto attention isinvited to our prior patent ona similar attachment granted November 20th, 1923, Number 1,475,036. More particularly our present invention is designed to remove slubs, waste, and the like, from silk, cotton, tibreor other thread stock whether in the raw, spunnor thrown state, and at anystagc in the process of its manufacture into the finished product.

Our present invention not only differs in form from our previous attachment as described in the above identified patent, and other prior patented guiding and cleaning devices, but it also has certain advantages which are peculiar to it and are evidently unattainable by the structures of these prior devices. In the first place we have provided a guiding and cleaning attachment which may be adjustably mounted as anentirety upon any desired portion of a textile machine, and which when so mounted may be quickly and readily detached therefrom without employing special tools. Furthermore we have not only conceived of a unique method of effecting relative adjustability between the cleaning blades, but we have provided a novel spring clip for detachably and adjustably mounting the guiding element of the invention in proximity with the cleaning element so that our device is easily threaded and the proper tension maintained upon the thread stock.

To these and other ends which will hereinafter appear, our invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of parts described hereinafter and pointed out in the claims forming a part of this specification and to Which reference should be made in determining the scope of the invention.

One embodiment of our invention is represented by way of example int-he accompanying drawing wherein Figure 1 is a front elevation of our thread cleaning and guiding attachment,

, Figure 2 is a rear elevation of our inven-= tion,

Figure 3, an end view showing the manner in which the thread is fed to the guide and cleaning elements,

Figure 4i, a perspective view of the'cleanlng element per se, and

Figure 5, a detail view of the spring clip which is employed to detachably and 'adjustably hold the guideelement in place;

Like characters of reference designate like or similar parts throughout the several views of the drawing, in which The numeral (1) designates a base which is formed with. an angular top face (2) provided with a groove groove with its tang (4) rigidly'engaging in the material of the base, is a double elliptical, one piece spring" member (5) having terminal fingers (6) whichare directed from opposite ends: of thespring and are designed to detachably and adjust- ,ably engage a porcelain or metallic guide block (7 Theguide block (7) is formed with an angular recess in its base designed to fit over the angularly formed top face (2) of the base and obviously upon the exertion of pressure at its ends it may he slid along the base to an extent determined by the over all length of the spring. To dotach the block (7) it is slid past one of the fingers (6) and then released by moving it in the opposite direction. The block is provided with a slot (8) for receiving the thread stock designated X in Figure 3. Our thread cleaning attachment per se comprises an angularly formed plate (9) having elongated openings (10) in the base portion (11) thereof through which screws are engaged to mount the plate on the base (1). )Vhen so mounted on the base, the remaining portion (12) of the plate ex tends at an angle outwardly from the sides of the base, and integrally formed on the top edge of the portion (12) is a standard (13) which carries the fixed element (14) of our thread cleaning attachment. An adjustable blade element (15) is formed with elongated openings (16) through which screws or the like engage to hold it in 0- sition upon the portion (.12) of the pliite Seated in the and beneath the element (14). The distance between elements (14) and (15) may thus, manifestly, be adjusted to accommodate different sizes and kinds of threads and the path of travel of the thread through such members maybe regulated by adjusting the block (7).

While it is believed that the operation of our thread cleaning and guiding attachment is made clear in the foregoing, particular attention is invited to the fact that all parts are independently adjustable thereby facilitating and greatly increasing the sphere of usefulness of our device. The base member (1) may be either a permanent portion of a textile machine, or it may be detachable and adapted tobe clamped or otherwise secured to a machine.

l/Vhile we have in the foregoing elected to describe and illustrate only one form of our thread cleaning and guiding attachment it will be understood that we do not desire thereby to limit ourselves orconfine our invention to the specific details of such form, except as may be defined by the scope of the claims subjoined hereto.

Having described our invention with such attention to detail as will enable one skilled in the art to understand its construction and advantages, We claim 1. An attachment for textile machinery comprising a base, a thread guide carried by the base, a thread cleaning element carried by the base, said thread guide and said thread cleaning element both being inclined with respect to the base and extending therefrom on the same side thereof at relatively different angles.

2. An attachment for textile machinery comprising a base, a guiding element for thread carried by the base and inclined away from the vertical axis of the base, a cleaning element for thread carried by the base and arranged at a greater inclination from the vertical axis of the base than the guiding element and in the same direction, a spring member carried by the base for adjusta-bly and detachably retaining the guiding element in place, said cleaning element being adjustably mounted on the base and means for adjusting the guiding element to compensate for different gauges of thread. I

3. An attachment for textile machinery comprising a thread cleaning element formed with thread engaging members, means for adjusting one of said members with respect to the other, said cleaning element having an angularly formed body adapted to be adjustably attached to avbase, and means for adjusting the pathof travel of the thread through the' cleaning mem bers, said means including a spring pressed detachable and adjustable guiding block disposed in proximity with the thread cleaning element.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures hereunto.

MYRON C. STERLING. WILLIAM E, SALLADE.

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