US156230A

US156230A - Improvement in spinning-wheels

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Publication number: US156230A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1874-10-27
Anticipated expiration: 1891-10-27

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT QEEIGE MURDOOK MCLEOD, OF ,GRAND HAVEN, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO ANDREW THOMSON, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT INV SPINNING-WHEELS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 156,230, dated October 27, 1'874; application led May 5, 1874.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, MURDocK MeLEoD, of Grand Haven, in the county of Ottawa and State of Michigan,'have invented an Improve,- Inent in Spinning-Wheels, of which the following is a speciiication:

The nature of this invention relates to an improvement in that class oi' spinning-wheels wherein the spindle isV driven by or through the agency of a foot-treadle; and it consists in the peculiar devices for releasing the spindle from the action of the driving-wheel, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

Figure lis a perspective view of my irnproved spinning-machine. Fig. 2 is an enlarged side elevation ot the head-stock, and the attachment thereto, ot' the lever, which raises the spindle away from its friction-driv- In the drawing, A represents a table, supported by standards B, between which is pivoted a foot-treadle, C, by means of which a drivingwheel, E, is actuated through a pitnian, D. F F are two standards bolted von the table, forminga head stock, between which is journaled a driving-shaft, G, :carrying a pulley, H, rotated by an endless cord, I, passing around thedriving-pulley E and the said pulley H. On the shaft G isa friction-wheel, K. L is the spindle, having a spooling-disk, a, and a friction pinion or pulley, M, adapted to run in contact with and be driven by the friction-wheel K. rlhe base or back end of the spindle runs in a step in the top of the standard F. The body of the spindlepasses through a slot, b, in the standard F, in which it may be raised so as to remove the pulleyM from the wheel K, but is normally kept in contact therewith by an elongated cap-bearing,

c, passing up through the top of the standard F, and pressed down by a curved spring, d,

attached at its base to one side of said stand ard. The shaft or spindle L is raised by a lever, N, pivoted to one side of the standard F with a lifting-rod, O, pivoted to its rear end, and whose upper end bears against the under side of the spindle. When the lever N is 4depressed by the hand, the spindle is no longer driven by the foot-treadle, and is free to turn in any direction, although the motion of the foot-'treadle may be kept up. The lever N may be arranged to be depressed by the foot, if desired.

The spinning of the carded rolls is done at the end of the spindle in the ordinary way, and when a length .of the yarn or thread is drawn, it is allowed to be wound upon the end of the spindle, when the spinner releases the spindle from the driving mechanism and unreels the yarn spun and wound upon the end, by pulling the yarn, after which the spindle is again allowed to be rotated, to wind the spun yarn upon the spindle near the spooling-disk a, when the spinning proceeds as before.

What I claim as my invention, and desire -the driving mechanism, substantially as described.

MURDOGK MGLEOD.

Witnesses ARCHE. BROWN, W. M. GAMPMAN.