US1806A - Fliee for twisting silk - Google Patents

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EDWARD L. YOUNG, OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.

FLIAERY Foa Tw'Is'rING SILK, au.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 1,806, dated October 8, 1840.

To all wh-0m t may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD L. YOUNG, of Norfolk borough, in the county of Norfolk and State of Virginia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Twisting- Spindles; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a. part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective View of the improvements made on the spindle. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal elevation of the same.

Description 0f the construction Cmd operation 07 my intention-Hy first invention consists in an improvement I have made on the fiier of the twisting spindle: whereby the end-guide attached to it for receiving or delivering the thread, is extended to such a distance from the side guide, that abobbin can easily be put on, or removed from the axle of the spindle without disturbing the flier or end guide, which I thus effect, after the cross head of the spindle has been strongly united to the cylindric pipe of the customary spindle, viz: Near one end ofthe said cross-head marked 6, Fig. 1, of the spindle I affix a wire supporter marked 2, Fig. 1, say about one inch and three quarters in length; and run the same parallel to the axis of the spindle; the detached end of which wireI turn up in the form of the figure one, standing erect, and represented by No. L in Fig. 1, the turned up portion I term the side guide. I then take another piece of wire of about one foot in length;v

and at about one quarter of an inch from one of its extremities bend it-s end, so as to make an acute angle and represented by No. 3, in Fig. 1. This portion I term the end guide. At about one quarter of an inch from the angular point of said guide inward I again bend the said wire by giving it a curvilinear form, such as is customary in most fliers and from said curve I straighten the residue of the said wire. The curve with the residue of the wire first stated I term a supporter or flier of the end guide. The straightened end of this flier, marked 15 in Fig. 1, I strongly affix near to the unoccupied or remaining end of the aforesaid crosshead, marked 6 in Fig. 1, and when so doing I keep the straightened or second part of the said end guide marked 3 in line with the axis of the spindle, and at the same time place the inner part of said end guide at such an extended dist-ance from the crosshead of the spindle, that a. bobbin can be easily passed to or from the axle wire of the spindle without coming in contact with the fiier of the end guide.

New what I claim on this subject as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Extending the guide which receives or delivers the thread in aline with the axis of the spindle sufliciently far beyond the end of the spindle to enable the operator to remove the bobbin without removing the flier as described.

I do not claim as my invention merely making the flier so that the bobbin can be removed from the axis of the spindle without removing or displacing the flier as this has long since been done for spinning cotton wool, &c., but in these cases the guides were of equal length and at equal distances fro the cross-liead of the spindle.

Now the guides being firmly affixed I next proceed to my method of bracing the flier, and counteracting the centrifugal tendency of the improved flier, when in active operation; which I effect by means of a wire ring brace, which has its end or ends secured to the supporter of the side guide, which I thus effect. I take a piece of wire say about one foot in length and secure one end of about one inch and a half in length to al side of the wire supporter of the side guide marked 2 in Fig. 1, the detached portion I bent in the form of a circle or ring placing its plane at right angles to the axis of the spindle, at the same time making a part of the circle pass outside o-f, and precisely touch the improved fiiers exterior surface marked 17 in Fig. 1. I then secure the other end portion of the ring, to that portion of the ring, to that portion of the latter, it comes in contact with; or if more desirable, turn this just stated portion in line with the nearest side of the aforesaid side supporter marked l2 in Fig. 1, and firmly secure them together; by which method the flier of the end guide will be well braced to the supporter of the side guide, and its centrifugal tendency will be efectlually overcome.

For this my method of counteracting the centrifugal tendency of the flier, at the same time bracing the fliers or supporters of the side and end guides, I claim as my invenpipe marked 16, aiiX a flanged rollelfor a tion and desle to secure the same by Letband marked 7 in Figs. 1 and 2. ters Patent. September 19th 184:0.

Having accomplished thus far, I then ro- 5 ceed to the completion of the spindle by pss- EDXVARD L' YOUNG' ing through the cylinder pipe, marked 16 in Wfitnesses: Fig. 1, an axle Wire for receiving a bobbin .T01-IN TANIS, marked 14 in Fig. 1, also to the cylindric. JOHN VVHITEHURST.

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