US220158A - Improvement in spindles for spinning machinery - Google Patents

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E. T. LANPHEAR. Spindle for Spinning Machinery.

No. 220,158. Patented Sept. 30,1879.

II/Zbzesses UNITED Brin/ runs PATENT .OFFICIEL EDWIN T. LANPHEAR, OF PHENIX, RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN SPINDLES FOR SPINNING MACHINERY.

Specification forming part of Letters' Patent No. 220,158, dated September 0, 1879; application filed February 20, 1879.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Beit known that I, EDWIN T. LANPHEAR,

ot Phenix, in the county of Kent and State of The invention consists in a combination of a hollow spindle having one or more passages vthrough it, a jacket of fibrous material Varranged around the upper part of said spindle for distributing the lubricating material, a rotating shell for carrying the cop, spool, or bobbin arranged around or outside of said jacket, an oil-receptacle below the spindle, and a wick for supplying oil from said receptacle to said jacket, whereby an easy and steady running action is obtained for the shell and a perfect lubrication ofthe same is effected.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents an outside view, in elevation, ot' a spindle constructed in accordance with my invention, and Fig. 2 a sectional longitudinal view of the same.

A is the spindle, which is a stationary or dead one, driven or otherwise secured firmly into a base, B, which is secured to the rail C. This spindle is what may be termed an inverted77 one, inasmuch as, instead of having a step-bearin g below, it has a dead stepor center, b, at its head or top for a shell, fD, which carries the cop, spool, or bobbin, togturn upon, said shell carrying a live step, c, which works in or on the dead step or center f7), accordingly as the respective portions of 'such upper stepbearing are male or female. All that is done by this upper step-bearing is to support the weight of the shell D and cop, spool, or bobbin carried by it. The lower part of the shell D is fitted with a bushing to form a lower lateral guide or bearing, d, for the rotating shell D, and whereby, in connection with the upper step-bearing of or for the shell D, said shell is steadied in its run or rotation. Attached to the lower end of the shell D, and in close proximity to the spindle-base B, is the whirl E, by which the shell is rotated.

The spindle A is made hollow from its lower end, which is open, to or above the upper end of the guide d, and the spindle-base B, which is also hollow or tubular and open at both ends, has tted or screwed into its lower end an oil-receptacle, G, having a supplyopening, c. The part of the spindle A above the guide d is of such reduced diameter as to provide for the arrangement around it and between it and the interior of the shell D ot' a lubricating-jacket, H, of felt or other suitable fibrous material. This jacket is supplied with oil by capillary attraction from the oil receptacle Gr by means of one or more wicks, I, arranged to pass up from said receptacle through the tubular spindle-base B, through the hollow or tubular part g of the spindle, and out through one or more lateral apertures, h, in the tubular part of the spindle under cover ot' the jacket H, thus lubricating the shelLD to provide for its easy rotation around the spindle. Oil escaping from below the shell or its whirl is returned to the receptacle G by means of one or more longitudinal passages, lc, in the spindle-base B. It is preferred to secure the spindle-base B to its place in the rail O by means ot' one or more set-screws.

I claim- The combination, with a spindle for spinning machinery, made hollow or tubular, and with one or more passages through it, of a jacket ot fibrous material arranged around the upper part of said spindle, a rotating shell for carrying the cop, spool, or bobbin arranged around or outside ot said jacket, an. oil-receptacle below the spindle, and a wick for supplying oil from said receptacle to said jacket, substantially as specified.

EDWIN T. LANPHEAR.

Witnesses:

E. C. GAPWELL, E. B. PARKER.

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