US246469A - Spinning-machine - Google Patents

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R. B. DALY. SPINNINGMAGHINE. No.v 246,469. Patented Aug. 30,1881.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

RICHARD B. DALY, OF NEWTON UPPER FALLS, MASSACHUSETTS.

SPINNING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 246,469, dated August 30, 1881.

Application filed April 4, 1881. (No model.)

To ali whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD B. DALY, of Newton Upper Falls, county of Middlesex, Stat-e of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Spinning-Machines, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention in vspinning-machines is an improvement on that class of spinning-machines known as speeders.77

y In this my invention the spindle, which does not traverse as it rotates, is made quite short, it extending from the step-rail up through the lier-rail and through the bottom of the ienjust far enough to enable its upper` end to enter the bobbin guide-rod above the head of a sleeve, which, surrounding the spindle, engages the lower end of the bobbin just above the bot-tom of the iiier. This bobbin guiderod, which receives and holds the bobbin during its rotation by the head of the said sleeve driven by the spindle, is loosely connected with the yoke at the top of the hier, so that the said rod may be raised or moved longitudi- `iially far enough t0 remove the lower hollow end\of the rod from or cause it to engage the reducefLupper end ofthe spindle. When the rod and spindle are disengaged the rod may be swung outward to remove a bobbin from the rod or put one on it; but when spinning,` is being done the rod and spindle are engaged, and the rod `serves both as a continuation of the spindle and as the center support for the bobbin during its rotation, the rod, as herein shown,I rotating with the spindle by means of the taper tit between the upper end ofthe spindle and the rod 5 but it will be understood that the fit between the spindle and rod may be such as to leave the rod substantially at rest.

Figure lrepresents, in front elevation, asuflicient portion of a spinning-frame to illustrate my invention, some of the parts being broken out to better illustrate their construction; Fig. 2, a partial side elevation, showing the guiderod swung out from between the Hier-arms as it will be when dofng. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail of the lower end ot' the flier, guide-rod, bobbin-tlier gear, its support or. bearing, and

the upper end of the spindle and sleeve; and Fig. 4 is a cross-section of the sleeve and spindle on the line x x, Fig. 3.

In speeders as heretofore made, so far as I am aware, the gear which drives the hier has had its support in a dier-rail, the spindle has been guided in a spindle-rail below the Hierrail, the gear for driving the spindle being located at the spindle-rail, and below these rails the lower end of the spindle has been supported in a traversing step-rail, thus requiring a considerable length ot' spindle below the bottom of the tlier. By my construction I have been enabled to materially shorten the length ofthe spindle below the bottom ot' the flier, and am therefore enabled to lower the iiier.

The spindle a has its lower end fitted to a step, a2, in the step-rail a", set preferably on or close to the mill-licor. and above the steprail the spindle has a gear, a', connected with it, which is driven by the gear d3 on a stud having at its upper end a bevel-gear, a", driven from a bevel-gear, a5, on a horizontal shaft, a6, extended lengthwise ot' the frame either outside or inside the spindles, such shaft d6 and its attached bevel-gears a5 being now commonly used in Speeder-frames.

The rail b receives the bolster b for the neck b2 ot' the dier-gear b3, the bottom-c ot' the ier d being connected with the top part, b4, of the flier-gear, so as to be driven by it. The hollow neck of the Hier-gear receives through it the sleeve e, having a head and collar, c, provided with a bobbin-drivingdog or stud, e2, ot' any usual construction. The lower end of this sleeve is supported upon a projection ot' the traverse-rail f, arranged at the rear side of the row of spindles of the frame, and operated in the usual manner, the traverse-rail being, however, in my plan located between the step and iiier rails. The sleeve e is connected with the spindle by a spline, a, so as to be rotated by but yet slide on the spindle. The spindle has its lower end or step bearing in a tixed .step-rail, and the sleeve is raised and lowered on the spindle by the traverse-rail, the head e of the sleeve, during its rotation, being traversed up and down on the guide-rod g, the dog engaging and rotating the bobbin t for spinning. The upper end of the spindle, projected just above the bottom of the flier, and above the head e when the sleeve is fully depressed, is, as herein shown, tapered or reduced in diameterto itaholemadeinthelower end of the guide-rod g, the latter, when upon the spindle, as in Fig. l, forming practically a continuation of the said spindle.

rlhe upper end of the guide-rod gis provided with a head, g', and a reduced portion, g2, below it, the head g', when in the socket made for its reception in the part h of the dier-yoke h2, serving to support the rod so firmly that it cannot move laterally at top; but when the guide-rod is lifted, as in Fig. 2, the head g is removed from the said receiving-socket, bringing the reduced portion g2 of the rod g opposite the part h ot' the yoke, so that the guiderod, its lower end being at such time lifted above and disengaged from the top of the spindle, may be turned or swung out from between the arms ofthe flier, as in Fig. 2, to dott the bobbin fi, which iu Fig. 1 is shown in elevation and which may be otan y usual construetion.

The hollow nose 7b3 of the flier, above the yoke h2, is steadied in the usual flier-plate, h4.

The Hier-gear b3 is driven by a shaft, Z., like shaft a, having a system of bevel-gears, l, like gear a5, each gear l engaging a bevel-gear, Z2, secured to the neck of the gear Z3, which engages and drives the flier-gear.

In my improved construction, with the rails located as described, the traverse-rail being between the dier-rail and the steprail, I am enabled in practice to reduce the length of the spindle below the tlier-rail-say, in a twelveinch traverse spindle, atleast nine inches-thus enabling the hier and usual roller-beams above 4o it to be correspondingly lowered, which is ot' great importance, as it enables the bobbin and usual delivery-rolls to be so lowered as to greatly facilitate clotting and enable the spindles and fliers to be run more steadily.

I claiml. The shortened spindle and fixed step-rail for it and the flier and Hier-gear and rail to support it, combined with the bobbin-engaging sleeve litted to the spindle and extended through the flier-gear, and with the tra-verserail and suitable means to operate it and rotate the spindle, substantially as described.

2. The shortened spindle, the fixed rail to support its lower end, the sleeve fitted to the spindle, as described, and provided with a bobbin-engaging head, and suitable means to rotate the spindle, combined with the lier and the loosely-connected bobbin guide-rod, adapted to tit the upper end of the spindle to retain the bobbin in place or to be disengaged from the spindle and swung out for dofting the bobbin, substantially as described.

3. The flier and its yoke and portion h,l1aving a socket therein, combined with the bobbin guide-rod having a head, and reduced in diameter below the said head to permit the head to belifted from the socket and the guiderod to be swung out ot' the flier, substantially as described.

In testimony whereofl have signed my name to this specification in the presence ot' two subscribing witnesses.

l RICHARD B. DALY.

Vitnesses WM. E. CLARKE, G. TAPPAN FRANCIS.

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