US36502A - Improvement in spinning-fliers - Google Patents

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2 Sheets-Sheet 2. S. BLOOD. SPINNING PLIER.

No. 36,502. Patented Sept. 23, 1862.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL BLOOD, OF MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

i-M PROVEMENT IN SPINNING-FL'ILE'RS.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL BLooD, otManchester,in the county ofHillsborough and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bobbin-Presses; and

I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, where similar parts'are represented by the same let- 'full size, spring and hinge joint left off; Fig.

6, a plan of-presserwithontjoint and spring.

The object of my invention is to produce a cheap removable presser for winding the roving upon any kind of bobbins, so constructed as to be more useful than other pressers now in use designed for the same purpose.

-To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will p'roceed to describe its mode of construction and the manner of its operation. I In the first place I make a clamp, (1, Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, of two parts m m, Figs. 3, 4, 6, of brass or other metal, the inside of a made to lit the flier a loosely, so that a will easily turnon c. The parts or halves m m are then put together, and a hole drilled through both for the reception of boltf, Figs. 1, 2. One end of fis headed, and its opposite end is threaded and screws into in, Fig. 3, and thus by means off and'shoulder n, Fig. 6, m and m are held together, forming the clamp 0.. There is another hole drilled through (1, Figs. 1, 2, into which is inserted a swivel bolt or stud, with its head at b, Fig. 1. Into its opposite end at b, Fig. 2, which projects beyond a, as shown by b, Fig. 3, is a notch or mortise, into which is inserted one end of the presser x. as shown at b, Fig. 2, :0 near I) having ashoulder to confine it in place, and being held in b by means ofia. rivet passing through I) and the flattened end ofw at b, Fig. 4, and there riveted, thus making with a: and b a hinge-joint at b, Figs. 1, 2, 3., 4, and by the revclutionofb in its bearings a revolving hinge-joint, for a purpose hereinafter described.

From a, Figs. 1, 2, 3, I make aprojcction, j. to which is riveted one end of spring i, Fig. 3..

i isa flattened spring. which is coiled around the flierarm or tube 0, Figs. 1., 2, several times, similar to the mainspring of a watch; and i at its other end is attached to the slotted segment Ii, Iiigs. l, 2, 3.

h isa thin piece of iron or segment of ahollow cylinder, reaching hal iway around 0, with a slot running nearly its length, portions of which are seen in Figs. 1, 2, 3, h being first made separate and confined in its place by 9, Fig. 1.

g is a screw that is let into 0, the head of 9 being large enough (see Fig l) to cover the width of It, and the barrel of 9 small enough to permit it to play freely through the slot in h. On loosing g, h may be slid along under the head ofg around '0 either way, and when tlie'desired amount of tension-on i has been attained g is screwed down into 0, its head coming down on h, and 9 thus holds h and i at such tension as the pressure of :0 upon its bobbin may require, and thus the pressure of as, may be regulated as from time to time is de' sired by tightening or loosening i, as described.

Whenever a bobbin is filled it must be removed from its spindle and an empty one placed thereon in its stead. In presses as heretofore constructed this removal has been difficult and somewhat troublesome, requiring both hands of the operative. To obviate this I have constructed the presser-arm a: with its swivel elbowjoint, as described, for the pur pose of readily throwing off the arm :0 from its bobbin when full in this'wayviz., by grasping cwith one hand and pressing the thumb on a'near f, Fig. 1, whereby w is relieved from its guides's" 8, Fig.2, when :rdrops by its own weight-into the position shown by the dotted lines ofac, Figs. 1, 2. The bobbin, thus released of its presser, is removed and an.- otheris inserted in its place with the same hand, when :r is again returned to its former position upon the bobbin, ready for another winding. All of this is readily performed with the same hand, while the other hand of the operative may be holding other bobbins or otherwise employed, causing a great saving of labor and time in this part of the work.

On a ats and s, Fig. 2, I make two projections or guides to hold :0 in its proper place while the bobbin is being wound. The space between 5' and s, Fig. 2, is a little greater than I bin. By my arrangement the presser-arm x,

the width of m, where it rests in this space toallow of aslight perpendicular mot-ion ofac on its bobbin, that m, by its shifting from s to s as the bobbin rises and falls, may adapt its delivery to the head of a bobbin and run its roving close to either head of the bobbin, so as to wind the entire band of the bobbin equally and evenly.

Through a, I make a small slot. through which 22 appears, as shown in Fig. 2.

o is a pin set'permanently in c for the purpose of limiting the revolutionof a and of holding a in its proper place on c, and also for holding a from whirling around a, when w is dropped, as before mentioned. After constructing'a as described and adding thereto its several parts, I proceed to balance or adjust my presser before placing it on its flier. I place the presser on a small spindle to seeif its parts are equal in weightthatis to say, if the parts of the presser on the several sides of the dotted lines k k, Figs. 1, 6, are of equal weight, so that the portion of a on'the left of k k, Fig. 1, shall exactly counterbalance the portion of a on the right of k 7:, Fig. 1, with the arm :0 extended upon its bobbin, as represented in Fig. 1. If the parts of the presser on this line is is do .so balance, then, and not till then, do I attach the presser to the flier. After putting the presser upon its flier-tube, I again balance the presser and its tube with the opposite tube or arm of the flier that the flier itself may be equipoised.

. Although thepresser, as shown in Fig. 6, is balanced perpendicularly on line 70 k, as described, for experiment or test, yet the presser is also balanced horizontally in actual use in its horizontal turning upon tube 0, Fig. 1, uporr k k, which imaginary dotted line' is intended to represent-the center line or the center itself of tube a. This heel (it might be called) of a, Figs. 1. 2, that is always on the side of the tube opposite w, and thus always counterbalancing was w is removed from the center of its bobbin in the process of filling, is the'precise particular in which my presser differs from those permanent] y attached to their fliers. The object of this balancing of the presser is to obviate the disturbance of the equilibrium of the flier caused in other pressers by the pressers arm being removed from the'center of thebobblns revolution in process of filling the bobbeing drawn back as it fills the bobbin, is always kept balanced by the opposite side of the presser, which turns in a direction opposite to that of the arm at, the two equipoised parts on the right and left of k k, Fig. 1, revolving around the center line of tube 0, as before'described. thuspreserving always the equilibrium of the flier while the bobbin is being filled, a result that is believed never before to have been attained.

I contemplate the using of a spiral spring coiled around the flier tube and attached to the presser in a manner similar tot, ifsuch aspring shall be found preferable to the one before described. The spring represented in the drawings by letter i is made similar to a watchspring, as before described. and'coiled around itself several times, every diameter of the different coils being of differentlengths and the spring itself covering a space on couly equal to the width of 2', as shown, Figs. 1, 2. 3; whereas by a spiral spring, I mean a spring with each coil surroundings, and each coil of the same diameter, winding like the worm or thread of ascrew,thus.maki ng the s-pi ral spring to occupy a space lengthwise of 0 equal to the several widths of the spring coiled'mult-iplied by the number of coils it makes around 0.

' Otheradvantages of my presser are that it can be more cheaply made and is put upon its flier at far less expense than presser-s that are soldered or brazed to their fliers. is more readily repaired, and is less liable to bethrown off of its flier by the fliers revolution.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The revolving hinge-joint in the arm of a presser, ,for the purposes described.

r 2. The guides ss for the arm at, constructed. substantially as described, whether a: is used with or without the spring and jointed arm. 3. The combination of the jointed presserarm :0, the guides s s, the spring 2', with its ad justments, and the construction and application of the presser to itsflier, so that the presser shall always be equipoised in theact of windin g, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

' SAMUEL BLOOD.

Witnesses:

Isaac RIDDLE, B. 1?. CILLEY.

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