US684519A - Spinning and doubling frame. - Google Patents

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- N0. 684,5|9. Patented Oct. l5, l90l.

R. W. MDNCR|EFF. SPINNING AND DOUBLING FRAME.

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SPINNING AND DO-UBLING FRAME.

(Applicatioziflled Nov. 27; 1899.) (No Modl.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT VVIGHTON MONORIEFF, OF NEYVPORT PAGNEL, ENGLAND.

SPINNING AND DOUBLING FRAME.

gPIECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 684,519, dated October 15, 1901. Application filed November 27, 1899. Serial No. 738,396. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT WIGHTON MON- CRIEFF, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Newport Pagnel, in the county of Buckingham, England, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Spinning and Doubling Frames, (for which I have obtained a patent in Great Britain, No. 10,897, bearing date May 19, 1899,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in spinning and doubling frames, and refers particularly to such frames wherein in lieu of the ordinary stationary ring and revolving traveler there is employed a rotating ring held in vertical position centrically with the spinning or doubling spindle by horizontal pulleys or runners fixed on revolving vertical spindles, and has primarily for its object to provide means whereby the amount of drag for different counts of yarn may be regulated or varied, as required, and to prevent over running of the rings, which are pulled around by the yarn going onto the spindle-bobbin. To accomplish this, I make use of a ring constructed with a drag-flange in addition to the holding-down flange or flanges, and I bring up or extend the center spindle of one or more 'of the runner-pulleys, so as to allow of a sleeved weight-disk being placed loosely on it and pressing on the drag-flange of the spinning or doubling ring. The amount of pres sure is then regulated by annular weights of different thickness being placed on top of the weight-disk, which weights are readily re moved therefromt In order that this invention may be fully understood, 1 will now proceed to describe same with reference to the accompanying sheets of illustrative drawings, upon which similar letters of reference indicate like parts in each of the figures.

Figure 1 is an elevational View of a spindle fitted with a rotating ring with one of its supporting pulleys or runners carrying the dragregulating device before referred to. Fig. 2 is an elevational View of the ordinary supporting pulley or runner. Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic plan view, to a smaller scale, showing several of the rotating rings and their supporting pulleys or runners; and Fig. at is an f is one of the supporting-pulleys aforesaid,

which carries in accordance with this invention the drag-regulating device now to be particularly described and which is particularly illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings.

g is the center spindle revolving in the socket h and which is extended upwardly sufficiently to allow of the sleeved weight-diske' being carried upon it. This diske' may when preferred be faced on its lower side with leather or other similar or suitable material. The disk '5 presses, as shown, upon the dragflange b of the rotating ring a.

is an annular weight (shown in section) which is placed upon and carried by the weight disk i, and in accordance with the weight or weights so applied is the amount of pressure varied or regulated to suit require ments. These weights are readily affixed and removed. The holding-down flange c of the ring a, comes up against the flange f of the hooded pulley f, and as the spindles of the runner-pulleys are collared at bottom in the sockets the upward pull of the yarn is resisted by them, and there is consequently no upward pull on the weight-disk 2', which revolves with and is rotated by the ring a as it is revolved by the yarn Z going onto the spindlebobbin 6. The guide or hook for the yarn upon the ring a is indicated by the letter W, the ring-rail by the letter at, and 0 indicates the driving-wharve.

p p, Figs. 2 and 3, are the ordinary hooded runner-pulleys, which act as supports to the rotating rings a.

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

1. In spinning and doubling frames, the rotating ring having a drag-flange and a holding-down flange, said flanges being arranged one above the other on the periphery of said rotating ring; the center spindle provided with bearings in the ring-rail and extended upwardly; the supporting-pulleys contacting with the said flanges; and the weight-disk carried by the upwardly-extending parts of said center spindle, substantially as specified.

2. In spinning and doubling frames, the combination of a ring rotatably mounted around the bobbin and provided with a dragfiange and a holding-down flange; with the center spindle having hearings in the ringrail and being extended upwardly; and supporting-pulleys in frictional contact with said flanges; and the sleeved weight-disk carried by the upwardly-extended parts of the center 15 spindle, said Weight-disk bearing upon the said drag-flange, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

OBERT WIGIIlON MONGRIEFF Witnesses:

G. D. HOWARD, ALFD. A. THORNTON,

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