US814844A - Ring spinning and twisting apparatus. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED MAR. 13, 1906.

J. HAYDEN, JR.

RING SPINNIN G AND TWISTING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.27,1904.

, UNITED STATES JOEL HAYDEN, JR., OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR, BY. MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO HAYDEN MACHINERY OF MAINE.

PATENT OFFICE.

COMPANY, A CORPORATION RING SPINNING A ND TWISTING APPARATUS.

No.'s14,e44.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 13, 1906.

Application filed December 2'7} 1904. Serial No. 238,282.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOEL HAYDEN, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing in Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ring Spinning and Twisting Apparatus, of which the following is a specification. f

This invention relates to that class-of ring spinning and twisting apparatus in which the ring is non-rotativethat is, while it may have some slight horizontal or approximately rotative movement such movement does not entitle it to be termed a rotary ring, as there is no continuous movement and of course no complete rotation. The ring helongs, therefore, to the. class usually termed stationary rings. I

This invention has for its principal objects to prevent the wearing of the lower flange of the ring, such wear being commonly pro-' duced by the vibration of the ring and its direct contact with the supporting plate or holder; to obviate the necessity for mutilating the ring inorder to apply clips or similarv devices extending from the supporting-plate, thus enabling the ring to be reversed, and to impart steadiness and stability to the ring, preventing umping and substituting for the usual vibrations or reciprocations even move- .ments on elliptical or other curved lines,

whereby the spinning or twisting spindles may be run athigher speeds.

The nature ofthe invention is fully described below, andillustrated in the accompa nying. drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan'view of a spinning-ring,

the supporting plate or holder, and an im-. proved ring or member intermediate of said spinning-ring and holder, 'all in position on the ring-rail and embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the spinning-ring removed. Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken on line 3 3, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a perspective View of the supporting plate or holder removed.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspohding parts. The splnning-ring a is constructed in the ordinary manner and provided with the upper and lower flanges b and c.

d represents the supportmg plate or holder,

and e the ring-rail. The spinning-ring does not rest directly on the holder, but is seated on the flat ledge or surfacef of an intermediate member g, said memberbeing in the form of a ring which is preferably circular in shape and of about the same diameter as the spinning-ring. This intermediate member g rests directly on the holder d and is sprung over the outer edge of the lower flange c by means of the upturned and inturned annular lip h. This ring member g having once been sprung into posltlon over and around the lower flange c remains permanently in such position, being tight on the spinning-ring and is removable only by prying or forcing it off. Moreover, 7

this member g is weighted substantially evenly throughout-that is to say, it is made relatively very thick and heavy, as indicated weighted or heavy intermediate ringthat' .is, the portion lettered gis provided with a in Fig. 3the weight therebyvbeing distrib number of. say threehorizontal openings or passages 7c, said passages extending down below the surface of the flat ledgef, which constitutes an inner flange and an annular seat for the spinning-ring. The supporting plate or holder d is provided on its outer edge or periphery with a number of clips which are integral with the holder, which correspond in number and location with the passages 7c and are somewhat narrower than said passages. These clips comprise the vertical portions m and the inwardly-extending horizontal portions n, which are, adapted to project over the outer curved edge Z, Fig. 2, of the bottom of the passage k between the walls of said pas- I sages, thus holding down the intermediate ring g hand through its agency the spinningring a, It will be noticed that the inner edges of the horizontal portions 7 of the clips are curved at their opposite ends or corners, as. indicated at p. The passages k are also provided with flaring entrances .produced by oppositely curving the edges of 'the vertical roo portion g of the intermediate ring, as shown at 8. By means of these curvatures p and s the portions ofthe intermediate ring next turned portions of the clips and sticking as the intermediate ring and spinning-ring move rotatlvely or vibrate in any direction. As such movements of the ring occur the effect of these curvatures is to deflect the ring and to change its vibratory or reciprocating movement into a practically continuous movement on elliptical or curved lines or perhaps on circular lines, the circles being of course small and having their centers at points not far from the points of contact of two adjacent curvatures p 8. Thus there is a tendency to prevent purely reciprocating horizontal movement or vibration.

The relatively heavy weighted member 9 imparts great steadiness and stability to the spinning-ring, having a tendency to produce a gliding movement and to prevent jerking or jumping, whereby a high speed of the spindle may be attained. The spinning-ring is held almost continuously for its entire circumference by the intermediate ring, thus imparting steadiness-to its movement and enabling the spinning-ring to follow steadily and smoothly a spindle which is inclined from the perpendicular, keeping said spindle in the center. By means of the intermediate member wearing of the lower flange on the ring is prevented, as there is no relative movement between said flange and intermediate member.

It is evident that as the clips grasp directly the intermediate member instead of the spinning-ring mutilation of the lower flange of the spinning-ring is prevented and the ring can be reversed. The additional thickness of the intermediate ring is applied on its outer edge or periphery, thus weighting it on its outer edge and outside of the spinningring, thereby applying the weight where the leverage will be greatest and where it will be most efficient.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an apparatus of the character described, the spinning-ring, the supporting plate or holder, a permanent member intermediate of the spinning-ring and the supporting plate or holder and rigid with said spinning-ring and conforming substantially in shape thereto, and means for connecting said plate or holder and intermediate member whereby said intermediate member is allowed to move horizontally only on the surface of the plate or holder but prevented. from continuous rotative movement.

2. In an apparatus of the character described, the spinning-ring, the supporting plate or holder, a permanent ring intermediate of the spinning-ring and the supporting plate or holder and rigid with the spinningring and resting wholly on the horizontal surface of the plate or holder, and means for connecting said plate or holder and intermediate ring whereby the intermediate ring is allowed to move horizontally on said plate or holder and is in contact therewith during the entire horizontal movement.

3. In an apparatus of the character described, the spinning-ring, the supporting plate or holder having a flat horizontal upper surface, a permanent ring-shaped weighted member intermediate with the spinning-ring and the supporting plate or holder and rigid with the spinning-ring and resting on the horizontal surface of the plate or holder, and means for connecting said plate or holder and the intermediate ring whereby the intermedi ate ring is allowed curved horizontal movement on lines which are non-concentric with the periphery of the spinning-ring but prevented from continuous rotative movement.

4. In an apparatus of the character described, a spinning-ring; a stationary plate or holder, a member intermediate of the spinning-ring and plate or holder and rigid with the ring, said member being provided with passages having oppositely-curved edges; and engaging mechanism extending from the plate or holder into said. passages, said engaging mechanism being provided at its contact ends with curvatures opposite the curvatures in said passages, for the purpose set forth.

5. I11 an apparatus of the character described, a spinning-ring; a stationary plate or holder, a member intermediate of the spinning-ring and plate or holder and rigid with the ring, said member being provided with horizontal passages; and engaging mechanism extending from the plate or holder into said passages and being provided with rounded or curved edges at the points where it comes into horizontal contact with the walls of said passages, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOEL HAYDEN, JR. Witnesses HENRY IV. WILLIAMS, A. K. H001).

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