US515203A - Support for spinning-spindles - Google Patents

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T. B. FLANDERS. SUPPORT FOR SPINNING SPINDLES.

. Patented Feb." 20, 1894,

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SUPPORT FOR SPINNING-SPINDLES SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 515,203, dated February 20, 1894.

Application filed June 12, 1893. Serial No. 4'7'L 0- We model.)

To ttZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, TIMOTHY B. FLANDERS, acitizen of the United States, residing at Holyoke, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Supports for Spinning-Spindles, of which the following isaspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in spinning spindles and supports therefor, the object being to provide a spindle and bearings which will produce as satisfactory results as obtained from the use of any other spindle, the same being attained more cheaply, the spindle support being more readily adjusted in the frames for use, and requiring less than the usual care in running and lubrication.

. The invention consists in constructions and combinations of parts, all substantially as will hereinafter fully appear and be set forth in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which this invention is illustrated,Figure 1 is a central vertical sectional view through the supporting'portions of the spindle. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section taken on the line 22, Fig. 1,Fig. 3 being a horizontal section taken on the line 33, of said Fig. 1.

In the drawings A represents the supporting case or holder which is in the form of a straight tube the bore being properly internally formed to receive the step c for thespindle, B. The tube, A, is externally screwthreaded, as at a, toward its upper end, and toward its lower end also has the screwthreads, 17. Around the upper screw-threaded portion is the annular groove, 01, from which inwardly extends the radial groove, f, which communicates with the interior of the tube which forms the bearing for the spindle step. The tube is set through the hole, a, in the rail, D, receiving on the lower screw-threaded part the nut, g. The tube receives, with a screwthread-engagement, next above the rail, the centrally apertured and screw-tapped plate, G, which has an annular groove, h, Within its upper face, the outer boundary of said groove being higher than the inner, and there is across the inner boundary of said groove a short duct, 7L2, which leads to the said annular groove, d, around the support tube, A.

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boundary of the aforesaid groove, h, of the plate, G. This cap has the comparatively deep annular groove, 2', Within its upper side with the hole, j, leading from the base there- 'of to carry the oil or lubricator which is deposited in the said groove, t', down into the reservoir groove, h, from which it may pass, as required, to groove, (Z, of the tube and through the radial passage, f, to the interior for lubrieating the spindle-step. The lubricator passing at once down into the groove, h, in the plate, G, is kept free from dirt or extraneous matter, and thus nothing but perfectly clean oil, 850., is delivered to the bearing parts re- The cap, H, resting on the outer higher boundary of the plate, as manifest, is the means of the stated exclusion of foreign matter from the bearings.

As manifest, the spindles and supports therefor may be very quickly and readily set up and adjusted, and by the arrangement shown and described the supply of oil is always near the upper bearing for the spindle where it is most requisite.

I make the spindles with the groove, m, and pass a pin, n, through the wall of the tube at the screw-threaded portion thereof which is covered by plate, G, so that when the parts are assembled, said plate prevents the displacement of the pin, while the pin, in turn, as obvious, prevents the spindle from being drawn out from the tubular holder, A.

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

1. In a spindle support, the combination with the tubular support for the spindle, havthreads, the annular groove, (1, and the radial passage, f, leadinginwardly from said groove, of the centrally apertured and threaded plate, G, having the annular groove, h, within its top, the outer boundary of which is higher than the inner, and having the duct, h the centrally apertured and screw-threaded cap, H, screwing onto the tube and resting on the outer borderof said groove, h, and having the groove in its top, and the vertical hole, j, all arranged substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination with the rail of the spindle and tubular support therefor which has the external screw-threads, a and b, the annular groove, 01, and the radial passage, f, the plate, G, centrally apertured and screw-threaded, with the groove, 72, in its top and short duct, h, the centrally apertured and screw-threaded cap, H, with the annular groove, "5, in its top, and the vertical duct, 3', and the clamp nut, g, all arranged as shown for the purposes set forth.

TIMOTHY B, FLANDER S.

Witnesses:

H. A. GHAPIN, WM. S. BELLOWS.

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