Patent GB-190322903-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for Receiving and Delivering Wire Healds and other Rod-like Articles for Facilitating the Transfer thereof from one Stage of Manufacture or Treatment to another
Inventor: NEUMANN ENGELBERT
Filed: 1903-10-22
Granted: 1904-08-11
Abstract: 22,903. Neumann, E., and Weyers, A. Oct. 22. Blanks, supplying; work - removing device.-Consists of apparatus for use when articles of a rod-like form are shaped or worked by different processes in separate machines, the said apparatus being employed in transferring the articles from one machine to another. The invention is described as employed in the manufacture of wire healds for looms for transferring the heald wires from the machine in which the wires are cut to the proper length and the central eyes or mails are formed, to the machine for forming the end eyes, and from the latter machine to the soldering-machine. A shaft a is removably mounted in bearings b, and has coupled to it an extension shaft c, which carries a ratchetwheel o actuated by a spring-controlled pawl q on a lever r, centered on the shaft c and vibrated by means of a cam, crank, or eccentric and rod. A shaft l is supported by standards h, loosely mounted on the shaft a, and kept from tilting by lugs i engaging with projections k on the bearings b. Rollers e, mare fixed on the shafts a, l opposite each other, and are connected by belts n in such a manner that when the belts are unwound from the rollers m they are wound upon the rollers e. The healds &c. are taken up one by one from a groove, shown in Fig. 3, by means of hooks on arched springs consisting of two parts x, y, fixed to pulleys on a shaft w which receives an intermittent movement by means of a chain and lever. Each heald is thrown off down guides v carried by a fixed shaft u, and is received between pins g radiating from the outer pulleys e. The shaft a is rotated by means of the ratchet-wheel o in such a manner that the healds are received in successive spaces between the pins, and the belts n are drawn from the pulleys m and are wound round the layers of healds. The healds are secured against longitudinal displacement by retaining-discs f on the shaft a. When the device is filled up, the shaft a is detached from the shaft c, lifted out of its bearings, and reinserted into the corresponding bearings of a similar apparatus for paying out the healds one by one for further treatment. In this apparatus the shaft a is rotated in the opposite direction to unwind the belts n, and the shaft l is also rotated to take up the belts, by means of a pin 12 which is acted upon by a rod fixed to a ratchet-wheel on a short shaft mounted in line with the shaft l. The short shaft is intermittently rotated in one direction by means of a chain connected at one end to a spring, and at the other end to a horizontal lever vibrating with the lever r. The chain passes over a sprocket-wheel on the short shaft, the wheel being provided with a ratchet or free-wheel action, so that the short shaft is rotated in one direction only. When the sprocket-wheel is revolving free, the shaft is held by a pawl acting on the ratchetwheel at the other end of the shaft. As the belts n are unwound from the pulleys e, the freed healds slide down between the pins g, and are guided one by one into a device for conveying them to the next machine.