Patent GB-191012110-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Spooling Thread, Yarn and the like.
IPC: B65H54/02
Filed: 1910-05-17
Granted: 1911-05-17
Abstract: 12,110. McGee & Son, W., and Walls, A. G. May 17. Thread - spooling machines having spooling- heads and cam motions similar to those of the Weild type, are provided with two or more rows of spooling-heads, the various motions of each row being connected so as to work in unison, and the filled spools being delivered by channelled conveyers, and are driven through a coil clutch on the motor shaft, the spooling and ending motions being driven through similar clutches on the first-motion shaft, so that either may be actuated or disconnected while the firstmotion shaft runs continuously. The spooling, nicking, cutting, and like mechanisms in each row are the same as those well-known in the Weild type of machine, and the corresponding parts of the rows are connected by coupling- levers, torsional difference between similar shafts, for example between the thread - hook shafts 21, 22, being eliminated by mounting the lever 37, which, with the link 39 and lever 38, connects the two shafts, near to the connexion of the shaft 21 with its operating-lever 35. The traverse shafts 23, 24, which carry the guide stocks, are made of large diameter, and are operated to lift the guides by means of widely-spaced levers 51 keyed on a rod 52, which is operated bv a lever 53. The cross-cam shaft 60, Fig. 2, carries six cams instead of the usual three, of which the first two actuate the spindle-controlling shafts 12, 14 in the top row, the third operates the thread-wire shaft 16 in the top row, and the remaining three operate corresponding parts in the lower row. The shafts 17, 18 which carry the side or starting-end knives are operated from the usual shaping-cam shaft 75 through links and levers 77, 82, 84. The traverse shafts 23, 24 are carried in a rectangular bracket 85 and are arranged as nearly as possible equidistant from the shaft that connects the bracket with the usual traverse nuts and right and left hand screw. The machine is driven by an electro-motor through a coil clutch, which picks up gradually, so that the motor does not lift the whole load instantly, and actuates the first-motion shaft through gear-wheels, upon which are mounted two similar clutches, which actuate the spooling and ending mechanisms. The lever for operating these clutches is actuated from the usual cam on the clutch shaft of the headstock The spooling-mechanism clutch drives the " great " wheel," which is connected by means of wheels, such as are described in Specification 13,829/06, with the spindle-wheel shafts of both rows, and also with another shaft which carries the usual pinion for driving the spooling change-gears. The filled spools from each row roll down inclined tracks 226 into the channel of a travelling band 227, 228, which is made of non - elastic material with elastic fins. The belt runs in V-shaped channels, and the spools are guided from the top belt into a shoot to the level of the lower belt, and are delivered with the spools from the lower belt by guides into a box arranged on an inclined table. A temporary fence is used to stop the spools while a filled box is being removed.