Patent GB-190903083-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Machines for Winding Yarn Thread and the like.
Inventor: WARDWELL SIMON WILLARD
IPC: B65H54/14
Filed: 1908-03-14
Granted: 1909-03-15
Abstract: 3083. Wardwell, S. W. March 14, 1908. Winding-machines.-A winding- machine specially suitable for winding taper-nosed cops or bobbins for use in fly shuttles is shown in Figs. 2 and 11 as applied to a machine having a number of winding-heads, each comprising preferably one or more pairs of opposed winding-spindles and one common driving - head for actuating the winding-heads. The traverse bars 5 are reciprocated by a rock shaft 14, to which thevare connected bylinks 12, and are reciprocated by the rock-shaft in any suitable manner, preferably bv the means described in Specification 5765/08. The rockshaft passes through the casing A of the winding - heads and enters the casing B of the driving-head, where it is provided with a rocker arm 122 engaging the traverse cam 117. The spindles 3 carry skew-gears 6 engaging with similar gears on a shaft 103, which passes through the casing of the winding- heads . and also passes into and through the casing of the driving- head. The shaft 103, on the end which projects from the driving- head casing, carries a collar 107 having recesses, with which projections 107<a> on the clutch hub 105<a> engage, the parts being pressed apart by a spring but not being disengagable by any movement within their normal range. The clutch hub has a clutch 106 which can be engaged with the driving-pulley 105, which rotates freely on the shaft, by means of a handle 109. The shaft 103 carries within the driving - head casing B a bevel-wheel 111 connected by a train of wheels 112, 113, 114, 116 to the traverse cam 117. The gear - wheels 114 are fixed to a common spindle 124 and act as change - wheels, the spindle being carried by an areal arm 119b pivoted on the spindle 120 bv an arm 119<a> extending from a sleeve 119 on which the traverse cam rotates. The arcal arm has an adjusting device consisting of a slot at one end, through which a stud 121 passes and engages in a socket 122<a> in the bottom of the casing. The stud is longitudinally free in its socket and is secured to the arcal arm by a nut 121<c>. This construction allows the change - wheels to be altered to vary the relative movements of the thread guides and winding - spindles. The traverse bars are formed with an eccentric screw-thread so designed that the side of the traverse bar adjacent to the winding is threaded and the opposite side is plain. Engaging this screw - thread is a nut 16, which is pressed towards the spindle by a spring 17. The nut 16 has a flange 18, Fig. 9, supporting a contactwheel 19, which is secured to the flange by a washer 21, pin 20, and spring clip 22. The nut is held on the traverse bar between the branches of the bifurcated thread-guide arm 10, Fig. 6. The thread guide 11, Fig. 4, is formed as a hollow block with a central thread groove 11<c> and lateral grooves which enable it to lock together the spring 17, which is an extension of an auxiliary hair-pin like thread guide 17<d>, Fig. 7, and the thread - guide arm, the arm having a T - shaped recess 23 in which the auxiliary thread guide engages. The diameter of the contact-wheel is such that, when that part of the cop which is being wound attains its prescribed diameter, it engages the contactwheel and rotates it slightly, so causing it to advance along the winding-spindle and simultaneously advancing the thread - guide and positioning it for winding a new layer. The nut can be manually disconnected from the traverse bar by rotating it through a semicircle when it is desired to set the thread-guide to start the winding.