A New and Improved Instrument for Indicating the Lineal Weight of any Description of Yarn, Twine. Twist, Tape, or other Evenly Elongated Substance.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Oct., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 24th July, 1893-Accepted, 23rd Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New and Improved Instrument for Indicating the Lineal Weight
of any Description of Yarn, Twine. Twist, Tape, or other Evenly
Elongated Substance.
I MARK HORATIO TOMKINS of 121 Fenchurch Street in the City of London
and County of Middlesex, Manufacturers Agent, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is an instrument which will indicate the number of
lineal feet there are to the pound avoirdupois of any description of yarn twine twist
tape wire or other evenly elongated substance.
Hitherto it has been usual in order to ascertain the number of feet to the pound
to measure off a given length and weigh it in the ordinary way.
Now according to this invention in a suitable framing I mount on centres so as
to balance evenly a disc having a groove on its periphery of the same length as the
segment of the circle described for the dial the yarn or the like it is desired to take
the lineal weight of being suspended to one end of a cord fastened in the said groove
so as to cause the disc to revolve the necessary resistance increasing by the following
means i.e. I suspend a certain weight from a point near the centre of the said disc
and I also fix a curve on said disc in such a position that when the disc is caused
to revolve the cord to which the said weight is attached shall "hug" said curve
and thus carry the weight further from the centre and increase the resistance
I further increase this resistance by means of a kind of pendulum suspended from a
point in such a way that as the disc revolves the said pendulum is carried round by
means of a pin.
A sigment of such disc is divided equally each division representing say five feet
to the pound and the whole indicating from one thousand to one hundred feet to
the pound for example so that by this means it is only necessary to hang say five
feet of yarn or the like on a hook or clip fixed to the aforesaid cord on the periphery
of the disc and its lineal weight will at once be indicated on the dial.
It is obvious that instead of having the dial to revolve and the hand a fixture
I may have the reverse.
Dated this 25th day of October 1892.
BROWNE & Co.,
9, Warwick Court, Gray's Inn, W.C., Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New and Improved Instrument for Indicating the Lineal Weight
of any Description of Yarn, Twine, Twist, Tape, or other Evenly
Elongated Substance.
I MARK HORATIO TOMKINS of 121 Fenchurch Street, in the City of London
and County of Middlesex, Manufacturers Agent, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of this invention is an instrument which will indicate the number of
lineal feet there are to the pound avoirdupois of any description of yarn twine twist
tape wire or other evenly elongated substance.
Hitherto it has been usual in order to ascertain the number of feet to the pound
to measure off a given length and weigh it in the ordinary way.

page_text: Now according to this invention in a suitable framing I mount on centres so as to
balance evenly a disc having a groove on its periphery of the same length as the
segment of the circle described for the dial the yarn or the like it is desired to take
the lineal weight of being suspended to one end of a cord fastened in the said
groove so as to cause the disc to revolve the necessary resistance increasing by the 5
following means i.e. I suspend a certain weight from a point near the centre of the
said disc and also fix a curve on said disc in such a position that when the disc is
caused to revolve the cord to which the said weight is attached shall "hug" said.
curve and thus carry the weight further from the centre and increase the resistance
I further increase this resistance by means of a kind of pendulum suspended from a 1
point in such a way that as the disc revolves the said pendulum is carried round by
means of a pin.
A segment of said disc is divided equally each division representing say five feet
to the pound and the whole indicating from one thousand to one hundred feet to
the pound for example so that by this means it is only necessary to hang say five
feet of yarn or the like on a hook or clip fixed to the aforesaid cord on the periphery
of the disc and its lineal weight will at once be indicated on the dial.
It is obvious that instead of having the dial to revolve and the hand a fixture
I may have the reverse.
And in order that my said invention may be better understood I will describe the
same with reference to the accompanying sheets of drawings in which :-
Fig. 1 shews an elevation with back removed.
Fig. 2 section through line A. B Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 shews the dial detached and full size.
Similar letters are employed to denote the same parts in all the views:-
a shews case made of brass or other suitable material, shews double bracket,
e shews spindle working on centres dd, e shews disc fixed exactly in its centre on
spindle shews curved piece fixed on the disc e. g shews chain, band, or the
like fixed at the centre of the disc e. h shews weight suspended to the lower end
of band g.
This weight varies according to the curve f.
According to the curve shewn on the drawing this weight should be 800 grains.
i shews grooved piece over which a chain or cord ke passes and to one end of said
cord a hook is fixed the other end being fixed to the grooved piece i at m. π is an
indicating hand this I prefer to make of a thin piece of sheet metal, u shews ball
over hook, to fit into a cup so as to prevent dust entering the instrument.
As the disc e must be perfectly poised I fix thereon pieces f¹n and o'.
shews ring having V groove for suspending the apparatus on a knife edge, t is
a slot in dial for hand to work through.
The dial S is shewn detached at Fig. 3.
The action is as follows:-
In order to indicate directly on the dial the lineal value or weight of an evenly
elongated substance such as yarn for example I suspend on the hook 10 feet of
such yarn which must be between the weight of 200 to 800 feet to the pound (for a
dial made according to the drawing) which causes the chain to hug the curve
piece thus throwing the weight further from the centre as shewn by the dotted
lines Fig. 1. when hand n will indicate the number of feet that such yarn will run
to the pound.
The dial as will be seen on reference to the drawing is also arranged to indicate
the "counts of cotton worsted yarn or the like.
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It is obvious that a number of separate articles to the pound may be indicated in
the same manner by suspending say 10 articles instead of 10 feet.
Although I have described and shewn an instrument for ascertaining the lineal
value of a 10 feet trial any trial within the limit of this instrument for weight may
be used by either multiplying the indication once for every ten feet or articles
suspended (or reducing it in like proportion) and this may be carried to any exteut
either for increasing or reducing.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is-
(1.) In an instrument for indicating the lineal weight of yarn or other evenly
elongated substance of an index hand actuated so as to register weight on a dial
graduated in equal divisions on which dial each successive division indicates a
larger increment of weight than the preceding division.
(2.) In an instrument for indicating the lineal weight of yarn or other evenly
elongated substance the curve in combination with the disc e band g and weight h
all substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
(3.) An instrument for indicating the lineal weight of yarn or other evenly
elongated substance constructed and operated substantially as hereinbefore described
and represented in the drawings.
Dated this outh daw of T..1. 1902
BROWNE & Co.,
9, Warwick Court, W.C., Agents for Applicant.