IMPROVEMENT IN CHENILLE MACHINES
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Feb., 1887.
Specification Accepted, 22nd Mar., 1887.
I THOMAS JOHNSON of Paterson in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey,
United States of America, Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for IMPROVEMENT IN CHENILLE MACHINES and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
Heretofore chenille machines have required a space of thirty or more yards in
length in order to secure lengths of chenille sufficiently long without knots for
weaving and other purposes. As a consequence of the space thus required a large
room was required for a plant of very few machines making the manufacture of
chenille expensive. The object of my present invention is to provide means whereby
the floor space required for chenille machines is reduced and brought within a space
of three yards in length to secure chenille of any desired length for weaving and other
purposes, free from knots.
I attain this object by means of a chenille machine attachment which will be
hereinafter fully described and pointed out in the claims. Fig. 1 of the drawing
shows one side of my invention in elevation and attached to a chenille machine,
a portion only of such machine being shown. Fig. 2 is a plan of my invention
showing arrangement of the devices, in which figure a portion only of the chenille
machine is shown. And Fig. 3 shows in elevation a part front view of my invention
in which figure is visible the form of supporting rails, cones, spindle, tension pulleys,
guide frame, guide etc.
A represents a portion of an ordinary chenille machine in the frame A¹ of which
machine is journalled a driving drum A having a pulley a, and driving bands b.
To the machine A I secure by bolts or otherwise, an attachment B, having a
supporting frame B'. To the said frame B' and in a suitable position thereon I secure
by bolts, curved spindle rails D, and D¹, having upward projecting portions D³ in
which I arrange bush bearings h, h, h², 1³, and i, ª, 12, 1³, in which bearings I journal
fliers having arranged on the spindle of the same a cone e to accomodate a driving
band b, which band is arranged on the drum A2 of the machine A. The cone end of
the spindle which is hollow has formed in it an opening n, through which opening the
spun chenille passes from the machine A, to the guide eyes o¹, p¹, on the arms of the

page_text: flier f. The outer end of the flier spindle has arranged for it a set screw k, to control
the movement of the flier spindle end wise while the body of the spindle is provided
with a taper spool g on which spool or bobbin is wound the finished chenille. The
spool which is loose on the flier spindle is provided with a groove 4 to accomodate a
band which band has a weight e¹ and is secured at one end.
To the rail D is secured adjustably a depending rod 1 on which rod is journalled a
grooved band pulley c³.
The rail D is provided with a slot, through which the ends of a clip 2 that passes
over the rod 1 enters to receive a screw nut on the opposite side of the rail D, to
hold the said rod 1 in its adjusted position. The guide frame F, that is bolted to the
supporting frame as shown in fig. 3, has arranged thereon and secured thereto, a
guide oye F. To the sides of the frame B' is secured supporting arms m, having
bearings min which is journalled a winding reel E having a handle E'. The spun
and finished chenille is taken from the machine A through the orifice of the flier
spindle to the opening n of the same, out through said opening to and through the
guide eyes o, p³, to the spool g, and is secured to the said spool, after which the
machine A is put in motion by means of the driving drum A2 and band b, which
rotates the flier fand its spindle. The flier f which revolves around the spool or
bobbing delivers the chenille C to the spool g and winds the same on said spool while
revolving around the same.
The spool being loose on the flier spindle is revolved on the spindle by the chenille
and is prevented from reverse rotation thereon, by the drag e¹,
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The spool is made reasonably short to afford space on the flier spindle for the spools
endwise motion thereon to prevent the spool from filling quickly with chenille directly
under the delivery eye p¹. As the winding of the finished chenille on the spool
proceeds and that portion of the spool under the delivery eye of the flier is filled
with chenille the same is drawn outwardly on the spool by the attendent from
under the delivery eye until the entire spool is filled, when the machine is stopped
and the chenille cut. The chenille being cut at a suitable point the spool end
of the same is taken up as shown in fig. 1, to and through the guide eye F¹ and from
thence to the reel E and is secured thereto. The reel is turned by the handle E' until
the chenille is unwound from the spool g, and is wound on the reel E. The chenille is
'secured to spool g and the machine restarted to refill the spool preparatory to trans-
fering the chenille from the spool g to the reel E in the manner stated, in the various
operations. The manipulated material wound on the reel is tied in hanks and is
removed from the reel in the usual way. When the reel is not required in position it
may be lifted from its bearings and removed, in which case the reel supporting arms m
may drop down in a vertical position at the front by slightly unscrewing the secureing
nuts to give plenty of room between the machines. Any practical number of spindles
and their devices may be used on the same machine. By the use of my invention a
very great saving of floor space is secured by which a plant of more machines can be
used to a given space, while the chenille can be secured free from knots in long
lengths for weaving etc.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is
The combination with the flier and its spindle, and the bobbin supported on the
spindle, of the frame F, the guide carried thereby and the winding reel E, substantially
as described.
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