IMPROVED MACHINE FOR PREPARING AND TYING YARNS FOR PARTI-COLOURED DYEING
Year: 1884

page_text: FREDERICK WILLIAM GARDINER, Dyer 11 Victoria Road Leicester I do hereby
declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVED MACHINE FOR PREPARING AND
TYING YARNS FOR PARTI-COLOURED DYEING to be as follows:-
Relates to an apparatus or machine whereby hanks or skeins of yarns while in
a tightly twisted or stretched condition have portions of their length covered at
intervals with a thread or threads of string or other material, wound closely
together upon the hank or skein, regularly, and with a certain and even tension of
the string, so that when subjected in this condition to the dyebath the portions
covered as above described are not acted upon by the dye and thus the hanks or
skeins are rendered parti-coloured.
For this purpose two brackets are mounted upon a slotted frame so that they
can slide thereon. Each bracket carries a spindle terminating in a hook, the two
hooks being made to face each other so as to receive upon them the loops of the
hank or skein to be operated upon which is tightly stretched and twisted by means
of one of the hooks having a swivel joint connected to the spindle which allows it
to rotate while the other hook for the time being is stationary. The said hook
spindle passes through a tubular spindle running in bearings in the bracket, the
former having a longitudinal groove into which a feather in the latter fits, so that
the hook spindle can slide through the tubular spindle and must rotate with it.
Upon the tubular spindle and upon the hook spindle are spur wheels in gear with
which are pinions upon a shaft extending along the framing so that on rotating the
shaft by hand, steam or other power, the hank is tightly twisted.
Parallel with the hook spindles and driving shaft is mounted a screw spindle
extending the length of the machine, and having on it a series of slides at distances
apart, capable of being caused by the rotation of the screw spindle to travel along
simultaneously in guides the screw spindle being geared to the driving spindle so
that they act together. Attached to the slides are springs to regulate the paying
out of the thread from a bail or bobbin. The slides & guides with their several
threads being adjusted at distances apart along the screw spindle corresponding to
the distances at which it is desired to effect the covering of the bank or skein, the
rotary motion is then imparted so as to wind one or more threads round the hank
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page_text: or skein at the desired distances apart. When a sufficient portion of the hank has
been covered, the threads are severed from the bobbin and secured, the bank is
then removed to be treated in the dye bath as described. The nip of the holding
jaws is regulated by a screw so as to impart to the thread the requisite tension for
winding the thread tightly and evenly on the hank.
It will be evident that more than one set of hooks & spindles may be put on
the same framing so as to operate on two or more hooks at the same time.
What I claim are the automatic moving tensioned slides & guides for paying out
the threads or string truly evenly & tightly on the hanks, so as to be ready to be
afterwards operated upon in the dyebath.

page_text: I FREDERICK WILLIAM GARDINER Dyer of No 11 Victoria, Road Leicester in
the county of Leicester do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR PREPARING AND TYING YARNS FOR PARTI-COLORED
DYEING and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
:-
My invention relates to an apparatus or machine whereby hanks or skeins of
yarns of wool, cotton, silk and other fibrous substances, or other materials, while
in a tightly twisted or stretched condition have portions of their length covered at
intervals with thread, or threads of string, or other material wound closely together
upon the hank, or skein regularly and with a certain and even tension of the said
string so that when subjected, in this condition to a dye bath, the portions covered,
as above described are not acted upon by the dye, and thus the hanks or skeins
are rendered parti-coloured.
For this purpose two brackets are mounted upon a slotted frame, so that they
can slide thereon, each bracket carrying a spindle terminating in a hook, the two
hooks being made to face each other, so as to receive upon them, the loops of the
hanks, or skeins to be operated upon the same being tightly stretched and twisted
by means of one of the hooks, having a swivel joint connected to the spindle, which
allows it to rotate while the other hooks, for the time being, are stationery. The
said hook spindle passes through a tubular spindle running upon bearings in the
bracket, the former having a longitudinal groove into which fits a feather, in the
latter so that the hook spindle can slide through the tubular spindle, but must
rotate with it. Upon the tubular spindle and upon the hook spindle are spur wheels
in gear, with which are pinions upon a shaft extending along the framing so that
on rotating this shaft by hand, steam, or other power, the hank or skein, is tightly
twisted. Parallel with the hook spindles and driving shaft is mounted a screw
spindle extending the length of the machine, and having upon it a series of guides
at distances apart capable of being caused by the rotation of the screw spindle to
travel along simultaneously in guides, the screw spindle being geared to the driving
spindle so that they act together.
Attached to the slides are springs to regulate the paying out of the thread, from
the ball or bobbin, the slides with their several threads being adjusted at distances
apart along the screw spindle corresponding to the distance at which it is desired
to effect the covering in of the hank or skein, the rotary motion is then imparted,
so as to wind one or more threads round the hanks, or skeins, at the desired
distances apart, when a sufficient portion of the hank or skein, has been covered,
the threads are severed from the bobbin, and secured, and the hank or skein is
removed to be treated in the dye bath, as before mentioned. The nip of the holding
jaws is so regulated as to impart to the threads the requisite tension for winding
the said threads tightly on to the hank or skein.
It will be readily understood that two or more sets of the hooks with their
spindles and gear, as herein before described, may be arrainged on the same framing
so as to operate on two or more hanks or skeins, at the same time.

page_text: 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 use of the Automatic moving-tensioned-slide guide A for paying the thread,
or string, evenly and truly, and tightly on the hank, or skein, to be afterwards
operated upon in the dye bath substantially as, and for the purposes hereinbefore
set forth and described.
Dated this Third day of February one thousand, eight hundred, and eighty