IMPROVEMENTS IN WINDING OR REELING YARN INTO HANKS
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Emilius Blank, of Trump Street, in the City
of London, Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WINDING OR
REELING YARN INTO HANKS."-A communication.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Emilius Blank
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
24th April 1854.
I, CHARLES EMILIUS BLANK, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WINDING OR REELING YARN INTO HANKS," "a
communication," to be as follows, and an improvement on the Invention for
which I recorded my Petition, Declaration, and Provisional Specification in
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents for Inventions, on the 15th day of
November 1858, numbered "2643," and for which I have obtained Letters
Patent. Such Specification described a mode of winding yarn in the following
manner: "In order to facilitate the spooling of yarns, I use certain mechanical
"apparatus, by means of which the yarn is so arranged in forming the hank
"that it cannot become entangled in the process of dyeing. I effect this by
passing the yarn over pegs in such manner that it shall become crossed five
"or more times. These pegs are so placed on a frame, as when the end of the
yarn is attached on one, (say, the first peg.) it will be made to cross to another
(inner) peg, .and then to an outer peg alternately, until the whole hank is
"made. At each junction or cross of the yarn between the pegs a thread is
passed through, to prevent the yarn from tangling, and dividing it into seperate
parts. When the hank is complete, it may be split or divided wherever
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required, and the unwinding of a hank from the spools or bobbins will scarcely
require more than one-sixth of the time that process at present consumes;
"also, from the evenness of the hank, little or no breakage of the yarn occurs."
The principle of the improvement for which protection is now sought is the
same, but-the-means-or-apparatus by which the winding or reeling is effected=
are more simple and economical in construction, and the result obtained still
more advantageous. Instead of using pegs placed on a frame, I now propose
to fix a framing, consisting of five or more blades, in such manner as to be
turned by one axle placed in the centre thereof, such axle being made to rotate
by hand or other power, by means of suitable gearing communicating therewith.
On the outer edge of each of these longitudinal blades are fixed continuous
projections (made of metal or other suitable material), divided into angles (or
nearly so,) to any number required; these angular projections are to do the
work assigned to the pegs in the former Specification. On a table I propose
to place a bar, on which I fix in an upright position as many guide wires as
will feed with yarn the metal (or other) receptacles formed on the reel by the
angular projections aforesaid. This plate or bar is acted upon by the gearing
which communicates motion to the axle aforesaid, and produces the requisite
-motion by which the feeders convey the yarn from the bobbins to the reel. I
propose to reverse these blades (by a mechanical contrivance), when required,
so that their inner edges may appear as outward edges, and thus allow the
whole of the hanks wound on the reel to be drawn off at pleasure.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by
the said Charles Emilius Blank in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
24th October 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
EMILIUS BLANK, of Trump Street, in the City of London, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenty-fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of IIer
reign, did, for, Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Charles Emilius Blank, Her especial license that I, the said Charles
Emilius Blank, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Charles Emilius Blank, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to tiine and at all

page_text: times 'thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend; within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention "FOR"
IMPROVEMENTS IN WINDING OR REELING YARN INTO HANKS," (being a communi-
cation,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles Emilius
Blank, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Emilius Blank, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and 'ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the illustrative' Sheet of Drawings hereunto'
annexed, and forming part of this my Specification.
I fix, as shewn in the Drawing at Figure 1, (supported by an outer framing)
an apparatus, consisting of three; five, or more bars or blades 'a, a, (I have
shewn in the Drawing an apparatus constructed with five bars or blades, but
more or less may be used, as circumstances may render desirable,) so framed
or secured as to be turned by one axle b, placed in the centre thereof, such axle
being made to rotate by hand or other power, and by the means shewn, the
movement or operation of which is herein-after described, "or by any other
mechanical contrivance. On the outer edge of each of these longitudinal
blades are fixed continuous projections (made of metal or other suitable
material), divided into angles (or nearly so, as shewn at Figures 1 and 3,) to
any number required; these projections one to do the work assigned to the
pegs in the former Specification. On a table I place a bar i, in which I fix in
an upright or vertical position as many guide wires as will feed with yarn the
receptacles formed in the reel by the projections aforesaid. Or a double row
of these guide wires may be used, and I prefer to do so because the second
row will facilitate the taking up or piecing a broken thread. With one bar
only the operator loses time in tying the threads at the proper guide. The
double bar is shewn seperately at Figure 4 of the Drawing. This plate or bar
is acted upon simultaneously with the axle aforesaid, as herein-after described,
and by the motion-so produced the feeders & convey the yarn from the bobbins
to the reel. I put the apparatus in motion in the following manner:-The
Drawing shews a handle c, on turning which, motion is given to the axles b, and
consequently to the blades or bars a, a, and at the same time to the cogged or
toothed wheel d, which gears into and turns the horizontal cogged wheel e,

page_text: causing the vertical shaft f to turn, which also causes the cogged wheel g
to rotate and communicate motion to the cam h, which movement causes the
bar i to traverse with a right and left movement. On this bar i are fixed (in a
vertical position) certain metallic wires k, twisted at their ends, as shewn, and
of a number to correspond with the projections on the blades a; the use of
these wires is to guide the thread between the above-named projections as it is
drawn off the bobbins l, and I call these wires feeders. When the apparatus
is in motion the bar i traverses right to left, the exact distance necessary to
cross the thread in the interstices aforesaid, as shewn at Figure 1. The axle
bars and projections are best seen at Figure 2, which represents a cross section
of the apparatus or cylinder. By releasing the bolts or catches m, m, the
blades a, a, are reversed, the inner becoming the outer edges, and thus the
hanks can be taken off at pleasure. The advantages of this combination are
considerable; for a cylindrical apparatus, such as I have described; performs
the work of several of the apparatus described in my former Patent; added to
which, the provision made for retiring or drawing off the hanks by reversing
the blades a, a, considerably economizes time and labor..
Having now described the nature of the Invention communicated to me, I
desire it to be distinctly understood that I do not confine myself to the exact
disposition of the mechanical arrangements, as herein described and shewn, or
to the proportions of the parts thereof, as such may and in many instances must
be varied to suit particular circumstances. Nor do I claim the exclusive use
of any of the parts aforesaid when taken as parts, or the mechanical arrange-
ments for imparting motion to the apparatus; but what I do claim is, the
combination of parts herein described and shewn in the Drawings, constituting
"Improvements in Winding or Reeling Yarn into Hanks."
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Emilius Blank, have hereunto
affixed my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of October, in the
Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
CHARLES EMILIUS BLANK. (L.S.)
Witness,
EDWARD WATSON GEDGE,
39, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden,
London.