Improvements in Machines for Winding or Spooling Cotton, Linen, Silk, and like Materials.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Dec., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 8th Sept., 1898-Accepted, 15th Oct., 1898
Improvements in Machines for Winding or Spooling Cotton, Linen,
Silk, and like Materials.
I, CHARLES RICHARD DANIELS, of Sharples, near Bolton, in the County of
Lancaster, General Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to improvements in spooling machines and is designed
to provide for the spooling of the thread on to one or more tubes of paper or
other material without flanges or ends.
Hitherto it has been deemed impossible to wind thread on to one or more
tubes by gauge as on wooden spools in an ordinary spooling machine.
For this purpose I employ loose collars or flanges (two or more) which I place
upon the blade of the spooling-spindle with the tube or tubes between them.
These loose collars are preferably made with a recess or recesses at the centre
to receive the ends of the tube or tubes whereby a portion of the tube at each
end remains uncovered with cotton and they are also preferably hollowed on the
face for the purpose of tapering somewhat the roll of thread wound
upon the
tube or tubes. These collars serve to arrest the thread and prevent one layer of
the thread being carried beyond the preceding layer and give the desired form
to the end of the roll.
In addition to or instead of these loose flanges or collars upon the spindle I
employ shapers fitted on to a bracket on the end of the frame or in other suit-
able position. These shapers are so fitted as to embrace the ends or side of
guides which lay or spool the thread on to the tubes by gauge and prevent the
guides travelling too far in either direction. The sides or edges of the shapers
may be either straight or inclined (or otherwise shaped). They are preferably
tapered or inclined to give a slight taper to the ends of the roll of thread by
gradually stopping or shortening the traverse of the guides.
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Improvements in Machines for Winding or Spooling Cotton, Linen,
Silk, and like Materials.
I, CHARLES RICHARD DANIELS, of Sharples, near Bolton, in the County of
Lancaster, General Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
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page_text: and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:
This invention relates to further improvements in spooling machines such as
described in the Specification of Letters Patent granted to me No. 14485 of 1897
and is designed to provide for the spooling of thread on to one or more tubes
of paper or other material without flanges or ends.
Hitherto it has been deemed impossible to wind thread on to a tube or tubes
by gauge as on wooden spools in an ordinary spooling machine.
My invention consists in the combination with the spooling spindle of loose
collars or flanges placed on the spindle at the ends of the tubes with a tube
between two, also of shapers placed above or at one side of the spindle which
embrace the ends of the guides and control the movement thereof. The collars
and shapers may be employed together or separately and independently.
It will be fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings in
which sufficient of a spool winding machine is shown to illustrate the present
invention.
Fig. 1. Side elevation showing the loose collars used with the tubes.
Fig. 2. Side elevation of the shapers.
Fig. 3. Side elevation showing both used together.
Referring to Fig. 1 upon the blade of the spooling spindle B I place the
tubes G to receive the thread and at the end of each tube G a loose collar g 80
The loose collars are
that the tube or tubes G are between the loose collars g.
preferably made with a recess or recesses at the centre to receive the ends of the
tube or tubes whereby a portion of the tube at each end remains uncovered with
cotton and they are also preferably hollowed on the face for the purpose of taper-
ing somewhat the roll of thread wound upon each tube or tubes. These collars
serve to arrest the thread and prevent one layer of the thread being carried
beyond the preceding layer and give the desired form to the end of the roll.
Where two or more tubes G are wound upon the spindle the collar which separates
two tubes will be made of the same shape on both faces so as to form the ends
of two rolls of thread.
Referring to Fig. 2 shapers R are shown to take the place of the loose collars g.
The tubes G are placed upon the blade 6 of the spooling spindle B instead of
the ordinary wooden spools and the shapers R are fitted to a bracket r on the end
of the frame A or in any other suitable position. The shapers R are so placed
as to embrace the ends of the guides M which lay or spool the thread on to the
tubes G by gauge and prevent the guides M travelling beyond the end of the
tube G in either direction. The sides or edge of the guides R may be either
at right angles to the spindle or inclined thereto preferably inclined to give a
slightly conical shape to the ends of the roll of thread by gradually shortening
the traverse of the guides M.
Referring to Fig. 3 the loose collars and the shapers R are shown working
in conjunction for winding or spooling the tubes G.
In each case the thread is laid on to the tubes by gauge as on to wooden
spools, the face of the guide M which rests upon the tube being cut in the ordinary
way according to the thickness of the thread.
The invention may be applied to either hand or automatic spooling machines
and may be employed to wind or build rolls of yarn on the bare spindle if
required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. In a machine for winding or spooling cotton, linen, silk or other thread the
combination with the spooling spindle of loose collars or flanges to build up the
roll of thread by gauge substantially as described.
2. In a machine for winding or spooling cotton, linen silk or other threads

page_text: the combination with the blade of the spooling spindle and tubes thereon of
the loose collars or flanges at the end of each tube to build up the edge of the
roll of thread, substantially as described.
3. In a machine for winding or spooling cotton, linen, silk or other thread
the combination with the spooling spindle and the thread guides of the shapers
which control the lateral movement of the guides, substantially as and for the
purpose described.
4. A machine for winding or spooling cotton, linen, silk or other thread having
the several parts constructed and arranged in combination, substantially as and
for the purpose described and shown with reference either to Fig. 1, Fig. 2 or
Fig. 3 of the drawings.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Manchester, Liverpool, and London, Patent Agents.