Improvements in or relating to Reels or Holders for Spools, Cops, or Balls of Thread or other Material
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 4th May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 4th Feb, 1896-Accepted, 7th Mar, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Improvements in or relating to Reels or Holders for Spools,
Cops, or Balls of Thread or other Material
We, JAMES FINLAYSON Junior, of Flax Mills, Johnstone, in the County of
Renfrew, Scotland, Thread Manufacturer, and RICHARD FARRINGTON of
Hilldane, Malmesbury Road Woodford, County of Essex, Commercial Traveller,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
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This invention relates to reels, or cop holders adapted to receive a spool or cop
of thread or other material and so arranged that the thiend, which for convenience
we will in this Specification denominate a cop, can be readily placed in or upon the
cop holder or removed therefrom
We make the cop holder in two parts each consisting of a disc or cncular end
and a projecting tube or spindle adapted to fit inside the tube upon which the cop
Is wound The tubes of the cop holders may be split to give them a better grip
in the cop tube and they may if desired be provided with ribs or equivalent to take
a firmer bearing in the cop-tube the tubes may meet inside the cop or they may
telescope one into the other When it is desired to remove the cop of the cop tube
after the cop has been used up, the parts of the cop holder can be separated and
the cop or tube removed, a new one inserted and the two parts placed together
again These holders may be made of metal, wood, vulcanite or other suitable
material, and in large or small sizes according to requiement They may be
adapted for use in shuttles, the discs being fitted inside the shuttle so as to rotate
when the thread is drawn off, a matter of some importance as being a marked
improvement upon the present plan where cops are used in shuttles without any
particular axis of rotation the cop being merely in the form of a ball from which
the thread is drawn
If required a sping catch of any convenient description may be employed for
securing the two parts of the cop holder together, although generally speaking the
friction of the holder tube in the cop tube is sufficient without the assistance of a
spring
If
Instead of making the cop holder as above described in two equal parts one
end piece may be secured to a tube or spindle of the full length and the other end
piece may be screwed or otherwise attached to the end of the tube or spindle
the end piece screws to the tube we prefer to split the tube and if necessary taper
either the screwed portion of the tube or the screwed hole in the end piece for the
purpose of preventing the end from unduly screwing off Or a screwed ring, nut
or equivalent or a spring catch may be employed for the purpose of securing the
end piece
Dated this Third day of May 1895
JAS FINLAYSON, Ju、r
RICHD
FARRINGTON
Boult & Wade,
Agents for the Applicants

page_text: Improvements in or relating to Reels or Holders for Spools,
Cops, or Balls of Thread or other Material
We, JAMES FINLAYSON Jar, of Flax Mills, Johnstone, in the County of
Renfrew, Scotland, Thread Manufacturer, and RICHARD FARRINGTON formerly
of Hilldane Malmesbury Road, Woodford, Essex, now of Station Villas, Matlock
Bridge, County of Derby, Commercial Tiavellei, 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
This invention relates to reels or cop holders adapted to receive a spool or cop
of thread or other material and so arranged that the thread, which for convenience
we will in this Specification denominate a cop, can be readily placed in or upon the
cop holder or removed therefiom
The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings
in which
Figures 1 and 2 arc respectively a central section and a plan of one form of
holder constructed according to our invention, and
Figures 3 and 4 are views respectively similar to Figures 1 and 2 of another form
of the cop
Like letters indicate like parts throughout the drawings
The
As shown in Figures 1 and 2 of the drawings we make the cop holder in two
parts each consisting of a disc o circular flange A and a projecting tube or
spindle A adapted to fit inside the tube B upon which the cop C is wound
tubes A¹ may be split to give them a better gup in the cop tube B and they may
if desired be provided with ribs or equivalent to take a firmer bearing in the
cop-tube, the tubes A¹ may meet inside the cop tube B as shown in Figure 1 or
they may telescope one into the other or they may meet inside another tube
adapted to fit into the cop tube When it is desired to remove the cop C, or the
cop tube B after the cop has been used up, the two parts of the cop holder can be
separated and the cop or tube removed, a new one inserted and the two parts
placed together again These holders may be made of metal, wood, vulcanite or
other suitable material, and in large or small sizes according to requirement
They may be adapted for use in shuttles, the discs being fitted inside the shuttle so
as to rotate when the thread is drawn off
If required a spring catch of any convenient description may be employed for
securing the two parts of the cop holder together, although generally speaking
the function of the holder tube A¹ in the cop tube B is sufficient without the
assistance of a spring
Instead of making the cop holder as above described in two equal parts one end
piece or flange may as shown in Figure 3 be secured to a tube or spindle A¹ of
more than the full length of the cop and the other flange may be screwed or
otherwise attached as at D to the end of the tube or spindle A¹ If the flange A
screws to the tube A¹ we prefer to split the tube as at A 2 Figure 3 and if necessary
taper either the screwed portion of the tube or the screwed hole in the flange for
the purpose of preventing the flange from unduly sciewing off Or a screwed
ring, nut or equivalent or a spring catch may be employed for the purpose of
securing the flange
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is

page_text: flanges readily-separable from each other or iom the member connecting them
substantially as described
2 In a reel or holder for a spool cop or equivalent the combination with two
end pieces or flanges such as A of tubes such as A' integral one with each of the
flanges substantially as and for the purpose described and illustrated in Figures 1
and 2 of the accompanying drawings
3 The combination with a cop C and cop tube B of two end pieces and tubes
such as A A¹ substantially as described and illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 of the
accompanying drawings
4 In a reel or holder for a spool cop or equivalent the combination with a screw
threaded tube such as A' and an end piece or flange A integral therewith of a
screw threaded flange substantially as described and illustrated in Figures 3 and 4
of the accompanying drawings
5 The combination with a cop and cop tube B of an end piece and tube such
as A A' and a separate end piece screwed thereon and with or without the
split A2 substantially as described and illustrated in Figures 3 and 4 of the
accompanying drawings
6 The complete reel or cop holder substantially as described and illustrated in
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying diawings
7 The complete recl or cop holder substantially as described and illustrated in
Figures 3 and 4 of the accompanying diawings
Dated this Twenty-eighth day of January 1896
JAMES FINLAYSON, JUNR
RICHARD FARRINGTON
Boult & Wade,
Agents for the Applicants
JAMES FINLAYSON, JUNR
RICHARD FARRINGTON
Boult & Wade,
Agents for the Applicants