IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR SERVING ROPE WITHI YARN
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Henry Nute of New Glasgow in the County of
Picton in the Province of Nova Scotia in the Dominion of Canada for an
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR SERVING ROPE WITHI YARN "
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Henry Nute at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th October 1882.
JOHN HENRY NUTE of New Glasgow in the County of Picton, in the Province of
Nova Scotia in the Dominion of Canada IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR
SERVING ROPE WITH YARN
The object of this invention is to construct a machine which can be operated by
hand to servo a rope with yarn or twine, in an automatic manner, the feed being
regulated to suit the size of the yarn used
My invention consists of a tubular stem divided longitudinally, and hinged
together to open to receive the rope to be served, and provided with a hand-driving
gear wheel, meshing with a subdivided gear wheel, on a subdivided hub, axially
rotating on said stem, said hub provided with an adjustable spiral feed hook on a
shaft baving a pointer to indicate the pitch of the hook according to the size of the
serving yarn or twine, said hub carrying a divided spool head, provided with a
brake and tension bar to adjust the tension of the yarn so that by steadying the
machine with one hand and turning the driving wheel with the other, the spool
head is rotated axially around the rope to be served, the serving yarn unwinding
from the spool, and winding around the rope, with accuracy and speed, in an
automatic manner.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said John Henry Nute in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
5th April 1883.
JOHN HENRY NUTE, of New Glasgow, in the County of Picton in the Province of
Nova Scotia in the Dominion of Canada. IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR
SERVING ROPE WITH YARN
:
The object of this invention is to construct a machine which can be operated by
hand to serve a rope with yarn or twine, in an automatic manner, the feed being
regulated to suit the size of the yarn used. My invention consists of a tubular
stem divided longitudinally, and hinged together to open to receive the rope to be
served, and provided with a hand-driving gear wheel meshing with a subdivided
gear wheel on a subdivided hub axially rotating on said stem, said hub provided
with an adjustable spiral feed hook on a shaft having a pointer to indicate the
pitch of the hook according to the size of the serving yarn or twine, said hub
carrying a divided spool-head provided with a brake and tension bar to adjust the
tension of the yarn, so that by steadying the machine with one hand and turning
the driving wheel with the other, the spool head is rotated axially around the rope
to be served, the serving yarn unwinding from the spool, and winding around the
rope with accuracy and speed in an automatic manner.
Fig. 1. is a plane view of my machine
Fig. 2. is an end view of the hub detached, showing its subdivision gear wheel
and feed adjuster.
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.1, is the tubular stem of the machino subdivided longitudinally, the two parts:
hinged and connected together by pintles 2, on opposite diameters of the tube, whereby
the tube can be opened to admit and close on the rope 3, to be served with yarn or
twine. 4 is a handle to the stom for steadying the machine with one hand while
operating a crank handle 6, on a gear wheel 5, on a stud from the stem, with the
other hand. 7, is a hub provided with annular grooves fitting to peripheral flanges
on the end of the stem, whereby the hub will rotate axially on the stem without
endwise movement. The hub is subdivided longitudinally to admit of being sleeved
removably from the stem to admit the rope, and said hub has a fixed gear wheel 8,
meshing with driving gear wheel 5, said wheel 8 being divided so as to part with
tho subdivided hub, which is tubular, and has within it a spirally bent hook 9,
forming the middle of a rock shaft 10, passing diametrically through the hollow hub
and projecting therefroin, one of the projecting ends provided with a thumb screw 11,
and spiral spring 12, to regulate the endwise tension of the shaft, the other end of
said shaft is provided with a pointer 13, moving over an index on the hub, said
pointer provided with a thumb screw 14, so that by adjusting the pointer, the
degree of spirality to the feed hook can be set to a pitch to diminish and increase
the angle of inclination to the rope to correspond to the size of the serving yarn.
The hub carries a rectangular spool frame 15, removably attached by bent ends
fitting into holes in the end of the hub, and directly opposite thereto the frame is
provided with a removable subdivided portion 16, provided with a two-part
removable bushing 17, having a bore corresponding to the size of the rope to be
served, and through which the rope passes. The removable part is secured by bolts
or screws 18, or other suitable fastening. 19, is the spool carrying the serving yarn,
removably journaled by an axial pin 20, and provided with a brake shoe 21,
regulated by a tension spring 22, and thumb nut 23, to cause the shoe of the brako
to have greater or less friction with the grooved end of the spool, whereby the yarn
is kept under a regulated tension.

page_text: At the opposite end of the spool frame is fixed a round tension bar 2+, provided
with a guide staple 25, and loop 26, through which the yarn from the spool passes
before being served to the rope. By passing the yarn more or less times around
bar 24, the tension will be greater or less as may be required, the final degree of
tension being given by the pressure of the shoo of the brake spring on the end of
the spool by the thumb screw compressing or relaxing the spiral spring as may bo
found necessary.
The extremity of the bore of the stem 1, is provided with an inserted two part
bushing to fit the size of the rope.
I claim as my invention
1. The combination of the tubular stem 1, hub 7, and rectangular spool frame 15,
all subdivided to admit the rope, and operating as and for the purpose set forth.
2nd. The two part stem 1, hinged together and provided with handle 4, and driving
wheel 5, in combination with a two part hub 7, provided with a halved geared
wheel 8 and rotating on the end of the stem to carry the spool frame 15 as
set forth.
3. The two part bollow hub 7, having a halved gear wheel 8, and a rock shaft 10,
provided with feeding hook 9, in combination with a two-part hollow stem 1, and a
spool frame 15, carrying a tension bar 24 and a spool provided with a brake tension
as set forth.
4th. The two part hollow hub 7, provided with an index or scale and feed hook 9,
on a diametrical rock shaft 10, provided with a pointer 13, for indicating and
adjusting the feed as set forth, in combination with a subdivided hollow stem i, and
subdivided spool frame 15.
5th. The two-part spool frame 15, having removablo connection with hub 7, and
provided with tension bar 24, spool 19, and a brake tension as set forth
6th. The spool frame 15, provided with a removable two-part portion 16, carrying
a removable bushing 17, having a bore adapted to suit the size of the rope to be
served ns set forth.
7th. The two part stem 1, provided with a removable bushing 27, to suit the size
of the rope to be served as set forth
In witness whereof I the said John Henry Nute have hereunto sot my hand
and seal this third day of February in the year of.our Lord 1883.