Improvements in Machinery for Winding Yarn or Thread into Rolls, Balls, or the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 9th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 28th Nov., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Winding Yarn or Thread into
Rolls, Balls, or the like.
I, WILLIAM LEGGATT, Manager of Messieurs Frank Stewart Sandeman and
Sons' Manhattan Works, Dundee, in the County of Forfar, North Britain, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows, that is to say :—
My said invention relates to machines of the kind which, drawing yarn or thread
off bobbins or cops, winds it into rolls, balls, or the like, by the frictional action
of rotating drums. In such machines as hitherto constructed when the winding
action of any drum has to be stopped for piecing or other purpose, the attendant
worker has to stop the drum (which is driven by a cord) by applying her hand or
arm against the drum. This is not only inconvenient and objectionable, but also
causes delay which means diminished production.
By my invention a brake is arranged in connection with each winding drum of a
machine, and is connected by levers and links to a foot lever or treadle.
With
this improved arrangement the attendant worker can with her foot cause the
application of the brake so as to stop the winding drum, her hands being then quite
free for piecing or other operation.
Dated this Eleventh day of December 1895.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.
Improvements in Machinery for Winding Yarn or Thread into
Rolls, Balls, or the like.
I, WILLIAM LEGGATT, Manager of Messieurs Frank Stewart Sandeman and
Sons, of Manhattan Works, Dundee, in the County of Forfar, North Britain, 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, that is to say :-
My said invention relates to machines of the kind which, drawing yarn or thread
off bobbins or cops, winds it into rolls, balls, or the like, by the frictional action of
rotating drums. In such machines as hitherto constructed when the winding action
of any drum has to be stopped for piecing or other purpose, the attendant worker
has to stop the drum (which is driven by a cord) by applying her hand or arm
against the drum. This is not only inconvenient and objectionable, but also causes
delay, which means diminished production.
By my invention a brake is arranged in connection with each winding drum of
a machine, and is connected by levers and links to a foot lever or treadle which
can be operated by the worker to stop the winding action of the drum.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of performing the same may
be properly understood I hereunto append an explanatory drawing, to be herein-
after referred to, and showing a sectional elevation of part of a machine as made
with my improvements.

page_text: In carrying out my invention I arrange a brake block, A, fitted with a separate
bearing face, B, of any suitable material to slide between guides on the rail, C, of
the machine close to each winding drum, D. The brake block, A, is made with a
projecting piece, E, which is connected to one end of a bell crank lever, G, centered
on a fulcrum, H, arranged on the machine framing, J. The other end of the
bellcrank lever, G, is connected to the upper end of a link, K, the lower end of
which is connected to the inner end of a foot lever or treadle, L, centered on a
fulcrum, M, formed at the lower part of the machine framing, J. The attendant
worker can with her foot move the treadle, L., to cause the brake block, A, to bear
frictionally against the drum, D, so as to stop its winding action, her hands being
then quite free for piecing or other operation. The weights of the parts of the
brake apparatus are disposed so that the brake block, A, moves away from the
drum, D, when the treadle, L, is not depressed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
In machinery for winding yarn or thread into rolls, balls, or the like, providing
in connection with each winding drum a brake to be operated by the attendant
worker by means of a treadle substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore
described.
Tandth: th of 100e
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.