Improvements in Machines for Applying Oil to Wooden Bobbins.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 16th July, 1896.
Complete Specification Left 17th Apr 1897 Accepted 29th May 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Applying Oil to Wooden Bobbins.
I, JOHN HOWE Jr., of Fairmuir Bobbin Works, Dundee, in the County of
Forfar, Scotland, Bobbin Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in machines for applying oil to:
wooden bobbins, the object being to apply the oil in an expeditious and efficient.
manner.
In carrying out my invention I employ a drum, and cover its periphery with
cloth of a spongy nature; that is to say cloth which will absorb a sufficient
quantity of oil. On each side of the drum are two discs whose distance laterally
from each other and from the drum may be adjusted, such distance being deter
mined by the space between the heads of the bobbins which are being coated
with oil. A curved spring rod is set parallel to and at a distance somewhat less
than the diameter of the shank or centre of the bobbin from the face of the disc,
such rod facing rather less than half the face of the disc. Brushes are also
arranged about the same part of the periphery of the disc, some of these having
their bair arranged radially and others with it parallel to the axis of the drum.
Above the disc and the brushes is an oil tank, so disposed that oil may drop on to
the disc and the brushes.. When large bobbins are being treated; supplementary.
oiling pads may be used.
Supposing large bobbins have to be coated with oil, the discs are adjusted to,
suit the distance between the heads of the bobbins, and two supplementary oiling
pads are fixed underneath and opposite the spaces between the discs and the drum.
The spring rod is adjusted to suit the diameter of the bobbin shank, and each set
of brushes made to bear against its head. On rotating the drum and laying a
bobbin across the top it will be carried towards and under the spring rod, in this
manner being pressed against the face of the disc and consequently made to rotate
about its axis. As it is carried along it passes the brushes and the supplementary
oiling pads and in so doing its whole external surface is completely oiled. The
drum oils the central portion of the shank, the brushes the heads, and the supple-
mentary pads the spaces between the heads and the central portion. After passing
the supplementary oiling pads the bobbins fall on a wire netting and out of the
machine.
Dated this 11th dox of Tule 1906
GEO. C. DOUGLAS & Co.,
41 Reform Street, Dundee, Agents for Applicant.

page_text: the machine. Figure 7. shows how the machine may be arranged to suit the
minimum size of bobbin. 20. is a tank or tray for catching any oil which may
chance.to fall.
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 :-
(1.) In machines for oiling bobbins, the combination and arrangement of parts,
consisting of a drum 10, cloth 11, discs 12, adjusting screws 13, or their
equivalent, spring rod 14, brushes 15, oil tank 16, pipes 17, oiling pads 18,
netting 19, and tray 20, substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated
drawings.
Dated this 14th day of April 1897
GEO. C. DOUGLAS & Co.,
41 Reform Street, Dundee, Agents for Applicant.