IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR MAKING WHAT ARE COMMONLY CALLED COP TUBES FOR SPINNING MACHINERY, PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Smith Knott, of Oldham, in the County of
Lancaster, Manager; Henry Taylor, of the same Place, Mechanical
Draughtsman; Richard Shiers, junior, Cotton Spinner, Bowdon,
Cheshire; and John Jackson Shiers, Cotton Spinner, Chadderton,
Lancashire, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR
MAKING WHAT ARE COMMONLY CALLED COP TUBES FOR SPINNING MACHINERY,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Smith Knott, Henry
Taylor, Richard Shiers, and John Jackson Shiers at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 26th June
1875.
We, SMITH KNOTT, of Oldham, in the County of Lancaster, Manager;
HENRY TAYLOR, of the same Place, Mechanical Draughtsman; RICHARD
SHIERS, junior, Cotton Spinner, Bowdon, Cheshire; and JOHN JACKSON
SHIERS, Cotton Spinner, Chadderton, Lancashire, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR

page_text: MAKING WHAT ARE COMMONLY CALLED COP TUBES FOR SPINNING MACHINERY,
APPLICABLE ALSO TO MAKING OTHER TUBES OF PAPER OR SIMILAR MATERIALS," to
be as follows:-
Our Invention consists in the employment of a spindle, upon which
the paper or other material to be operated upon is wound, revolving
within a pair of dies, in order to effect which we propose the following
arrangement:—Within a pair of dies of the required diameter and
shape we insert a constantly revolving spindle, and conduct a continuous
strip of paper or other material thereto through a slit in the said dies.
The paper or other material is pasted as now practised, or by any other
suitable means, and cut into required lengths as it is presented to the
revolving spindle, upon which it is rolled to form the tube, being at the
same time swaged against the surface of the dies. After it has been
sufficiently rolled and swaged the finished tube is thrust from the spindle
by a brush or collar which advances upon it, the dies being kept together
by springs or weights, and thus allowing the said brush or collar to enter.
two or more spindles and correspond dies may be used with one
strip of paper or other material cut into the required widths for two. or
more tubes, and severed at the centre for the length required for cach
tube. We propose to flute the aforesaid spindles.
Instead of the continuous strip of paper or other material above
mentioned it may be fed in by hand in detached lengths.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Smith Knott, Henry Taylor, Richard Shiers, and
John Jackson Shiers in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 24th
December 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, SMITH
KNOTT, of Oldham, in the County of Lancaster, Manager; HENRY
TAYLOR, of the same Place, Mechanical Draughtsman; RICHARD
SHIERS, junior, Cotton Spinner, Bowdon, Cheshire; and JOHN JACKSON
SHIERS, Cotton Spinner, Chadderton, Lancashire, send greeting.
1
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of June, in the year

page_text: of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Smith Knott, Henry Taylor, Richard
Shiers, and John Jackson Shiers, Her special license that we, the said
5 Smith Knott, Henry Taylor, Richard Shiers, and John Jackson Shiers,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Smith Knott, Henry Taylor, Richard Shiers, and John Jackson Shiers,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR MAKING WHAT ARE COMMONLY CALLED COP
TUBES FOR SPINNING MACHINERY, APPLICABLE ALSO TO MAKING OTHER TUBES OF
PAPER OR SIMILAR MATERIALS," upon the condition, amongst others, that
we, Sn Smith Knott, Henry Taylor, Richard Shiers, and John
Jackson Shiers, by an instrument in writing under our hands and
seals (or under the hand and seal of one of us), should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Richard Shiers and John Jackson*
Shiers, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement (and accompanying
Drawings), that is to say :-
Our Invention consists in the employment of a spindle, upon which
the paper or other material to be operated upon is wound, revolving
within a pair of dies, in order to effect which we propose the following:
arrangement:—Within a pair of dies of the required diameter and
shape we insert a constantly revolving spindle, and conduct a continuous
strip of paper or other material thereto through a slit in the said dies.
The paper or other material is pasted as now practised, or by any other
suitable means, and cut into required lengths as it is presented to the
revolving spindle upon which it is rolled to form the tube, being at the
same time swaged against the surface of the dies. After it has been
sufficiently rolled and swaged the finished tube is thrust from the spindle

page_text: by a bush or collar which advances upon it, the dies being kept together
by springs or weights, and thus allowing the said bush or collar to enter.
We propose to flute the aforesaid spindle.
Instead of the continuous strip of paper or other material above
mentioned it may be fed in by hand in detached lengths.
In order more clearly to point out the particulars of our Invention,
we proceed to illustrate how the same may be practically carried out,
referring to the accompanying two Sheets of Drawings, in which
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal view of the machine; Fig. 2 a plan
view; Fig. 3, an end view of Fig. 1; and Figure 4 an end view, partly
in section, of Fig. 2.
At a is the main shaft of the machine, on which is a pulley 6 driven
from any convenient source; this shaft runs in bearings c supported by
any suitable framework, and carries at its end a spindle d, shewn
detached at Fig. 5. The outward part of this spindle is situate within
a die formed in two parts e, f, leaving a space between it and the said
spindle.
The spindle and die are shewn of a conical form for cop tubes, but
the shape may be parallel. The part of the die is carried by a
spring g, attached at its other end to a block / supported by the frame,
and the other part e is attached to another spring i also carried by the
frame. Upon the spindle is a collar k capable of sliding on the said
spindle, but caused to revolve therewith by a pin and slot 7. Upon the
collar is a grooved boss m, within which is a forked lever n turning on
a fixed centre o, and drawn in one direction by a spring p. At the
lower end of this lever is jointed a rod q connected to a lever r, which
turns upon a fixed centre s, and carries at its upper end a roller t.
Upon the shaft a is a worm u taking into a wheel v, which turns upon
a stud u, and carries a stud x, which acts, as hereafter to be described,
upon the roller t.
At right angles to the shaft a is a frame which carries three rollers 1,
2, 3, around which there passes an endless band of flannel 4 or other
such material. At 5, 6, are two other rollers mounted in the said frame,
over which a second endless band 7 passes, and from thence over
another roller 8 situate within a trough 9 containing paste or other such
substance. The rollers 1, 2, 3, are capable of being adjusted upward by

page_text: means of nuts 10, but are forced lightly downward by springs 11. The
rollers 1, 3, are geared together, as shewn in the Drawing, the first being
driven by any suitable connection with the motive power, and thus
communicating motion to the other by suitable means. At 12 are two
rollers which serve as feeders for the continuous length of paper, which
is wound upon a roller or crcel, as at 13. Between the rollers 12 and 1
is a plate 14, having a slit 15 formed therein, and through this slit a
guillotine knife 16 is caused to descend at intervals, so as to sever the
paper which travels along the plate 14 into proper lengths to form
successive tubes. This knife may be actuated by an eccentric, cam,
lappet, or other such ordinary mechanical arrangement, so as to descend
and then ascend rapidly, which motion must be regulated by suitable
gearing so that they take place at regular intervals to sever the paper
into successive corresponding lengths.
The operation is as follows, it being assumed that the spindle d is
constantly revolving:-Supposing the strip of paper 20 to have been
severed by the knife 16, which has again risen, it (the paper) will be
situate between the two endless bands 4, 7, the latter of which supplies
it with paste taken up from the trough 9. In this condition it is carried
forward by the said bands and passed into the die e, f, where it is seized
by the constantly revolving spindle d, which draws it forward and rolls
it thereon, a continued revolution of the said spindle swaging it against
the interior of the said die and completing the formation of the tube,
the elastic die if necessary expanding.
It will be seen by inspecting the Drawing that the two parts e, ƒ, of
the die do not quite meet, whereby a slit is left for the paper to pass to
the spindle, as above described. There is a part 21 which serves as a
table for the paper to rest upon, and also to prevent its passing down-
ward with the band 7. The finished tube having been thus formed upon
the spindle the stud x arrives in contact with the roller t on the lever r,
and causes the said lever to turn upon its centre, and also that shewn
at n, whereby the collar k is caused to slide forward, and its end is
thus thrust against the inclined sides of a recess formed in the two parts
of the die e, f, whereby the said two parts are separated against the
force of the springs g, i, and a further advance of the said collar brings
it against the end of the rolled tube, which is thus thrust from the
spindle into any convenient receptacle, after which the spring p with-
draws the collar k (the stud x having passed the pin t), the dies close,

page_text: and the same operations take place with another severed length of paper.
The rollers 12 are geared to move somewhat slower than the bands 4, 7,
which affords time between the delivery of two strips for the tube to be
finished and thrust from the spindle.
The object of fluting the spindle is to enable it to gain a firm
hold on the paper. At 30 is a doctor for removing superfluous quantity
of paste.
We have above spoken of what are called cop tubes, but our Invention
may be applied to making other tubes of paper or similar materials, as,
for instance, those used in the manufacture of fireworks.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of our said In-
vention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, we desire
it to be understood that we claim as secured to us under the above in
part recited Letters Patent, and for the purposes above set forth,―
Firstly. The die e, f, the two parts of which are held together by
springs, weights, or analogous means, and provided with the constantly
revolving spindle d.
Secondly. Forming the said spindle with flutes, as shewn at Figs. 5.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Shiers, junior, and John
Jackson Shiers, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this:
Twenty-third day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.